Update 5 pm. This tower is running smoothly, and the Powerbook has a new lease on life. To my peeps who have Pismos (*cough* Rob and Dave *cough*), you gotta upgrade. It’s like having a whole new Powerbook.

Update 3:34 pm. Looks like (knock, knock) everything went smoothly and well. All my stuff is where it should be; I enabled journaling on my existing partition seamlessly, chose the “Archive and Install” option, and crossed my fingers as it started. 30 minutes later, I’m checking email, loading the updates, and it looks almost exactly the same.

One drawback about Panther is that it looks like ATM under Classic, the benchmark font utility, does not pass open font info along to Panther, so I have to use the OSX version of Suitcase. Sigh.

I’m offline for a few hours while I upgrade the Pismo to OSX 10.3. Wish me luck.

Great News. Looks like Hellboy is getting good reviews around the net this morning, which makes me very happy. I think the books are some of the most expressive, beautiful comics I’ve ever seen, and the stories only make them better. I think Jen and I may go see it this weekend (she doesn’t know that yet.)

Not So Great News. Unfortunately, we may have to walk: the transmission in the Taurus was giving me fits this morning. I merged on to the Beltway, and while I couldn’t hear anything over the sound of the rain, traffic, and radio, my Spidey-sense noticed that the engine was rumbling in a different way—I was still in first gear doing 55mph. I pulled over, shut it down, and re-started the engine, and that seemed to help, but the wonderful clunk of shifting into gear is getting more and more noticable each day.

There’s a great quote on the second track of Psyence Fiction by UNKLE: the beat slows, and you hear someone say “There were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.” I found out last night reading an article on Lawrence Fishburne in last week’s New Yorker that the speaker was Francis Ford Coppola, describing US involvement in Vietnam. Pardon me for stating the obvious, but….

So, in case the wedding invitations were still a little oblique for some of you, here’s some more information about the bug on the cover.