I won’t bore you with my usual rant. Or rather I’ll engage in the Male sin of minimalism (according to Barbara Hammer) and pare it the hell down.
Only one of my grandfathers survived to see me born. He worked from 1928 to 1967 in a junkyard, except for World War Two*. Thanksgiving was his favorite holiday. I inherited it from him. I look forward to this holiday, I love this holiday I have much to be thankful for, chiefly my friends, secondly the all night public library and Bughouse Square that is the Net. And I am.
Thank you all so very, very much.
Happy Thanksgiving!
*he spent the war working in a defense plant and running the food concession in the North Ave. Bath House.
One reason why they the new MacBooks suck, other then their name which I still think blows, is the lack of Firewire. This is chiefly necessary if you own a video camera, it’s how 95% of them upload the video to your computer for editing and DVD making. But it’s also necessary for target mode, which essentially turns your entire laptop into a hard drive. Pretty geeky? No, absolutely necessary, something Intel and M$ should have copied. Consider what happened to me last night.
Leaving out the backstory, I had to fix two dead laptops armed only with a OS X install DVD and a Firewire cable. That was it, not even my geek tool. Neither laptop would boot, the G4 iBook had a known bad CD drive, so I couldn’t boot off the instal DVD. I did however boot the G4 PowerBook off it. Running the disk utility couldn’t repair the hard drive-mechanical issues. But i was able to get the iBook into target mode, hook it to the PowerBook booted off the install DVD and run the disk utility, which resolved it’s problems for the moment (it would still need to be backed up, reformatted, and reinstalled).
Had the iBook been a MacBook with a dead optical drive, I wouldn’t have been able to get it going last night. Not without more equipment. I’d have need an external USB hard drive pre loaded with OS X, or one of those pricey emergency boot tool USB flash drives. Come to think of it, that’s a scenario I’m going to have to cover. Thank you Apple, more crap to carry in the 55lb pack of doom.
So that’s one reason the new MacBooks suck, they’re harder to fix at the Laundromat with just the stuff in your pockets.
UPDATED:
And yes, we did. Although a part of me still can’t believe Obama won. But he did. More importantly we did. We stepped back from the precipice. The whole world heaved a collective sigh of relief.
For the first time in years I’m hopeful.
Now the hard part begins…
(And once more The Onion hits the nail on the head: Black Man Given Nations Worst Job)
VOTE NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE…
Get up off your collective asses and go save the World.
You have no right to complain if you don’t. Hell, you’re worse then a virus or alderweasel if you don’t. Jeff Mickey is promising free crotch punches to everyone who doesn’t vote. Double check the header on this here website…
Manana we have an opportunity to stop the slide into crapitude, to show the world we’re not an incestuous shitpile of bigoted yahoos.
Time to make your stand.
Against illogic. Against the bigotry. Against the jingoism. Against the lies.
For goodness sake. For hope. For peace. For the future.
VOTE.
