Moral calculus

[mmcirvin]

I got Sam a hulking, turbocharged HP laptop for Christmas, and she decided not to keep her Dell tower or the big old monitor that went with it. So she gave the computer to her mom. But her monitor was bigger than mine, and I called dibs on it, so her mother got mine instead.

I was wondering if the calling of dibs made me a bad person, but Sam, who had just gone through the process of setting up a hand-me-down computer for someone else, told me, with what may have been slight hyperbole, that she'd have died if she had to haul another CRT this size somewhere.

So I comfort myself knowing that I saved my lovely wife's life by snagging this big, big monitor.

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[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

"Is there anything so precious and delicate and yet so heavy and dangerous as a computer monitor? It's like owning a high voltage glass anvil."

Richard Sergei Chapman

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Actually, having worked with scientific equipment, I can say that the answer is "yes".