Buhdy’s Laptop: 1989-2008

(10:00PM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)

Four score and seven thousand ponies ago, Buhdy hooked up to the Internets a new laptop, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all laptops and the humans who hook them up are created equal.

Now we are engaged in solemn mourning, pondering whether that laptop, or any laptop so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure being dropped on the floor.  Apparently not.  So we have come to dedicate a portion of our essay list in thankful tribute to laptops like Buhdy’s which gave their lives that the Netroots might live.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow Buhdy’s laptop.  Other brave laptops, living and dead, which have typoed their way to glory as his did, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.  Posterity will little note, nor long remember what we say here tonight, but it will never forget what Buhdy’s laptop did here.  So let us dedicate ourselves to the unfinished work that Buhdy’s laptop so nobly advanced until he dropped it.  Let us dedicate ourselves to the great task remaining before us — that from Buhdy’s departed laptop we take increased devotion to that cause for which it gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that Buhdy’s laptop shall not have died in vain — that our laptops shall carry on — and that blogging of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.