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Well, the laptop situation has been resolved. You may recall that the pin to my power adaptor broke off inside my computer, and at the last update, I was attempting to fish it out using what remained of the power adaptor pin and some super glue.

Sadly, it didn’t work. I know you are all shocked. However, I did become slightly more assured that Apple would consider it accidental damage, seeing as how I had dried super glue on what remained of my power adaptor pin. Sweet.

There’s a computer repair spot on campus, so I dropped it off there yesterday so that they could look at it. One last chance to try and get the pin out. The repair guy said that the pin wasn’t the issue… the computer part was broken and needed to be replaced.

So do I send it in to Apple? Well, if my Math major is good for anything, it should be figuring out expected value. I’d say there’s a 90% chance they decide my problem was the result of accidental damage… if so, the cost to repair is $1000. If not, the cost to repair is $350. Expected value? 1000 * .90 + 350 * .10 = $935. A new iBook is $994, which is slightly more. However, the computer will be faster, it won’t have the battle scars that my current laptop has, and I can have it tomorrow. I’ll pay $60 for that.

Oh, and back on the superglue topic. Chaia had posted a comment asking if I had “superglued myself to… uh… myself.” In fact, that did not happen. However, no sooner had I opened the super glue container that a bunch of it got on my pinky finger. If it ever happens… soap and warm water, and grit your teeth while you peel it off. They don’t call it super cuz it’s fabulous, folks.