August 2009
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Snow Leopard - No New Features On Purpose?
Notice all the app and driver incompatibilities suddenly listed due to the 64bit migration… now imagine the hue and cry if there were all these cool end user features in Snow Leopard that people “had to have” but couldn’t because app x or y won’t run, or the printer can’t print, or …
So, instead, position the release as a (mostly) under the hood prep for...
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“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life...”
– Joshua J. Marine
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My Wife the Art Student
My darling Michelle is enrolled in Drawing and 2D Design at RISD, plus some weekend painting workshops (and I’ll be joining her for one of those).
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“They’re not only my friends, but they’re great players, … I...”
– Les Paul, 1915-2009
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Pseudo-Science
I’m sad to say that proof by repeated assertion is becoming the dominant scientific paradigm.
Be aware.
Think.
Challenge.
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Notes: Led Zeppelin IV Cover
The tower block on the back cover is of Butterfield Court in Dudley, England. Butterfield Court can be seen, owing to it being 20-storeys high and on top of a ridge, 25 miles away in rural Worcestershire and Shropshire and on a clear day, over 45 miles away in Wales. The painting on the front of the album showing an old man carrying a bundle of sticks, was apparently purchased from a junk shop in...
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“RISD is MIT for the right brain”
– John Meada
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How NOT to do it... →
A 66-cell matrix; 52 of them represent a FAIL! (i.e. no in-place upgrade).
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Vale John Hughes - Some Great Movies →
including National Lampoon’s Vacation; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Some Kind of Wonderful; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.