waiting in line
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin
Friday morning arrived much too early, after a too-short night of sleep.
John had gone off to the gym, so I attempted to find breakfast. Coffee wasn’t a problem: I bring my own personal espresso machine and ground coffee, but since the family is mostly on San Jan for the [...]
I normally spend the week of the fourth of July with friends at their home on San Juan Island in Washington. Times for flights seem to have become increasingly worse, while the fares have gone up quite a bit. There are fewer nonstop flights, and there are rather too many red-eye return flights to boston.
Finally, [...]
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Last Thursday I opened my macbook at work and noticed that part of the top case was splintering off , parallel to the front just above IR sensor. I was heading up to Vermont that afternoon, so decided I could just secure it with some tape, and get it fixed on Monday.
I made an [...]
hard drive
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin
I thought I was doing pretty well with a RAID NAS. My iMac backs up every night when I’m in Vermont, and my macbook every week or so, and always before vacations.
Problem is that my macbook drive failed as I was returning from [...]
Friday night, after using a card reader to upload a bunch of bugs photos to my imac, I inserted my SD card into my d80, turned it on, and was faced with a blinking CHA (or CHR) on the LCD.
The last letter is difficult to figure out: it’s like a squared 8, with the bottom [...]
the killer: binding by stapes
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin
Mpix was the fastest to process the book. I uploaded over the weekend; they shipped on Monday via the US postal service, and I received the book on Thursday.
Photos of the book compared to the Apple book are in this [...]
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