Capricious Me

I saw a jewelry store today called Pandora. Interesting name. Every time someone opens up one of the boxes, they’re opening a “Pandora’s box.” Do they mean to imply that the jewelry represents all the evils beset on humans, or was it just a cute name to them? Greed was one of the things to come out of Pandora’s box, and greed is what drives us to buy useless but pretty baubles like jewelry, after all. Maybe the owner of the store is a very cynical person who delights in satire.

Well, still no luck yet. I’ve backed up my data and am going to reinstall the OS. Here’s what I tried to do:
1. Boot from install disc and run disk utilities. No luck.
2. Use gParted to create a partition. This worked, but boot camp still refused to work and disk utilities refused to let me merge the two partitions.

Maybe it’s not that OSX is dumb. Maybe this really is a feature, you know, to prevent people from installing Windows on their laptops. Maybe Apple makes its own hardware and so closely guards the secrets because the hardware is PSYCHIC and can recognize intentions. “Detecting WINDOWS and LINUX intentions… throw errors, throw errors!!”

I was THIS close to installing ubuntu over OSX instead. Still can’t think of a good reason not to (except I only had Kubuntu 6.10 instead of 9.10 at home).

UPDATE: I reinstalled Snow Leopard after erasing the drive. Eagerly opened up Boot Camp only to find the increasingly frustrating, “Some Files Could Not Be Moved” error. You’ve sealed your fate, Snow Leopard. Your territory is about to get a lot smaller. Make way for a Karmic Koala! and his frenemy, Windows, courtesy of rEFIt.

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130024 (first read on the Lede Blog at nytimes.com)

I’ll summarize: Pat Robertson claims that the earthquake, which most people believe to be a seismic event that happened because Haiti is located on a fault line, is in fact the result of God punishing them for making a pact with the devil. Oh yes. I kid you not.

Disgusting, right? What an ugly example of religious fervor and self-righteousness.

Oh yes, so this is sort of old news, but Toyota has issued a recall for something like 38 million vehicles because they contain floor mats which could jam the accelerator and lead to fatal crashes. The 2010 Prius is not in that list, but I’m paranoid enough to think that that’s merely because not enough people have the vehicle yet.

They want me to pay 200 on top of MSRP for pieces of rubber which could lead to my demise? Thank you, but I’d rather die from a bacon overdose if you don’t mind.

And here’s hoping I made the right call in waiting for the dark gray prius instead of settling for a dark blue one today…

Who the hell do these asshats think they are, charging 200 dollars for floormats? It’s a piece of rubber that you step on. $200. Really?? REALLY? I mean, do these floor mats massage your feet and self clean or something? Are they perhaps coated in teflon and, in an emergency or accident, magically protect you from harm?

No. They’re ordinary pieces of rubber that are meant to catch the dirt. So why… WHY IN THE NAME OF ANYTHING REASONABLE would I pay $200???