Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 08:50PM
Hell, it was a popular icebreaker on the ancien boards ...
Get up close and personal with excruciating details of your quotidien
existence!
How's your dirty laundry?
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Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 14, 2012 05:03PM
Cheers to you all. Today, somewhat surprisingly and to my great astonishment, I'm back up in my chair.
The pressure mark (which is finally starting to heal) quite fortuitously sits in the gap between the seat cushion and the wheelchair backrest. I think I originally ended up with the pressure mark from too much time sitting/lying in the bed with the backrest raised (I'd often fall asleep with the backrest up - esp if I'd had a nightcap). Anyhow, lesson learned...
El Jeffe
– August 15, 2012 12:06PM
What a journey.
yay!
John Willoughby
– August 15, 2012 12:22PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
That's why I sleep attached to a complicated harness of helium balloons. I never touch the mattress. Though the night my wife switched the ceiling fan on resulted in some centripetal force-related bruising.
Alan Lehman
– August 16, 2012 05:25AM
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John Willoughby
centripetal force-related bruising.
Sounds like a complicated name for fapping.
John Willoughby
– August 16, 2012 07:05AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
If one is encountering significant centripetal force whilst enjoying the delights of solitary stimulation, one is doing it wrong. NTTAWWT.
El Jeffe
– August 16, 2012 12:06PM
What a journey.
I was amazed at how quickly I developed bed sores. And how SLOWLY they take to heal. Mine developed in a week, and probably took a year for the final little scab/scar to not be prevalent.
Ate at a Chipotle today. Hard seats. Brought back memories of the sores.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 16, 2012 04:45PM
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John Willoughby
That's why I sleep attached to a complicated harness of helium balloons. I never touch the mattress. Though the night my wife switched the ceiling fan on resulted in some centripetal force-related bruising.
That conveys the most comical image in my head... (complete with a whump, whump, whump! sound effect)
El Jeffe,
Duoderm For The Win!
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El Jeffe
– August 17, 2012 01:30PM
What a journey.
I don't think anything would help me. I have the world's softest skin. Everything lacerates me, etc. I get blisters upon blisters. Never callous (verb. to develop callouses) (sp?)
El Jeffe
– August 18, 2012 08:32AM
What a journey.
Not a big insurance fan. Claims dude came out. Said the damage was well north of $1,000. Got the official paperworks. Said $366. Deductible is $500.
So, I'm out there (was out there) on top of my barn, cutting off/down half a tree. I actually do a pretty good job for a lame-o.
:)
Now, to get my kids to pick it all up. It's cut-up, just needs bagged and stacked. (twigs vs logs)
Great, great weather out today. I've got ducks/ies that follow me around now. They are cute. But should I die, not sure they can feed themselves now.
El Jeffe
– August 19, 2012 10:32AM
What a journey.
Time to get rid of the iMac G3 Ruby, iMac G3 Indigo, eMac 1Ghz, and iMac G5 1.8.
Are any of them even WORTH tossing onto eBay? I don't think so.
John Willoughby
– August 19, 2012 10:40AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Yeah, they fall into that valley between vintage and useful.
El Jeffe
– August 19, 2012 11:47AM
What a journey.
Much closer to vintage today, at this particular moment. And that equates to trash.
Oh well. First time I opened up an eMac. Can't believe how buried the HD is on those.
johnny k
– August 19, 2012 02:26PM
My MIL's Core Duo iMac juuuust falls outside of useful now that she's on iCloud. Couldn't be helped, she was using Mobile Me. I cobbled iCal sync onto 10.6 but that's about as far as I can take it, and 10.7 requires a Core 2 Duo. Decent run, I suppose, but she was almost weaned onto the iPad for 100% of her needs. Guess a 13" MBA is the next logical step.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 19, 2012 03:22PM
Good God, my Core 2 Duo iMac - which only seemed brand new shiny a few years ago - is now the bare minimum specs for 10.7 & 10.8.
Where did that 3 1/2 years go?
Cloudscout
– August 19, 2012 04:09PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I just picked up an iBook G4 1.33 from my mom. She wants me to clean it up so my 9 year old niece can use it.
It has 512MB RAM right now. Apparently these have 256MB soldered to the motherboard and have a single PC-2100 SO-DIMM slot that will accept up to a 1GB module.
I'm looking through my bin here but can't seem to find any PC-2100 SO-DIMMs. Would any of you happen to have one sitting around somewhere? Either a 512MB or 1GB module would be great.
El Jeffe
– August 19, 2012 04:13PM
What a journey.
sorry, no.
John Willoughby
– August 19, 2012 04:33PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
We have an ancient Mac Book Pro where the motherboard just died. I'll check the RAM, if my wife hasn't chucked it. It'd be a fluke if they matched, though, it was recent enough to be Intel.
dharlow
– August 19, 2012 04:53PM
I will look around some more but I have a 512MB that might still work.
porruka
(Admin)
– August 19, 2012 04:57PM
That looks the same as my PBG4. I'll see what I have lying around.
Jeff Cooper
– August 20, 2012 05:44PM
I was all set to say that I could help, as I have a 1.33 GHz iBook with 768 MB of RAM that's just sitting around. But I just checked it, and this 12" iBook has 512 MB soldered onto the motherboard; the removable RAM is only 256 MB. Sorry, JW. I'm guessing that your mom's iBook is the 14" model, right?
My beloved 2006 20" iMac, the last of the white iMacs, is now officially over the hill--it's not compatible with Mountain Lion. I'd already replaced it, but I'm keeping it around just for kicks--not surprisingly, the resale price has collapsed in the last year.
