Two meat Wednesday

Just doesn’t work. No alliteration. Weird Wednesday, now that’s a better title.

News on Camera Phones – obviously a dangerous tool. See:


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This computer showed up in the mail, some time back, offering from one of Greg’s minions. It was, at its time, more than a decade ago, a pretty cool machine. Sort of, anyway. I had a Mac SE/30 and since that one was like a Macintosh clone between a standard Mac SE and a Mac IIx or Cx, I called it a Mac SE/x. My old computer carcass has moved on to fredlet’s collection.

I was wondering about was to turn it back into a useful machine. Something’s broke, and it won’t boot from anything I’ve got, hard disk, floppy, magic “fix anything computer” disk, none of the old stuff I’ve hung onto for I-don’t-know-why reasons.

Case, computer mods like this, or purveyor’s like this.

Apple released some new models this week, including a top-end water-cooled whatever. I’m not about to water-cool that baby, but whatever it gets will include a fan of some kind.

I suppose I should start under the hood, which is why I liked working on most motorcycles, as my type of bike never had any plastic hanging off to get in the way of motor parts, just bare engine, right there.

I can scavenge a motherboard someplace, then I’d have to either fit a new screen of some kind into the case, and here, I’m thinking an old color laptop screen might be perfect. What color to paint it? Maybe metallic color, run a set of make-believe rivets up one side, make it look like something that came off a space ship?

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