As you know, I accidentally trashed some important files yesterday.
I tried to retrieve them by running Data Rescue, a data recovery program they sold me at Apple. They said it was the best, and it could find things you deleted months ago.
What they neglected to mention was that it can’t find anything you deleted today.
The shit that Data Rescue vomited up onto my hard drive was bizarre. Bits and pieces of the weirdest, most obscure data floated up like a virtual garbage disposal.
Yes, everything I threw away, except anything of value.
Picking through the tomato skins and coffee grinds, I came across several short clips from a movie John and I made on my laptop, just a few days after we got back from our Christmas trip.
I have a terrible cold, and the quality of the clip is pretty grainy. But I was determined to get some value out of the shit I retrieved yesterday, so you’re going to watch it, and we’re going to call it a post.
Enjoy!
61 responses so far ↓
1 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Over here at the grown-up’s table, we use PCs. And we never have these kinds of problems. Nothing is ever really deleted, and all it takes to restore a lost file is a bit of DOS dickery. It’s quite pleasant, really. Oh well, have fun at the Apple store!
The Mac– It’s Like Shaving With A Bowling Pin.™
2 coasterboy // Mar 26, 2008 at 4:21 pm
What planet do you live on?
3 PPasquale // Mar 26, 2008 at 4:22 pm
April, where the fuck is your email address is all this? Hope you seet this post. Like a dumb-ass I deleted some great shit a couple of years ago, then I found out that data recovery can cost a fortune. Finally I found a little shop in Tustin (now in Garbage Grove) that got my files back for about $100. If you have anything really valuable, call me (any of your peeps can call me also) and I’ll hook you up Peter
4 April // Mar 26, 2008 at 4:26 pm
It’s on the right side, over there. It says “EMAIL APRIL.”
5 Doug // Mar 26, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Fifth!
6 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 5:34 pm
1 TB of back-up! Get it on baby!
7 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 5:41 pm
1 TB of back-up! Fix!
8 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Oh hell…..
9 jim // Mar 26, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I suspect John’s secretly using beef tallow as a facial cleanser when you’re not looking.
Mr. hat … uh, couldn’t you just type or cut-&-paste the address?
As for Macs versus PCs? Like impaling versus being eaten by army ants. Each has its own malevolant quirkiness … Macs bag out less often, but seem to make up for it by spawning far more heinous results. Smart PC users back their crap up on disc regularly, so it’s a simple reload when their beast keels over … I’ve been hearing more & more horror stories about Macs - a trend that’s totally unfair given the “eat shit & die” pricetag & alleged “Quality” cachet of the brand. They should either be COMPLETELY GUARANTEED 100% CRASHPROOF or come with a Grade-A hummer, for the sick prices I’ve seen for new models.
10 Prof. Oddfellow // Mar 26, 2008 at 6:42 pm
April, your hilarious pod-luck archives have created so many endorphins in my body that my biological age probably went down a notch or two. However, the newly deepened laugh lines on my face have countered the effect. Perhaps you could advertise wrinkle cream on your site. Anyway, “Wheel of Questions” and “Literature Today” were especially outstanding, though all were hilarious to the point of hyperventilation. Auntie Vera is wickedly funny, and you two make a wonderful comedy team. (Sorry that this comment was off-topic.)
11 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Macs raise my ire because of the types of people who seem to make up the user base: Trendy douches who want a purdy white glowing space capsule on their desk, and lazy bastards who want an “easy computer”.
Paying an insane markup so you can have a desk-mounted status symbol? Accepting closed hardware in return for an OS that plays on EASY MODO? Apple stores, with their peppy, good-looking, and youthful staff? Feh, I say! FEH!
12 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 6:53 pm
In conclusion, I believe that Richard Stallman could totally kick Steve Jobs’ ass in a fight.
And that is why this was the best summer ever.
13 unfallable // Mar 26, 2008 at 6:55 pm
That’s either the most obscene example of zoo porn or a dog sorely in need of more salt it it’s diet.
Best backup solutions: NAS - Network Attached Storage. A hard drive mounted in a box that works as a server that can be probrammed to run regular backup routines.
Windows Home Server. I know, it’s Windows. But in networking, differing operating systems and file systems are transparent. So this Windows box would do probably the best job of backing up any systems in your home the network. It would also offer a Windows box capable of running Windows apps - should that ever be desired.
Nor Bill Gates
14 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:05 pm
April haaaaaates Windows. I heard her say it with my own two ears. She would never allow an evil Gates Box to handle her precious bytes.
I still don’t understand how a smart girl like her never got into Linux… ’tis the only worthy OS, or so they say.
Come on, April. Get with the program. Linus Torvalds died for your sins, and he cries every time he hears that Mac startup sound.
15 pal Jacky // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:25 pm
none of this matters. What we need is a light and lively discussion on why homosexual men never wear underpants.
