So, I get my MacBook back from Memphis, where apparently they replaced "APP-603-8071 ASSY, HEATSINK, M42".

Run upstairs with it, pull it out of the box, say sweet, happy things to it to welcome it home, plug it in, turn it on... It WORKS!!! Do little happy wiggle dance of operable MacBook joy. Start checking email.

Little icon starts jumping up and down in the dock. What's that? Oh, you want a security upgrade? OK, I guess that'll be fine.

August 6, 2006
Debating the Course of Chile's Rivers
By LARRY ROHTER

COYHAIQUE, Chile -- With Chile trying to manage both Latin America's most dynamic economy and a looming energy squeeze, the government has embraced a plan to build a series of dams here in the rugged, pristine heart of Patagonia that would flood thousands of acres.

Upstairs, but able to hear the TV playing downstairs.

Commercials.

The song playing is "All you need is love." You know -- by the hippie "Imagine" guy.

Selling a credit card. With "rewards."











Either this is a proud capitalist moment or a shadow has dimmed my faith in the integrity of mankind.

You can't brush your hair with a toothbrush! You'll get germs in your hair from your teeth.

[Note: Sorry about the multiple posting -- /. threw me a 500 error and the next thing I knew there were 3 copies of this thing posted.]

August 4, 2006
The Latino South
In Georgia, Immigrants Unsettle Old Sense of Place
By RACHEL L. SWARNS

So I'm shipping off my SECOND MacBook today for repairs. It's having the same issues that the first one did -- shutting down intermittently, for absolutely no apparent reason. And this one hasn't even been dropped once!*

August 2, 2006
A New Tasting Menu in the Baby Section
By DANA BOWEN

WHEN Akiyo Mitchell, a jewelry designer, traveled from New York to Las Vegas on business in June, she had asparagus risotto and homemade chicken soup FedExed to her hotel.

Note: Original article has good illustrative images and links to commercials.

August 1, 2006
Advertising
An Image Popular in Films Raises Some Eyebrows in Ads
By JEREMY W. PETERS

At 200 pounds plus -- most of that pure attitude -- she is hard to miss.

July 30, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing
By DAN SAVAGE

Seattle

Since I last did a movie review JE, I actually got *so* desperate from the throttling that I visited my local video store. It helps that it's just 3 stores down from my coffee shop, and sometimes when I'm hanging out there on a Saturday, I will cross paths with Nicky the Video Store Guy.

New Mac ad. Just watch.

Aw, fuck it.

I had been working on another Movie Review JE. I've been watching a bunch of shit lately -- a lot of it really good. Yes, really good shit. Sounds like an oxymoron, but... well, maybe when it comes to me and the movies I like, it is.

Couldn't get into the Movie JE thing, though.

July 14, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Too Good for Marriage
By KENJI YOSHINO

New Haven

July 13, 2006
The Taming of the Slur
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM

WHISPERS follow her like so many eyes. She is the one who will go home with you, the sure bet, the kind of girl you can lie down with and then walk all over. She is ogled, envied and often ostracized. She is the slut.

July 12, 2006
U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?
By ERIC LIPTON

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified "Beach at End of a Street."