KetelOne’s Revenge continues… Picking up where we left off… replacement hard drive arrived today removed the bad drive (once again, watch out for that “HD HEAT” cable on the side – – delicate little wire!) installed the new drive booted to the blinking “?” folder (as expected, since there’s no OS on the drive yet) […]
file under: essential viewing More like “required viewing”, Gunner Palace is a documentary about the U.S. Army in Baghdad during 2003-2004 – – following the invasion (“bomb it”) and during the occupation (“build it”). What you get is the perspective of those U.S. Army soldiers during this period. Interesting the way that morale flakes and […]
So to follow up on today’s earlier post, there was no reviving Malkovich. It did not boot up on its own after 24 hours of cooling off. So I thought/hoped that maybe if I re-seated the SATA drive connectors that we would at least get one final access on this drive. Wrong again. Got inside […]
Last night’s hard drive failure really has me bummed out. Way to kick in the post-vacation blues… It could definitely “be worse” – – I could have nothing backed up. I could have deleted the gargantuan .tar back-up of the iTunes library. KetelOne could have gone down at the same time. But as it stands, […]
kuro5hin.org points out that a story from The Onion actually became a reality. re: “Fuck everything, we’re going to five blades” – – at the time I thought it was the funniest article ever to appear on The Onion. I hope they’re not this prophetic all the time.
Well none of my secret vacation wishes came true. The hot stone massage was awesome but I’ve been able to form new memories since then… /sigh Overall it was a good trip. Got lots of writing in (but didn’t finish the novel) and finished reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Bloodsucking […]
Return from vacation to find that Malkovich decides to tank again. So soon. AppleCare’s diagnosis? BAD HARD DRIVE. So, like last time…: Had Malkovich shut down for the days we were on vacation. Get home, fire it up. Log in. Let everything come up. Plug in the camera to start downloading the pics from our […]
High School classroom but it looks more like one from a TV sitcom and not an actually really real H.S. classroom. It’s test day – – or at least some kind of pop quiz. The fierce tension in the room suggests an exam though. Something folks know about, have been studying for, and still don’t […]
Fast moving cars. A rally race up a mountain road. Childish tension and cliched suspense. Everything is vaguely cartoonish and very G.I. Joe. The mountain looks like every comic book rendition of the Matterhorn. Of course, I’m behind the wheel of my ’96 Plymouth Neon and (of all things) I’m out-performing my league ranking and […]
We’re in a town to meet up with Adam and Sue. (The details of this trip are not apparent and probably no relevant.) The town is reminiscent of the ones that run up and down the highways of central Pennsylvania – – the towns for which terms like “rest stop” and “gas station” and “diner” […]