16 April // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:30 pm
You start.
17 adorisday // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Actually I heard Richard and Balmer (Micro$oft CEOs) were complaining that Vista made their 3000 dollar laptops into expensive “email machines.” Vista if you must have it, runs better on Intel Macs than any other machine. And it sucks compared to the virus free miracle of OSX because Vista is, at its core, based upon Micro$oft’s rip off of Apple’s 1981 operating system!
I’m still an old school Macfan, souped up Cubes and minis and 12 in powerbook with 23″ Apple display here — not that interested in Apple Intel yet. PPC Macs — especially last revisions — are my hobby. Anyway, no one at Windoze ever got knighted for his designs as did Apple’s Jonathan Ives. Heck, the G4 Mac Cube is in the MMuseum of Art. Ives is one of my heroes.
April has good taste. $ for $, Macs pay off. I have friends running 1998 G3 iMacs today. Linux? Maybe for the “100 dollar laptop” in third world countries.
That dog in the video is very very cute, btw. Maybe that was worth the data recovery price.
18 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I just grated dark chocolate and then milk chocolate with a cheese grater into a bowl and ate it with a spoon
mmmmmmm
19 adorisday // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I just shoved a wad of CVS nicorette rip off gum into my mouth for the seventh time today. uuuuuugggh.
Those American Spirits are a bitch to get off of. The doggie licking JF’s face is still very very cute, though.
20 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 7:56 pm
It was Belgian chocolate, which is good. Belgium also makes Brussels Sprouts, which I do not eat much.
Interesting Belgium facts: No one actually speaks Belgiumese, they speak Walloon and Phlegmish
Famous Belgiums incluyde Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dr. Evil, and the model Veronique De Kock
21 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:03 pm
>>$ My dad was born on Easter Sunday 1927 (April 17th)
His 11th, 22nd, and 33rd birthday fell on Easter , but this will not happen again until his 95th…
JohnnyBoy, I tip my hat for your dad, lets make every day his birthday now…
Jim, thanks, I need to do that type better… .html is just unforgiving, here is the link:
http://www.macconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detail.htm?sku=7396714
Speedy Cerviche, Macs do run a *nix kernel!
22 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Yes, yes, I know… my dislike is directed more towards the inflexibility of Mac hardware. I love the act of stitching together a Frankenstein computer from bits and pieces. I am a firm believer that “souping up” a computer should involve more than checking an extra box on the order form and paying an extra thou.
Oh well. The internet is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS, amirite?
23 pal Jacky // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:17 pm
i think it is so they can recognize each other in public toilets. Like my find friend mikey says ‘what happens in the men’s room of ‘borders’, stays in the men’s room of ‘borders’.
24 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Thanks paper-hat !
25 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:18 pm
You have offended my strong Christian faith.
26 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Do they really not wear underware?
seems like some serious potential for chafing
I prefer my loins girded
27 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Who has, Speedy Ceviche?
28 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:26 pm
pal Jacky and his whole evil agenda.
Just you wait. If we let them go undie-less, pretty soon they’ll be influencing our children’s garment habits.
And before you know it, the entire underoo business is in the crapper. You’ll see. Have forgotten the whole Enron thing that those homos pulled a few years ago?
29 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:27 pm
have *we* forgotten
30 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Yes, if Underoos go, then by extension, Garanimals are next, which would squash my whole Garanimals for Adults concept so I’d know what tie to wear with what shirt instead of having to buy them together in the package.
Wasn’t Enron the Scientologists? or was that Elron? I get confused
31 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:36 pm
No, the Scientologists did WTC.
32 JohnnyBoy // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
That makes sense…when I hear them talk, i always think WTF
33 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
>>$ ….amirite?
You are, and that hardware is a mean bitch, but it makes the big bucks for the suits and the grand corporate facade!
I ran SERIOUSFUCKINGBUSINESS with wordplay resulting in 1,345.981 anagrams the file size was ONLY 49981K…..
34 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
But were you aware that the Internet was, in fact, serious fucking business? I mean, before I told you?
Because it is.
35 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Yes it is and it’s gonna go all wireless soon….
36 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
1,345,981 with No.1 as ICEBURG IF KISS ONUS SUN US…. and No. 1,345,981 as BUSS SCOUR NESS USE IF KING I…
37 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Anagrams, man.
Now theres some serious business.
38 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I have but one thing to say: “Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend”.
Talk about your serious anagram business.
39 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
In 1998 sex suits were available that could connect on line so lovers could have a gong on line, parts of the outfit could stimulate the virtual bodily desires… serious fucking business alright…
But Jack was beyond all help…
40 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Oh snap, I have to go watch American Idol. I hear tonight’s theme is “Songs Being Sung By People Without Any Talent Whatsoever”.
Shit’s gonna be SO cash.
byebye
41 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
2,047,980 A CAD I’D FREER THE JERK PERT THING PHIL!
