Author: lief

Well my geek quotient went up a little bit tonight.
Despite the fact that I am blogging at 3 – no 2AM I am doing it from my re-invigorated Powerbook.

Infused with a self-installed new 100GB 7200RPM drive and partitioned for easy upgrading. The real geek factor is that I enjoyed taking this thing apart and only had a mild panic attack when lifting off the connector for the trackpad made a distinct cricking noise as if I had lifted the piece right off the motherboard. I am proud to say I don’t have another entrant in my “I broke this” category. In fact, this one could go in a VERY small category known as “I fixed this”.
I took about 15-20 pictures of the process that I may post someday, if I feel like it.

But ahhhhhh, it feels good to have her back. She is fast, secure, portable, and if I am lucky, it means that I will actually be able to update you all a little more without freezing my toes negative impact. More news, more pictures, less time.
It is ALL good.

Coming soon!
Pumpkins and princesses and dwarves.

That is the message my laptop finally revealed to me late last week. So, did I really break Eleanor?* It seems not. It seems there was simply had a hardware problem that was inevitable and unavoidable. Nothing I did, looks like a classic #2 Case – Obtuse.
Now, whether it was because he took pity on me or through some sense of perhaps misguided and definitely reinforced (by me) responsibility for his own software installation Brad has been invaluable and helped me diagnose and find out much information regarding the reporting structure within Eleanor. His final bit of advice, which resonates on many levels.

…take the mentally conservative, financially liberal approach and buy a new harddrive.

I might have to snail mail that one to BopOp as he completely “off the grid” right now.

Next steps. First, I order a new hard-drive, bigger, faster, cheaper; that is what makes me happy about technology.
Then I crack open Eleanor’s case and perform what has been coined “moderately difficult” surgery.

Then…on to Shelly (my iPod shuffle) to figure out why she is mis-behaving.
* MacFans refer to machines by name. My other Mac is named Lily. Of course when hard-drives go out and flash drives do the hokey pokey “stupid machine” pretty much covers it.

Wow, so many good ideas for separate. I thought I had it with the bookend thing, but then the “a rat” held sway but I think James takes the cake with, a good day golfing. Se(e), Par, Ate
I respond positively to some seriously strange levels of abstraction and James abstracts that. Thanks. 🙂

Now, something else that I thought of after reading the
conscience
conscientious
conscious

is just how difficult it must be for someone to learn to write English. It may be easy to speak, as Mark Twain so eloquently argued in this essay The Awful German Language, but it certainly isn’t easy to spell.

My favorite example , is earth. I know I may have just shot myself in the foot as a writer by interrupting you with the inestimable Mr. Twain but I am pushing on.
Earth sounds like Urth.
Lets see what other sounds EA make.

Tear (which one? The drop or angry paper?)
Bear (but that sounds like Mare?)
Each (which is a lot like speech.)
Lead (which one again? The followers focus or Pb?)

That is all I can think of.

I think everyone has one (or more) of those words that they just can’t spell.

No matter how hard you try, you always find yourself checking with the dictionary.
My word is ‘separate’ or ‘seperate’…no separate. (I had to look it up)
I have tried and tried to ‘remember’ the correct spelling but I am constantly second guessing myself and I can never remember which direction I second guessed last time.

Does anyone have an idea or a mnemonic for how I can quash this annoyance?
Does anyone care to expose their own spelling silver bullet?

Maybe blief can help.
Ask blief.