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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 01:30:39 -0600
From: Tommy Butler <tommy AT atrixnet DOT com>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Wow, is this off-topic or what?
> 
> However, I can't tell you what a relief it is to hear that I'm not the only
> person who does this.  I've tried to get my wife to appreciate the beauty of
> a defrag screen but she never does.  And, so, I sit for lonely hours watching
> the flashing rectangles while a slow drip of drool escapes from the side of
> my mouth.
> 
> I admit that sometimes I purposely make random copies of my directories and
> delete them, just to purposely defragment the disk so I can watch the visual
> display again.
> 
> I've been doing this since the early MS-DOS defragmenters.  Do you suppose
> there's a support group for this somewhere?

Ahhh, I'm not alone (though it doesn't get quite that extreme yet- I don't frag
up my drives just to do watch defrag.)  The practice is so soothing; even after
waking up with QWERTY imprinted on your forhead.  My grandpa goes to tanning
beds for the same reason, but I can't see how it could be as interactive.

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