Musings
There's been a lot of talk in the media for quite some time now about the obesity of America. I keep wondering if anyone has done studies to see if there is a correlation between the expansion of the personal computer and the expansion of our waist lines. I bet there is. It's been true for me.
On Monday I travel to an elementary school to talk to the kids about mountain lions. I do this once a year and would like to do it more. I'm printing off 120 copies of a brochure I designed a couple of years ago using an HP Deskjet 940C. So far, everything is going smoothly. Usually, I lose about 25% - 30% of the pages to misfeeds. I've seen none, yet. What's different? I haven't used this printer in a while for one thing, though I don't think that's got a lot to do with it. I believe there are two main factors. One is that I changed my workflow. Before this, I would print the front page in batches of 10 and the manually feed them back through to get complete brochures. This year, I'm printing all the front pages first and letting them dry overnight before printing the back pages on them. I'm also, for the first time, using HP's 24 lb. Bright White Inkjet Paper. Seems to me I've tried the overnight drying trick before and it didn't help much. If tomorrow goes smoothly, then I'll buy HP's paper from now on.
I'm thinking of replacing my 700GHz 15 inch flat panel iMac with a new 1GHz 17 inch flat panel model with a Superdrive. I bought the iMac solely to write on. It's underutilized and I'd like to use it more for most of the personal stuff I'm still doing on my Windows machine and I'd like to have a second Mac for my video business. I've been thinking I would buy a single processor PowerMac to fill that slot. But the 17 inch iMac makes more sense since I feel comfortable letting my other iMac go to get it. Powermax (http://www.powermax.com) will let you trade in your old Mac for a new one. I may explore the idea with them to see what I can get. My little 700 iMac is in great shape and works like a champ. Its only flaw is one you can't see; the little plastic arms that are supposed to hold in an extra memory module (underneath its baseplate on the bottom of its motherboard) broke off when I was trying to install memory using Apple's directions. That doesn't affect its ability to hold the module, but without the little arms the module tends to torque upward toward the baseplate. I taped it down. I haven't had one crash with that machine.
One of these days remind me to tell you about the letter I wrote Apple complaining about that (poor design--using tiny strips of spring metal like some PC's do would have prevented the breaking) and their quality control for giving me a bad DIMM on a $3000 PowerMac.
It's going to irritate me if Powermax doesn't want it because of that. I'd have to take my chances with Ebay, then, and I'm not sure that's something I'd like to do.
On Monday I travel to an elementary school to talk to the kids about mountain lions. I do this once a year and would like to do it more. I'm printing off 120 copies of a brochure I designed a couple of years ago using an HP Deskjet 940C. So far, everything is going smoothly. Usually, I lose about 25% - 30% of the pages to misfeeds. I've seen none, yet. What's different? I haven't used this printer in a while for one thing, though I don't think that's got a lot to do with it. I believe there are two main factors. One is that I changed my workflow. Before this, I would print the front page in batches of 10 and the manually feed them back through to get complete brochures. This year, I'm printing all the front pages first and letting them dry overnight before printing the back pages on them. I'm also, for the first time, using HP's 24 lb. Bright White Inkjet Paper. Seems to me I've tried the overnight drying trick before and it didn't help much. If tomorrow goes smoothly, then I'll buy HP's paper from now on.
I'm thinking of replacing my 700GHz 15 inch flat panel iMac with a new 1GHz 17 inch flat panel model with a Superdrive. I bought the iMac solely to write on. It's underutilized and I'd like to use it more for most of the personal stuff I'm still doing on my Windows machine and I'd like to have a second Mac for my video business. I've been thinking I would buy a single processor PowerMac to fill that slot. But the 17 inch iMac makes more sense since I feel comfortable letting my other iMac go to get it. Powermax (http://www.powermax.com) will let you trade in your old Mac for a new one. I may explore the idea with them to see what I can get. My little 700 iMac is in great shape and works like a champ. Its only flaw is one you can't see; the little plastic arms that are supposed to hold in an extra memory module (underneath its baseplate on the bottom of its motherboard) broke off when I was trying to install memory using Apple's directions. That doesn't affect its ability to hold the module, but without the little arms the module tends to torque upward toward the baseplate. I taped it down. I haven't had one crash with that machine.
One of these days remind me to tell you about the letter I wrote Apple complaining about that (poor design--using tiny strips of spring metal like some PC's do would have prevented the breaking) and their quality control for giving me a bad DIMM on a $3000 PowerMac.
It's going to irritate me if Powermax doesn't want it because of that. I'd have to take my chances with Ebay, then, and I'm not sure that's something I'd like to do.
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