Today I broke one of the USB ports on my laptop. How did I do that, you might ask? Well, coming out of my laptop are a The Matrix-like bundle of cables that I use to make it useful: external hard drive, USB mouse, headphones, TV cable, firewire, network cable, etc. I was eating sweet and sour egg rolls on my bed whilst browsing the internet, and finished the box, then attempted to toss it in the garbage. My mad basketball skills failed me, and so I leapt up to go pick up the box from my roommate’s pile of dirty clothes. What I didn’t realize, however, is that the network cable was wrapped around my leg. The laptop crashed to the floor, bending all the USB cables attached to it into very interesting shapes and snapping out a little black bit from one of the ports, rendering it unusable.

Thankfully, I was able to crawl across the floor from my broken machine and broken machine bits to throw away the empty egg roll box. Tidiness is next to godliness!