:( They wouldn't let me do my Algebra homework with my calculator when I was on the plane going to Pheonix for the International Science and Engineering Fair (I have to find a new project soon! AH!).
One of the flight attendants just took it out of my hand without warning. I'd rather she took my hand! That was a $175 calculator! She didn't even say anything, just took it into the galley, and on the way started hitting buttons to turn it off (it needs a combination of buttons to shut off)!
I just sort of looked at my hand and then the attendant in confusion, and my mom started to actually yell [
] because it was her $175 that paid for it. I tried to calm her down, and the co-pilot wound up coming back to shut her up, and gave me back my calculator. I guess that from all of the button hitting the attendant did, all of my saved equations were erased, the thing was talking to me in French, and the display options were messed up.
:( All she had to do was tell me to put it away. I mean, it runs off of four watch batteries, and tons of people had watches, so I didn't think it counted as an "electronic device." And it wasn't listed in the "Please turn off all electronic devices such as..." speech...
I'm sad. I had a chunk of a version of a string theory equation saved in it for no apparent reason, but I liked it there. And then I had to do half of my graphs on it for my homework on it again...
Ok, I'm done ranting and mourning over my data-loss.
Awww... now I'm more sad, 'cause Data died in ST 10...
--hippie