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tscrib on March 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on t...

"when I was young, we'd walk 25miles to school, in the middle of winter, uphill both ways, with our laptops open and running..."

rbarooah on March 4, 2011 [–]

"At least you had a hill to walk up. In my day we had to use our laptops in an icy hole covered in tarpaulin just to keep the things from overheating"

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