@variablepulserate In severe flooding back in the 1970s, supplies had to be dropped to a flood-isolated sheep station homestead from a light aircraft. Included in the package was a bottle of rum. They had to find a way of cushioning the rum bottle but couldn’t find any packaging.
Until the copilot hollowed out a loaf of bread, removed the cork from the bottle, extracted some of the contents to allow the rest to slosh about and not damage the glass on impact. The top end of the load was resealed with the discarded centre of the loaf.
It was then dropped overboard wit a label proclaiming the presence of rum within. Then the copilot notice he still had the cork in the plane.
After the floods has passed the intrepid airmen got back in contact with the station owner to apologise for the unintended rum leakage. The response was “that’s OK, mate, we had bread & butter pudding that night!”
@matigo I agree. Last August I went from using an older MBP with a 20-inch regular external monitor to a 4k iMac. I resolved then that when came the time to replace the MacBook Air, it’d be something with a Retina screen.
/@konrad
Prior to my current back problems, I’ve only experienced pain in the lumbar region, but this latest difficulty involves the middle, to one side.
41 years ago one of my brothers was messing about (with permission) with the farm’s step-through Honda 90 agricultural motorbike and damaged a shoulder when he came off the thing in the paddock where all the volcanic rocks from other paddocks had been dumped.
Our parents were away on a rare weekend off, so we called the neighbouring farm & got him to the local hospital at a ridiculous pace for those narrow, windy roads.
Two months ago that same brother bought a 1980 Vespa scooter & came off it in his gravel driveway, damaging his other shoulder in the process. He’s had a successful operation to fix it.
I couldn’t help reminding him about his awkward relationship between shoulders & powered two-wheeled conveyances.
@matigo If we get her a new Apple Watch she could wear that all the time. It just needs to be tied into someone else’s iPhone account.
/@whoisashygirl
Decision made. For $222 less than Apple’s recommended retail price, I’m getting a 2017 non-touchbar 13.3-in MacBook Pro. An office supply store has limited quantities available, and since there’s an outlet in this town I’ve gone that way.
I bought some Thunderbolt 3 & USB-C adaptors for the iMac but it can get by without them. They’ll be used until the 7-port Thunderbolt 3 hub arrives. This hub has 2 x USB 3 ports; HDMI for video; SD & microSD card slots, USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 pass-through for charging.
It connects to both of the Mac’s Thunderbolt 3 ports.
This is the model of Mac that Apple wants users to consider as the upgrade to a MacBook Air. For once I agree.