Knuckledragger

Today Apple sent me a printable return shipping label ...for a MacBook Air with an order number that (strangely) doesn't match mine.

The refurb'd 15" MacBook Pro I ordered was on the truck for delivery at 7:30AM this morning and it arrived at ...4:58PM this evening. FedEx doesn't deliver past 5PM in these parts, so I'm pleased it arrived. However... I let it sit for half an hour and warm up a bit. When I powered it on, there were two nasty red vertical lines running the length of the screen during the boot up screen. Once the machine had fully booted, I saw there was a third, blue one. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with AppleCare and I'll be receiving some shipping labels via email. According to the rep on the phone, I'll be getting a replacement, not a repair. Since I ordered a refurbished late 2011 15" MBP with an anti-glare screen, I really wonder what I'll be getting as a replacement. Also, the defective machine I purchased only had 4GB of RAM. It was my plan to upgrade myself at a later date. Newer Macintops have RAM soldered to the motherboard. I know the current MBAs and rMBPs do. Do the non-retina MBP models still have conventional DIMM slots? This has all given me quite the headache. I think I'm raiding the Scotch cabinet early tonight.

A surprisingly in-depth review.

NSFW!

va http://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Tribute-To-Klaus-Schulze/release/951819'>A Tribute To Klaus Schulze (1998) It starts out a little rough, but most the album is pretty decent ambient.

I was woefully late to the fire spinning party, and only caught one performer , but I did get 39 exposures of her. With that said... My radio show is on the air right now, in Case you wanted to listen.

That's the plan. Tonight, 10PM-midnight eastern. Beforehand I'm going to take some infrared photos of some fire spinners. It's already in the 20s here. Brr.

There is something ...subliminal about that illustration.

D'oh. Kevin is right. I should have known better. My father dealt in Hallicrafters. I actually have a Hallicrafters television (that has channel 1 on it).

THQ is in a lot of financial trouble, so they've been running all sorts of promotions. Right now they've teamed up with HIB for the Humble THQ Bundle. Pay what you want for a bunch of recent-ish AAA games that all require Steam and are Windows-only. Soundtracks included. NB: This is also a test to see if I can post. Dusty is right, this white theme is BLINDING.

Salty!

iTunes 11: so far I hate it.

If I'm not mistaken, that's a FADA radio behind him. “Oddball” Galaxy Contains the Biggest Black Hole Yet

This is supposedly from the 24/96 DVD version of the 2012 remaster of Blue Lines. There's also a 24/96 web download, but I have not seen any waveforms of it yet. Based on the above two examples, I'm not very optimistic.