A quick trip to the local Apple Store Genius Bar and my MacBook Pro is off to ‘The Depot’ to get my screen replaced and everything else checked out.
Based on what happens here I may actually pop for an Apple Care account before my warranty expires. Also played with the iPod Touch a little. Then I had to put it back down because I was trying to think of what possessions I could sell fast to get the cash to buy one.
I just noticed that I didn’t have this up in my blog anymore.
Ta-DA! There’s a new tab up there. Rather than putting projects into random blog posts I’m going to keep them all in one set of pages and just post updates in the blog.
I invite anyone to offer feedback or tips on any of the projects. Post a comment or question either on the project page or on the blog post for the project. If you even have project ideas please feel free to post those as well.
My lovely MacBook Pro has a bright spot in it’s screen. I say ‘in’ because it doesn’t look like it’s on the screen but behind it. It’s a fuzzy dash of brightness seen in these photos, just under the cross hair.
When you move from one side to another it looks like it moves slightly, again making me think it’s behind the screen. It’s annoying as hell since anything with a white or pale fill gains this bright, fuzzy, dash.
I guess I’ll have to take it into the Apple store and have it looked at. Better back up all my crap beforehand. Not fun.
We have a new member of the family! Mona is a five month old Jack Russell / Welsh Terrier ‘hybrid’. She’s the sweetest dog I’ve ever met. We didn’t want a large dog and didn’t want one that was to hyper either.
She’s very chill and will just sit on your lap and hang out. She’s playful but not a spaz like many Jack Russells I’ve met. Now if I can just keep the boy from driving her crazy.
Sometimes I just don’t want my Mac to go to sleep or even dim it’s screen.
Dead simple and easy this puts a little Zzz. icon in your system menu at the top of your screen. When you don’t want your Mac to go to sleep just click the icon and it will show itself crossed out. When you don’t care if your Mac goes to sleep click it again and wa-la.
I was watching Pop Siren the other day and there was a little life hacker tip for eating snacks without greasing up your mouse and keyboarding fingers. Chopsticks. I remembered I had a couple nice sets of chopsticks my Mom got for me when she was in Osaka and it worked like a charm.
As I’m sitting there, coding my wife’s online store and munching away on a bag of buffalo flavored pretzels, I started to think of the forks or spoons that I use and throw out at work. I give them a wash and use them a couple times before I throw them away but… chopsticks. Chopsticks are a cinch to clean and it even takes less water and soap to clean them.
So I’m switching to using chopsticks. I’m starting at work but the more I use them the more I think I will adopt them as my personal eating utensils all the time. Thinking of the water, heating energy, and soap I’d be saving by switching myself to chopsticks, just me and my little bit, makes me feel better. Plus the vision of me, joe-average-white-guy eating some Mexican dish with chopsticks has been enough to make people ask what I’m doing. So far everyone’s reaction is “Huh… I never really thought of it that way.”
Giving people that little moment to look at some part of their daily behavior with a new perspective is another perk.
