“When she wore it at dinner that night, he discovered that the fragrance truly did not differ from that of Jill herself; in some unclear fashion it simply made Jill smell more deliciously like Jill than ever.” “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Robert A. Heinlein After 5 years, I finally bought a new MacBook (Pro). My old one lost function after function. It started with WiFi and Bluetooth, then the remote, and culminated with occasional hick-ups that required a restart. Unfortunately, the new MacBooks don’t come with a notebook lock anymore. Well, not natively, manufacturers like MacLocks allow you add a lock. I’m still thinking about it — it seems a bit like the old joke about ‘the lighter the bicycle, the heavier the lock you need”. Well, to make my notebook at least a bit recognizable, I decided to buy a nice notebook skin. My last MacBook Pro had three stickers on it and I like the idea of personalized belongings. At the very least, you can recognize your property if someone is running away with it. (Now if I only had a remote and could somehow re-task all that electricity in the battery …). So I thought [...]
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