The Editor's Notebook

A Stranger With a Sobering Story

I met Mark at Alterra Monday morning and while the conversation started about MacBook computers, it blossomed into a heartfelt view into a stranger's love for his late wife, Elizabeth.

Furiously typing like a mad-woman at Alterra, earbuds squelching the sound of the coffee grinder, I feel like someone's watching me. From the corner of my eye I realize there's a man standing to my left, looking at me.  Popping out the ear bud, I take a good look at this touristy-looking man. His get-up is complete with a fanny pack, baseball cap and a very Charlie Sheen-style shirt beneath is winter coat.  He begins talking to me about my MacBook that I'm typing on for work and tells me to hit Command F5. This struck me as odd, but I obliged. What I didn't know was the depth of the story behind his affinity for Macintosh and this particular key sequence.  Mark told me his wife, Elizabeth, used to use this command regularly which allows a …

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Sarah Worthman

5:37 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012

Thanks, Mark ... It's one of those things, kind of like the bell ringers around the holidays - some of the neatest personal stories that you come across aren't the ones you work your tail off to track down, but the stories that find you :)   more ›

Police Investigating Laptop Thefts at Best Buy

Two women took them into the bathroom and walked out without any merchandise. Surveillance footage shows one woman put her shoulder bag in the trunk of her car when she left. In total, Best Buy is facing a loss of nearly $1,700.

Best Buy was the target of another theft this week when two women made off with three laptops, a total loss of nearly $1,700. This incident exactly two weeks after a 22-year-old Mequon man thought he could sneak out of Best Buy with some video games jammed into his pants. According to the report: A loss prevention employee told Fox Point police around 1 p.m., three laptops were stolen from the store on Aug. 20. Two, Toshiba Satellite laptops valued at $399.99 each and one, Samsung laptop, valued at $849.99 The surveillance footage shows a car pull up with two women, one looking to be in her thirties, the other in her forties, get out of the car and enter the store. They both went straight to the back of the store where the computers are …

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