42 paper-hat // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm
bye
43 unfallable // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Actually Apple copied Xerox’s graphical operating system and mouse. But IBM (which led to the PC and Windows) is the source of the keyboard we all (Mac users included) use today. So which could you do without: (a) the mouse - designed to meet the needs of a child’s instinct to grasp and squeeze; or (b) the keyboard - designed to meet the needs of mature computer users. Be honest now.
44 Speedy Cerviche // Mar 26, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Oh lawd, iz dat sum more serious business?
45 gary // Mar 26, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Substitute cats for dogs and that’s basically the wife and I ….and me….whatever.
46 coasterboy // Mar 27, 2008 at 12:10 am
I, for one, am a Homosexual who always wears underwear.
In fact, I’m wearing it right now.
47 PPasquale // Mar 27, 2008 at 12:31 am
Oh, duh, the email address is the postage stamp at right. Sorry
48 bnaivar // Mar 27, 2008 at 5:21 am
and the next time you’re sitting there watching the dogs lick their own asses, remember this video.
49 JohnnyBoy // Mar 27, 2008 at 9:31 am
This type of germ exposure is good, toughens up the nipples, so to speak
50 jim // Mar 27, 2008 at 11:26 am
Yes. The internets are indeed SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS … you can never truly delete anything you just posted on them with complete assurance that somebody hasn’t already screengrabbed it. The Web never forgets.
You Have Been Warned.
Ugh, it just occurred to me … dog-breath … poor John.
I’ve been on my Acer (PC) for about 5 years now, & it only crashes when I do something stupider than usual to it. Seems to average out to 2 or 3 times a year, but I hope to dummy up, one day. Ha. Run Spybot Search&Destroy along with Avast - never had a virus or malware crisis the entire time. Linux, I hear, is a bitch to set up or run unless you’re an uber-nerd … not for me.
Hmm, I’m a lifelong flaming hetero, & I used to go commando quite regularly. It’s sweet relief on those hot summer days. Would that theory not imply that all animals are gay?
51 JohnnyBoy // Mar 27, 2008 at 12:18 pm
If I were to ask the dogs if they were gay, they’d eagerly agree. But they’ve also agreed that they were involved in the JFK assassination, so it’d prove nothing.
The cats…..ain’t sayin’ nothing
52 pal Jacky // Mar 27, 2008 at 1:11 pm
perhaps coasterboy is just on a recruiting binge. I bet he’s coming back from jamba juice.
53 eBayEnigma // Mar 27, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I have a love/hate relationship with my computer. I hate it because I’m addicted to it and I love it because I’m addicted to it. I don’t know anything about computers, I just use it to sell on eBay. I figure while I have it here in my house it should pay for itself — or at least for the broadband connection. I go in the same chat room every day and talk to the same jaded people…I really should get a REAL job, but this is way too much fun. My next goal is to replace my 17 year old car that just got totaled in an accident. (GEICO only gave me $800 for it.) Does anyone know someone that has a car for sale???
54 Mean John Dean // Mar 28, 2008 at 6:01 am
Straight or gay, as you get older you not only always wear underwear, you should carry an extra pair.
Loved the licking thing and the dogs are cute but it would have been a hotter video if they had been bystanders. Well, it would!
Mean John Dean
Occasionally sick and twisted
55 uneverything // Mar 29, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Rex okay, but that brick with the red hair in the photo is why I never watch the Miami version of CSI.
56 Brandex // Mar 31, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Some eighteenth-century guy (probably Pope) said that if you wanted to be polite at the dining table you never brought up the subjects of religion and politics. I think we should also include Macs vs. PC discussions, as they never lead anywhere.
Anyway, Kitchen Nightmares on the BBC is a really good show. You get to see some really weird characters, like the old guy who has an obsession with collecting all kinds of plates and the ex boxer and his wife who get into screaming fights all the time. The American version can be entertaining at times, but the editing is really annoying and there are far too many bad Italian stereotypes featured.
57 JohnnyBoy // Mar 31, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Which episode, Peter’s? I just passed by that place !
How is it a stereotype when people are like actually that?
(we’re half-italian so we should know)
58 Brandex // Mar 31, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Not just Peters’s. Sebastian’s and The Mixing Bow also featured screaming Italian people.
59 Brandex // Mar 31, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Oops, The Mixing Bowl
60 John Foley // Apr 2, 2008 at 7:56 am
To be fair to Mac, she doesn’t have bad dog breath.
61 JohnnyBoy // Apr 2, 2008 at 8:46 am
Well, yes, we DO do that ! We’re loud and obnoxious !
and proud of it !
We were actually considering going into Peter’s to eat.
didn’t, though
I got a little freaked out by the conditions…My father-in-law ran a restaurant for years, and I never had issues with how the kitchen was kept
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