Second full day in Toronto, and I've been to Coffee Zone on Carlton St. twice now (hence my two checkins on 43 Places), since there isn't a Wireless Toronto hotspot nearby. I have a hotspot account with Telus, but the two Starbucks I went to didn't have power outlets in convenient spots. For lunch I grabbed a free slice of pizza at Pizza Pizza (since at the Blue Jays game the home team pitching squad got more than 7 strike-outs total), then went to the Apple store and got quoted more than double for replacing the casing on my chipped powerbook than an online retailer. I picked up Cory Doctorow's latest book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which I may not get started reading until the plane trip back. Still sunburnt, arms redder than they've ever been. The cream I bought for it should have come with a pamphlet entitled "So You Decided to Not Wear Sunscreen", since it stings like crazy.
PowerBook
Many people who come across me working (or goofing off) at my PowerBook will notice the black spots where my wrists wrest while typing. The joke at the office was that it was because of my Icelandic acidic skin, which explains Ben's comment in the Flickr photo (taken with Roland's camera) to the right. In my research as to why this might be—though really, I don't care, I just want it fixed—I came across a blog post with several comments of people with the same problem, and at the bottom, a link to a poorly formatted website with photos of other people with the problem. Further research finds a rather well-done explanation of how to replace a PowerBook's upper case (my trackpad sometimes double-clicks instead of single-clicks, a problem that I think is independent of the chipping). There are no such instructions at Apple's installable parts website. I'm seriously considering buying the upper case iFixit sells and then figuring out whom I can convince to install it for me.