Flannel Shirt

The hipster's going out on the town

I am surprised

Wednesday night NBC Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden. It was Snowden's first interview on American television.

The news coverage is amazingly sparse. There is an article deep in the New York Times about the NSA denying a claim that Snowden made in the interview, but no story about the interview itself.

I guess we're not supposed to think that anything he said was important. Amazingly, no one seems to care. Weird.

Apple. Grrrh.

This is the "fish-or-cut-bait" point of my time with my MacBook Pro. It's been sent back to the mysterious place where they repair them.

A few days ago I turned it on and got only a kind of psychedelic static on the screen. I took it in and the diagnosis is either the screen failing or the motherboard failing. The motherboard is what I'd suspected all along. So far I've had the hard drive and the RAM replaced already. There isn't that much more left to replace.

So what will be the outcome? I'm on total warranty for about another two weeks. There are several possibilities. First, the guys could discover what's wrong and replace it. At this stage, they (those who are in charge of making these kinds of decisions) might junk it and give me a new one. Either one of those things would be fine. Also, they could try to stall me until my warranty runs out. I could kind of counteract that by extending my warranty, but I can't get an "everything" warranty that includes replacing the computer.

In any case, the ball is in their court. I should hear something in a few days. If the worst outcome happens and I get back the computer only to crap out completely without a warranty I'll just go back to a Windows laptop. They're cheaper, and at least from my experience, they're better-made.

Mammo grahams

The happy couple

...and the engagement ring.

O goes to the fair

O dressed himself for the fair.

A dormouse

A dormouse enjoys Spring.

He matches

O matches the flowers.

He's game

And he's fearless. But I don't think he's old enough to get up on the roof and clean the gutters.

Thank God