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Augh! The Snoopy Place, at Plaza Singapura, is closed. There's no explanation given at the restaurant site, just that management suspended operations. No idea what's to be done with the place.
I hope they'll find new management or sell it, and re-open, since I liked the place, and planned to read Li'l Beginnings there. Plus, while the store lacked books and video/DVDs, they had neat other trinkets -- coin banks, comic strip wrapping paper, notebooks -- and I wanted more of that ``Collective Item For Peanuts 50th Anniversary'' video CD run of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. Also while I got ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
rcoony the Peanuts Beatles music CD -- grownups and synthesizers weakly pretending to be kids and children's instruments (like kazoos) playing classics like ``Blackbird'' -- I don't have a copy for myself, nor did I have the other music CDs built on that premise.
Rats.
Also when I got home I knocked over my Imperialism II CD-ROM, breaking the jewel case. I can't play the game -- it's not Carbon-safe and crashes at the end of each turn -- but I wanted it anyway in case I ever got up a Mac I could dedicate to OS 9.0.4 (the last version which ran it). Bleah.
Trivia: The Jade Box was the first movie serial Charles Schulz ever saw. Source: You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown!, Charles M. Schulz.
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one of the WORST things
Date: 2004-09-04 03:11 pm (UTC)It's happened ALL too often to me, that I am VERY wary of system upgrades. To the point where if I wanna get into a new system, I just wait till I get a new machine (I'm talkin' used, usually).
At least jewel cases are replaceable :>
*hugs the clay and fur*
Re: one of the WORST things
Date: 2004-09-04 10:58 pm (UTC)Fortunately when other people upgraded to OS 9.1 I got the warning Imperialism II didn't work on it, so I held out on my old machine (a PowerBase 180 desktop -- or, desk, really) and kept to that. But I did eventually need to get to OS X -- if nothing else because its Unixy goodness makes real mathematics work that much easier -- and its Classic version of OS 9 never ran below 9.1.
I'm velly impressed!
Date: 2004-09-06 06:11 pm (UTC)I still keep 9.1 on this'n... though I run the 9.2 on the powerbook jussa cuz it came with it, and I use 10.2 on there a lot also... *wags tail and chyrps atcha*
Re: I'm velly impressed!
Date: 2004-09-07 03:22 am (UTC)Aw ... there's no end of stuff I love in OS X -- and with g77, LaTeX, and TinyFugue running perfectly on it it's even practical -- but there are times I just long for the good old days. I never did figure out what the heck was going on in ``Reach For The Stars,'' the game.
x!
Date: 2004-09-11 02:08 am (UTC)I do work with it more and more, and just like every OS promise, it comes up short on being perfect, but it does have a lot to reel about, yup!
I need to get more comfy and knowledgeable of its backbone, where things are, how to control it... since it's more like having a WINDOWS REGISTRY than having clear elements here and there that can simply be trashed if they break.
Admittedly learning the Mac took me through a few manuals on it back to back, and I'm still just part way through a few on X.
The latest thing I'm exploring is indeed the uninstall process. Is it always an AppleScript? That sounds pretty simple if so, and if the uninstallers are complete (heaven knows they are FAR from being complete in Windows). And although the script I used did indeed uninstall the item, it also removed its functionality in Classic... *bleah* ...Luckily reinstalling the Classic elements did fix that. :> Oh... and also the Mail program seems a bit coddlingly annoying... (why won't it let you show Trash and Junk folders in teh drawer....?? and why does it gray out the options to allow new folders to be used for trash etc..??)
Anyways... when I worked for Apple a couple months ago, I did get to appreciate the ease of use and saw some amazing developer things... besides, being in my business I've gotta stay up with it :9
It's gittin' better and more liekeable alla time.. and Tiger is coming right up!
...or is that Longhorn......? ;>
*fuzzles yer fur*
Re: x!
