Opinions I Should Have Had
Lots to say ’bout lots of stuff. I did anyway, until my laptop decided to turn itself into a piece of modern art. Powercord/battery issues. The issue is they’re broken. I’m confident it had nothing to do with its reflexive recoil at the opening of the 111th Congress — or its user propelling it in disgust.
It’s on life-support now, lots of wires coming out of various slots as I perform a transfusion of data into an external drive while the patient sits upside-down with its guts exposed.
I’m thinking superglue as a substitute for wiggling the power connection when/if I can get it back together and running.
Meanwhile…
Panneta: I like the pick. He was one of the few folks remaining in the room after guys like George Tenant left the situation room and actually had to decide what to do with ’slam dunk” intel. However, we either should be alarmed or accept the new post-partisanship when Larry ‘Whitey Tape” Johnson is “pleasantly surprised” about the nomination and these stooges endorse it, watch your ass.
Burriss: This guy is a goofball of the first order, and Illinois deserves him after putting so many crooks in their governor’s mansion. Just spare me the race-baiting bull. Congrats Senator, try not to embarrass yourself and leave the circus to the professional clowns…
Speaking of Senator Franken: Next time your thinking about subjecting anyone to a ‘clever” Stuart Smally-ism (“He’s good enough, He’s smart enough …yadda, yadda”), keep this in mind lest you too reveal that you’re either irony challenged or addicted to anti-addiction therapy:
“You don’t know what you’re doing. They’re gonna cancel the show [column/blog/internet access/Playboy subscription]. You’re gonna die homeless and penniless and twenty pounds overweight.”
Krugman is wrong about Sanjay Gupta, but he’s been wrong before — at least according to this nimrod who staked his now defunct reputation on the complete economic disintegration of China, that the [never happened] collapse of their biggest banks would bring down their communist government — a theme he’s been harping on all decade.
No, the trouble with Gupta is not that he was on the wrong side of a pissing match with Michael Moore. It’s that Sanjay’s a Michigan allum. Last thing this nation needs is more self-important losers donning Wolverine jackets — that goes for Moore too.
Finally, on the tax-cut heavy stimulus package. [Let the guy with the Nobel medal be your guide.] I’m starting to understand that the hope/change post-partisanship era we have entered means that Obama will give everyone something to bitch about.
If I’m reading you right, you should pitch that old power cord. The plastic insulator can wear on the inside of the male connector and, on some cords/machines, short when connected.
On my fourth cord — this one only 2 months old. The problem was inside the female socket inside the computer — which is why I had her apart. Had to bend the prongs inside the tiny thing back where they’d make contact — which should work while I wait for a new power supply connector. It’s working now, I’m just afraid to breath on it.
A new batter would help too. Good price on the last one, which is to say it was junk since you get what you pay for. Now I just gotta remember where these 30 or so little screws go as I reassemble it — but if you’re reading this, it’s working.
…more self-important losers donning Wolverine jackets…
Ahem. I am not a loser.
P.S. Are we talking about a Mac?
Of course a MAC, Always a mac.
As for Gordon Chang (never heard of him, BTW) he says:
Not so fast. It DOES matter what you spend it on. If you piss it down the war’s rathole, well, you have no excuse. But if you use it (for example) to put people back to work rebuilding our infrastructure, then you’ve kick-started a very powerful engine, one that can save AND spend without going into hock.
Where was this joker when Bush’s tax cuts (and his war) torched the treasury?
Of course a MAC, Always a mac.
The boys got an iMac for their birthdays from their grandpa. Sweet!
Should I put Windows on it? Or is that like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa?
“Now I just gotta remember where these 30 or so little screws go as I reassemble it — but if you’re reading this, it’s working.”
Well I’ve still got a Powerbook 170 if you get stuck. Good news, it’s got a trackball built into the keyboard (the way all laptops should be); bad news, it has a B&W screen and a 40MB hard drive ;^)
Holy crap. When did you buy that — during the Grant administration?
I think my kid’s PSP has more processing power — WiFi ready and the screen is in living color!
Hee, why can’t I quit you, OS7? For some reason, there seems to be weak second-hand market for computers with floppy drives and SCSI connections.
Still have my Nikon F2 Photomic too. It uses something called fillum.