Apple Flash Drive

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: 07/26/2024

Apple Flash Drive

Some years back, with one Apple OS X upgrade, the emergency option was a flash drive. I never used it. Check the image, I kept it around for years, and I’m guessing close to a decade old, now.

Think that must’ve been one of the first system upgrades that was strictly online, download and go, rather than order a CD/DVD.

As more an academic venture, I spent a portion of an afternoon — last time Mercury was Retrograde — figuring out how to create an emergency USB drive. Download the installer, format a flash drive, reboot, install on the spare drive, and it wasn’t as easy as I recall.

Apple Flash Drive

An older laptop resurfaced, spent a year or more in someone’s storage unit, I think. In order to erase the PowerBook Pro? I needed a flash drive.

I dug around, and that old Apple Flash Drive worked.

Old, dead tech that isn’t quite so dead.

Apple Flash Drive

Apple flash drive

the Portable Mercury Retrograde

: iPhone 14 Plus
: 7 July, 2024
: no
: 5.7mm
: 800
: 1/30s

Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: 07/25/2024

Holmes, Marple & Poe

I’m not a James Paterson fan. Not a hater, just haven’t read much of his stuff that grabbed me. Hat tip, as he’s offered excellent advice over the years, and the funniest New Yorker cartoon, James Paterson was reading Ulysses while everyone else was Paterson. I guess you had to be there.

The second book caught my eye, and being diligent, like I am, I decided to back up and read the first in the series, first. I know, just a little OCD like that, huh.

Holmes, Marple & Poe

Fun book. Quick, moving, and really, just great fun.

Holmes, Marple & Poe

: iPhone 12
: 4 June, 2024
: -3/64EV
: no
: 4.2mm
: 1600
: 1/15s

Horoscopes for 7-23-2024

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: 07/24/2024

Horoscopes for 7-23-2024

“Come, my lord,
We will bestow you in some better place,
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.”

Talbot in 1 Henry 6 (III.ii.87-9)

Horoscopes for 7-23-2024

Sun enters The Leo’s sign 7/23
Mercury enters Virgo 7/25 at 5:42 PM

Horoscopes for 7-23-2024

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July 23, 2024 at Nature’s Treasures

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: 07/23/2024

July 23 at Nature’s Treasures

Natures’s Treasures

4103 N. Interstate 35
Austin, TX 78722
Phone: 512.472.5015

12PM – 4PM, appointments encouraged. E-mail.
Tuesday at Nature’s Treasures.

“It’s really him,” at the rock shop in Austin.

Discounts are available.

July 23 at Nature’s Treasures

Use the code, “sparkle faerie” at the check out — for applicable discounts.

Price Selection Won’t Be Beat!

Vincit Qui Primum Gerit

“First to arrive gets the best deal.” (Source.)

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#Austin

: iPhone 14 Plus
: 21 July, 2024
: no
: 5.7mm
: 64
: 1/60s

New iPad addendum

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: 07/22/2024

New iPad addendum

One of my buddies, she swears, and I mean swears by her Kindle (reader) thing. Ultralight, backlit, holds a charge for days? Super-convenient for reading, doctor’s office, airplanes, and similar venues.

It’s a device designed solely as a reader, but links to libraries, etc. Think she gets the kindle unlimited package. I’m too cheap for that.

I tried the Apple iPad 12.9-inch model, had a first edition, and it was too unwieldy, too uncomfortable for just reading. But the new 11-inch iPad Pro?

New iPad addendum

While not quite as compact as that original Kindle thing? Until I wrap a heavier case around it? The new one scores big on light weight.

New iPad addendum

Traveling and working with the new unit brings up a terrible conundrum in my mind, too. I like the minimalist shell casing, that offers a modicum of protection, but I also long to have that leather feeling, like a leather folio, but then, that adds weight.

Either way? It’s a it improvement over previous models.

Lighter weight, faster.