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No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world."
If in your travels you meet the Buddha, throw him through your tv set.
—Davis Fleetwood
I've found that culture, however useful and important, is neither the foundation nor the ceiling of human experience, even if it is commonly used for walls.
I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States. —Hillary Clinton
This one on its brightest was dimmer than the other one on its dimmest
ReplyDeleteThat is very odd - what's up with that?
Or was the first one even that much more screwed up?
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I was bitching about the brassiness of the display, and part of that was the outrageously too brighttude of the defective unit I got. I noticed immediately that the horror was much less when the monitor brightness was turned all the way down... but it was still too apparent. This apparently was a common complaint, and probably means many of them were built somewhere that used a wrong or substandard component. It had the tendency to make even minute flaws in images jump out at you, on top of screwing with colors badly. Even though I'd managed to get that one to offend me less, this new one offends me still less. I still wish not to have this shiny display, to have the tender mercies of the graceful matte finish on the monitor to smooth out the brash presentations online, but, well, shit happens. Fashions tend to go in unpleasing directions....
ReplyDeleteYesterday was awful. The long heralded ability to port your files and settings from one Mac to another was fraught with idiocy after idiocy and it ended up only doing what was the easiest to redo myself and I had to email myself everything else. Pain in butt and HUGELY consuming of my precious few patience particles. I ended up actually swearing at my new machine near the end, and I've never done that except with PCs in my life!
However, the worst is behind me now.
Is it chartreuse?
ReplyDeleteIs what chartreuse? My Mac is an elegant combination of brushed aluminum and black, as an objet d'art it rocks. My iPod is matte black, though those DO come in chartreuse....
ReplyDeleteTwas a joke - carried over from the iPod photo...
ReplyDeleteOh, good. I was fretting about how you could think I'd be able to live with a chartreuse computer! That would make someone go 'round the bend, I'm pretty sure... interfere with the synaptic flow something awful....
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