NaNoWriMo 2005 – Page 4 – a crank's progress

I could have used this last night

I had to wrestle with installing OS 9/Classic on a Tiger system last night, and while I’m not sure this would have been easier, it’s miles cooler.

minivmac [nothickmanuals.info]:

Running Linux, Windows or applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and AbiWord from a USB flash memory device is old hat. How about a Mac 128K or Plus on a USB key? Using a â€˜portable’ Mac system you can:

play with old system software and applications without dusting off your old Mac,
impress your friends, or show others what the older Mac system looked like,
use Mac on Windows and Linux.

What I ended up doing was opening up my iBook’s system restore disks and looking through the .images directories on each one til I found the OS9General disk image. NB: you need to look through the disks in the Terminal or in some other way that shows you files/folders that start with “.” ie, are invisible.

Mounted and copied it to my system, then ran the 9.2.1 updater. My OS 9 installer wouldn’t work and I know I can’t boot into OS 9 on anything I use anymore.

Then I could run my ancient copy of InDesign.

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well, have you ever seen them in a room together?

Double Fantasy:

Alert tipster Darin Ipema provides Wonkette with a Separated at Birth image that’ll be sure to hurt your soul just in time for the weekend:

Ninth installment

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A gentleman’s C? I hoped for better.

The Panda’s Thumb: Report Cards Are In:

It’s near the end of the fall term, and Report Cards are in!

I need to read the report to see where we went wrong. Our near neighbors didn’t do very well: Idaho and Oregon both failed.

a T-shirt just waiting to happen

I’ve got a dictionary and I’m not afraid to use it

Bush Cites Setbacks in Rebuilding By the U.S.:

Without ever using the words “mistake” or “error,” Bush said the administration miscalculated by clearing insurgents out of a city and then moving onto another assignment, only to allow enemy forces to retake control.

Seventh installment

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what the hell is this about?

No mention of why we’re ordered to officially hate Aruba. I assume Natalee Holloway is why, but how does trashing their tourism industry help resolve her disappearance?

Aruba

No links: you’re on your own.

Sixth

Read on for more of this great sprawling mess,
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the roots of The War On Christmas run deep

Who knew the secular humanists had been working their plan since WWI?

And as for the old canard that the use of Xmas means that we’re “X-ing out Christ” read on: surely a reporter for the National Review couldn’t be on the side of the atheistic hordes?
John J. Miller on Christmas on National Review Online:

How did Christmas become Xmas?

It’s Greek to us â€” literally. The Greek word for Christ is Xristos. That’s where the X in Xmas comes from. There’s a Christian website called www.xristos.com. Here’s what it says: Xristos is a transliteration of the New Testament Greek word for Christ “criston.” The Greek letter Chi ‘c’ was retained to insure a connection to the roots and original texts, as well as visually represent the centrality of the cross in all. The visual symbol Chi-ro is also employed at various places by Xristos, recalling one of the earliest practices of the Christian community.

So referring to Christmas as Xmas is no sign of disrespect, as many people believe. But it helps to know its origins.

Knowing origins, or the refusal to think things through, is how these arguments start, after all.
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