Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?

Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'


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Fred Pete - Apr 19, 2006 4:13:20 pm PDT #7921 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.

Then I guess I have a non-click-wheel iPod, too. Mine turns 3 this summer.


Lee - Apr 19, 2006 4:24:50 pm PDT #7922 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Me too, in that case.


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2006 5:39:10 pm PDT #7923 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Wow, prying apart a Mac Mini is so much easier that I thought....


NoiseDesign - Apr 19, 2006 5:58:56 pm PDT #7924 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

My 30 GB iPod is not a click wheel.


Cass - Apr 20, 2006 12:27:08 am PDT #7925 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Am I the only one who still has a working non- click-wheel iPod?
I did. Until I took it with me to take a bath a few months ago. It slipped. And drowned.

It's run, not walk. Also? nonslip case. not bare iPod cause they are slickery.


esse - Apr 20, 2006 3:22:06 am PDT #7926 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

You know, I just hit the year mark this month with my 6GB pink mini, and I really have no idea how to listen to music any other way now. It's great--except I've *just* started having problems with it now that the warranty's expired. And it has to last at least another year, because I know I'm not going to be in any position to purchase another one while I'm away. Sigh. Stupid non-long-lasting new ones.


meara - Apr 20, 2006 12:20:04 pm PDT #7927 of 10003

Random question--any of y'all have an old iBook or something that you want to sell? My boss was asking if I knew anyone who is getting rid of a laptop, as his wife and daughter are going to Africa for a month, and theirs just died, but they don't want to buy a *new* one just to take (I think they're holding out for him to get them one of the new intel ones, when they get back).


Jessica - Apr 20, 2006 1:21:00 pm PDT #7928 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Has Google been acting strange for anyone else today? Earlier I got a 404 searching for something (can't remember), and just now I got a weird "Your query looks like something a robot would ask for. Are you a real person???" page searching for "sudoku." (Since I couldn't see the CAPCHA image they wanted me to type, I just searched for the same thing again in my toolbar, and it worked normally.)


meara - Apr 23, 2006 6:44:44 pm PDT #7929 of 10003

Ahhh, fuck. So once again, this morning my computer quit working---it gave me a shaded-screen "you must restart your computer now, push the power button (here's a big graphic of the power button!)". And when I tried to restart, it went for about half a second...then gave me that again. And again. And again. And again.

Finally I gave up and booted off the startup CD, where it was unable to fix the drive, which is what happened a month ago...so once again, I wiped and reformatted and reinstalled OSX. This time I had a more recent backup, thankfully. But STILL! This is NOT APPRECIATED. This damn computer is only just two years old. NOT that old.

Anyone have any ideas?


DCJensen - Apr 23, 2006 6:51:23 pm PDT #7930 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

That's weird, Meara. I'd hazard to guess there is something funky going on with the drive itself, or you have a program that is really messing where it shouldn't.

Many people go years and years without having to reformat a Mac OS drive.

I have been irritated at Symantec since they stopped letting you boot to a useable disk doctor from their Systemworks CD, or I'd recommend the investment.

Hmmm, I wonder what the current SOTA is in bootable, actually useful repair CDs? Diskwarrior, maybe?