Mr. Potato Bithead
The Guardian has a lovely little story of why working in retail, particularly computer retail, can be less boring than you’d think.
In Computer’s chips turn into potatoes, we see:
Staff at a department store in the German city of Kaiserslautern called detectives after an angry customer tried to return a computer stuffed with potatoes to the shop twice on the same day.
and my favorite quote, from one of the techs at another computer store:
“If they are running for a long time they get hot and in theory it would be possible to cook a potato in a computer, but who would try that?”
Who indeed?
Perhaps this guy has some insights.
UPDATE 2003-01-14 14:40 -0500: CNN also has the story but their shorter version doesn’t have the fun quotes from Roman Zukoan.
