When Papa Smurf candidated and started his six-year journey to becoming a minister with his Bachelor of Arts in 1987, we acquired a second-hand computer. This computer wasn't top of the range, obviously, but came about through a family friend with an interest in such things. I have very fond memories of it, actually; a Robin Hood role-play game ( Read more... )

Listening to my iPod on the way home from school, I was scrolling through my albums and came upon the "O"s, and clicked on Once More, With Feeling. I was musing that it must be close to ten years since that episode aired, and yes... November 2001. Somehow, this makes me feel so. much. older. than the 10th anniversary of the show ( Read more... )

Today I went to see X-Men: First Class, which caused some embarrassing eye-leakage before fridge logic set in (still enjoyed it a lot). Logic also says I should now be watching the other X-Men films, but instead I think I've decided that while I have the house to myself, I'm watching Avatar: The Last Airbender from start to finish. I think I'll ( Read more... )

Today was A Good Day, so I'm recording it for prosperity ( Read more... )

I still has no computer. Isabella needs a new logic board (Macspeak for motherboard) and since they had none in stock, and since I went in on a Friday, that takes us to the middle of this week at the earliest. I miss her kind of like an arm. Maybe a torso. Probably a torso. I am REALLY sick of Windows computers ( Read more... )

I've been at my grandparents since last Sunday (Mother's Day here) and I haven't checked anything on either LJ or Dreamwidth since before then (or Twitter). Isabella is being fixed (I hope) today; I have an appointment at 3pm with the Genius Bar and if nothing happens I will be Most Displeased (and kind of panicky, because while I can afford to ( Read more... )

I'm going to be computerless for the foreseeable future. Isabella is really playing up, again -- the same issue as yesterday, although now she won't respond to me resetting the System Management Control. My AppleCare should cover this -- I just called Apple -- but I have to lug her back to Chadstone, and I've already arranged to visit my ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I was told I had to rebuild Isabella /o\ I spent this morning in a bit of denial about it, not helped that my version of Overdoing It is a lot less than anyone else's version of Overdoing It, and this afternoon (after sleeping most of the day away) I opened her lid and... nothing happened. I checked her power. Connected. I tried a ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall I have had a bit of trouble with Isabella (my computer) of late. Namely, I purchased iWork 09 and can't use it, with kernel errors and kernel panics and all kinds of fun things. Yesterday, I purchased a shiny 750GB external drive (the 750GB drive worked out cheaper per GB than the 1TB drive, and between it and my other ( Read more... )

Like many people reading this, I tend to name things like computers and iPods. My POS computer I had when I met many of you was Gollum. I have two iPods named Duggan and Morgana. When I got my MacBook Pro, I named her Isabella the Shiny, because a). she was very shiny, and b). Isabella of France was an incredibly strong woman who survived ( Read more... )