Schwie’s Pad

My lovely bride gets all the credit for this hint… My painfully swollen knee badly needed elevation after my ACL reconstruction revision that was performed two days ago by the wildly famous Dr. Dreamy (aka Dr. Chris Meyer) (and no, I didn’t pick out his nickname). I think Tina noticed that I was struggling to keep a pillow beneath my knee as I laid in bed, but it just wasn’t working as my knee/leg continuously rolled off. She warmly made a recommendation to shove the Snoogle underneath my knee for a little cuddly elevation. Sure enough, she was right! The Snoogle keeps my knee in place without causing any pain.

For anyone that is going to go through an ACL surgery, get a Snoogle! You’ll be glad you did.

I installed the former Wavelan Silver PC Card guts in my friend’s mom’s iMac G3 last Thursday evening. The card isn’t fully seated, but it appears to be functioning correctly! For people concerned about getting the card fully seated, it would be best to clip off one of the plastic AirPort card holder’s that is attached to the board (its whitish-transparent plastic that is only useful if you want to give the true AirPort card more support). Still, without clipping this plastic support, the card seats 90% of the way.

AirPort Card for $30. Done.

If I ever stop back over there, I’ll snap some pictures and post back.

A friend of mine wanted to install an AirPort Card in his mother’s old iMac G3 so she could get wireless internet access. We checked on eBay and the going rate for an AirPort card was well over $130. Online stores weren’t any better with one place listing a card at $180! Great Zeus! This made me pretty mad knowing that an elderly lady couldn’t get wifi on her Mac for less than a hundred dollars. So, when I got home, I vented my anger by tearing apart a Lucent Wavelan Silver PC Card. After the guts of it were exposed, I tossed it into my iMac G4, rebooted, and BAM! The iMac acknowledged it as a native Apple AirPort Card. I haven’t installed it in her iMac G3 yet, but I’m very confident it will work. The great thing about this is, these cards can be had for less than $25 with shipping via eBay, so this solution even trumps the silly Sony Vaio PCWA-150S as the cheapest AirPort alternative I can find.