July 15, 2015

At the Restoration Café...

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... you can talk about whatever you want.

The picture dates back to last November. (Previously: here.) It's one of the last photographs I took in my old computer before it died. I was too busy to deal with the problem and just bought a new computer, but I finally got around to taking the old one to the Apple store, which replaced the video card, free. It's fun to go from a clunky old inert computer, annoyingly taking up space and embodying an unaccomplished errand, to a restored computer, not just workable, but full of things I'd given up for lost 8 months ago. I'm also reviving the southeast upper corner of the house, which had fallen into disuse, as a quiet alternate workspace with a perfectly good computer. Perhaps there will be more middle-of-the-night posts, when I'm up and alert, but unwilling to venture downstairs. Perhaps not.

11 comments:

Meade said...

”Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."

Clyde said...

Some nervous Nellies are "Too soon!"-ing about the monologue joke at the ESPY Awards about Jason Pierre-Paul's amputated finger.

Well, what's the difference between Jason Pierre-Paul and Caitlyn Jenner? Oh... Never mind!

William said...

Pluto isn't especially photogenic. Earth really is the most attractive planet in the solar system. Some will say I'm being chauvinistic about this, but those are my honest feelings. Those rings on Saturn are cool, but the planet itself is not that good looking.

Humperdink said...
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Humperdink said...

"Major Garrett will now be referred to as Sgt. Garrett." BHO, Commander-in-Chief.

Clyde said...

AP headline this morning: Obama will go to prison for a fairer justice system

Obama going to prison sounds like a very fair justice system to me!

Clyde said...

🔪 Emoji test!

Clyde said...

This 🔪 should go with the Jason Pierre-Paul/Caitlyn Jenner comment above!

Bob Ellison said...

There's a rabbit running a wheelbarrow full of vegetables in my kitchen.

rhhardin said...

You can put the HD from failed computers into an enclosure and read them as external drives with USB connections, to retrieve files.

It may even work when the HD failed, depending on the failure type. Too failed to run the system but files can mostly be read.

Bob R said...

”Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."

A bad motto for wiper blades.