@streakmachine Also the battery is dying and the keycap letters are wearing off.
Another example of why I will never have a times subscription again.
Though of course bread and butter are eaten all over, the buttered roll (or roll with butter, as it is known in parts of New Jersey) is a distinctly local phenomenon. Mention its name outside the New York metropolitan area and you would very likely be met with blank incomprehension.
The Air's fan is now developing a faint high pitched squeal that, were I 20 again, would probably be nerve wracking.
Six years old. Eight plus hours of daily use.
Do I let it grind on to the end of finally get off my lazy butt and let it retire with dignity?
@matigo …and with the barrier to entry so low now for journalism (or what passes for it these days), the quality has suffered tremendously.
@matigo Ever since CNN first hit, I had misgivings about it. There simply isn't enough of import happening in the world to justify 24/7 coverage. They'd either have to invent news or over-inflate it.
Seems like forever ago that reading the New York Times and Wall Street Journal were on my daily to-do list.
Pointless to do this with their online counterparts since the news cycle is so short that the first take of anything is invariably wrong. Also, a lot of the writing looks like it was done for a high school paper. Sets my teeth on edge.
Now, when I get to the office, I sip a cup of coffee and hope someone doesn't blow something up.
Software development & support: Grinding the excess off of auto trim that was re-chromed a little too thick. shrug
@nitinkhanna We're next to inseparable. Where ever one of us goes, the other is there. Kind of a batman/Robin thing :)
@kdfrawg People are increasingly trading their humanity for their politics. I've been jettisoning them from my life as I encounter them.