Buhdy’s Laptop: 1989-2008

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Four score and seven thousand ponies ago, Buhdy hooked up to the Internets a new laptop, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all laptops and the humans who hook them up are created equal.

Now we are engaged in solemn mourning, pondering whether that laptop, or any laptop so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure being dropped on the floor.  Apparently not.  So we have come to dedicate a portion of our essay list in thankful tribute to laptops like Buhdy’s which gave their lives that the Netroots might live.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow Buhdy’s laptop.  Other brave laptops, living and dead, which have typoed their way to glory as his did, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.  Posterity will little note, nor long remember what we say here tonight, but it will never forget what Buhdy’s laptop did here.  So let us dedicate ourselves to the unfinished work that Buhdy’s laptop so nobly advanced until he dropped it.  Let us dedicate ourselves to the great task remaining before us — that from Buhdy’s departed laptop we take increased devotion to that cause for which it gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that Buhdy’s laptop shall not have died in vain — that our laptops shall carry on — and that blogging of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Buhdy’s Laptop

1989-2008

RIP

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  1. … can’t stop crying!  Woe is me!  All right, all right, I’ll buck up, I promise … no!  no!  How can this be? … ok, ok, I’m fine now … aaaaaah!

    This is the finest tribute to a laptop I have ever read.

    • kj on July 6, 2008 at 03:13

    the sound of laptops crying…

  2. Old Glory Sunset

    • kj on July 6, 2008 at 03:18

    • Robyn on July 6, 2008 at 03:26
  3. in eternity that she struggled so mightily to achieve in this world.

  4. Anyone that can write a whole essay about a dead laptop, is indeed a writer.

    (now, back to your regularly scheduled grieving)

    • Alma on July 6, 2008 at 03:32

    I think the right-wingers put a hit out on Buhdys laptop.  I bet they’re behind it.

  5. went quickly and didn’t end up in a laptop nursing home with other slowed and addled machines…

  6. Did laptops exist in 1989????? Is this some kind of hoax?

    My computer had that horrible blinking green screen in 1989 and enough memory for a spell check program for my university papers.

  7. laptops living with me here in Teh Old Puters Home, we send our condolences to Buhdy.  Some of us have lost so much of our memory, others cannot process any more without help.  But nonetheless, despite our misfortunes and infirmities, we offer  our sympathies.

    • nocatz on July 6, 2008 at 03:47

    50,000+ people died at Gettysburg.

  8. rise up from the grave and start trying to eat our brains in a shopping mall?

  9. Let us hoor the passig of the laptop with the bad “n” key.

    I brought him a backup laptop yesterday.  This morning I got an email from him saying how happy he was to have a working N key.  We can all be grateful for that.

    btw, today is his son’s 21st birthday so they are out getting drunk um, celebrating tonight.    

    • kj on July 6, 2008 at 05:48

    there are more damn fireworks going off tonight than there were last night. i think our neighborhood is dueling the neighborhood on the other side of us and these puppies are big honking things, very pretty, but the cat’s half-convinced they’re going to come streaming through the windows.

    something tells me this isn’t celebration anymore, if it was yesterday, but raw something or other. or else we’ve moved to the fireworks capital of the midwest.

  10. I think this is the beginning of the Lapture.

    Thanks Rus, thanks everyone. Your sympathies are much appreciated.

    It was the best of laptops, and it was the worst of laptops. But as god is my witness, I shall never go….ah screw it. No use crying over spilled motherboards!

  11. I hope Buhdy didn’t just drop OTB’s laptop too.

  12. Ya did, you bastards made me wake my houseguest on the couch giggling aloud. I bet you killed Kenny too, or at least dropped him.

    buwahahahaha….

    this thread was freaking hilarious, every comment.

    I bit my tongue, I did, but the giggles slipped out anyway.

    snort.

  13. Is Budhy’s computer the burning monk?

    I’m so confused.

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