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What do you wear to Seven Magic Mountains?
Seven Magic Mountains is an art installation located in the Nevada desert, and the weather can be quite hot and dry. Therefore, it is recommended to wear comfortable and breathable clothing, such as shorts, t-shirts, and sandals or sneakers. You may also want to bring a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen to protect yourself from the sun. It's also a good idea to bring a bottle of water to stay hydrated. While there is no strict dress code, it's important to dress appropriately for the weather and…
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Evelyn, you're kind. Some days I can barely open a can. But then I'm left-handed - thank gawd for the Black & Decker automated can opener!
I just downloaded the Firefox and discovered I already had an older version of it on my MacBook Pro! A friend's husband who is a professional lobster fisherman accuses me of using the computer as a glorified typewriter. That works for me. Another friend who gave up being a writer to become a doctor once told me his new computer could do everything but make coffee and he wasn't so sure it couldn't do that.
I am looking at buying a smaller MacBook Pro for travel. I looked at the Mac Air but my Mac dealer shook his head at it. I have considered the iPAD, but a webmaster I know in the UK isn't that keen on it. Pretty, but not a lot of function was his verdict, but I wasn't sure if he was speaking for his work or mine.
When I travel I really do like to simply sit in a cafe for an hour each day and scribble notes in my moleskin. I seem to make different observations with pen and paper than fingers on keys. And with paper I worry less that someone will steal it or that it will get damaged or trying to not fry it on a strange electrical system. See, l-u-d-d-i-t-e.
Allan -- The words Luddite and Mac are an oxymoron. If you are a Mac user, you are not a Luddite. Does not compute (pun intended).
I use both Safari and Firefox on my Macs (plural -- iMac for office, MacBook for travel). Firefox is much better for bookmarking and remembering log-in info. You'll love it. I use Safari less and less these days (please don't tell them).
Ed -- Didn't know about the Screengrabber add-on. Brilliant! Sounds easier than Mac's own built-in system.
Hi,
Luddite here - which means I'm a life-long Mac owner. Where does one find firefox?
Boy, are you ever right, Buzzy. I always recommend that people download Firefox as a (free) browser, if only to get the add-on called Screengrabber. That way you can save all your online clips as jpgs.
FYI, I've tried doing this with other add-ons and with Safari as my browser, but I've not been as satisfied with any other way to do this. Please chime in if you've had better luck than me with non-Screengrabber screengrabbers.
I just discovered that a number of my bylined clips have been lost forever, due either to a publication going out of business (Executive Traveler), or worse -- a particularly vindictive act on the part of Questex. In 2008, I wrote a number of articles for Travel Agent Magazine and Luxury Travel Advisor; when I recently went to search for them in the magazines’ archives, my name never turned up in the results.
I subsequently performed individual searches for the articles, and those did turn up (actually, one still has not) – but my byline had been systematically eliminated, one by one: the pieces were/are now attributed to an anonymous contributor.
Fortunately, in a few instances, the articles had been republished on other websites before the nefarious minds at Questex got around to sanitizing my byline.
My advice to everyone is to store the online version (as soon is it appears) in a protected virtual environment, to ensure its continued integrity. If applicable, secure a hard copy, scan it and lock it away on a personal hard drive.