An SFist Easter Miracle!

After checking out the store (and checking our email on one of those new Mini Macs), we still had some time to kill, so we headed across the street to the Virgin Megastore to chortle over Ana Marie Wonkette's spread in Lucky Magazine while sipping a sake at Citizen Cupcake. Spotting the Suicide Girls merchandise stand on the way up the elevator, we want to know -- what's it going to take to get a stand like that for SFist? If all we need is cute chicks with tats showing off their boobs, then we have some friends we need to call.

Back at the Apple store, we found ourselves waiting at the Genius Bar for nearly an hour past the time of our scheduled appointment. When we finally did get to the bar, we explained the situation, went over what we'd already done to fix the thing, and waited. Chris, who helped us, wasn't optimistic. And since we were past warranty and had obviously done unspeakable things to the laptop, his initial assessment would be that we would need to send it in and pretty much have the whole chassis replaced -- which would set us back over $900!

After muttering dejectedly about how there were one-gigahertz iBooks downstairs for $1000, and saying that we needed to take it home and backup all the data before we sent it in, Chris popped the battery out and noticed that our Airport ground wire wasn't connected properly. After fixing that, we re-booted, and before "Why didn't we think of that?" could even cross our minds, our laptop came back from the dead! We promised that we would never say a bad word about the Genius Bar again, as our faith was restored. Hallelujah!