Author Neil Gaiman on the Colbert Report, because it's funny:

So we got another part for the speedvacs today. Unfortunately, this part did just what its doppelganger did: not work. They've both got defective circuit boards, which will take weeks to replace. This is not a good omen for the future performance of these units, when two out of the six components fail when they are turned on for the first time. By the installation tech from Ace, no less, who must love us very much to keep coming back and fixing our machines. *headdesk* One day we will have two working speedvacs again. We used to, really...