Better news (for a change)
Susan III (2005-2009), the Toshiba laptop that has created and published all 80 of our titles, met an ignominious end yesterday when she had a Big Gulp of Diet Coke poured on her. Requiescat in pacem, Susan III. She will be interred in the local electronics recycling plant.
Fortunately, Susan’s death was not entirely in vain. As the phosphoric acid gushed through her veins, we hurriedly extracted her hard drive and were able to have all the data recovered from it. Susan IV is now semi-operational, and will be fully operational when her CS4 software arrives in the mail from Adobe. We expect about a 2-4 week delay on pending projects owing to this mishap; however, no books will be cancelled, and the press will live on.
Thank you to all of you for your continued support!
June 24, 2009 at 11:44 am
[...] as good as I can make it, and I’ll send it off to Valancourt as soon as I hear that they have recovered from the unpleasant relationship between a computer and a Big Gulp. This is, sadly, the second such story I’ve learned of this week, though in the other case it [...]