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Originally posted by lithos:
Hey, at least I've got a sense of humour.

You should try using it sometime.

Okay, in five to seven days I'll know something. Mrs AC sez the Apple "genius" was very understanding, wasn't able to get the beast much closer to booting than we were, but did manage to salvage a bunch of data from the drive and burn it to a couple of DVDs. Which I can't read on the machine I'm on right now, one of the Great Old iMacs from the previous century. Ah well. I'll take them to work and burn CDs, I suppose, or upload the urgent stuff to gmail drafts (thanks for the advice/reminder, Lithos).

Oh, and by the way, my favorite antipodean curmudgeon: I never said Macs can do no wrong; I just said they suffer spectacular failures many times less often than their Windows counterparts...like weekly instead of daily (or hourly, if we're talking pre-Win2KPro).

Fucking computers. Barely less revolting than plague rats.

Didn't you know, AC? Computers are plague rats. Beige boxes full of plague rats.

Today I killed someone with an ice cube tray.
An empty one.
He should've made more ice.

Bic I gotta know: What do you do?
Long walks, surfing, fishing. You on the dole, independently wealthy, or just low maintenance?

just found out that the silly cow who owns the apartment in paris damn well double booked us! i'd froth and kick and scream about the fact that we've had the booking for 6 months but i'm feeling awkward. if she doesn't want us then we most certainly do not want her.

looks like the .. broker? (you know the middle person) is coming to the party with an upgrade so things may well have worked out perfectly. totally different part of the city, mind you, but spose montmatre isn't to be sneezed at. slightly bigger, more homey from the pics & with washer dryer & high speed connected computer. and scanner. and engraver? just in case we want to personalise a piece of jewellery or give someone a trophy?

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engraver?

They probably mean 'CD burner'.

Don't expect them to speak any English

oh well that really might come in handy. do the washing, sort through the photos before we go home.

my partner's french is very fluent. he actually once spent some hours on a train in france chatting away to a french person. in the end the person said: "i just can't pick it. which region are you from?" ha-ha! good thing he's scots not english!

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Originally posted by Bic:
If your "genius" could get the dat off the drive then why didn't he just re-install the system. If the drive is partly duff then a replacement is cheap -> re-install.

I'm betting he used the target firewire trick above. If the monitor is hozed (the main problem with iBooks), it should still be able to do target FW where it pretends it a $1000 external hard drive case. Great trick for recovering data or mirroring a system to a new computer.

And don't worry--AC has AppleCare, so he's totally covered. As long as he got his data back, it is now Apple's problem to make the thing work 100% again.
(And this, folks, is why I always tell people to buy AppleCare on a laptop! I've had something like 3 out of 100+ tower failures in 15 years, but about 6 out of 10 for laptops when you include battery problems.)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vesper:
Company X told me they don't need me on position Y. Well, happens.

26, graduate, unemployed, addicted to the net and getting more anti-social (offline-wise) with every week. ]

Move to Ireland, man. there's plenty of jobs for qualified people. And, take the sweetheart with you:-)

I rode my bike to work this morning.
40 minutes of slalom-action in rush hour traffic.

Before lunch, I played basketball with my teammates for an hour.

Now, I have eaten (lightly), and am terrified by the perspective of having to ride my bike back home tonight.

This sport thing is overrated, if you ask me...

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Along a long, narrowing, tunnel?

(sorry, bad joke based on "perspective")

That gets farther, and farther, and farther, away from you?

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
I rode my bike to work this morning.
40 minutes of slalom-action in rush hour traffic.

Before lunch, I played basketball with my teammates for an hour.

Now, I have eaten (lightly), and am terrified by the perspective of having to ride my bike back home tonight.

This sport thing is overrated, if you ask me...

Think of it as the goal toward which you have been striving, all those long years of playing video games. Time to put those twitch skills to good use.

You should probably wear a helmet.

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You should probably wear a helmet.

Yes, I should.

Boy, my avatar sure looks like shit on this PC. I would change it back to the old one, but I saved it to the (now dead) iBook.

And...we're back. I think.

I always liked this one better.

the other one looked cool, but only on its original size. The resize forced by the page wasn't doing it justice.

OK, this is really yesterday but now is the first time I could post.


Years ago Pan Am included a helicopter flight from JFK to the 34th Street heliport (and vice versa) if you bought a business or first class ticket. It was a 10 minute flight & made life a whole lot easier; however, when Pan Am went down the toilet, so did the helicopters.

Earlier this month AA introduced a shuttle from the Wall Street heliport to their terminal & I made use of it for the first time yesterday.


As we approached JFK it was interesting to watch the planes land beneath us.


It now takes 8 minutes and lands right next to the AA terminal, in my opinion it is worth it not only for the speed but also for the fact that you clear security at the heliport and do not need to do it at JFK and you are perhaps 50 steps from the Admirals' Club.

LN