The big boxed set of FinalCut Studio HD arrived today, and I’m installing it on the beastly huge desktop machine that’s substituting for my poor logic-board fried powerbook. And now I’ve got a dilemma. When the P’book gets back will I be able to deal with its shortcomings?
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Another quiz!
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Looks like it’s a hardware problem.
The laptop is gonna be heading in for repairs this afternoon. Last night the screen went dark and the clicking sound started up again. And after rebooting, the screen stayed dark. So far as I can tell, everything is coming up and running, it’s just that the backlight is out of whack so I can’t see anything.
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Looks like the total wipedown & reinstall of the OS on the powerbook worked: complex 3D no longer causes the system to go all pear-shaped. As something of a bonus, I was able to trick the OS installer into restoring all of my user files & preferences from my backed-up system. The only stuff it didn’t grab were the UNIX specific things that I’d installed.
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Looks like some guy with a science based toyshop has replicated my old Mentos experiment.
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Hi all! It’s day 4 of the December blog a day challenge and this is your Sunday guest reviewer boo! I was going to do this theme thing with Christmas and pictures and fancy shmancy artsy fartsy and all that, but it didn’t happen. Instead, I’ve got a couple snaps of what we’re doing this fine Sunday, sort of a day in the life if you will.
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So. According to the date at the bottom of this entry, I’ve already missed a day of updating and therefore have disgraced the name of the December Challenge. On the other hand, according to my Wife, it doesn’t count as a day until you’ve actually gone to sleep. And since she made up the rules for the good ol’ DC, I’m still in the running.
Go me.
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Another Friday, another new comic!
Why does no one make a self-illuminated coffee cup? Seriously. In all of the world of novelty drink containers, this one seems to be a no-brainer. You could use it to find your way through a darkened break room to a steamy carafe of fresh java. On dark winter mornings, you could carry it with you out to your car to illuminate your search for your keys. Hold it aloft, like Diogenes, in search of an honest shade-grown free-trade cup of joe.
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Wow. Not much posting going on here… I’d had a half a piece written last week that I’d saved as a draft and I guess I just kinda left things hanging around. Sorry ’bout that. I’ll be popping things over from Draft to Publish later today, so look for at least three new entries showing up as if they were old entries.
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