Fresh on the heels of my laptop joining the choir invisible, the Lovely & Talented Casey’s Macbook attempted to go Full Metal Sylvia Plath with the “whitescreen of question mark-folder thingy”. Off to see the Mac geniuses, new hard drive installed (covered by extended warranty, thankyewJeebus), upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard and she and the computer are as right as rain giving her time to get back to important school work like … sending me stuff like this from MuppetsStudio:
Good. Now I’m off the hook for blogging and I can go read a book.



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hahahahaha i love this video
I had three MacBook hard drives two on my computer, one on my wife’s, go out with that freaking ?. All replaced under the extended warranty – and within 36 hours too. Still swear by Macs, but it was frustrating. No probs on my MacBook Air so far.
I love this. Mi mi mimi!
Nice. Seagate drives by any chance?
I’m a Mac person too but there was a time when there were reports they had a bad run of Seagate drives.
A daughter LTC’s age who would send that to her dad is obviously raised well.
Kudos to you and the babetaculariscious Mrs. Bogg.
(Just for the record, as much as I love TNBB, Mrs. Bogg added a whole new dimension to the pics.)
Back in 2000 I bought a laptop from a now-defunct company named Quantex. It was running Win2K, and it had a Pentium III-500 and a 40GB hard drive. My son uses it now for web browsing and email. It’s still running Win2K and it has the same hard drive it came with. Yeah, I’ll buy a Mac.
Yes. Things fall apart. But the Muppets do not.
I was total Queen fag—a card-carrying member of the Queen Fan Club—in my ute, and I love this video so much I should marry it. It is a thing of beauty, and Freddie Mercury is surely laughing heartily in the Great Beyond.
I’m sure that Brian, John, and my erstwhile future husband, Roger, are over the moon.
Being so beautifully Muppetized beats being an action figure any day. Miss Piggy!
I would have thought the L&T Casey would be over here on Maui, cheering on Chaminade at the Maui Invitational.
Ah ha! TBogg is two hrs. earlier than the other postings of this I’ve seen tonight. Blame can now be assigned.
Couldn’t resist sharing THE WORST CAMPAIGN WEB SITE EVER.
I mean it. In the history of the fucking world.
I had the optical drive replaced on my Imac earlier this year (under extended Applecare). I like handing my computer to somebody else to fix instead of having to do it myself. Haven’t done the Snow Leopard update though.
Enjoy.
I have four windows computers in my house. The newest one is three years old. They all work just fine with no hardware problems.
@DennisSGMM–OH. MY. GOD. That guy really brings the wingnut, doesn’t he?
That actually frightened me a little bit. “Diversity is a great thing–when it’s voluntary!” WTF? Obama-nation? Huh? I need a shower now.
I love this video. It just made a bad day (yesterday) a little brighter.
Beelzebub has a hard drive set aside for me, for meeeee, for MEEEEEEeeeee!
OMG. 1995 called, it wants its website back!
Ah, but Dennis, there’s still some internal logic, cracked though it is, in that website. I dare you to find any redeeming qualities in the website for this Republican candidate for mayor of St. Paul.
The mere fact that someone that refers to herself as SheWolfEagle is trying to get Norm Coleman’s old job is its own redemption.
OMG, that looks like it was composed by 11 year olds — on drugs!!!
I’m sure Elizabeth Dole really likes being linked to this loon. Had to help her campaign.
We kept getting the white curtain of irritation on our Mac desktop… for months. After we took it in for repairs a half-dozen times, it turned out to be bad memory.
I saw this just as my eyes started bleeding:
“America is a Great Nation, due to our Diversity; but ONLY WHEN, This Diversity is VOLUNTARY.”
WTF does that mean?
Wow! I did some Googling and found that, although she’s not an attorney she has nonetheless run for the office of Minnesota Attorney General. She’s like Orly Taitz only with less makeup.
I read that bit out to my wife and she replied, “Does that mean he’ll volunteer to be black?”
Whoa. That’s the political equivalent of Timecube.
Hah, excellent Muppets video! Maybe I’ll do some YouTube searching on turkey day for others for my playlist.
While nowhere near as impressive, here’s one of my favorites, featuring Rita Moreno singing and Animal on drums – yeah, on drums big-time.
And regarding that N.C. ultra-wingnut candidate’s website, it really does have the feel of the Timecube site. Atrios’ comments aren’t always as fun and/or informative as they were several years ago, but it was a riot reading there several weeks ago (and again yesterday) as they excerpted sections of it.
Wowsers, I hadn’t visited that site in a while. Looks like the election of Obama brought out some serious racism in him on top of the rest of the crazy he’s been spewing for the last 12 years.
Backup, Backup, Backup!
Check out a program called Super Duper. Have a hard drive the same size as the one in the (any, this is a mac program, try Acronis for winblows) laptop in an external case. Then use the program to create a clone. Yes an exact duplicate. You can boot from this if you have firewire to run diagnostics. You can swap it out and get a new one for the external case. I generally make a clone once a week.
well, everything that comes together, hey,
sooner or later gonna fall apart again
yeah, I got nuthin’
I’m on my third Macbook harddrive in as many years. This time I installed the new drive myself; it’s pretty easy. I suggest she either back up religiously or not keep anything particularly important on the Macbook.