[Noisebridge-discuss] Help me to fix my MacBook Pro?

Erik JM Schneider eriktrips at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 00:13:27 UTC 2011


Hi all you potential partners in destruction:

I am wondering if anyone reading this list or anyone who has this list
read to them or anyone knowing anyone who might be interested in the
following might be interested in the following: I have a four-year-old
MacBook Pro that was doing ok until some months ago when I sprayed a
trifling amount of fizzy water on it but it was apparently enough to
screw up a few things. I would like to take it apart and see what can
be done to rectify whatever is broken, but I although I am adventurous
when it comes to playing with computer innards, my experience has been
limited to changing hard drives, installing PCI cards, replacing
batteries--mostly stuff that can be done simply by tugging out or
snapping in or both. I have very little knowledge of electronics
circuits themselves, so I do not have the skills to investigate my
machine's ills very far beyond that which looks fairly obvious to the
untrained eye.

Are there any Mac geeks who would be interested in meeting me at
Noisebridge to help me dismantle and diagnose? I have no money so
cannot pay any more than a cup of coffee and the pleasure of spending
time with me: I am a quiet guy with a scraggly beard and I crack jokes
when I do not know what else to say. I can do trades in areas of my
expertise, which would include writing, writing, editing, writing,
reading, writing, mentoring in subjects related to rhetoric,
continental philosophy, critical theory, queer theory, feminist
theory, and maybe a bit of French. Oh and I could show you a few
scales on a guitar/bass or show you some GarageBand tricks if you were
interested in something along those lines. And graphic design is
something else I do reasonably well.

Or we could simply bond over our irrational attachment to Apple
products. Name your price!

Feel free to email me. I don't mind conversing in public but the
public might mind.

Erik
catdoc at berkeley.edu
--which reminds me that I can also dispense NON-PROFESSIONAL
veterinary advice, especially that related to felines.
--also, if the style of this email arouses skepticism as to my writing
credentials: I know the rules but I deliberately do not follow all of
them. I know where to put commas, for instance, but I don't like them
very much.

-- 
Erik JM Schneider
blog.eriktrips.com
onelastditch.com



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