Keep The Positive In Mind To Overcome The Negative
My computer has been acting wonky lately. So sluggish, it makes even opening emails an tedious evolution.
What about Photoshop you ask? Aside from the fact that I upgraded to CS6 and my machine isn’t officially supported, it doesn’t render me useless like one might be led to believe. Almost refreshing to see that the RAM-Hog CS5 once was has been streamlined to utilize and allocate it seemingly better than my native Mac OS X apps do. Good show, Adobe!
I digress here.
While my copy of Photoshop may run smoothly the rest of the experience as of late has been the bane of my existence. Now don’t get me wrong here, I’m content with using my phone or an iPad to do “light” computing to shoot out the occasional email, etc., but there comes a time when anyone born in the twentieth century wants to get back behind a keyboard and trackpad or mouse and “really get to work.” I’ve hit that junction. I’m getting several requests to do sample shoots, gearing up to try my hand at finishing an art degree at the Art Institute of Washington, and responding to the other emails that inundate our mailboxes. I also have been updating my Résumé and enjoy casually writing when time permits. Recently though, time hasn’t been the issue, but rather technology. I write you this from my iPhone 4S, and while a handy device it may be, ask a writer and they’d opt for a physical keyboard any day. I’ve found peace in using my old Hermes Rocket Typewriter, as it’s much more reliable than my MacBook.
The sad truth, is that my MacBook is on its last leg. After my last system crash, I installed a factory copy of OS X Lion (but I’ll have to rant… I mean follow up on how I feel about Lion in a separate blog post). Restored only what I needed and off I went. Or so I thought. One month later, I had a kernel panic again and it refused to wake from sleep. At this point, I had already spoken to an Apple Genius, consulted forums, and used my best judgement to determine that first and foremost, my Time Machine backup was corrupted. My first step after rebooting was to start up Disk Utility, reformat the external drive, and create a brand new Time Machine backup of my internal drive. Everything seemed to be going just fine and I was roughly 40GBs into the backup when suddenly, yet another kernel panic strikes! The computer refused to boot until after I ran a de-power cycle on it.
At the moment, while I try to put back together the pieces after an apocalyptic-level technological meltdown, I’ll leave you with one last thing:
My photos are all safe and sound; all 3 separate copies of each. =]
OMG, what if your Polaroid started endlessly spitting out a stream of Polaroids? It’d be like a real life Instagram.
(Know who shot this?)
I’m so going to make this happen!
