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Serge Gainsbourg’s on fire. Someone call Dell
So I wrote this giant blog with dialog and accents and everything, all about how Serge Gainsbourg —my shiny new laptop— burst into flame last week. Flame. Not spark, not small-electric-arc-that-might-look-like-a-flame-but-is-in-reality-still-a-spark, but an actual, no foolin’, message-from-the-Lord-style pillar of FIRE. I had it all typed up and spaced and everything, ready for publication on Friday so y’all would know I wasn’t dead, but the Internet ate it.
Stupid Internet.
The upshot is, after 53 minutes and 24 seconds of trying to explain to a bevy of lovely women from Bangalore, they have decided that a giant flame-thrower attached to my laptop is, and I’m quoting directly here “a possible safety concern” they are sending me a new one.
I suspect this one will tell me to wander in the desert.
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By Bonnie
February 28, 2007 11:50 PM | Link to this
forgive me Father, for I have had visions of locusts carrying off Miss adventure.
Unless, of course, you are really, really sick, and then I feel very bad. I hope you are OK soon.
By Robynne
February 21, 2007 3:55 AM | Link to this
How courageuse! no one can argue about the price or the novelty value of a flaming computer but it is much more satisfying to get in someone's face when it blows up rather than calling Bangalore. Since the accent grave does not compute on this website replace "cr�ve" with "grippe" in my recent message and I still hope you're better.
By chris danger!
February 20, 2007 6:25 PM | Link to this
...and another reason I dont have one of these dang PCs at home, I fly straight and narrow with my mac. No major issues and I get an american when I have an issue.
By Robynne
February 20, 2007 2:16 AM | Link to this
Quelle horreur! do you intend to risque your life encore and buy another Dell? Are you going to name the next one Charlotte? Have you completely recovered from your "cr�ve"?
***Miss Adventure Responds***
Well they're sending me another one for free, and since free is my very favorite price, I think I'll give it a go. I think this one will just be Serge Gainsbourg II.
By Bonnie
February 19, 2007 5:55 PM | Link to this
You realize of course that GOD is getting you back for lusting in your heart and your blog after the hottie priests. You have been struck with pestilence and fire. Look out for the locusts.
***Miss Adventure Responds***
Pestilence and fire? Drag! Although, in the spirit of full disclosure, I have spent WAY too much time with priests (two former roommates are currently ordained) to ever properly lust after them.
Except for Gabriel Byrne. Rowr.
By stevear
February 19, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this
Pleeez tell me you took a pic of the remains?
Big story here...