I see no grounding equipment near that computer. I suppose you think that just by touching the metal of the case grounds you even when the computer isn't turned on and it's sitting on cotton. Even so why would you properly ground yourself and then you put a heavy static conductor between you and your computer and then claim to have taken an electronic engineering class?

The concept of frying parallel port with an unintentional static charge made me chuckle because they essentially work in grounded pairs and the controllers were beefy as fuck.

What did you break off pins 18-25 and then rub them with a balloon and paper towels?

And the only way I could conceivably believe a mac was sexy is if I also thought other extremely simple shit was sexy like light switch covers, or toilet seats. (ZOMG SO SIMPLISTIC AND ELEGANT)