it all makes sense to me now...

Some of you have probably heard the story of how my Acer laptop has been ruined by the combined f***wittage of a plane passenger sitting diagonally to the right in front of me who somehow managed to spill a full cup of water backwards and diagonally to the left, and of course myself who failed to notice anything whatsoever.

I am now the prowd owner of an IBM Thinkpad.
Yup.
IBM Thinkpad as in spill-proof, shock-proof, everything-proof, big black boorish brick box bread box. A hunkajunkachunkapunkathunkathingamajig if you will. In fact, so prowd that it's making me spell it with a W and alliterate with Bs.

And prowd as in mum gives birth to baby goose daytime soap storyline type of prowd.
Happy. I'll still learn to love it. Eventually.
Shocked. What the hell happened?? How the hell did I convince myself to buy an IBM?????

And then I realised...
The universe as we know it is no more. My friends, we are now living in a world with 8 planets. We have lost Pluto, cast away from the exclusive planetary gang to sit with the dwarves. It's history in the making! Books to be re-written, maps to be re-drawn, minds to be re-brainwashed (or is it brain-rewashed?) It's a new universe.

I foresee a fourth law of thermodynamics, a philosophy (called Maxolivism) that suggests humans are nothing but leprechauns with holograms, the end of world poverty and the discovery that the holy grail of laptops is the IBM Thinkpad.