Day: March 21, 2007
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Competition for the computer
Last week, the boy wanted to make Inca masks. I told him we might find something on the Internet, so he typed away. Didn’t get a great response from the Safari address bar, but I think he’s starting to get the idea. Note: I never did find useful instructions for such a craft project, even…
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New power supply for the iMac G5
I have not yet turned Growl back on, but Growl was not the problem. I took the iMac G5 into the Genius Bar last Saturday night (yes, I’m that much fun), for the second trip in three days. Good news, though, was that I left the computer there that night, and had it back, free…
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Book: The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer‘s best-known book The Naked and the Dead filled my nights over the last few weeks. I didn’t plow straight through, but I became more interested the further I went on. My grandfather served on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. The island warfare depicted in this book, following an army…