On a somewhat more hysterically traumatised note . . .

[kiya]

. . . as "reasons to be unable to install Windows properly" go, "The install disk just exploded" is one of the more exciting ones I've encountered.

Signed,
one faintly startled Calebite

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

"Exploded"?

[kiya]

Big "WHACK!" noise, CD-ROM drive shoots open but only about an inch, shattered pieces of CD.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Yipe!

I think "the CD-ROM exploded" wants to become part of my vocabulary, like "the database server caught fire". Do you mind if I borrow it?

[kiya]

Go ahead. :)

Conversation with teinedreugan, right after The Event:

Me, shakily: . . . help?
Him: What?
Me: The CD-ROM just exploded. . .
Him: What? How literal are you being?
Me: . . . very . . .

Wow.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

You're talented. *boggle*

Re: Wow.

[kiya]

I think I'll stay on the Mac now, yes. :}

[elynne.livejournal.com]

myles_otter had that happen to him once. Mythbusters "proved" it couldn't be done; they were wrong, wrong, wrong. I love them dearly, but sometimes they're just wrong.

[kiya]

Ah, the proof that one's alarming experiences didn't happen. Always amusing.

[brooksmoses]

I wonder if the reason you had intermittently not been able to boot from it previously was due to a crack in it, or something.

In any case, that's ... impressive.

[kiya]

teinedreugan is guessing the CD-ROM drive was Wrong. And if it wasn't before, after having a CD blow up in it, it almost certainly is now.

[brooksmoses]

Also a possibility, indeed. Did it make any odd sounds in the moments before it went WHAM?

[laurelindel.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's impressive. It also would have scared the shit out of me.

[kiya]

I'm generally fairly reluctant to touch the Windows machine in a technical way, because I don't speak the language, and I'm afraid of breaking things. However, I had detailed instructions about how to install, and installing Windows is (normally) a straightforward sort of thing, so we figured it'd be okay . . . .

[laurelindel.livejournal.com]

Oh, Gods. *HUGS*

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I believe (http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm). (Pointed this direction (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sigma7/205595.html?thread=399643#t399643) by davidgoldfarb!)

[laurelindel.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaa! Your icon! How fabulous!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck in Kansas, so I have to endure the Creationists first-hand. It's humiliating. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is my only catharsis.

[ardaniel]

My high-school pal had a Van Halen CD explode in her boom box during the Pamela Smart trial, which she took to be Incontrovertible Proof that Ms. Smart was, in fact, guilty (Van Halen's "Starry Eyes" was apparently Ms. Smart's "song" with one of the two boys she hired to kill her husband). There's probably still a talismanic chunk of it on the shelf in my bedroom back in MA.

Warm fuzzy

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

On a different, but related, note I got rather warm fuzzed after the phone call this afternoon. Kevin had told me about the mishaps and frustrations, and I came out to find Brooks a few minutes later telling me the story from your perspective. I don't know why exactly, but it was very warm fuzzed feeling.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

*sympathizes*

Recently, I got a disc from Netflix that had trouble playing. It had a small crack in the center, but I figured that was probably safe enough to try out in my iMac, despite it being a whatever-speed drive. Luckily, I was right.

(Still paused/skipped in my iLamp. Oh well.)

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Eek! *looks suspiciously at computer*

(And my out-loud reaction has frightened the budgies over to the other side of the cage, too!)