And the Dead Shall Rise!!

[thedeadlyhook]

Toys's Computer is Back From the Dead.

Believe it! The entire operation involved:

• Me, riding the bus to CompUSA and picking up an external hard drive to back up all the data on the dead machine. It wouldn't start up at all, but like a good Apple machine in zombie mode, would at least boot up in hard disc mode.
• Toys, backing up the entire contents of zombie!Mac, with my laptop operating as the "brain" in Rube Goldberg-like daisy chain of network cables.
• Toys, also backing up my laptop's contents, because having redundant backups is an especially damn good idea when you only have one working machine.
• A complete disc wipe and clean reinstall on the iMac.
• A nail-biting startup.

...and the old machine was new again.

As part of its new lease on life, Toys decided to finally give the iMac a name (after five years of wearing the monniker "Macintosh HD"), collect some new icons, and generally make the machine feel loved. Please join me in sending it Tinkerbelle-style happy thoughts to keep it healthy. (crosses fingers)

In other news, today we saw - in the middle of Golden Gate Park's music concourse, right in front of the DeYoung museum - a Great Blue Heron stalking and catching a gopher! Amazingly, Toys and I seemed to be the only people in the fairly busy plaza to notice this HUGE bird sneaking around the lawns and stabbing at the ground with its beak. It was surreal.

Then there was this runaway dog near Irving St., but that's a whole other story.

I have my laptop back!!!

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[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I am slowly learning that many more animals than I ever realized were carnivorous, are. And that there are predators I knew nothing about - Planet Earth last night showed some kind of squirrel-killing weasel-like thing I'd never heard of.

Birds swallowing other birds is, I guess, obvious, and yet like fish swallowing other fish, always manages to surprise me.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

My sister's daughter had a hamster that once ate a crane fly that blundered into its cage. As my sis is phobic about crane flies she worshipped the hamster after that
(it was called Hermione - nomen est omen?)