I want frickin' laser beams

My seriously cool laptop had to go today. I went back to my seriously cool other laptop, but still I was sad. The one I gave up had a touch screen and was a full tablet, and I loved it. It needed some pimping out, but you know it was a loaner. So today when I found out that it now belonged to another group (I'm sorry, are we selling these things internally now? Um, no, but the other group managed to steal some maybe?), I pulled a little bit of a prima donna: don't know, don't care, want another one now. No? Budget? OK, fine, in the old days that would have worked. Now in the whole post-Enron don't back date your fucking options, I can't get a touch screen laptop? Fine. Whatever.

So I go back to my super-cool teeny-tiny no keyboard tablet which does not have touch (did you hear the prima donna in my voice again there? yeah? Me, too. Sorry). Where was I?

No keyboard. You know I love tablets just as much as any other nerd who kinda sorta worked on them, but seriously, people, I have to write email.

Did I mention I love the new lab manager? To pacify (er ... um ... meet my business requirements) me, he gave me fricken' laser beams. I'm not kidding, and it works. Check it out:

I just shot a picture of it with my camera phone so yes it sucks (no, it's not an iPhone, jackass, shut the fuck up).