In real life, there are no miracle rocks
Funny how the idea of what makes for interesting content in a sporting match depends on your emotional attachment to a team. Here we are, on the eve of yet another Superbowl, but in our house the important stuff is going on “in the house”. That’s right, we’ve curling junkies, at least until the end of the Scotties.
Right now, the final matchup is known. PEI (the Erin Carmody rink) will return for another go at upsetting the current Team Canada (the Jennifer Jones rink). Tonight, despite the bias of the TSN announcers (Ontario had two fans, for sure), the semi-final between PEI and Ontario came down to the final stone: a miracle throw for three would have tied things, but miracles are mythical. Good strategic curling, all evening long. In fact, the whole week has been great from the viewpoint of my couch.
Ever since the Mac world adopted Intel as the processor of choice, the distance between a Mac and a PC has been narrowing. Imagine a hypothetical situation wherein a netbook becomes a triple-boot machine (Windows 7, Linux Mint and OS X). I mean, it can’t be done within the context of available licenses, but let’s stay with hypothetical. If someone could find a properly configured ISO image, and then get an external DVD reader going, say with an old USB external box, then you’d be within testing distance.
Then, if you managed to free up some hard drive space, allowing another partition to be brought into play, and you could figure out how to beat Grub2 into submission, the idea goes from hypothetical to probable. Just assuming, because nobody would ever try such a combination, in a real world.
