This year’s goblin parade

One of our charming neighbors, dressed as a butterfly, was among the 47 ghosts and goblins who made their way to our door in this first, funny, GW Bush Halloween where darkness fell an hour later than usual. Last year, we had 53 come to our door.
It was a bit tricky to dig into last […]

Cure for Leopard’s blue screen

Scott Loftesness sent me a note saying he’d had the same ‘blue screen’ experience as I with his Leopard install, but had cured it just by forcing a restart. Worked for me, too… now we’re exploring Leopard…

This year’s spooky crop

Here’s 2 of 3 pumpkins we’ll be putting out tomorrow night for the annual goblin parade. Still have to figure out No. 3…

Quake!

This probably wasn’t Leopard’s fault (pun intended) but we felt about 30 seconds of rolling around 8:05 PM this evening. USGS makes it a 5.6 magnitude quake centered near Alum Rock, on the Calaveras fault. Seem to be more damage reports on the Peninsula than in the East Bay at the moment…

The Blue Screen o’ Death?

One hour, 30 minutes after we installed ‘available updates’ to our virgin Mac OS X 10.5  Leopard install, we are still looking at Mr. Blue Screen with its spinning doohickey. Many online reports say if you just let it go, it will eventually resolve itself (I’ve seen this behavior with older versions of OS X), […]

The Leopard install

Our Leopard install started inauspiciously enough - Leopard couldn’t see our Mac Mini’s HD initially although it did see an external Maxtor USB drive that was attached to the Mini. We rebooted with the USB drive off, but still no dice. It took a trip into Drive Utility (which saw the drive, but not its […]

Leopard is in the house

Leopard arrived late yesterday afternoon, in a tiny box not much larger than the DVD it contains. We’ve been alerted to the OS X ‘Blue Screen of Death‘ issue, so we think we’ll be trying out an ‘Archive and Install’ option on one of our Mac Minis before proceeding to other machines on the LAN.
The […]

The economics of Hybrids

Good article on WSJ.com on the current state of hybrids. On the one hand, they really do use less fuel and reduce your carbon footprint. On the other, payback times are long, given current US fuel prices (but better in Europe where fuel is heavily taxed). I love our Ford Escape Hybrid… it replaces a […]

The Evangelical Crackup

“The pendulum in the Christian world has swung back to the moderate point of view. The real battle now is among evangelicals.” NYT story points out that evangelical congregations are tiring of politically-oriented pastors who preach right-wing Republican politics along with religion. There have been real-deal evangelical congregations all along who would not allow politics […]

Noodling

So, yesterday I was Bad Chris, and ate pancakes, with Linda out of town. I also feel like I’ve been Good Chris and caught up all my insurance paperwork - flex benefits, organized out-of-network claims for my ‘Integrative’ treatments and started on a monster form from the State (complete with 2 pages explaining the […]

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