Throw out your Macbook Air (please!)
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Did you hear the one about the guy who lost his Macbook Air and thinks his wife threw it out with the pile of newspapers to recycle? Apparently it’s true and not some Internet myth!
I guess that’s another reason to not read newspapers. Does anyone under 40 read them anymore? I guess that means the only people who lose their Airs will be old geezers who recycle. Hey Dad, be careful with that Air that you brought home to review.
I’d really like one for keeps but that’s not gonna happen. Maybe I can go around our neighborhood on paper recycling day and see if I can find any cast-offs. A girl can dream!






Comment by Dan on 22 April 2008:
When I was a kid, my friends and I searched the neighborhood for bottles and cans to turn in for recycling money. Times have changed for the better! … Oh, and I walked 5 miles to school, uphill both ways.
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Comment by lexi on 22 April 2008:
Oh Dad, you really are ancient. It must be embarrassing.
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Comment by Marcus on 22 April 2008:
I ditched my last class and went to the Apple store in San Francisco with Alex today. We took the 30 stockton bus from the Marina an had a good laugh watching all the f’n crazies get on and off and on and off… the bus stops about every 30 feet, maybe that’s why the call it the 30 Stockton. Don’t tell my mom, she thinks that i was playing soccer after school. The Mac Air that dad brought home doesn’t float in air, so I wanted to see the freak’n air computer spinning around and to check out the “red glow” in person. Lexi took a pic of it or would have never believed her. Alex is over playing World of Warcraft on the big-ass apple monitors, or maybe he’s just trying to hit on the smok’n hot girl that is quest-whipping him in Warctaft. Anyway, not only does the computer really spin in air, it also makes this weird noise. I printed off the techGRL cartoon (the one with Steve Jobs as the devil) and taped it to the Mac Air table. it’s a laugh… But I have a favor to ask. My camera phone is dead and need a picture of the cartoon taped to the table. Can someone take a picture and send it to me at marcus@techgrl.com. Thanks.
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Comment by Alex on 23 April 2008:
Quest Whipping??? Where did that come from? You got a lot to learn about MMORPG’s buddy. First main rule to remember Marcus. Any smokin hot chick in that game has the possibility of being a 60 year old guy irl. Not all but theres a possibility. Secondly, when was the last time you actually played soccer? lol
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Comment by Langley on 1 May 2008:
Hey Marcus you owe me one! Here is the photo you were asking for with the cartoon of the Macbook Air in the Apple store. I almost got busted taking the picture on my cell phone. There are more Apple employees than customers in the store. It was funny too. I left the cartoon by the Macbook Air display and people were reading it and laughing. I also checked out the new computer. The Apple store employee actually told me that the Macbook Air was not good for much except being light. He said to buy a Macbook Pro. I asked him if he had seen the red glow or anything else weird happening by it. He said that occasionally, he hears a loud scream from the display area, but nothing much else. Are screaming customers business as normal in the Apple store?
I’m waiting around, and finally, one of the Apple employees sees the cartoon, and soon there is a huddle around the Macbook Air. I’d swear I heard some weird noises coming from the Macbook Air. When someone said: “Did anyone see who put this here” and “Steve Jobs will want to see this” I split, having a good laugh myself.
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