Carrier. Container. The side (shown here) and the top used different terms. Either way, you stack your devils if you buy one of these.

I didn’t.

Mental exercise: think back to pre-plastic days, when you had simple organic materials at hand. What did you do for containers? Most organic materials didn’t seal the way plastic does. What’s the impact of that? Submerging in salt water (think sauerkraut) or sealing in fat (a surface layer in a ceramic vessel)…that kinda sealed stuff. But a flexible plastic skin? Nothing like it. And…?

Now, eggs back in the day. Well, you could keep it at room temp, or hard boil it. I remember with great fondness boiled egg sandwiches we had the day long ago we toured Calakmul. Hit the spot!

Pardon for the wandering post; I could have…oh, never mind, I’ll save it to use in a day or two….

Distracted by Lion upgrade* to laptop (only) and bulbs preparing to bloom, I “made” this picture at 6pm and forgot to post it until later. Hrrrumph.

Early report on scrolling reversal: give it a few minutes and stop thinking about it and your hand-eye coordination will kick in and make the change.

Mower and willow tree (I think) posing today in Piedmont Park.

Yesterday’s relatively early post managed to miss the big news of the day under this roof. Or, actually, the news was aborning, but I/we hadn’t realized it.

Some time around 5:30PM, shortly before I blogged, we had a power hit. Then, when I tried to restart my desktop, it…um…didn’t restart, but tried, and finally, appeared to be almost there.

Long story short, the Guru made a rescue mission to a computery big box store out in Gwinnett Cobb, and came back with a solid state hard drive. Or something.

Shortly thereafter, I fell asleep on the couch while the Guru performed drive-replacement surgery on my machine.

Angst reigned as it…um…wasn’t enough.

Early afternoon today, the Guru had a lightning bolt idea, updated Safari to the latest version, and all is now well. And my machine is faster, quieter, and, well, working properly!

Time Machine did its thing, I want to report. If you don’t have a leetle hard drive sitting next to your Mac with Time Machine running, well, you’ll get what you deserve. I lost maybe five minutes worth of work. And that’s all.

Today an enterprising engineering wizard (aka The Guru) exposed the guts of Blue/Blu (in English/Italian), used high-powered regular air (not in a pressurized can) to blow off the sensor or whatever had accumulated at least five dust-nasties that made the images…have blotches.

No more! Blue/Blu* is resurrected!

Thank you, Fix-it Guy!

Blue/Blu is our second Lumix point-and-shoot. The first one had a black case, and you can guess the color of the “new” one.

Yes, the camera is a great improvement.

Can you say “four ess”?

Just in case you were wondering, that phone in your pocket that you think of as pretty tightly sealed? It isn’t. But it is a filter for only the finest dust and lint particles.

Not that that’s any consolation.

As I said in my first Google+ tweet-that’s-not-a-tweet: what a time-suck!

Hey, that title’s funny to archaeologists….

JCB special I “borrowed,” I liked it so much….

I guess technically this would be a side light, but I always enjoyed the architectural detail, too. Wouldn’t want a house with ’em, mind you (would feel like the world could peek in at me at will), but I enjoy looking at ’em now and then.

Yesterday at the Bot Garden, we discovered…nascent strawberries! The berries are already forming right there in the flower-centers. I think these plants must have been “forced” in a greenhouse; they seem a bit ahead of the normal plant-speed—although today’s weather has aided and abetted plant progress—whew!—we broke 80 on the Farenheit scale….

The Guru and I wrangled technology, and did some pressure washing. Until the technology “sat down” on the job, and pffft!—no more progress. Well, the back porch is in good shape, and the side has gotten a good tending (REALLY needed it!). The front, the public part of our presentation to the world—untouched.

Conclusion: machine may now be “dead.”

That’s me playing the (iPad GarageBand) bass. Believe it or not!

We bought a new app today! And it’s super-fun!

Yes, the new GarageBand for the iPad. Wow! It is sensitive to the amount of pressure from your fingers, recognizes when you drag the “strings” of the guitar or bass sideways, and myriad other seemingly impossible, powerful features.

Actually, as I understand it, since the surface of the iPad only can tell if you’re touching it or not, ya gotta wonder how it can be pressure-sensitive. I have it on God Good Authority (yes, from The Guru) that it senses minute changes in the position of the iPad that result from your pushing, and translate that into touch-pressure. So the total iPad movement is a proxy for screen touch-sensitivity. Cool!

Y’all know me, that I don’t tout apps and that I have little in the way of musical talent, but this, THIS, I recommend!