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A little while ago I had to drive to Fullerton to take an iBook apart in order to salvage the hard drive for data recovery. I usually don't service OC, but I went there because a mac was needed to do the job, and I was the only tech in the semi-general area to have one. The plan was to attach his hard drive to my iBook via an adapter I have and burn him a cd for his files. Taking it apart took nearly an hour, and was a harrowing experience. Probably fifty screws, it was insane. I DO NOT recommend you ever bother to try it. Anyway, I copied his data to my machine, burned him a CD, and took great care to show him that I had deleted his files from my computer. I taught him how to change the file types so a windows machine could read it, then I took off, and that was that.

Next day. I'm out in Long Beach working on a computer for a pro skateboarder, and Alex, my technical supervisor, calls me and tells me that whats his name from orange county is on the other line SCREAMING HIS LUNGS OUT that I "Stole his data and I'm going to copyright and sell it for my own personal gain" and that I'm a "communist who hates my conservative beliefs".

Say what? How would he gather (QUITE incorrectly) that I'm a communist? Why would I care? I didn't even know he was a conservative; he's a public school teacher who uses a mac and lives in a shitty apartment with three people in fucking Fullerton. All of this makes Alex and I laugh our asses off. I told him exactly what I did, and he told the guy to calm the fuck down essentially. He called back three minutes later and went off on someone else at the office, saying he was going to sue me and the company.

Then the funniest part came out. He thought I was a communist because of my desktop background on my personal mac. Its the same as my usericon, Peter-Che Guevara!!! Anyone with a half a fucking brain who knows who Che Guevara is would know that THIS IS NOT HIM YOU FUCKING MORON, its making fun of him.

I'M A COMMIE DATA STEALING PINKO BECAUSE MY IBOOK HAS A PHOTOSHOP OF PETER GRIFFIN ON IT.