techno-culture

From the NYT’s business pages this weekend. This is truly painful to read:

The selling point for Apple’s MacBook Air is the laptop’s lightness and thinness. But be careful, warns Steven Levy, a technology columnist at Newsweek, the Air is so light and so thin that you can easily lose it.

Mr. Levy should know, because he lost his. After tearing his apartment apart and considering that the laptop might have been stolen, he remembered leaving it on the coffee table, where newspapers and magazines tend to pile up. “My wife,” he wrote, “whose clutter tolerance is well below my own, sometimes will swoop in and hastily gather the pulp in a huge stack, going directly to the trash-compactor room just down the hall.”

As far as Mr. Levy can tell, that’s where his laptop ended up.

Ouch, ouch, ouch.