Hard Drive Relationships

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While working on my godson’s laptop, backing up his data (just in time, his hard drive clicked loudly a few times then died) I noticed that the cradles on my external hard drive dock are labeled “mother disc” and “son disc”.
Why not match the genders and label them “father disc” and “son disc” or “mother disc” and “daughter disc”? Or just “parent disc” and “child disc”?
Still, I guess it’s more PC than the hard drive terms I grew up with – “master” and “slave”.

Meat

One of my favorite short short stories. Meat. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html If you search youtube, you’ll find at least two film adaptations too, though they all seem to make the same mistake of using human “meat” actors for the aliens. I would like to see what an animator could do with the story.

The Great Hard Drive Consolidation of 2012

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The Great Hard Drive Consolidation of 2012

The Great Hard Drive Consolidation of 2012 begins: sorting through sixteen hard drives to back up their contents to a single network drive and a backup drive. It’s going to take a while. Some of the drives have dead power supplies, some have faulty enclosures, some are bound to have errors. I recently bought an All In One docking adapter do I could finally start this often-postponed job. If you’re one of the several people waiting for me to copy data from an old job for you, I’m working on it!