My Macbook Pro lost its face Sunday. Actually, the screen and video output decided it didn’t want to display anything anymore, just its slate black face. Turns out my particular model was given a GPU/video card susceptible to failure, and this one’s time finally came. Luckily, due to its widespread occurrence, Apple and graphics manufacturer, Nvidia, teamed up to offer a free repair service to replace defective units with a revised chipset that supposedly corrects its predecessor’s shortcomings. After two days of intense troubleshooting and backing up of nearly 200GB of data, I had an appointment with one of the “geniuses” at the local Apple Store in San Francisco to help diagnose the issue, which turned out to fall squarely within the recalled GPU program’s boundaries, making me eligible for a free repair. While I’m without my modern computing luxuries for 3-5 days, at least I can count on other trees in my Macintosh orchard for the interim.
Since the appointment required me to travel over to “the city”, I decided to take advantage of the fact San Francisco has many more and many better food choices than Oakland or Berkeley combined and visit a small Japanese curry shop recommended by a friend. Japanese curry is a different style than what most Americans think of, usually relating to Indian styles…it’s not quite as rich or thick; perfect for my palate. I ordered it extra spicy and they totally delivered; you can probably make out some of the bright orange specks on the dish. I snapped a couple photos and had a lovely time trying to transfer them to my computer from my phone without the built-in bluetooth of my laptop.
Full circle.
