When I read The Crimson on Wednesday, I noticed that the rate of petty theft had increased on campus (although you would not know from the headline, "Violent Crime Eases"). Two laptops were stolen from Margaret's room this week. This is the first time that one of my friends has had something stolen. Sure, it was her old laptop and she did not really need it, but it's not still not cool.
Incidentally, I almost bought a security cable (a Targus one, based on Kensington patents; yes, I know) on Thursday, but decided that the amount of time that my laptop spent on my desk when I was out of my room was not worth the $30, especially since I consider it more likely to get stolen when it is outside of my room. My computer is probably the most important piece of property I own. I would rather lose one of my kidneys than my laptop.
What does this mean? Either I will give in and buy the stupid security cable, or I will put increased effort into self-destruction methods (which will be advertised, of course, as a deterrent).
At 8:55 on September 18, 2004, Margaret wrote:
We feel pretty strongly that the guy who took our laptops must have been specifically a laptop thief who popped into our room, scanned for visible, available laptops and took them but nothing else, because my actual laptop which was under a pillow on the futon was left, as were several nice cameras, visible expensive jewelry, etc.
At 9:00 on September 18, 2004, Margaret wrote:
And now I feel dumb because I used two beginning <i> tags in that last comment instead of a beginning and an ending one.
At 11:39 on September 18, 2004, Martey wrote:
Better than using two beginning <a> tags, which can really mess up your content. I fixed that, and removed the <code> tags from your second comment, since I had previously changed the blog's CSS to make them display as blocks of content, and not inline. This was probably a bad move, since it is going to make most comments that use the <code> tag look strange.