Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Observations, Technology on Nov 29th, 2006
My iBook is now at CompUSA for HD replacement/upgrade. After reading more posts than I care to admit exists regarding user experiences with failed hardware from Apple, particularly hard drives and logic boards in iBooks, I’m thinking out loud that maybe my switch from the PC world to Macs may not have been such [...]
Posted in Observations, Technology on Nov 29th, 2006
No, my iBook is not one of the exotic earlier models. It is a G4 1.25 MHz power pc circa 2004 basic Mac although I have boosted the memory to 768 meg. The night before last I started getting the spinning beach ball, program freezes, etc. Rebooting took forever. Trouble shooting has not yielded any [...]
Posted in Observations, Poetry on Nov 27th, 2006
In keeping with the old nursery rhyme, I wash our clothes early Monday morning. My skills as a launderer have improved as my tenure as house husband lengthens; however, the curiously leoparded blouse or pair of trousers, while infrequent remains a mystery nonetheless. Although I don’t consider doing the laundry an unpleasant task, [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 26th, 2006
Like the corners of my mind
Like the misty colored memories…
Well, not exactly. The demise of my PC server came after Apple’s introduction of the G4 Mac mini and concomitantly led me to search out the possibility/feasibility of using the Mac mini to replace my old Windows PC combination. Initially I thought I could [...]
As we age, the passing of each birthday can trigger in us complex and often subtle reactions to the range of emotions we experience, especially as the consideration of our own mortality inserts itself into our thoughts. While there may be an eternal quality associated with the flow of time, it is more often [...]
Scribbling
Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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The Zero
A Novel
Jess Walter
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