There were some other heat related problems with Mac laptops around that time, as well.
Not that I'm trying to slam Apple. They were actually really good about replacing a board in a 13" PowerPC Macbook Pro I'd purchased with their extended warranty plan some years later after I'd handed the machine down to my room mate. She'd started having problems with the screen going off and took it in to the local Apple store. They checked their computer and said the machine had the extended warranty plan (I'd forgotten I'd even purchased with it) and did the repair for free. We were both ready to write the machine off but she got another couple of years of use out of it. I'm still using a 17" Macbook pro from 2006 on a regular basis, too. it still works great for what it needs to do and nothing I could upgrade it to really seems as nice as that machine is.
Well it was a bad year for wingsuiting for me. My springtime allergies were so bad I got a quarter of the skydives in that I wanted to this year, and I only got around to one other dropzone. It was a nice dropzone, though. And I did a good number of hot air balloon jumps.
So I'm redoing my resolution to get better at flying my wingsuit in 2015. I want to get to the point where I'd be comfortable moving to a suit with more wing surface. I'll want to do that if I'm ever going to do a base jump like the one in that video. I don't expect I'll be at the point where I'd be comfortable doing a base jump this year, but I want to position myself so I can travel to Hawaii and spend a week flying over the island in a wingsuit in 2016. You can fly them out of a skydiving plane just fine. I have about 10 jumps on mine so far.
Race doesn't figure into it. The kids who had to go through the two southern schools that I attended were victims. We were all victims. I know there are plenty of good schools in the south. My sister got married and settled down in Alabama and made damn sure her kids went to good schools there. Just not the ones I went to. I've been successful in life not because of my time there, but in spite of it.
As for Michael Brown, I saw the story and thought to myself, "There can be no rest, as long as a mother must fear for her child's life every time he leaves the house." More recently I also thought, "There can be no rest as long as a wife must fear for her husband's life every time he puts on his uniform to go out on patrol." I used to think that humanity could outgrow these problems, but my increasingly-cynical view is that the only way humanity's suffering will end is when humanity ends. I still hope humanity proves me wrong. I assume this is because I was also brought up on Disney, and Disney princesses always get their Prince Charming. The rest of us probably aren't getting diddly.
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