Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They

    I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They still cover it. They send it out and back in three days. I have a new case, new battery, new keyboard, new trackpad and new speakers. They already replaced the battery and the screen and the keyboard last spring. So at this point the only meaningful part that isn’t new is the 2TB SSD drive. Yeah, this is laptop new today is ~$4900 plus the $300 warranty. And when I bought this in 2014 it was about $400 less. But it’s been worth every damned penny. I figure that on average I use it 18 hours a day. for three years, that’s somewhere in the vicinity of twenty cents an hour. And it is very hard to imagine that they made a profit on this machine. However, if you look at all the apples I have bought since 2008, it’s four macbook pro 17’s, three Air’s, one mac pro, four iphones, and three ipads, they did just fine.

  • I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They

    I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They still cover it. They send it out and back in three days. I have a new case, new battery, new keyboard, new trackpad and new speakers. They already replaced the battery and the screen and the keyboard last spring. So at this point the only meaningful part that isn’t new is the 2TB SSD drive. Yeah, this is laptop new today is ~$4900 plus the $300 warranty. And when I bought this in 2014 it was about $400 less. But it’s been worth every damned penny. I figure that on average I use it 18 hours a day. for three years, that’s somewhere in the vicinity of twenty cents an hour. And it is very hard to imagine that they made a profit on this machine. However, if you look at all the apples I have bought since 2008, it’s four macbook pro 17’s, three Air’s, one mac pro, four iphones, and three ipads, they did just fine.

  • I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They

    I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They still cover it. They send it out and back in three days. I have a new case, new battery, new keyboard, new trackpad and new speakers. They already replaced the battery and the screen and the keyboard last spring. So at this point the only meaningful part that isn’t new is the 2TB SSD drive. Yeah, this is laptop new today is ~$4900 plus the $300 warranty. And when I bought this in 2014 it was about $400 less. But it’s been worth every damned penny. I figure that on average I use it 18 hours a day. for three years, that’s somewhere in the vicinity of twenty cents an hour. And it is very hard to imagine that they made a profit on this machine. However, if you look at all the apples I have bought since 2008, it’s four macbook pro 17’s, three Air’s, one mac pro, four iphones, and three ipads, they did just fine.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-09 14:35:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-08 20:35:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-08 11:14:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-07 22:50:00 UTC

  • Primary Cities In Ukraine And Driving Times

    Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english. Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country. Family life is good here. Not sure it’s as good for ‘singles’ so to speak. (I prefer lviv – it’s very relaxed. Calm. Old european city. very old fashioned people. And all I need to be happy are tourist areas to write and people watch. I haven’t found that elsewhere in ukraine. Kharkiv. Very cheap. Some tech. Russified. Dnipropetrovsk … Some Tech. Russified. ( well, 10’s grow on trees. Seriously. It’s worth it just for the scenery.) Odessa. Good shopping. Black Sea Climate (Too hot in summer for me). Lots of black market activity (cars etc). Good for music, fashion, partying. Russified. I found apartments overpriced but everything else dirt cheap. And I just loved the entire experience of a civil rather than politcal public discourse.

  • Primary Cities In Ukraine And Driving Times

    Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english. Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country. Family life is good here. Not sure it’s as good for ‘singles’ so to speak. (I prefer lviv – it’s very relaxed. Calm. Old european city. very old fashioned people. And all I need to be happy are tourist areas to write and people watch. I haven’t found that elsewhere in ukraine. Kharkiv. Very cheap. Some tech. Russified. Dnipropetrovsk … Some Tech. Russified. ( well, 10’s grow on trees. Seriously. It’s worth it just for the scenery.) Odessa. Good shopping. Black Sea Climate (Too hot in summer for me). Lots of black market activity (cars etc). Good for music, fashion, partying. Russified. I found apartments overpriced but everything else dirt cheap. And I just loved the entire experience of a civil rather than politcal public discourse.
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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/21319249_10155697328767264_5363381705718797363_o_10155697328767264.jpg PRIMARY CITIES IN UKRAINE AND DRIVING TIMES

    Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english.

    Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country. Family life is good here. Not sure it’s as good for ‘singles’ so to speak. (I prefer lviv – it’s very relaxed. Calm. Old european city. very old fashioned people. And all I need to be happy are tourist areas to write and people watch. I haven’t found that elsewhere in ukraine.

    Kharkiv. Very cheap. Some tech. Russified.

    Dnipropetrovsk … Some Tech. Russified. ( well, 10’s grow on trees. Seriously. It’s worth it just for the scenery.)

    Odessa. Good shopping. Black Sea Climate (Too hot in summer for me). Lots of black market activity (cars etc). Good for music, fashion, partying. Russified.

    I found apartments overpriced but everything else dirt cheap. And I just loved the entire experience of a civil rather than politcal public discourse.Michael ChurchillPointless comment here, but I love the art museum in Odessa. They have a bunch of Ayvazovsky’s. Absolutely fabulous nautical painter. I didn’t put two and two together until later … but I stayed at the Ayvazovsky hotel as well. Apparently he is their local (historical) star.Sep 05, 2017 7:26pmPRIMARY CITIES IN UKRAINE AND DRIVING TIMES

    Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english.

    Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country. Family life is good here. Not sure it’s as good for ‘singles’ so to speak. (I prefer lviv – it’s very relaxed. Calm. Old european city. very old fashioned people. And all I need to be happy are tourist areas to write and people watch. I haven’t found that elsewhere in ukraine.

    Kharkiv. Very cheap. Some tech. Russified.

    Dnipropetrovsk … Some Tech. Russified. ( well, 10’s grow on trees. Seriously. It’s worth it just for the scenery.)

    Odessa. Good shopping. Black Sea Climate (Too hot in summer for me). Lots of black market activity (cars etc). Good for music, fashion, partying. Russified.

    I found apartments overpriced but everything else dirt cheap. And I just loved the entire experience of a civil rather than politcal public discourse.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-05 10:55:00 UTC

  • YES I ADVISE MALE ACTIVIST RELOCATION TO UKRAINE, POLAND, AND RUSSIA

    YES I ADVISE MALE ACTIVIST RELOCATION TO UKRAINE, POLAND, AND RUSSIA