Comments on: the multicolored death of my first powerbook http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2006/02/the-multicolored-death-of-my-first-powerbook/ read think get curious Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:57:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 12 frogs » Blog Archive » UGM, UGC, UCC.. is the web trying to cough up a hairball? http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2006/02/the-multicolored-death-of-my-first-powerbook/comment-page-1/#comment-6697 12 frogs » Blog Archive » UGM, UGC, UCC.. is the web trying to cough up a hairball? Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:33:20 +0000 http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2006/02/the-multicolored-death-of-my-first-powerbook/#comment-6697 [...] Is nothing sacred? I wouldn’t want The Accidental Rifle to be used by Fedex, or this birthday wish appropriated by Hallmark. I love my PowerBook, but the stories I tell about it aren’t for Apple (or Microsoft or Lenovo). I don’t want, or need, to make a buck off every single thing I do. Some of the advisors to this train wreck in progress surprise me: Ross Mayfield (Mr Wiki) and Zeldman (Mr Web Standards). Guys, just because you can build something doesn’t mean you should. In principle, how different is this idea from the blog posts for hire scheme? Not very. [...] [...] Is nothing sacred? I wouldn’t want The Accidental Rifle to be used by Fedex, or this birthday wish appropriated by Hallmark. I love my PowerBook, but the stories I tell about it aren’t for Apple (or Microsoft or Lenovo). I don’t want, or need, to make a buck off every single thing I do. Some of the advisors to this train wreck in progress surprise me: Ross Mayfield (Mr Wiki) and Zeldman (Mr Web Standards). Guys, just because you can build something doesn’t mean you should. In principle, how different is this idea from the blog posts for hire scheme? Not very. [...]

]]> By: Ari Davidow http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2006/02/the-multicolored-death-of-my-first-powerbook/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Ari Davidow Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:36:42 +0000 http://12frogs.com/12/archives/2006/02/the-multicolored-death-of-my-first-powerbook/#comment-467 The rare cracked PB screen reminds me of when I was in Eastern Europe about 10 years ago. I was traveling with one of the last b/w powerbooks, a PB190. I was sitting in a cafe in Sarajevo when I decided to download some photos from my camera. Stepping back, I tangled my feet in the camera cord and dragged the computer off the cafe table onto the cobblestones. All was well except that later that night it became apparent that I had a long crack across the bottom inch or so of the screen. I limped through Europe, making do with external monitors and learning to keep everything out of that bottom 1" of screen. The machine was otherwise reliable and a pleasure. When I got back to the states, Apple insisted that the screen was under warranty, despite the circumstances, and fixed it. The machine eventually passed away a few years later, after having been loaned to a friend making a first trip to Germany, from which his parents had fled prior to WWII. It was as though there was nothing more intense to come that could top that experience, and after the files were offloaded from the trip, the machine shut itself off and never started up again. The rare cracked PB screen reminds me of when I was in Eastern Europe about 10 years ago. I was traveling with one of the last b/w powerbooks, a PB190. I was sitting in a cafe in Sarajevo when I decided to download some photos from my camera. Stepping back, I tangled my feet in the camera cord and dragged the computer off the cafe table onto the cobblestones. All was well except that later that night it became apparent that I had a long crack across the bottom inch or so of the screen.

I limped through Europe, making do with external monitors and learning to keep everything out of that bottom 1″ of screen. The machine was otherwise reliable and a pleasure. When I got back to the states, Apple insisted that the screen was under warranty, despite the circumstances, and fixed it. The machine eventually passed away a few years later, after having been loaned to a friend making a first trip to Germany, from which his parents had fled prior to WWII. It was as though there was nothing more intense to come that could top that experience, and after the files were offloaded from the trip, the machine shut itself off and never started up again.

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