Scott Blomquist

The story of the dead Mac Mini gets even better: I took the computer in to the Apple store. They directed me to get in line at the Genius Bar (what a silly name, but that’s another entry). While waiting for an available Genius, the sales droid and I took my computer over to try it out on one of the floor models’ power supplies. The computer still didn’t work. And when the power supply got returned to the demo model it was borrowed from, it didn’t work, either. So apparently, my comptuer is not only dead, but it kills power supplies.

When the Genius heard about this, he told me the story of the iPod Dock of Death. It apparently had the same superpowers as my Mac Mini–that is it killed anything that got plugged into it. He said that they had all sorts of evil fun with that before it was finally retired.