Photographic evidence of my Boston trip, including lunch with Frank, Betsy, Joey, Wendy and Chris:
Me, with eyes to match my top, and Chris:
And snow. Lots of snow:
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Just before Christmas I blogged about how my PowerBook, affectionately known as the 'interim solution', had developed a green line on the screen. Having asked around and actually had my qualified Apple engineer friend Gerard take a poke about inside the screen, it was ascertained that the line probably could not be easily fixed. Well, not for a reasonable price and considering the spec of the machine it would make more sense to spend the money on a new one instead.
Well, earlier today, the green line got a friend. The Red Line Of Death.
I have never been good at asking for money due to the conflict between the 'don't ask, it's rude' ethos and the 'if you don't ask, you don't get' ethos as espoused by my Mum and my Gran respectively. Anyway, before Christmas some very lovely, generous people PayPal'd me some cash and then the tsunami happened and I immediately felt like a greedy, selfish person for thinking my problems warrented any sort of plea for help. But the truth is I am way broke. It may not look like it, but I just don't have the money to get a new laptop, despite the fact that it is an essential tool of my trade. Without it, well, my working life will become more difficult than it already is.
Anyway, over there on the right there are two links – one for PayPal if you should feel so inclined, but the other one will take you to my shop where you can buy a really nice t-shirt at a really good price. We have a bunch of these sitting up in the loft that I would like to see going to a good home, so please buy one.
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Gullible Americans are spending $299 on a plastic sticker that purports to save petrol and clean exhaust fumes by sending “holographic frequencies into the gas tank and chang[ing] the molecular structure of the gasoline.” Ah, too precious.
Cheaper at only $16, but no less full of hogwash, is the Machina Dynamica Golden Sound Intelligent Chip, which claims to 'upgrade' all your CDs and DVDs so that “The sound of the upgraded disc more closely resembles the sound of the orginal master recording, with less congestion, more information, greater dynamic range and more air.” It seems that all you do is put the chip on top of the CD/DVD player whilst the CD/DVD is playing and within 2 seconds – yes, that's just 2 seconds folks – the disc is 'upgraded'.
Apparently “The GSIC-10 is good for 10 discs, the GSIC-30 for 30 discs. Once the Intelligent Chip has upgraded the prescribed number of discs it ceases to function and can be discarded.” Or, in fact, skip that step and just discard the chip from the off. Your CDs will sound just as good as after treatment.
Sadly, the site doesn't give us a hokum pseudo-scientific explanation of how it works, which is always the best part.
(Thanks Rojisan for the pointers.)
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Just clearing out some tabs whilst I try to wake up:
- Beach animals! Cool! The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport movie is ace.
- Chocolate solar system! Yum! (Via BoingBoing.)
- The Bloggies site is down at the moment,
but apparently I was nominated in the Best UK/European Blog category (thanks Betsy!). I believe it is traditional for me to now beg you all to vote for me, but bugger traditions. It's not like I am going to win anyway. (Note how I subtly try to persuade you to vote for me even without explicitly asking. Oh, I so love reverse-psychology. *subliminally chants 'vote! vote! vote!'*)UPDATE: seems I was nominated, not Nominated. No surprise – this blog aint ever winnin no prizes. - Chocolate sushi! OMG! Gimme!! (Via Betsy.)
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