Or that the Bridge Cafe down on Water Street is home to ghosts that break computers and have messy, drunken parties after hours?
Meet "Magneto Man", an unfortunate young man who generates a static charge powerful enough to break computers as he uses them.
Sure, we'd all be more patient if babies didn't cry, dishes didn't break, computers didn't crash, and people didn't make mistakes - but that's never going to happen.
In a frowsty office a man sits in front of a broken computer.
Keep Cool (1996) revolves around a love triangle and a broken computer.
Over the past decade, environmental regulators have promoted "take-back" programs to persuade people to hand in the more than 200 million old televisions and broken computer monitors that Americans are thought to have stored away in closets, garages and basements.
Carolyn Castagna lives a floor above the garment factory and creates jewelry and wearable art from discarded dish mats, broken computer parts, pieces of silver and anything else she can find -- including the scraps from the factory below.
After the tsunami all these orders were being sent down to local authorities, but it was like a broken computer.
It appealed to her because "unlike higher programming languages that are created by people and are volatile," making and breaking computer security systems requires a deeper knowledge of mathematics and the primitive "assembly language" that computers use to move information.
