mayaland

novel writing, micro-farming, unschooling, alternative building…it's all in a day's play

a visit to the temple of apple

Posted on June 8, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | Leave a Comment

So, the apple people told me I had to take the time capsule into the local apple store to get it diagnosed.  It’s like it has some rare condition that requires advanced specialists.  All right, all right, I said, and lined up child care.  Because there is NO WAY I’m going to the uber-mall with [...]

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the tumble that follows geek hubris

Posted on June 3, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | Comments Off

Listen to how optimistic and happy this post is that I tossed off this morning:
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I completely fraked my blog last night trying to upgrade wordpress, which I was doing in an effort to get my new apple time capsule to work.  It wasn’t letting me upload photos to my blog, which was pretty much a deal breaker, [...]

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unwrapping my new macbook

Posted on May 26, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | Leave a Comment

Time for a little geek fetish moment.

Ooooo…ahhhhh….

Even the styro-foam is cute.

Wait for it…wait for it…

Ta da!

And, though I already posted this one, just for completeness:

Here I am trying to figure out what password my brother-in-law put in for me…. (Sophie took this one.)

Okay, go get a glass of water and lie down. You [...]

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i have the most amazing family

Posted on May 24, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | 1 Comment

I went to a family birthday party today, a lovely time in my aunt’s rose garden, eating fabulous, homemade food and hanging out under the sun watching the kids catch frogs. But at some point my mother, sister and brother-in-law started kind-of…giggling.
“Come on, Maya, we want to show you something (hee hee hee!).”
“What?” say [...]

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