Tag: technology

It Just Works

January 27, 2013
Rainwater

All day Saturday I was having problems with my Macbook Pro laptop. It seemed to be freezing up and I would have to keep re-booting, it was like a Windows pc. Finally around 7:30 pm it just stopped completely, I ran the disk utility and tried to re-install, but it said it was done. After 3 plus years the hard drive finally crapped out. The good thing was I knew that the Time Machine was working every hour, so I would have my data to that point. Before going to bed, I had pulled the hard drive from my laptop and had figured out which replacement drive I was was going to buy today. After picking up a 500GB hard drive for $70,  I had it back in the laptop and was restoring it with my Time Machine backup from 6:23 pm last night. By 4:00 pm, my laptop was booting up and running like normal.

Sesame Street Google

November 23, 2009
Old-Rainwater

During the first week of November Google was celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. Chances are if you did a google search that week you saw one of these google banners. For those that missed it here they are.

Big Bird

Bert and Ernie

Cookie Monster

Oscar

Elmo

The Count

On the actual anniversary day they had the entire Sesame Street ensemble.

Ensemble

A380

September 9, 2009
Old-Rainwater

The world’s largest passenger jet flies over a few times a week. Since June of this year the Emirates Airline A380lands at Pearson on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it passes over around 3:30 in the afternoon. We get alot of the larger planes making their approach because the north E-W runway is the longest at Pearson. Here is the A380 from our backyard.

A380

A380

I found these photos on the internet.

A380

A380