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hackintoshy

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.12.21

I've taken the plunge - I'll be installing the OSX license from my now-defunct Mini onto some generic PC gear. I got the list of components from a long-running website, and the parts from a local computer chain store. In other nerd news, I managed to get my old Japanese "tenkeyless" Filco keyboard working again. It's been kicking around for about five years, since I returned from a vacation to find that something had happened while I was away and that it was no longer working. Now I've got true clicky keys under my fingers again. All this time, it just needed the power cord re-seated on the circuit board!

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner