"The Things We Do For Love": OR a Roto-induced Imperial Meltdown

[mickeyd]

Dear Friends,

Thought you'd all get a kick out of this:

Last Monday, I was in that anxious excited wild state because I found two pix of DW's relevant to Roto's DW thread. The pix were in Photo Album and I had not shown them before. The one showing the 360 degree arc filter had two versions, one in the Preview file and one in the Pictures file. The 1st was too small, so I clicked it to the bottom of the icon bar. Then when I found the second, I opened the Album again, clicked this to the bottom icon bar to work the Aworg screen, thus having two identical Album applications open at the same time. Not good!

After I got the large picture up, it posted just fine, thanks, but suddenly, the arrow disappeared from the screen. Nothing I did would retrieved the arrow. After three attempts at restarting, the computer would only show a dimly lit screen, and the famous apple with a bite out of it, then cardiac arrest. Nothing. Stopped. Frozen.

I called Applecare, and pardon the French but they said my computer experienced a Kernel Panic, which in my mind is a cluster f#%k. Is that kernel as in corn or Colonel Klink?

Anyhoo, the Powerbook G4 is in Massachusetts getting a failed logic board replaced and I have a very fast hyper sensitive leopard MacBook loaner in its place.

The ironies: After 5 full years of trouble-free service, this baby breaks down. Being without a computer is like going without a toilet. You use it several times a day, often just for minutes, and you really can't do without it. It's also like a refrigerator. So dependable and always running. You open the door, the light goes on, and there's the food all preserved and fresh.

Once, last October, I fried the battery, user error, from never unplugging after charging--I just left the cord plugged in 24/7--and Apple replaced it for free.

Nate, i want you to know how many smiles and how much joy it brought that my computer failed when I essentially fried its circuits full of empathic excitement for vintage portable dishwashers which are by far my favorite over built-ins. Hell, they're the Easy Spins-or WRINGERS ;:>-- of the DW's: roll em up, hook up hoses, turn faucets, open taps, plug them in--I love them.

So Nate, as Hyacinth Bouquet would say, "We have a strong psychic connection"

Sorry to be so windy, but I love this place, and I've missed so much , that I'll be howling for days, catching up. Thank you all for your patience and friendship. If there's no Aworg in Heaven, I'm not going;'D

Your devoted buddy,

Mikey

 

[roto204]

Oh no!!!

Mikey!

I am *so* sorry to hear about that! Yes, kernel panics suck. Nothing was more gratifying a year ago than having my MacBook boot mostly, then eat it with a dimmed screen and a big "You need to restart your computer" message, written in seven different languages.

Kernel panics are most often caused by bad drivers, or faulty RAM/other hardware. Sounds like they isolated the issue with yours.

Anyhow, it's been an absolute treat to walk down dishwasher lane with you, too--thanks so much for your affable, enthusiastic spirit, and excellent photography skills--you're truly appreciated!

I hope your computer makes it back soon, with contents intact, and a new lease on life.

Nate

 

[mickeyd]

You need to restart your computer" message, written in

Except the one you were using: PROFANITESE. ;'D Too funny, Nate.

I hope the four friends and clubbers see and understand that their phone numbers and emails were not intentionally ignored. I will catch up; in fact, Apple said they backed up my hard drive before shipping. Hope springs eternal.

I wonder if Dr. Frankenstein is the Techno Wizard who fixes these machines. They said the fixing house was some where near Boston. Who know what really goes on in that hallucinatory laboratory of his!

 

[roto204]

Oy

Apple likes to do heavy laptop work themselves in special service centers. When I was a service technician, we didn't do anything more than replacing keyboards/hard drives/RAM/AirPort cards. Anything else, and Apple preferred to do it themselves, such that it be done correctly.

We had very good experiences with their repairs, and with getting the equipment back without it being wiped, though, so hopefully you'll have a good experience, too. *knocks on wood*

Apple probably developed this streamlined, efficient attitude toward laptop repair after the unending nightmare of the PowerBook 5300 (which I love, and still have, and still use ;-) ).

And as for special kernel panics, you mean this one?

 

[mickeyd]

Nate, thanks again for the hope; let's have some dope;-D

All of my photos are in there too.

The poop (Merde)-- did you tuck it in there, or is it really part of the show?

You know how independent and irreverent the French can be-- Michel Danieu.

Tomorrow, I'll see you again on your dishwasher thread.

Nighty night, Nate, Eddie, Pete, Dr Frankenstein, Gordy, and all wonderful Aworgers Everywhere!

Sweet dreams of sex and washing machines.

 

[mistereric]

Hey Nate!

I still have 4 or 5 5300 series machines in storage, if you should ever needs parts. I started putting them aside years ago, since Apple seemed adamant about erasing them from history. I do take a 5300c out to certain Apple events and trade shows, just to be irritating.

 

[roto204]

LOL

Mikey!

Sex and washing machines? LOL Sounds like the next Marcy Playground hit.

That's a spoof image I Photoshopped on a lark . The rest of the text is just as unrepeatable.

Eric, I like your style ;-). Thanks very much--I really appreciate that. I agree, it's good to counter the "never happened" strategy that they seem to have. Sort of like driving an Edsel

 

[mickeyd]

What a wild day, Nate

I'll get out my foreign language dictionaries, and laugh at the lasciviousness;'D

And tomorrow we can get back to washers~~~YIPPEE.

Goodnight, Jed--another thread-- We'll theorize tomorrow about early engineering and how to research it.

Goodnight fellow Aworgers. Tomorrow we wake up to a totally new America. Unbelievable!!!!