You can't beat a truly great cup of coffee, can you? I don't know what it is, but even a pretty brilliant coffee shop like Blue Spoon, using good beans has to contend with myriad factors - water quality, water temperature, how long the beans have been ground, that white musky stuff that builds up in the tureens and kettles, the entirely arbitrary amount of milk or cream the customers add, localized air pressure, wind direction, and the side of the bed the coffee-maker got out of that morning - in an infinitely spinning and wildly erratic universe, it's a miracle that a decent cup of coffee ever occurs at all.
You can take care to make sure that all the coffee you make is as good as you can make it, and then you're closer to that magic BAM! All of the random factors line up and dance the electric boogaloo and the weird synergy of the universe aligned sprinkles a little something extra in there and all of a sudden you notice your coffee as it swings by your taste buds, rather than it just being the brown stuff you drink in the mornings, and it's rich, it's strong, it's beautiful.
Now that I've got that out of the way, I need a little tech help. I have an iMac G3 at home, and recently the display has switched to RVGA - Really Very Green, Actually.
It seems I'm not alone, but apart from giving me a vague feeling of solidarity, that doesn't help.
I have a sneaky feeling that getting this fixed might cost more than I paid for the computer in the first place.
Feeling very chatty today.
So what's up?
Why is everything after your link underlined?
Anyway, my guess is that either the screen is giving up the ghost (red and/or blue guns doing the death thing) or the display chipset on the motherboard is on the way out.
If that's the case, it's going to have to go to Apple or someone like them to fix it :(
Thanks Olly - fixed it.
Yeah, I thought so, but hoped not.
genius bar. geniuses.
(or tekserve on 23rd and 6th. conveniently close to someone you know.)
Without having a look at any links, I would be suprised if your problem didn't cost you money.
I'm still at work. Poo.
There's this advanced technique I'm good at, which is called ITP, or 'Ignoring The Problem'.
That'll probably stop me spending money.
Hey - there's a blue spoon near where I work sometimes. I got turned off at first because I bought a muffin and they handed me an ICE COLD muffin out of the fridge.
They seem to have figured stuff out now though.
It must be a different place, Sally - this is a lone Blue Spoon Coffee Shop run by the owners.
what's up? well, thought of you.
that's a link, fyi...
It looks like one too!
Thanks though, the last news I heard of that story was not very nice!
TWOIIINNGGG!!!! That's the sound of my brain making the connection between "Amazon World", the place where I visited on Friday, and "Amazon World", from where Toga was penguin-napped.
huh. Um, I'm pretty sure it's called blue spoon. It's right near city hall, gigantic municipal buildings and the brooklyn bridge. That the one?
oh yeah, and there used to be a little tea shop there, that made salads that I liked to get for lunch, but now it's gone.
Sally, I'm SO SORRY. For some reason in my overworked and more-than-a-little frazzled brain, I didn't think you were a New York Sally, which you patently are.
I am a noolie.
Ah, New York Sallies. That rare and special breed.