yeah so yesterday morning my hard drive started making this sound that is very similar to the sound a ping-pong ball makes when you hold it about 1cm above a hard surface and then drop it. also the computer wouldn’t boot up and it failed every single hard drive-related test in techtool. this happened conveniently 1.5 weeks after the standard warranty expired, and no of course I did not buy applecare for this machine. so yeah there you go.

yeah. I was going to write a big entry about how I’m here in providence, to supplement this abortive tripe, but I’m not going to. instead I’m going to exhort you, the reader, to please help me out. if you find that you can’t send a new laptop hard drive my way, you can still help my computerless ass right out: if you have ANY correspondence, especially with attachments of any sort, that I’ve sent your way, by all means bung it in my general direction if you have a moment. even better, if you have the backup DVD I made a few months ago (the one I can’t seem to find in all my piles of otherwise useless digital media) then please lemme know. for the love of god. yes. I’ll buy you cookies and/or fine european cheese, I will. or bail you out if you get arrested while protesting the NYC republicanfest. or I’ll invite you to gmail, if that sort of thing is your bag. yes.

anyway ok yeah. there will be more to come, I swear, when I get my technical business unfucked. in the meantime I will be reading some books and maybe drawing in a sketchbook with a pencil. I may also find time to punch some walls and/or other hard surfaces with my fist, out of frustration. who’s to say? yeah. word life son.

-fish

also yeah: I’d appreciate it if you geeks out there would refrain from sending me technical advice. I myself am quite nerdy, and believe you me I tried pretty much everything concievable, and the drive is just fucked. it just is. believe me. I appreciate it much. thanks!

also yeah if you’re feeling extraordinarily helpful, I lost the following digital commodities:

• osx 10.3, aka “panther”
• adobe “CS” suite
• macromedia “MX” “2004” suite
• microsoft office “2004” or whatever the most recent version was, I forget
• fontlab 4.6 (I think), the real non-demo version
• roxio toast 6
• bbedit 7
• max/msp 4.32 or thereabouts w/ the latest jitter and softVNS
• final cut 4.5 “HD”, dvd studio 2
• aftereffects 6
• apple shake
• tons of muzak in mp3/m4a/m4p format

… yeah so yeah, if you have this stuff lying around, you could help me reclaim my digital capabilities in a “fair use” sort of way, cuz of course I had legal licenses for all this stuff, yes. yes!

UPDATE: kind souls have offered panther. I swear: if anyone has a crash like this, you can ask me anytime (except, of course, for right this minute) and I will help you out.

I would still love any of the other shit! I don’thave much to trade w/ anyone right now, at least not much of the digital application variety, but I will gladly share what I do have. yes!

thanks again, youse guys!

-fish

mang—
do you have a mailing address yet? i could send you some music that is super-grand-tastic. and maybe a rough mix of some new scutotechno.
lemme know
scutopus AT hotmail DOT com
whee,
wendell.

I complained once that your site didn’t look so good in Galeon, so I thought I’d let you know it looks great in Lynx. Ha ha! but seriously.
You got my email, yeah?

“i dream of going to space, too — but no one gives ME a fake bag of piss.”
- fish.