[Totally off-topic] Cool Powerbook thing

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

When you open the sleeping or turned-off Powerbook in a dimly lit room so that the screen is between your eyes and say a table lamp at the back, you see the ghost of the translucent Apple in the dark screen. Oh it is so much fun! I will do it every night.

[Eduardo Rolon]

On a slightly more productive note using Expose with elevations and details windows open is extemely productive (not to mention cool). The maximum amount of windows I had open in AC when I switch Expose was 50 and no lag on my PB.
BTW this was with only 1GB of ram and most of the windows were details...

[Dwight]

And that backwards apple thing is a pain when you give a presentation in the dark. Who wants to be projecting a billboard ad?

Thank goodness that duct tape is titanium colored!

[Eduardo Rolon]

Shouldn't that be "Aluminum"

[Dwight]

Back in the old days - thirty months ago - the alleged color was titanium - slinky grey paint - before they wized-up and went for the anodizing - like, bring it into the new millennium already!

And I had this tape that almost matched.

[Dwight]

but I was playing with a titanium welding coupon the other day and raw titanuium is totally unlike what they call titanium in cupertino.

But that inconel, now there's a nasty material!

[Eduardo Rolon]

To get my post count up...

INCONEL
Definition: a nickel-base alloy with chromium and iron; used in gas-turbine blades

[Dwight]

Keep at it, buster, you have a ways to go before you get into the medal round on this one.

Not only turbine blades, but anywhere in a jet engine where it gets hot. Very suitable for use in Powerbook for just that reason.

Nasty stuff. Tenacious. Put this in a band saw and it tears the teeth off of the blade - it needs what is called a friction blade to cut. You end up with razor sharp icicles along the cut edge. ick.

[Dwight]

other materials to look up:

Featured in "The Aviator" those shiny planes were berillium alloy and Hearst castle uses, for its non-corroding kitchen countertops the proto-stainless steel material "monel," but regrettably, it retains fingerprints. Who cares if you have servants?