It’s New Technology Weekend here at the DogHaus, what with the installation of a refurbished Sony Blu-ray player to feed the TV and a new iMac to feed the rest of us. How odd to find oneself in the 21st century just like that.
The Blu-ray install involved an acceptable profanity-to-success ratio, since the owner’s manual is surprisingly straightforward and both the Sony and the Toshiba TV have HDMI ports. Our obsolete Sony home-theater setup does not, but it does share optical digital connectivity with the Blu-ray. And hijo, madre, puto, cabron, does the sound output all of a sudden get a whole lot better when you plug that bad boy in. And all this time we thought the salesperson at Ultimate Electronics was bullshitting us. That cable’s been gathering dust around here for months.
The iMac, meanwhile, is getting its trial by fire today and tomorrow during my shift in the VeloBarrel, which presently involves posting stories and photos from cyclo-cross nats in Oregon. One interesting hurdle cropped up this morning — it’s not clear whether my copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, which I use for RGB photo editing, will function properly under Snow Leopard, a.k.a. OS X 10.6.1. Some folks say si, others no.
While Adobe will graciously permit me to upgrade to a full CMYK version of Photoshop CS4 for a mere $599 US, I would rather spend that hard-earned cash on tasty food, strong drink and a proper solstice present for Herself, who after all has had to jog 19 laps around the sun with Your Humble Narrator. This is not exactly a day at the beach.
So if any of you have experience with Snow Leopard and Elements 6, please feel free to chime in. Otherwise I may just buy a $70 copy of Elements 8 for online photo editing and keep using the G4 and P-shop 4 to color those silly-ass cartoons.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid should punt Joe Lieberman to the GOP where he belongs. Let the miserable prick give the Elefinks brain cramps for a change. The cocksucker is as reliable as MacWrite II on a Cray supercomputer.
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Run Software Update on that sucker … 10.6.2 is out there. And, you’ll want the rest of whatever upgrades are there. I’m running 10.6.2. on this MBP and the iMac.
I’m getting to know your house pretty well. I think if I materialized there one day, I could cook a meal, find the booze, and surf the web without any guidance.
You’re making me seriously consider moving to the Mac Side.
Have you tried GraphicConverter? Not a PS replacement, better at some things (batch processing, changing size, borders, resolution, file size, cropping, file format conversion) not as nice for filters, effects, certain masking operations or subtle level changes… Speedy fast, developed by a single person who is very responsive to users…
Sorry to intrude on the electronic testosterone fest with comments on POLITICS but Droopy Dawg Joe is a problem. At least he helped kill the filibuster deal to get the spending bill passed over Retard-ican objections. I think the problem is the schmuck just can’t make up his mind — is he on the left or right? Obama kept him from being skewered figuring he might need him on the left now and then but of course ran the risk of baloney like this healthcare reform issue. It will be a sad day for the US if AGAIN we fail to make any meaningful reform of a badly-broken healthcare system. A pathetic example of so-called democracy to all those countries we’ve tried to force it on over the years. It’s like someone once said, “take our advice, go ahead, it’s OK, WE’RE not using it”.
Don’t forget to save a little cash for your local food bank.
My vote, not that it means a hoot, is to remember that your customers are knuckle-dragging, fresh out of the cave, blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other Jethroes who will never discern the diff between a cartoon made on the four figure, V8, twin turbo version of Photo$hop and one drawn on the back of a cocktail napkin and copied at the local library. Every time spent on work is a dime not spent on Yourself and Herself, and while Herself will most assuredly receive sainthood for all of those laps around the big ball of fire (plasma, actually, but that’s not important right now), that honor will not come until long after her last breath, which most assuredly will be used to get you back in line for the upteenth time. Go el-cheapo and live well, I say.