My laptop had a sadface hard disk epic fail last week. Most of what I need is on my external hard drive, so all’s not lost – but it’s a bit frustrating all the same.
Right now I’m trying to make a mix CD. It’s struck me that it would be FAR FAR easier for me to make a mix TAPE – using the aux cable into my stereo for stuff that’s on the computer, whether it’s streamed audio or on iTunes, and recording from CD to tape for the stuff that I have on easy-to-hand CD. Rather than worrying about importing tracks from CDs I can’t find the whole time I could just record off muxtapes and Last.fms and all the rest.
Unfortunately the intended recipient doesn’t own a cassette player, else that’s what I’d be doing. Perhaps I’ll do it for myself anyway though. For when the revolution comes and technology eats us all up, and all that’s left of your portable media devices is the indestructible Walkman you’ve had since you were 7 and a half and somehow – despite dropping it in puddles and bashing it around your bag for years – somehow, still works.
August 17, 2008 at 11:31 pm
If you find yourself on a roll I would absolutely treasure a second Goss Mix CD xxx
August 18, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Ah, but all grey dead laptop clouds have a shiny silver macbook pro lining
Hope you manage to get everything off it. I know many key combinations for trying to bring it back from the dead one last time.