genius bar | v2.0

i finally found, ordered and installed a new hard drive for my powerbook. in fact, for a quarter of the price that apple wanted to charge, i found a drive with more storage and faster speeds. it arrived on friday and after work i installed it and began the rebuilding process friday evening. i felt like i was rebuilding a post-war country after a long drawn-out unwelcome and unpopular war.

well it being easter, things are supposed to rise, to be reborn, an ascend to a higher plane? anyhow, i was trying to figure out how to reload all of my music from my ipod back onto the computer. i couldn't figure it out, and in the process, isync erased my contacts from the ipod, dammit! so, another appointment at the genius bar it had to be. i figured everything, no matter how bad the first date was, is worth a second chance.

this genius [with terrible snaggle-teeth! sure he might be smart, but he also looks like he could slash your throat and eat you raw without using his hands or even so much as a "hello."]. the genius cannibal told me that ipods are a one-direction device, meaning it is designed to have files transferred to, but not to transfer files from. i wanted to slash his throat on the spot. another product that apple is great at raping you for hundreds of dollars then doesn't support afterwards. just like a trick that won't kiss you after he fucks you. okay, maybe i am being a little dramatic about it. no. no i'm not, it is how it feels.

through the power of prayer, i magicked myself to a site for a download called senuti [get it? 'itunes' spelled backwards. now, that's genius!] that lets you copy backward: from your ipod to your computer. so now, on easter sunday, after restoring almost all of my deleted files [except for all of the pictures and porn that are gone] i am a new man and my the good [power]book is risen from the dead and reborn. and with ten more gigs than before death.

my message this time though, is not one of peace. it is to preach the virtues of third-party software that loosens the control that the evil empire exerts over the faithful. my other message to those of you out there reading this: please, if i've ever emailed any pictures to you from anything, please email me a copy back. you won't hear me preaching that it's better to give than to receive, but i will shout out that it is right to share. pretty please?!

in the background::to be reborn:boy george