miscellanea
Mar. 22nd, 2014 10:35 amLast weekend's lessons: 1) if you're going to drop your powered-on laptop, 'flat' is the worst way for it to land, as that causes the (non-SSD) hard drive to skip and throw a fit; 2) as long as the geniuses at the Apple Store don't actually have to *do* anything they're unlikely to charge you; 3) I now know how to enter 'recovery mode,' as distinct from 'safe mode,' in OSX; 4) always, always, always back up your data.
Total loss: about a day and a half worth of fiddling around with stuff, plus the cost of a chai at Starbucks. Could have been a lot worse.
The Veronica Mars movie was very good: snarky, character-driven, filled with shoutouts to the series but still (I think) comprehensible and amusing if you're a newcomer. As noted elseweb, it had too much Logan and not enough Wallace or Mac, but that's a flaw it shared with the series.
We've started looking at new apartments. No real winners yet. The lack of wallspace for bookshelves has, as expected, been a problem. Heat in Vancouver tends to come from baseboard radiators, rather than vents, and baseboard heaters and bookcases are mutually exclusive. Oh well.
One place looked extremely promising: sort of like our current place, only in a more interesting neighborhood (closer to transit, further from groceries and a place to run) and slightly smaller. Not quite as much cheaper as I'd like but definitely cheaper. Downsides: first, they wanted a 1 April move-in date, which is awkward since we have a lease through the end of May. Second, they have a couple of bright orange cabinets bolted to the wall in the living room at about head height. I mean, *bright* orange. Don't-shoot-me orange. I have either not enough design sense to appreciate this, or too much.
Happy spring, or something like that.
Total loss: about a day and a half worth of fiddling around with stuff, plus the cost of a chai at Starbucks. Could have been a lot worse.
The Veronica Mars movie was very good: snarky, character-driven, filled with shoutouts to the series but still (I think) comprehensible and amusing if you're a newcomer. As noted elseweb, it had too much Logan and not enough Wallace or Mac, but that's a flaw it shared with the series.
We've started looking at new apartments. No real winners yet. The lack of wallspace for bookshelves has, as expected, been a problem. Heat in Vancouver tends to come from baseboard radiators, rather than vents, and baseboard heaters and bookcases are mutually exclusive. Oh well.
One place looked extremely promising: sort of like our current place, only in a more interesting neighborhood (closer to transit, further from groceries and a place to run) and slightly smaller. Not quite as much cheaper as I'd like but definitely cheaper. Downsides: first, they wanted a 1 April move-in date, which is awkward since we have a lease through the end of May. Second, they have a couple of bright orange cabinets bolted to the wall in the living room at about head height. I mean, *bright* orange. Don't-shoot-me orange. I have either not enough design sense to appreciate this, or too much.
Happy spring, or something like that.