Jesus was a carpenter, a man who made and fixed things with his hands. I think he may have already returned to the worldly realm, but this time in the form of a computer techniciain. For although my hard disk is dead, my data lives!
The miracle worker at the JR Mac Center resurrected my disk long enough to get the data off it onto the new 80 gig disk on my laptop. What special tricks did he use? What special magic from the Mac Technician Necronomicon did he invoke? My now beloved Mac Jesus said, with a smirk, that he just slapped my disk until it started. I'm glad I wasn't there to see it, but that, ladies and gentlemen, is the shit. Mac Jesus comes through for me again. (Previously, he had fixed my screen by just opening up the iBook right in front of me and just reconnecting a loose cable. Charged me 20,000 for the trouble. Coulda been like, "The biaxial defibrillator connector came out of sync with the LCD's lateral NTSC generator chip. 300 bucks.") You know what I'm talking about.
So now I have 1gigabyte of RAM memory, making my computer quick and snappy as all get out. My hard disk is twice as big. And Mac Jesus installed the new version of OS X – Tiger – so I essentially have a brand new computer and with every single file, every single icon exactly where I left it.
Grand total? 340,000 won, boyee!
That's killer. In the States, just to have someone cough on my machine would have cost me $100, before even getting to recovering data from a dead drive with special Slap Technique™, copying it over to the new one, and then updating me to the new operating system, which I hadn't even previously owned. You know they woulda just reinstalled my old OS, all following the rules to the letter. And for all that labor time, plus parts, you can bet this woulda cost like $700 back and taken a week back in the good ole US of A. It's times like this that you know it's good to live in Korea.
So, although I had been resigned to downloading some iPod hacking program to dig out years of illegally downloaded MP3's (umm, I mean "backup copies" of the CD's that I already own) along with a few hundred bucks worth of legally-acquired audiobooks and video content. I had been making myself OK with having lost a couple years worth of digital pictures from iPhoto that I hadn't backed up. And I had already said my goodbyes to countless little memos and notes, not to mention having made myself OK with rewriting a whole buncha parts for the next chapter of my book. So this is BETTER than a new computer! Yeah, boyee!
So?!
Blogging? Back online!
Writing? Ready!
Podcasting? Warp Factor Nine!
Engage! (and praise Mac Jesus!)
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!
