Tales from the “Geek Side”

Okay this has nothing to do with Service-Now, but I have to share it.

I’ve never been a fan of Mac’s. Just not a gaming platform, but I decided to take a chance and had my Intel laptop replaced with a Mac when they offered them up at work. A couple of days ago, I lost my magic mouse. I had no idea how dependent I had become on this thing, until I lost it. It was driving me nuts! It’s just “the icing on the cake” with Lion.

So I’m sitting here this morning, and it’s taunting me. I’m receiving “connected”, “not connected” messages now and then. So, that’s it, GAME ON, I’m finding the damn mouse.

Google to the rescue, “help me find my bluetooth mouse”.

Turns out Apple has a pretty cool feature, you bring up your System Preferences –> Bluetooth menu, highlight your lost device and hit the option key, it’ll tell you the signal strength of your device… the lower the number the weaker the signal.

So, I grab the laptop, start covering my house. When I lost connection I knew I was getting “colder”. Turn around, wait for the signal and continue my search. The last place I remember having it was either at my table, or on my couch. I had searched both of these places in the past to no avail.

I proceed to my kitchen table, -80, very weak signal, can’t be here.

Start moving over to the couch, -75, -64, -60… It HAS to be here.

Completely tear apart the couch, and voila! One recovered mouse.

Sometimes, I just LOVE being a geek, and yes.. Apple has won me over.