by elizabeth on December 31, 2008
To hide my sorrow over my missing in action MacBook, I’m watching the Doctor Who Christmas Special… again… and after about 20 minutes of shuffling video codecs to make this particular breed of file run in Quicktime, I have decided to provide you, dear readers, with the many reasons to love (and sometimes hate) this year’s Christmas Special. This year’s special was, really, everything I ever wanted from Christmas. There was laughing, there was crying, there was David Tennant, there was David Morrisey, there was David Tennant… well, you get the idea. It was good fun all around!
Yes, spoilers to follow.
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by elizabeth on December 30, 2008
Does an ode need to have a specific format or rhyme scheme? Here’s to hoping iambic pentameter isn’t necessary, because if so my ode, though completely heart-felt, may be doomed before it’s begun.
At any rate, I took my MacBook in to visit the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store this evening to see if they could, perhaps, coerce its optical drive into doing anything useful. Unfortunately, they had no more luck than I had tinkering with the thing from home. On the up-side, they can replace the drive and fix it right up. On the down-side, my laptop, which I am rather fond of, is out of my hands for about a week.
Of course, I also have a corporate MacBook, which I use just as much as my personal one, so I am hardly doing without… but at the same time, I’ve gotten used to doing a lot of tasks across two computers and only having one on my desk makes me feel vaguely like I’m missing an arm.
Here’s to hoping my good friend the MacBook comes back safe, sound, soon, and without Apple deciding to charge me for anything. (I have AppleCare, but the poor thing was dropped at one point — at SXSW last year, where I was trying to hold it and type at the same time, a task at which I failed utterly — and has a rather obvious dent. The fellow at the Apple store seemed to think this was unlikely to be a problem, but warned me against the possibility anyway.)
Soooo…. here I am… one computer down, one remaining. I can’t burn DVDs on this MacBook, either, but I get the feeling I’m more likely to make more rapid progress on getting my personal one fixed. An Apple Genius I can meet face to face vs. corporate IT several states distant… I think the smart money’s on Apple.
