1000 Awful Things

This title could be misleading, but we
assure you it’s completely benign and has nothing to do with regretful, drunken nights or malformed body parts; it has to do with design decisions. Namely, when something is built with primarily one type of connector — like a screw — so that you need one (often commonly-owned) tool, why put one or two others. In particular, I was replacing the keyboard on a macbook pro ,and for the most part, all the screws are phillips, and so I’m going to town taking the thing apart. Then I get to a part that requires a teen-weeny torx — and I don’t have one. I really don’t see the see for it, why not just a phillips? This probably exposes multitudes of mechanical ignorance; well, sobeit.

On not so much a similar note, but a related one, I’m fully certain that my laziness will prolong the installation of this keyboard for another five months. So, my goal is to have this thing installed by no later then Fall of 2012, or at least by the Super Bowl of the following year.