Mortaine’s Blog

The car/plane adapter for my Powerbook is on its way, via FedEx Ground. Do these things ship from Cupertino, I wonder? Would it have been easier to drive to Apple and pick it up?

And I just realized that the damn thing, which I spent $45 on (including shipping) is the wrong thing. What’s Apple’s return policy? Ah…. wait for the thing to arrive, then call for an RMA.

Dangit.

That was foolish. I should have been more careful.

Sigh.

Interestingly, the Powerbook goes to sleep when I close the lid. This makes it a less-conspicuous CD-player. I am trying to run it as a cd-player while running down the batteries so it can “Calibrate.” Theoretically, I will need only do this calibration once, but I think I will end up not being able to do it tonight, with Nanoedmo happening tonight and all. Hrm.

Oh, yes. And the Powerbook now has a name. Everyone, please welcome:

She’s sleek, fast, powerful, and hot! (and boy, does this baby heat up!) She’s involved in the overthrow of the dominant paradigm! She’s hell on wheels, but she’s a romantic, through and through.

Yep. Sounds like my mac.

These are the rest of the pictures of my 4-string dulcimer, in case you still want to suggest a name (or change the one you suggested, in case you suggested something I’ll never even consider *cough*1337*cough*). You can make suggestions here.

I bought a 12″ Powerbook G4 laptop last night (yes, that’s a Mac), with the extra RAM and an airport card.

Squeeeeee!

It’s cute and little and very much mine.

Anyway, I do need to name it, but I feel as though it’s going to name itself soon. Maybe even today.