Story of the Day

I had the frames replaced for a pair of glasses that were damaged in my flight to Boise several weeks ago. I even went so far as to go back to the place where I bought them originally. That turns out not to have mattered. The woman who was working there took my loose lens and tried to find a frame that it fit into. She checked those that looked almost like the ones that I had broken but found them to be subtly different. Although the shape of the lens was at a first approximation the same as the lens hole, there was always just a slight difference in shape such that the lens would pop out of the frame. I had thought that there were standard shapes for eyeglass lenses. Well, there seem to be almost standard shapes. I guess this requires that all lenses be hand fitted to the frames they are to go into. I guess this final labor is of lower value then the labor to reduce tolerances on the shapes of the frames.

Today was a grand and proud day for my Power Macintosh. Its top was opened for the first time since it came to stay with me. I made my first efforts at alteration of its physical configuration. I had acquired two 8 Meg SIMMS for somewhat more than a song and had the confidence to try and install them myself. After I blew the dust from the motherboard and found the memory sockets I quickly discovered that this was indeed a task I could perform. It took me less than ten minutes to install 16 Meg of memory and close the system back up. The restart was uneventful except for the 24 Meg of RAM now available. The new memory has speeded up most applications and I am pleased with and proud of the results.

January 22, 1996

Comments welcome

Jack Jackson ( jjack@bearinmind.org )