I want someone to invent a science fiction story so that this, can be the mode of transportation.
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/WcR7U2tuNoY” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]Here is an explanation.
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Ever since coming back to Macs, I’ve started caring about what computers look like as well as what they can do (Those who know me will recognize this as my “Apple made me shallow” complaint). I don’t think Mac are the only ones with this sort of appeal. While posing it with the wine flute seems like overkill, this Sony Vaio is a thing of beauty.
Hopefully, as beauty becomes more and more a sought-after commodity, functionality will become a cheap baseline that more and more of us can afford. I’ll be content to get my aesthetic fix from the Engadget galleries using anything that works well.
This is way old, way longer than I preach now, and contains a lot of cues that show I was still in seminary.
Anyone who makes it to the end deserves some sort of reward. I changed names.
So far, nothing has worked except to use Safari again. And today that stopped working too. I’ve re-installed Camino and I have taken flash out of my quicktime preferences and nothing works. The only browser that I can get to work consistently is Opera.
In other news, it seems my iMac needs a new logic board. Less than a year ago I got it replaced as part of a recall. But this one won’t be covered.
More religion, less religious freedom. Doug Bandow reviews a Hudson Institute report.
This thread on mathematical fixations pretty much says it all. The Word of God is not an appropriate caboose for the lapso-federalist steam engine.