Thursday, April 20, 2006

Water from a laptop

The setting is of a time during or around the WW II. The place resembles the many towns that were shown in Saving Private Ryan or any of the WW II games. Mom, dad and I are hiding behind a wall that has a considerable portion blown off to form a U shaped cut in the wall.

We jump across and take cover behind a van parked there. All is quiet. The houses around are in rubble. Quickly we run across the road and dad takes us up a flight of stairs. We enter a room which looks pretty normal. No signs of any damage whatsoever.

An elderly man is sitting on a chair. Dad goes up to him and talks about something. Then he asks us if we need water. Now, water was definitely needed as we had been running and hiding for over two hours. We walk to the other side of the wooden partition and there we see a tap's nozzle. But there's no controller on top of it. It's attached to the bottom of a stupid looking IBM laptop which in turn is connected to a pipe coming from the wall. Very strange.

The old man shouts from across the room that we need to press the left-click button on the laptop to get water. We do accordingly and quench our thirst. Pretty innovative considering its the 1940s. Isn't it ?

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