Date: 2004-09-11 05:45 am (UTC)You know, I don't know -- I don't think I've ever tried uninstalling anything more sensitive than games I moved to an external hard drive. But I don't really do all that much more sophisticated than playing around with the preference panes so I have up and down arrows at both the top and bottom of the scroll bar. My knowledge has an amazing mix of depth and superficiality.
I didn't know you were ever at Apple; what do they do with puffins at Infinite Loop?
the more arrows the better :9
Date: 2004-09-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(j/k ... *wink* p.s. I wuz just up there helping 'em run a convention for a couple weeks, yupyup!) ...*wingfuzzles your ears..* :9
Re: the more arrows the better :9
Date: 2004-09-12 03:45 am (UTC)Ooh, all right, then. I for one can't wait for when Sherlock starts fluffywiggling while it works ... Thanks!
r o t f luffle!
Date: 2004-09-12 07:18 am (UTC)Re: r o t f luffle!
Date: 2004-09-12 08:41 pm (UTC)I don't remember the kittycat helper. I remember xneko for X11 systems, though, which was very cute for a half-hour or so.
the mewey ones
Date: 2004-09-14 12:19 am (UTC)I did find a papier maché cat in one version though. :>
Re: the mewey ones
Date: 2004-09-14 03:06 am (UTC)Yeah? Thank you ... you're a good little puffyeagle.
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:08 pm (UTC)Have you come across Twink's music (http://twink.net/)? (Note that's .net, not .com :)
I liked the way that Peanuts did manage some degree of aging of the characters, so Rerun wasn't always a complete newcomer to the world. When they finally pull the curtains on the Simpsons (which I still maintain now pales against Futurama), I'd enjoy seeing some "canon" looks at their future.. those episodes have always had a certain appeal for me, such as seeing Lisa's "first love", which also showed Bart in his dream job in demolition. ^_^ By the same token, I'd enjoy a look at, say, the ASB crew post-University, the Wildlifers heading into it (or, for that matter, any more WL stories.. *sigh*), and a follow-up for Azumanga Daioh, perhaps leading into another summer vacation special.
Is the CD itself still fine? If it's not burdened by copy "protection", you might want to roll off a backup at some point.
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Date: 2004-09-04 11:08 pm (UTC)Mmm ... I'll have to look into Bunny, then. I never got into naming my computer. Even when I put in a huge hard drive with partitions, I partitioned it as Command Module/Service Module/Lunar Module/etc.
I'd never seen Twink's music, though it does certainly look cute. Somewhere in storage I've got a lovely old electronic organ that makes ... really odd-sounding music, but is perfectly usable for a very late 50s/early 60s sort of fun.
Peanuts was really remarkable in how it was never as predictable as critics or satirizers made it out to be. I've recently -- after a long pause -- been rereading the mid-80s strips, generally taken to be the worst of the bunch, and there's still roughly the same proportion of laugh-out-loud strips you got in the 1960s, generally taken to be the artistic peak of the strip. And in the 90s it got ... stranger, but more wondrous, partly from bringing Rerun out of obscurity and onto the center stage and partly from the wonderful (and, ironically, unintended) loosening of the line art (that beautiful shaking line style).
The Imperialism II CD looks fine, and I've got a couple Disk Copy copies of it. I should burn an actual CD-ROM copy, though. The handful of people who bought Imperialism II tend to be fiercely protective of their copies. (The game's kind of halfway between Civilization II and Europa Universalis in style and tone, if that makes sense.)
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Date: 2004-09-04 06:20 pm (UTC)I bet the Peanuts place is going to be re-opened as a Garfield-themed Lasagna joint.
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Date: 2004-09-04 11:11 pm (UTC)I hadn't thought to try a partitioned 9.0.4 boot. I'll have to check whether the iBook supports that, and then see if I have the system discs with me. (I'm a packrat, but most of my pack is across the planet right now.) I've been thinking of trying out one of those Old Mac emulators, but I've never gotten an emulator except Frodo 64 to run.
I just hope the Snoopy Place reopens as something good soon. Failing that I'll just go to the Popeye's.