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Radio silence for quite a while, and only books postings for a while longer yet. I had so intended to be more consistent with posting. Hah.

Well. In the last several months, I have

Read a few books. Not many; for whatever reason reading just hasn't been a thing I wanted to do. But.
1. Fluke, Christopher Moore (audio)
2. The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, John Joseph Adams, ed (anthology, audio)
3. Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
4. Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone
5. The Brightest Fell, Seanan McGuire (audio)
6. Medea, Kerri Greenwood

Made a thing: The Evil Devil Child and the Perfect Gift, recorded for HP Podfic Fest 2017

Signed up for HD Owl Post 2017.

Had my picture taken for The Awakenings Project, a photo essay/book about women's empowerment. Part of the process is choosing a word to embody/invoke. I chose DAUNTLESS.
Here are my photos: Profile and Full face

Sang at St Louis Pride with my CHARIS sisters, and rejoined for the fall 2017-spring 2018 season.

Replaced my venerable MacBookPro Zoe (built late 2008) with a slightly newer one. The other morning, Tammie said to me, "Zoe's under the sofa!" I pulled her out and turned on the screen to find that it had been crushed. Before I actually made it to the mac store to get an estimate for screen replacement, Rosa pointed out that the whole case was crushed and the DVD drive now looked like this: )| Obviously, replacing the screen wasn't going to cut it, so we decided to use my (conveniently-timed, as it turned out) annual bonus to buy a newer, non-crushed MacBook built mid-2012. Chris performed surgery to transplant the hard drive from Zoe's old body into her new one, and she lives again. Faster and shinier, but also smaller. Old case was a 15" screen, new one is 13".

Played a lot of Pokemon GO.

Attended Beer Choir three times. Which is more or less exactly what it sounds like: a bunch of people get together and drink beer and sing (songs about beer, mostly). It's a lot of fun.

I'm getting older, and I should probably have bought bifocals this last time when I got new glasses, but also being weirdly vain and sometimes stingy with things for myself, as well as concerned about the acclimatization period, I didn't. I just usually zoom my computer windows a couple notches instead.

But back when I upgraded Firefox to version 4, the trackpad pinch-out zoom stopped working, and it didn't start when I upgraded again to version 5. Not being able to zoom has been annoying me for months now. Mouse wheel doesn't work either, if I bother to plug in a mouse (and with version 3.6 it used to, before you remind me that Macs don't normally come with scroll-wheel mice).

Today, I finally asked google about it. Lo and behold, the developers at Mozilla, in their great wisdom, intentionally disabled the pinch-zoom. Apparently they were tired of getting bug reports from people who invoked it accidentally, and didn't get enough votes from middle-aged folks with weakening eyes to keep it.

Here's the solution, from this Mozilla forum thread for anyone else who wants it back. You'll also find the bug report linked there.

So combining the steps, the complete solution that worked for me is:

    - Open a new Tab and type in “about:config” (without the quote) in the address bar
    - You will be asked to confirm to continue. Just do it.
    - Search for the term “browser.gesture” (without the quote).
    - Edit the browser.gesture.pinch settings as follows: 

    browser.gesture.pinch.in          Value = cmd_fullZoomReduce
    browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift    Value = cmd_fullZoomReset
    browser.gesture.pinch.latched     Value = false
    browser.gesture.pinch.out         Value = cmd_fullZoomEnlarge
    browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift   Value = cmd_fullZoomReset

A few minutes ago, Rosa was playing an online game at buildabearville.com. She thought it would be easier with a "real" mouse instead of the touchpad, so I told her to take the computer to the table and plug in the wireless mouse.

She got over here, plugged in the computer, and said, "What happened!?!" The screen had gone black and it would not respond to the normal "wake up" method of any-random-keystroke. I told her to power cycle it, and once it restarted after the power cycle, I now have an X instead of a battery indicator.

I googled, and this does not bode well.

Current Mood: worried

I love the power cable connection on this machine. I can't get over how you get the plug somewhere close and it just plugs itself in--and if you trip over the cord, out it pops with no harm to the computer and without dragging my expensive toy off the table.

So I'm sure I would figure this out eventually, but if someone's got a quick answer...

I just bought the shiny new MacBookPro. This morning I walked over to Tammie's PC laptop and set a drive to shared. If it's relevant, and it may well be, the drive in question is on a Netgear Storage Central device, which is visible to the PC and acts like an internal drive when accessed from it.

The shared drive does not show up on my MacBook, neither on the Finder nor on the Desktop. I don't even know where else to look for it. The support document at apple.com says I'll need the PC's name and a user account/password, but I don't know where to enter them.

(Also: GIP. I are fond of the old logo. :-) )

I am typing at you all from my brand new shiny MacBook Pro. !!!!

It needs a name, but that will come.

Current Mood: broke

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