Laptop Sadness

It would apparently cost about $1300 dollars to replace the damaged sound card (which is integrated into the logic board) in my laptop. I don't think it would be covered by Apple Care at all seeing as how it's been dropped and all that. So basically I will live with an inability to record sound on that puppy for probably another two years, and the resale value will be seriously affected should I ever try to go that route.

Barack Obama: Please Add Dean Kamen To Your Cabinet

Please ask Dean Kamen to be your national science advisor. He will help you lead our country into a golden age of science-driven progress, if you have the courage to bring him in and give him the freedom he'll need to do what must be done.

He will help eliminate poverty and increase standards of living and sanitation for people all over the world, reducing threats to our national security that come from impoverished and rogue nations.

He will work towards solving the energy crisis for our country, and in turn will provide more energy for the entire planet, further eliminating threats to our national security.

He will encourage and fund the lines of research that will lead to breakthroughs in medicine and technology, and those discoveries will in turn become a great economic boon that will help bring our country out of recession faster.

He already works with the military on a regular basis, he is a passionate and inventive and creative man, and he will give you the advice you need to steer our country's science policies back on track.

Please give him a chance. Please call him and ask him if he'll rise to the challenge of bringing our country back to being the most innovative in science and engineering, and help lead the world into a new era of prosperity and enlightenment.