Marcel Winatschek

Open Heart Surgery

Becca and I watched the MTV Europe Music Awards last night. Borat was brilliant as host—genuinely one of the best I’d seen. But something nagged at me: 99% of the performances and nominations were American. It’s the Europe Music Awards. Where were the European artists? Robbie Williams, Rammstein—they were basically the only ones that actually registered.

I went to Gravis in Munich with Becca that day. We’d been spending all our time together lately, which felt good. Picked up a 1GB storage block for my Mac mini. The staff there is genuinely nice; the technician was friendly until I mentioned what I wanted to do. Then he told me it would be like open heart surgery—the Mac mini wasn’t designed to be opened, and upgrading the memory meant voiding the warranty.

But I wanted more RAM, so I took the risk. If I disappear from here over the next few days, you’ll know what happened. I killed the machine. Wish me luck. It’s Friday, at least.