Yesterday, I finally retired the pair of Jensen desktop speakers that have been dutifully audibilizing my home computers for the past 22-plus years. It’s not that they failed. They worked fine. It’s that for the past five or so years they’ve been intermittently connected to another dimension. Specifically they’ve been broadcasting at veeeery low volumes …
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It wasn’t a single straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back, more like the combined weight of a thousand of them. But the last one dropped today, in the form of a shared post showing up in my feed from a “friend” (an acquaintance from high school who I said “Hi” to once in-person approximately …
Today would be the two-week anniversary of me dropping off my iMac at the Glendale Apple Store, to replace a failing logic board, but fortunately the work was completed and I was able to retrieve it Saturday. I’d written about the issues I had with being forced into paying for a data transfer option by …
Cell phone rings, it’s one of them geniusesses from the Glendale Apple store. First thing out of his mouth after introducing himself is “You don’t have any RAM in your computer.” “I mull that weirdly accusatory statement and offer a rephrasing that was more specific: “My computer most certainly had RAM in it when I …
In a perfect world, Apple Store Genius Bars would be populated by actual geniuses with ready access (or at least minimal delay) to whatever part was needed for repairs. In reality my almost 3-year-old G5 iMac’s need for a new logic board installation (thank goodness the ‘puter came bundled with Applecare protection) will now be …
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So the DSL modem went into what turned out to be its death throes last night, its panel of three LEDs raging in a blinky fluttering show of red and orange and green desperation. I unplugged the thing and let it sit a bit before reconnecting it, but that didn’t help things. Then I pulled …
Tuesday afternoon I get on my bike and roll over to Samy’s Camera on Fairfax because I’ve been long overdue in replinishing various lens caps and covers and such that have been since sacrificed to the lens cap gods and gone for some time. On my list is a 58mm cover for the big telephoto …