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Nice posters by Accept & Proceed here which make nice eye candy out of possibly mundane statistics.
We really need the ability to link to an external image.
you can use imageshack.us without a signup and then use the post style fwiw
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You don’t need a deep and comprehensive grasp of Gnosticism any more than you do to grasp The Matrix.
—John Crowley in this interview
so…we’re all set on renaming this johncrowleycult eh?
If you want to get Whartiki the $900 artist edition of Little, Big with Crowley inscribing my favorite passage, I wouldn’t say no. Maybe they have it at Crate & Barrel?
what’s yr favorite passage? I have a few ideas for mine… predictably, they all revolve around nyc.
I’ll be honest: I almost went to that crowley reading, and now I’m kind of bummed I didn’t.
Monster Steel Ball Forms Air Cure Hospital In the 1920s Dr. Orval J. Cunningham was a leading exponent of hyperbaric therapy. In the mid-1920s, he operated the then largest hyperbaric chamber in existence, in Kansas City. An industrial tycoon, H.H. Timken, heard about this work and gave Cunningham $1,000,000 to build what would end up being the largest hyperbaric chamber ever constructed. Timken’s industry, ball bearings, was based in Canton, Ohio, but the chamber was built in Cleveland, to Cunningham’s specifications. While in existence it was known as the “Timken Tank” and the “Cunningham Sanitarium.”
Leopard Installation Partitioning Woes
I ran into a problem trying to install Leopard tonight. The installer showed a red exclamation point on top of my internal hard drive when selecting the target volume and displayed the following error message:
You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. To enable installation on this volume open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu and repartition the disk as ‘GUID Partition Table’. Note: you will lose all data on the disk by repartioning it.
Not too helpful, huh? Notice Apple’s installation requirements gloss over this requirement:
Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor.
Anyways, I loaded up Disk Utility, selected my target and selected Get Info from the File menu. Sure enough, it listed “Apple_partition_scheme” under Partition Type. There’s the problem. There seems to be lots of confusion regarding this, but the basic rule of thumb seems to be:
- You cant boot a Power PC Mac from an APM partition.
- You cannot boot a PowerPC Mac from a GUID partion.
- You can boot an Intel Mac from a GUID partition.
- You shouldn’t boot an Intel Mac from an APM partition. However, it works. Say for instance you replaced your hard drive and copied the data over at some point from a PPC machine. The Leopard installer will not allow you install onto APM partition on an Intel Mac.
My solution was to backup my entire drive using SuperDuper, reformat the drive (with the GUID partioning scheme), do a clean install [1], and use Migration Assistant to move my files back over.
So a word to the wise: verify your partition scheme using Disk Utility before assuming your Leopard installation will go off without a hitch.
Addendum: I noticed several recommendations in forums stating that even though there was a large red exclamation point and error message, you could double click on the target drive and proceed using the Archive & Install option. I was able to get this menu by double clicking, and when I attempted this route (after having backed up the entire drive as mentioned above) the installation failed. This seems like an installer bug to me.
1: You may prefer to restore your drive prior to the install after the reformat and do a regular upgrade.
every day I don’t install leopard makes me feel smarter.
Siracusa's Leopard Review in 100 Words
Thanks to Word’s AutoSummarize function:
Leopard's new look Folders Tiger folder icon Leopard folder icon Leopard special folder icons Leopard docked special folders Behold, the Leopard Dock. The Leopard menu bar. Leopard's visual scorecard 64-bit GPR size 32 bits 64 bits 32 bits 64 bits % file Xcode • Asynchronous file system notifications Enter Leopard's FSEvents framework. Core Animation Core Animation So what's changed in Leopard? Leopard supports cryptographically signed applications. Icon view in Leopard Now Leopard. Docked folders in Leopard Docked folder stack Docked folder grid Time Machine Time Machine icon Time line Time Machine internals % cd Backups.backupdb/Leopard/2007-10-18-103601/Leopard\ Demo Good show, Apple. Thanks, Apple.
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“Soldiers of Time”
from Waiters on the Dance by Julian Jay Savarin (1971)
from Waiters on the Dance by Julian Jay Savarin (1971)
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We all know I have a weakness for concept albums– and I feel Julian Jay Savarin’s Waiters on the Dance is even more Modcult-worthy due to the fact it accompanies an an actual science fiction novel of the same name. Definitely shades of Moorcock/Hawkwind high concept rock ‘n’ roll in this one.
In print, Waiters on the Dance was the first novel of Savarin’s His Lemmus “time” trilogy. It’s out of print, but I did manage to find this backcover blurb:
And so the great expedition began; the expedition to the virgin plant of Terra – the green globe, rich in atmosphere, in animal life and in vegetation …the colonisation would change the course of the universe.
As for the record, it is lush progressive rock with nice female vocals by one time Catapilla vocalist Lady Jo Meek (great names abound on this record). Layered compositions with lots of mellotron, and some harder edged guitar passages as well. Savarin is credited with story, arrangement, organ, and mellotron.
Previously, Savarin orchestrated a similar project, Julian’s Treatment, who also released only one progressive concept album with a (different) female vocalist, A Time Before This.
i always keep my downloads folder in the dock.
Apple did make an “official” downloads folder in Leopard though.
Looking for a modern-day address in Brooklyn, stymied again by the New York Times’ newly-opened archives ancienne. This bit of a cartographic acid poetry is comin’ to you straight outta 1894.