If an NES game wasn’t working, you pulled it out, blew on it, and stuck it back in, right? Right.

Today I believed the wireless card in my trusty G5 Tower had gone out. Every other computer in my apartment connected beautifully to the network, even my laptop when I sat it on top of the G5. Full bars all around. My old co-worker who is now a Mac Genius™ was online at the time, and he ran me through a few troubleshooting steps. When it was coming down to making an appointment at the Genius Bar, we had the idea to re-seat the chip. He told me where it was and I opened up the box, pulled out the chip, blew on it as NES users learned to do, and put it back in. Closed up the box, booted, full bars ever since. I know the NES blowing technique is largely superstition, but sometimes it really does work. Makes you wonder where else it might work, eh?