Really don't think the guys with the stacks of church pamphlets are going to reach a receptive/target audience by hitting houses with someone home in the middle of the morning on a Sunday.
Upgrading my Macbook Air to the new Mavericks OS and led to really frustrating, rare-but-not-unheard-of power management programs – terrible active battery life, and a system that was draining the battery to 0 while allegedly asleep
Considering one of the main draws of the Macbook Air (for me) is battery life, this was a huge problem.
It took many hours (largely due to my never having done any of this on a Mac before), but yesterday I decided to back up my apps via time machine, format the drive, reinstall Mountain Lion, and restore apps via the backup. (Huge thanks to +Mark Brueschke for SMS tech support throughout the process.)
Despite the time it took, and some browser syncing frustration that was really an unrelated issue, the whole thing really went swimmingly – remarkably painless, all things considered.
And, best of all, I got up this morning to a machine will the same battery levels (63%) as when I closed the lid at noon yesterday. And I've been working on it, on battery power, for the last three hours, and I still have an estimated five hours of power left. I love this machine.
I'm a little frustrated by the issue with Mavericks, especially considering the OS upgrade was supposed to dramatically increase battery life, but I can live without the Mavericks features for awhile (and the next time I upgrade, I'll have a full Time Machine backup to jump back to, rather than the half-assed thing I had to do this time around. In this situation, I think +Dave Hill and +Kate Testerman 's practice of waiting for #.#.1 versions of system upgrades is the way to go.
"It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation
"It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation."
“It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
Awesome, AWESOME kickstarter project from +
Awesome, AWESOME kickstarter project from +Andy Kitkowski for translating a wonderful, charming Japanese RPG. I can't wait to play this with +Kaylee Testerman http://kck.st/17zN37l
Ryuutama is an original Japanese heartwarming tabletop RPG of travel and wonder, currently being translated for release in English!
Long Walks
Penny Arcade reveals all my best seduction lines in a single comic
Penny Arcade reveals all my best seduction lines in a single comic.
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Pessimist-me puts five shiny american dollars on "the shooter was a TSA employee."
PR flak says the shooter was "actively involved in Terminal 3." Whatever that means.
The Los Angeles Times and other news organizations are reporting a shooting this morning at the Los Angeles International Airport’s Terminal 3, with one alleged gunman known.
Today I learned that +
Today I learned that +Lee Kenyon is a were-pelican.
So it looks like the New Orleans Hornets are going to change their name to become the Pelicans. You look around, and there are a bunch of smartasses making fun of this new name. Oh, a pelican, that’s intimidating, they sneer. Well, here’s what’s up. These people don’t know anything about good team names, and they sure as shit don’t know anything about pelicans.