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• celsojunior
  His art blows my mind.
• Oyster - Oyster [Fukk God 037]
  Have I ever mentioned how much I love drone music? Because… I love it.

• Adventure on the high trees!
  I salute you, palm tree trimming man!

My PowerBook came home today! It’s all better, well, except for the 512 Megs of memory that Apple said was bad. I’ve ordered replacement RAM that should be here by the end of the week.

I’m tempted to sleep with my laptop tonight as if it were a large, flat, metal teddy bear, but I don’t think Bryan would appreciate that much.

♫ Clea - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off

I’m still ‘Bookless. Since Tuesday, the status of the repair has been “Hold - Awaiting Part.” When I called today to get more information, I was told that the motherboard is bad, but the person didn’t know if that was the part they were waiting for. (It was some combination of a database being down for maintenance and today being Sunday that kept him from getting more details).

Discovering that they are replacing the motherboard is a bit odd — do they still make motherboards for Rev. A 17″ PowerBooks? I can’t see how it would be very economical for them to do so, unless there’s an epidemic of dead ones.

Regardless of what’s happening, I just want my PowerBook back soon!

• Things Koala Bears Would Say
  The best thing I’ve seen today. Yay!

• Interview with John Gruber
  Mr. Daring Fireball on the history and current state of OS X’s interface.

• Fun With HTTP Headers
  X-Adam-Scale: 10

My laptop is sick. Yesterday I started having the first serious issue I’ve had with my PowerBook. I figure two years with almost zero problems is pretty good, so I’m not too upset, but is is a bit of a pain. On the plus side, I was able to do a full backup, so I’m not worried about losing anything.

I was happily using my laptop when all of a sudden it totally froze up and I had to power it off. When I tried to turn it back on, nothing happened. After trying every troubleshooting step I could think of with no results, I called Apple support. They weren’t able to help, so they told me to bring it to the Genius Bar. And here I am.

Hopefully they’ll be able to clear things up quickly!

Update: Well, they weren’t able to figure anything out here, so my PowerBook is on its way to Apple. Have a safe trip!

Also, I’m trying out a Mighty Mouse here and I want to like it. I mean, I drink the Apple Kool-Aid, right? This mouse just doesn’t feel right though. To make the side buttons activate, I have to push way harder than I expect. The scroll ball also has issues — it’s not very responsive and feels too small. II really like the idea of the Mighty Mouse, but the implementation is a bit too meh.

But three to seven days without my computer… how will I survive?

• Copper
  Gorgeous comic. I love it.

• Disaster
  A lovely short story.