Some time ago my laptop computer started to behave a bit weird. The fan was zooming on maximum speed all the time, laptop started to generate suspicious amounts of heat and it seemed to me as if it was just about to explode right there, on my desk. So I called up the guy who takes care of the hardware in our house to take away the damned machine and to do something with it. After a couple of hours he called and said: “I have opened it up and I am sending you a photo, you have got to see it, it is so funny, ha ha ha, ho ho ho…” I was really eager to see what stimulated all this happiness within him.
Then the photo came.
You see, the red arrow points to the place where the hot air is supposed to be getting out of the computer, blown out by the fan, in order to keep the hot processor from starting up a romantic little fire. Now, nothing was able to get out because the opening was completely blocked up.
With our cat’s hair!
The thing is that we have this terrible bossy cat in our house. Or, to be more precise, there is a cat living in this house and we are her humble servants. She is always on the wrong side of the door, demanding us to let her to the other side. And back. And again. And again. She is always hungry. And always angry. Never satisfied. Waking up kids in the morning, demanding food. Now! Right away!
And now she is after my computer.
This is a war.
On the other hand, I am completely impotent in this case. My communicational abilities and conflict resolution skills don’t mean a thing in this case. And she does not seem to care a bit about my inner conflicts and dilemmas.
That picture is making me itchy…
Comment by thejimgaudet — October 15, 2008 @ 4:12 am
lol awwww…. cute kitty. You know, a hoover once in a while will do the trick….
Comment by Amber — October 15, 2008 @ 5:42 am
Amber – we hoover a lot, but this hair keeps floating around, it is a neverending story…
Comment by Robert — October 15, 2008 @ 7:56 am
Does my cat live at your house??
Comment by Hayden Tompkins — October 15, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
We’ve had similar problems with stereo equipment (which briefly made for a nice warm kitty sleeping place).
Comment by Jennifer — October 15, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
My laptop has been displaying similar symptoms to yours (fan is always working overtime). I’d not worried about it until I read this post .. now I am. I don’t have a cat though Mona has 2 large dogs. Reading the other comments I’m wondering if there is some general pet conspiracy against computers!
Comment by ianpeatey — October 16, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
What you have to do is take the computer out of the case and hoover inside…. same thing with laptop. I was traveling with a friend who has a cpap machine. He had a Dalmatian. You should have seen the Security people when they went to open it up and it was full of dog hair. lol. They have special small hoovers just for this job to get into small places.
Comment by Amber — October 16, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
ehhehe…FUNNY!!!
other than the fur…your cat seems similar to my daughter especially with a bossy attitude on the laptop…
Comment by UTP — October 16, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
Hayden, Jennifer, Ian – perhaps we need to get organized. I mean, this seems to be global and soon we may find ourselves on our way to extinction, people. Think about that!
UTP – don’t scare me, man. You mean kids may be involved in the conspiracy too?
Amber – sometimes I think that instead of hoovering the house and gadgets, perhaps I should focus on the source and hoover the cat once a day. This should be fun!
Comment by Robert — October 16, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
Perhaps you need something like this
http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
Comment by SanityFound — October 17, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Sanity, this is great, I think I am going to install something like this in my home-office…
Comment by Robert — October 17, 2008 @ 6:26 pm