I was trying to burn a CD last night on my new MacBook Pro when it started vibrating excessively and then failed to burn the CD. What I mean by “vibrating excessively” is that burning the CD made the thing buzz so loud that I wouldn’t have been able to hold a conversation in the same room. I used the CD in another burned and that worked fine.

I signed up with the Apple Genius bar (to those non-Mac people that means I made an appointment at the Apple Store to have it looked at) and I was late. So late, in fact, that my appointment was no longer valid. I thought I’d be about 1/2 hour late, but they’re digging holes all through both miles from my house to the Apple Store and the parking lot was full. The store was packed but they said I could wait and see if a spot opened up. Luckily everyone was missing their appointments.

Of course the guy popped in a blank CD from the store and it burned fine. He said sometimes the CDs are bad. Fortunately, I brought along one of my own blank CDs and it made the same buzzing noise (not quite as loud) and wouldn’t burn it. We compared the two CDs and his was an Imation and mine was … IMATION. Surprise! Anyway, we decided to blame the CD and decided my computer was OK after all. Luckily they also validate parking.