Author: Teel

A quote from the Matrix Revolutions Trailer:

“You are all that stands in his way.
If you cannot stop him tonight,
then I fear that tomorrow will never come.” -the Oracle

A relevant question:

“But who needs to be stopped, Neo Or Smith?”

Continue reading A quote, a question

And she doesn’t know yet, but I can’t not say something. But I can’t say anything, either. It’s glowing.

So, ummm… I’m trying BitPass‘s CGI thing they say will work.

I had made this small comic and thought it would be keen to try out their system with, but was thwarted before.

Anyway, here you go:

This short comic may give you insight into a particular glow in my life.
(Okay, so it seems one of my special gifts (I’ve known this for a while) is finding bugs in software that normal humans would rarely if ever see. This seems to work now.)

The laptop is kaput. I spent a fair amount of time working on it yesterday (one of the side-effects of which is that my younger brother got hit by a car) and when I got all the parts back in place and tried to power it on, still nothing. So, something must have gone bad where I can’t see it, and even the long shot didn’t work. So now I definitely am laptop-less. But some of the laptop can be recovered:

I can use the Airport card in my iMac, which will be handy once I have a second computer again.

I can buy an enclosure and turn the 30Gb HD into an external firewire drive, not only recovering the data, but the use of the $300 drive I bought just under a year ago.

I can sell the AC Adapter on eBay; they go for between $40 and $70 plus S/H.

ummm… I can … yeah. Burn the rest. With fire.

I don’t know. I’m going to Pine now. Bye!

But have you ever scratched your eyeball? Man, it’s like hell. Or maybe it just reminds me of Hell.

Today’s the last day in PHX for a while. I’ll make some calls around, but it looks like good old-fashioned not-much-happennin’. I’m thinking (and I like this thought because it only means a $35-$75 fix instead of an entire new laptop) that I may have burned out my AC adapter. I took the voltmeter to it last night, and assumming my head isn’t full of squashed flies, there’s no current coming out of the thing. Which sure would explain why the laptop doesn’t turn on. If I can, I’m going to try to get out to an Apple Store of some kind and see if they can just plug it in with one of their AC adapters to see if that’s the problem. Anyone know what busses run through the Biltmore area?

It feels like there is actual cat hair between my eyelid and my eyeball. Except on fire. That antihistamine I just took better take effect soon, or I’ll have to tear a hole in space-time to get somewhere I’ll be okay to get around.

I have used more Windows XP in the last couple of days than in the last eight months. It’s frustrating, all the things it doesn’t do right. I’m thinking what needs to be done is someone needs to write a virus that infects people’s computers, then senses when people are frustrated with Windows and pops up with the Apple web page showing how Apple computers don’t have the specific problem they were having, and suggests they order a Mac. Of course, I also think there should be a way for ‘switchers’ to turn in their CDs and licenses for the PC versions of software they use in exchange for the Mac version when they switch, for maybe a small, nominal fee covering the cost of the CD and Manuals themselves. The biggest reason I hear from people about switching isn’t with anything Apple is doing, but with the cost of re-buying all their software. (For those of you who just pirated your PC software anyway and complain that there aren’t good pirating options for Macs, either grow up and pay for your software or take the time to learn how we do it.)

No, I’m going to go fight with BitPass. Wish me luck!