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originally posted by: emusicman11
So have a mac mini with 3 usb ports and they are usually all filled. I needed to plug something in and apparently went blank at this point because I cannot recall what I did with the 2 ilok usb's that are usually plugged in. So now that Iam done using the usb port I only have the keyboard to plug in (my mouse is connected through my keyboard). It just doesn't make any sense. Okay why be missing 2 of them? I would have just put them on the large table that's right here. I completely took apart every nook and cranny of my room and its no where to be found. Iam pretty convinced something weird is going on. Like that I put them in another dimension maybe. There's a possibility that I am just missing the one usb key because I do vaguely remember losing one that wasn't actually necessary to have plugged in. But in that case I could have just plugged in to the empty slot. I remember going to the computer expecting all slots to be filled and i can't remember what happened exactly after that it's all kinda fuzzy. Something to note is my opinion on these ilok devices. I hate them. i want to just spend all this money to buy a product that is locked…to a small, thin, light device. When you really think about it. The ilok should come attached to like a large anvil. There, problem solved. You will never lose it now.
The Wrights, a young married couple, wake up one day to the sounds of construction. When they investigate they find time has stopped. Meanwhile, a crew of blue-clad construction workers are busy removing the furniture in their house and replacing it with new. In terror, the Wrights run outside to find things being rebuilt all over the neighborhood - things that have already existed. The Wrights start to go in the direction of a voice which seems to be commanding the workers, but then turn once the voice commands the workers to capture the Wrights.
Confused and frightened, the couple run into a back alley and enter a void of white space. They discover a man in yellow who helps them out of the void and explains to them that he is the supervisor of the maintenance of time. They have somehow slipped into a loophole and while they should be in an earlier time - 9:33 a.m. - for some reason they have hopped over into 11:37 a.m. Showing them exactly how time is maintained, he reveals to them a new understanding of how the universe works: every minute is essentially a separate world which must be built, maintained, and torn down once it is over. The supervisor informs them that they cannot return for two reasons: 1) they cannot reveal to anyone the true nature of time and 2) the supervisor isn't even certain they could return if they wanted to. The Wrights flee from the foreman and his crew, and try to find a way to slip back to their own time. They hide inside a theater ticket booth and wait until 11:37 a.m. rolls around so they can catch up. The foreman finds them too late as the Wrights suddenly emerge into their own world again. Back in their own time, they find a blue wrench sitting on a public telephone which convinces them they had not dreamed their experience.