Showing posts with label iBook G3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iBook G3. Show all posts

Sunday, February 01, 2009

25 random things about me

Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 24 people to be tagged, plus the person that tagged you (for a total of 25 people tagged in your note). If I tagged you, it's because I think it would be great to know more about you.

To do this, go to "Write Note" on your profile page; paste these instructions in the body of the note; type your 25 random things; tag 25 people by clicking "More Options" at the bottom of the note and fill in the "In This Note" field... then click "Post."


1)  Married
2) Have two boys.
3) I don't shave too often, maybe once a month or so.  Never liked electric shavers.  Always wet shave or no shave.
4) I wear eyeglasses.  I am long sighted in addition to short sighted and having astimatism (read: I am OLD)
5) One of my photographs actually got published in Hong Kong.
6) One of my drawings actually got published in Hong Kong.
7) Both 5 and 6 happened when I was young.  Everything went downhill after I turned 12 or so.
8) Last real book I read "1984."
9) Owned an iBook G3 and thought I was thinking different and cool.  Then it died on me after one year, logic board failure or some shit, got it repaired, then died again.
10) I pay about $7 ~10 for my haircut.  I don't use conditioner.  I don't wash my hair every day, maybe twice a week.  I don't use any hair products except shampoo and a comb.  I don't go to a stylist, I go to a barber.
11) I do shower every day.
12) And change my underwear every day.
13) I wear the same  jeans just about every day and wash them about once a week.
14) I wear size 42 (not my pants size yet, jacket size)
15) I own two Schott 141.
16) I wear Blundstone 550 every day.
17) I like to sharpen my knives.  I like kitchen knives and pans.  They are expensive so I only bought a few like many years ago.  They were honestly made and last forever.
18) I want to buy a Dovo straight razor.
19) I have less than five friends on Facebook.  And one I don't even know personally.
20) I don't IM
21) I don't Photoshop because I don't know how to.  Photoshop is for people who make $300 an hour.
22) I want to get an enlarger to print my own black and white one of these days.
23) I pay $9.75 to develop, proof and scan my 120 films.
24) Using expensive cameras and lenses give me confidence.  I don't have too much confidence.
25) I bought my FE and 50mm f1.4 when I went to Beijing many many years ago.

PS:  the above are pretty random and I try not to censor as best as I can.  I selectively follow the rules.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

I Need A Computer

I need a better computer to suck my photos out my Nikon D70. And to store and process them en masse.

I just tested UFRaw-batch.exe running from Windows, I think it's good enough for me. And with GIMP I can have a total graphics interface that rivals Photoshop minus the big bucks, somewhat I guess. Anyway, I need a computer first... If I have more processing power, I may shoot more in NEF and just batch them in one stroke. So far Mac seems to be the only one that can run OS X, Windows and Linux all together in one machine. But my Mac iBook G3 experience hadn't been exactly pleasant.

Let's see what Nikon has to offer tomorrow, if anything.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

iBook does rainbow display

(or how I got screwed by Apple)


Here is my latest iBook display. It's sort of funky, isn't it.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

iBook Surgery

I performed my first iBook openheart surgery, and the result is so far so good.

My iBook sufferred from the "90 degrees and black out" syndrome which is pretty well discussed in Apple's own user's forum. On top of that, my original power adaptor isn't passing the power, and my battery isn't holding up a good charge (I had to borrow someone's from work just to charge the battery).

So, I ordered from Small Dog, the reed switch assembly ($20) and a third party power adaptor ($29). $7 USP 3 days select shipping. I didn't order any extra battery.

I read the following links and got the job done. Here, here
and here. The last link is about harddrive replacement but I like the way the guy taped the screws on a cheat sheet. I did similar but still got 3 screws unaccounted for, OKAY, I know I dropped one for the top shield.

After the surgery, the iBook is 3 screws lighter. It's embarrassing. Other than the screws, one major hiccup was I forgot to plug back the keyboard cable before I replaced the RAM shield and worse, I thought I had to take off the bottom cover and the front cover to plug it back in, when indeed removing the RAM shield is all it needs to plug the keyboard cable to the board ... It's been a long operation.

Barber Shop in Chinatown

 Nowadays I loathe to have my haircut, that's why I seldom have mine cut, maybe once or twice a year. I went back to Chinatown. I could ...