Comments on: Tech Meltdown: 2005 Summer Edition

By: juli

juli — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:23:04 +0000

1) Happy anniversary to a couple who seem to compliment each other in every way. May you always be strong for each other.

2) Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s mostly small stuff. As long as your big rocks (Heather, Leta) still fit in your jar of life, who cares how much sand gets poured in it.

3) I so totally miss comments at dooce on Chuck Fridays…

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:31:46 +0000

Good Grief, sounds like our household,lol.
What is it with toddlers and things in there mouth? I could write a whole page on the things I found in Aidans…http://blog.myspace.com/23521301

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:53:36 +0000

And I’m thinking if Jon does get a hold of that shaft, it’s probably headed for Nikon headquarters.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:34:05 +0000

It never would have occured to me until today, but you might want to hang onto some of the major parts to your large appliances. I reference the story mentioned on my blog about some nutcases from Topeka who protest the funerals of fallen soldiers because “God Hates America”, etc:

http://ninjapoodles.blogspot.com/2005/08/speechless.html

Then I stumbled across this comment on the story on a local newspaper’s website:

“I am the most peaceful person on earth. I avoid killing ants in the kitchen if I can help it. But I am putting the folks from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas on notice that I do have a solid stainless steel 3 and 1/2 foot drive shaft out of a Speed Queen washing machine that I will lay upside their heads should they try their mind-blowing stunts of ignorance within the city limits of Fort Smith, Arkansas.”

I was dumbstruck by that comment, a little…but I guess if you are a “peaceful person”, you might not have conventional weapons on hand with which to go upside someone’s head.

Just something to keep in mind.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:33:48 +0000

First of all, hilarious post.

Second, I’m not sure if I should love you and your wife (for entertaining me this afternoon) or hate you (for entertaining me so much that I couldn’t stop reading posts and got very little work done). In either case, I’ll be back - love, love, love both blogs.

By: Coelecanth

Coelecanth — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:44:35 +0000

The only thing that saved my computer the last time it did something like that was the cables. They’re threaded through the desk it’s on and in order to pitch the boat-anchor off the balcony I needed to disconnect all of them. I made it as far as the moniter power cord before calming down. Too bad though, it woulda been nice to see that puppy fly, and bounce, and perhaps burst into flames…

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:58:29 +0000

Having been a Mac consultant for a number of years, I will second the DiskWarrior recommendation. I also recommend AppleJack. It’s a little app that runs in single-user mode (apple-s while starting up). It also has saved my ass (and others’) many times. When I do system updates, here’s the drill:

1) Run Apple Disk Utility and repair permissions
2) Install the update
3) Restart into single user mode
4) Run AppleJack
5) Restart

It may seem excessive, but I RARELY have the kinds of problems that many people talk about after updating their system software.

By: Kestra

Kestra — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:23:38 +0000

You know what you’re doing, yet still had a hell of a day sorting the technological issues of your exploding computer out.

Perhaps backing up my own files would be a good idea.

Hmmm.

By: 72feetabovesealevel

72feetabovesealevel — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:23:27 +0000

Q: What did the SWAT Team penis say to the SWAT Team condom?

A: Cover me; I’m goin’ in!

Happy Anniversary.

By: Deenzadrine

Deenzadrine — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:12:59 +0000

Gotta back you up there - Disk Warrior is AWE.SOME. I used it a few years back on my old iMac (Granite!) when I had a similiar lack of function occur. Granted, it took having to acquire a floppy drive to use the disk my uncle gave me of Disk Warrior, but damn, it was worth it.