My Asus: Warranty

Not a spill, mind you. A drop. A tiny, round, glistening droplet that launched itself from my mug during a celebratory fist pump (I had finally closed a particularly nasty bug in my code). It arced through the air like a liquid meteor and landed squarely in the ventilation grille of my beloved ASUS ROG Zephyrus.

The next day, I bought a cheap Chromebook. I wrote a short story about the whole ordeal. And I framed the warranty card, hanging it on my wall as a monument. my asus warranty

My $2,000 gaming and coding companion was dead. No lights, no hum, no whirring fans. Just the ghost of a coffee stain on the desk beside it. Not a spill, mind you

It began, as all great technological tragedies do, with a single, perfect drop of coffee. It arced through the air like a liquid

"Sir," he said, "I can see your case. The system flags it because your sticky note in the video was green. The example photo shows a yellow sticky note. You will need to re-film the video."