Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless iMac
A New Chapter Begins For Old Tech
In early November, fearing my aging-but-trusty iMac was on the verge of crashing, I upgraded to a small-but-mighty Mac mini.
“Jr.” became my new go-to for all my projects and “Mac” was repurposed as a media and streaming computer. All was well in the world…until yesterday.
While moving “Mac” to a new location, I discovered the iMac had suffered a near-total operating system failure—the digital equivalent of a mental breakdown.
I wasn’t exactly surprised, but I was more than a little sad.
Yes, it’s just a computer. But for nearly a decade, “Mac” was my handy-dandy helper—always there, always ready, willing, and able to do whatever needed doing at a moment’s notice. Way more than I can count on or expect of anyone or anything else.
In many ways, “Mac” knew me better than anything or anyone else. And now, it not only didn’t know me—it didn’t even know itself fully.
I tried diagnosing and repairing it using Apple’s various apps and utilities, but haf a feeling the only real solution wiping the hard drive and reinstalling the operating system. A full and total reset.
Long story short, on what would have been Steve Jobs’ 70th birthday, I now have a “new” 2015 iMac, freshly restored and ready for its next chapter as a digital assistant, file manager, and photo-scanning workhorse.
In some ways, I wish I could reinstall my own mental operating system—erase at least some of the hard times and start over fresh, without all the extra baggage.
But then again, I wouldn’t trade my journey for anything…especially now.
Despite some technical difficulties, life is good. And getting even better by the day.
Wishing you a good day and week ahead…
Clint 🌈✌️
ON THIS DAY = FEBRUARY 24
BIRTHDAYS
1553 = Cherubino Alberti = Italian engraver and painter
1896 = Richard Thorpe = American filmmaker
1921 = Abe Vigoda = American actor
1922 = Steven Hill = American actor
1930 = Barbara Lawrence = American model and actor
1932 = Michel Legrand = French pianist, composer, and conductor
1938 = James Farentino = American actor
1938 = Phil Knight = American Nike, Inc. co-founder and philanthropist
1939 = Doric Wilson = American playwright, director, producer, and activist 🌈
1940 = Pete Duel = American actor
1945 = Barry Bostwick = American actor and singer
1947 = Edward James Olmos = American actor and director
1947 = Rupert Holmes = English-American singer-songwriter and playwright
1955 = Steve Jobs = American Apple Computer and Pixar co-founder 🍎
1956 = Paula Zahn = American journalist and producer
1958 = Mark Moses = American actor
1965 = Kristin Davis = American actor and producer
1966 = Billy Zane = American actor and producer
1970 = Jonathan Ward = American actor
1984 = Wilson Bethel = American actor
1989 = Daniel Kaluuya = English actor
1989 = Trace Cyrus = American singer-songwriter
EVENTS
1607 = L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
1711 = George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage, premieres.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY
“When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.”
Steve Jobs
“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.”
Steve Jobs
“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”
Steve Jobs
NEW + FEATURED
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Featured = Window Shopping #1 (NSFW)
Substack = NSFW + Pioneers + Pride + SFW
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My MacBook Air is probably my most prized possession.
Glad you got it going again! I have been working with macs for a really, really long time, and I love using the Mac Pro I now have (and an iMac). When I was teaching, I had to use a Microsoft computer that was supported by technical support that was only two doors away from my office, and I was always relieved when I was in the classroom and could use my Mac pro for lectures :-).