There must be some ad exec at Dell or Intel who can spin this incident into some sort of cool and hip GenX marketing campaign about just exactly how HOT their products are!

Or, if it was a PC, Apple could make a Switch ad out of it. Sounds pretty horrible, though.

Edited by author 11-22-2002 03:08 PM
... for an hour?

How do you burn yourself -- on your most sensitive of sensitives -- without noticing?

"So then it was "ooh"..."ow!" and my penis was horribly burned, so I got an iBook. "

In those cases of spontaneous combustion that were all over the media a couple of years ago, it became clear that the people who slow-roasted into ash were very drunk, or had had heart attacks and so didn't notice the broasting action.

My guess is that this guy was drugged or drunk enough not to notice.

Heat can be very deceptive...and you don't have to be intoxicated to be susceptible.

My father once talked to a one-legged man who admitted to having lost his leg by putting a heating bag (a bag filled with dry uncooked rice that is microwaved to pick up heat) on it. It just felt pleasantly warm, and he didn't find out until much later that it had been substantially hotter than that. He'd cooked his leg clean through, and the only thing they could do then was amputate it.

Compared to that, a little thing like "great balls of fire" doesn't surprise me very much at all.