Those Geeks Got Your Excuses Ready

If you have somebody to answer to Thursday, somebody who will wonder why you're not at work because of a certain opening day of a certain prequel film, the Geek Squad is ready to help with a fill in the blanks excuse note.

The Squad will help you arrest those problems with your Windows PCs and wireless networks. They also have some funny TV ads, (check out the About Geek Squad link) and they have camped out in Best Buy stores, too. Why not? Some of us smug Mac users would argue that the place where Windows PCs get sold is the scene of the crime. (Okay, there's really no wrong computer to use. Just more troublesome ones, from time to time.)

Which is why having a sense of humor about it all, like the Geeks, is bound to make the pain recede a little sooner. They've got troubleshooting book, too. It's out of date (written six years ago), especially in its comparison of Windows and Macs, written before the OS X revolution. But even then, the Geeks had to admit Macs "lead in more categories, but we believe Windows has the edge." Odd logic, yes. But face it, if you've got Windows problems, you want a Windows advocate working on them.