September 1, 2009

Here is another question for everybody out there:

What has no soul, no heart, or any ability to feel?

If you answered computer hackers, you are right!!

I feel that God must have a very pronounced sense of humor. You see, the day before I left for Japan, I took my laptop to the tech center at Ursinus and had them clean it. They removed all spyware, viruses, and any other problems that might plague my laptop.　Now for the punchline, the day that I arrive in Japan, I boot it up, type in my first two blog entries, and go to my email account.　While I am looking at my messages, the screen turns a curious shade of black.　I scratch my head, hit ctrl-alt-delete, and to my surprise, it begins to reopen itself as if I had just restarted it.　It reboots for twenty seconds and then the screen turned black again.　Curiously, I manually restarted my laptop again, and the same scenario replayed itself.　　

Well, three rigourous diagnostic checkups later, I discover that my laptop has gotten a virus.

What kind of a virus you might ask? Well, it is a virus that gives you the following message:

System32/Drivers/Ntfs.sys

But wait, if my computer is dead, how am I typing this?　Well, I am glad that you asked.　My new roommate Hiroshi is letting me use his laptop to check my email and update my blog. I would love to tell you more about him, and my new dorm, and my new campus, but I feel that I have hogged his computer for long enough. I will post more when I get a chance.

Oh, and to whoever crashed my computer...

If you are reading this, let me ask you, what does it feel like to have no life?

This is Nate in Mitaka writing as just another gaijin.