tow.com

I was working on my computer late Thursday night when I received an instant message from Eric:

eric: oh my god.
adam: what?
eric: I have a charcoal mask on.
…
adam: I’ll put my mask on…

Apparently, Wendy put him up to the task of applying a charcoal masque to his face. Since I haven’t done that in a long, long time, I whipped out my own tube of deep cleansing masque and applied it to my face. This stuff is fun to put on and take off. When the masque dries, it tightens up your face so you can’t make expressions very well. Doing so will crack the masque, always a fun feeling!

The other day, I ordered an extra gigabyte of RAM for my computer. One gigabyte of RAM!?! For a little over a hundred dollars, you can get the equivalent memory of nearly 22,000 Apple ][ computers with the original 48KB of RAM! This is just a bit unfathomable for me… but it’s a reality today! Coupled with the 128MB module that came with the computer, I now have 1.12GB of SDRAM powering my Mac. Unreal.

All that RAM hasn’t helped MacOS X from booting however. Everything was working fine yesterday, but today, it won’t boot. It’s not the RAM, as I tried booting into X with the standard 128MB module. I tried reinstalling the system software to no avail too. Troubleshooting on the Mac used to be easier… yeah and back then 5MB of RAM was sufficient and 40MB of hard disk space was cavernous. My how times have changed…