Muddling about...
Jun. 14th, 2017 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI received and returned an urgent translation this morning, all in good order.
Yesterday, by happenstance, I ran across a French web site that addresses the "planchage" of certain early French stamps. From the description, the word means the same as the English term "plating," which describes the study of the position of stamps exhibiting specific image features (perhaps an overly large beard on Napoleon III, or a half-moon shaped irregularity at a certain place in the background) on the plate used to print them.
Out of curiosity, I determined just what kind of MacBook Air Natalie had given to me (a model A1370, from late 2010) and took to searching eBay for a power supply ($13.50 vs. $79 from the Apple Store) and a replacement LCD screen ($58 or so vs. "about $300 to $400" from the folks at "FЯIENDLY COMPUTERS" [sic]). Now, repairing looks preferable to buying a refurbished model—assuming that was ever really in the cards, considering that all I really want to do is take a Mac for an extended "test drive" to see what (if anything) I've been missing out on all these years.
Cheers...
Yesterday, by happenstance, I ran across a French web site that addresses the "planchage" of certain early French stamps. From the description, the word means the same as the English term "plating," which describes the study of the position of stamps exhibiting specific image features (perhaps an overly large beard on Napoleon III, or a half-moon shaped irregularity at a certain place in the background) on the plate used to print them.
Out of curiosity, I determined just what kind of MacBook Air Natalie had given to me (a model A1370, from late 2010) and took to searching eBay for a power supply ($13.50 vs. $79 from the Apple Store) and a replacement LCD screen ($58 or so vs. "about $300 to $400" from the folks at "FЯIENDLY COMPUTERS" [sic]). Now, repairing looks preferable to buying a refurbished model—assuming that was ever really in the cards, considering that all I really want to do is take a Mac for an extended "test drive" to see what (if anything) I've been missing out on all these years.
Cheers...
