Middle School Armaments:
While studying today I looked over at the ruler sitting on my desk and had the urge to rub its straight edge against the rubber on my shoe until the friction left the metal hot to the touch.
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Bit of a Scare: This morning when I took my computer out of sleep mode it responded with the beach ball of death. Worrisome, but its been known to happen in the past. After a reboot, however, I was faced with my real fear; an icon that alternates between an apple system folder and a question mark. An icon that usually means only one thing:
“Hi, I turned on today and where I thought I would find your operating system I found a whole bunch of nothing. You seen it around?”
I’ve gone through a hard drive failure before and I was happy that at least I was finished with law school. Since the last failure I’ve kept up a pretty good backup system, but I still didn’t relish the thought of having to repair a fresh install. Disconcerted I went to breakfast and tried to inventory all the stuff that I’d failed to archive. When I returned I gave my laptop one more restart just to see – to my amazement it booted like normal.
I’ve been around computers enough to not get too excited about one successful boot after what appeared to be a complete system failure. So, I spent some of the morning diligently backing up all the files I’d worried about at breakfast. I don’t know if another crash is just around the corner, but it was kinda nice to get a heads up this time.
Oh and I still love Apple.
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Karōshi: A Japanese word that translates as “death from overwork.” Wikipedia Link
I saw this word in an article on autoblog its status as WOTD has nothing to do with me studying for the Bar exam – no really nothing.
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Email Bankruptcy: The act of declaring that you are unable to keep up with the volume of email you’ve received and deleting all emails in your inbox regardless of whether they are read, unread, replied or part of a continuing conversation. From an interview on NPR.
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Aurora: On Saturday Allison and I went to Blues on The Fox, a Blues festival in Aurora IL- about an hour outside of Chicago. The music was great, nice sound setup for a street fest, and seeing Kenny Wayne Shepherd was, as always, amazing. However, the social dynamic was a little bit weird.
The festival took place in the small downtown district on a bridge that crosses the Fox River. In the street hundreds of attendees set out their own collapsible chairs in rows creating a pseudo auditorium. I know if you were there all day seating would be a must, but the resulting atmosphere curtailed the celebratory mood. Due to the low sight lines of the stage, the seated crowd developed a strict no standing rule. No one was permitted to dance or rise up to cheer in front of the stage at penalty of being yelled and sworn at (even if you were a little old man). Those who were interested in dancing had to leave the street directly in front of the stage and squeeze onto the packed adjacent sidewalks.
The seated crowd created a feeling of being in a gigantic living room and took several lively performances to finally instigate the sizable insurrection needed to abandon the regulation – by which time the festival was nearly over.
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