{{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Welp, the holidays are officially over and we're now in a brand spanky new year of hope and optimism — which lasted for about 5 hours before I turned on the news and realized it's likely to be another year of division, despair and chaos. Yay.
But at least I had an absolutely terrific holiday season (note: insert sarcasm here). They say it's better to give than receive — but this year, I handed out a gift I didn't really want to give, and no one seemed especially joyous or thankful to have received it. Clearly, everyone I know are a bunch of ungrateful jerks.
Shane Brown If you happened to read my column a couple of weeks back, you'll know my holidays started with a rousing dose of panic. After having agreed to DJ a large charity dance for a fledgling nonprofit, my trusty laptop computer (with all my DJ software and music) crashed hard on me during a gig. It turned out it was overheating because of a faulty heat sink, which in turn caused my battery to malform and melt.
A replacement battery was 10 days out, and the gig was less than a week away. My best solution was to order a new Macbook and put all my faith and the future of this gig into the hands of UPS during the busiest delivery week of the year. I even checked to see if it'd be faster to drive to the nearest Apple store in Madison or Chicago to get one, but the estimated ETA was the same.
Thankfully (big up to th.
