middle age(s)
  • place: en route Kemnat - Esslingen - Hamburg - Kiel, Germany

24::November::2007 10:39 → permalink

A jaunt in chilly weather down the hill to Esslingen, a self-proclaimed Middle Ages town, turns out to be quite nice, with a bracing hike to the Dicke Turm. A third round of Elizabeth’s Thanksgiving fare is called for! Jeff drops me at the airport in the early evening for the flight back north to Hamburg.

Car-plane-bus-taxi to a very empty Düppelstraße 15. I race around the house getting ready for the de Hoeksteen broadcast which ends up going so late that I finally sign off before my interview. Maybe the year-end broadcast in December will be better anyway. The half-dead PowerBook is really causing me some stress especially in situations like this — with the backLight on the LCD broken, I can only use the machine with an external monitor hooked up to it. I begin to survey what’s available on ebay. To replace the exact machine will be at least USD 600, but I will get a later model, as the 1.25 Ghz model seems to have a collective history of glitches (bad latch, this is the second LCD for the machine, and not to forget the dastardly motherboard breakdown in 2005. Better to get a 1.67 Ghz model which will run a bit more expensive — the prices are averaging around USD 800 for those. On the selling side, to have one of these models retain such a high resale value when three or four years old shows at least the perceived quality which they have over a comparable PC model. But technological instability just dogs my steps these days. iPod toasted, laptop fried, miniDV cam trashed. A consumptive electronics low point.

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