More Computer Conniptions

My MacBook Pro is having conniptions again today. SIGH... I just want to get some work done. (I have a note for something to add to an in-progress paper, and I would love to actually be able to do that.)

By the way, did you know that "conniption" is one of the official 'favorite words' in OCIAM?

Here's it's entry in the Online Etymology Dictionary:

1833, Amer.Eng., origin uncertain; perhaps related to corruption, which was used in a sense of "anger" from 1799, or from Eng. dialectal canapshus "ill-tempered, captious," probably a corruption of captious.

That's right, we invented this one, you punks! ;) (I did tell the story of this OCIAM discussion in my blog, right?)