Chalerm went to his village yesterday. I hear he is back in Bangkok but I am in the Internet cafe now and haven’t spoke to him yet. I tried to call him while he was up there but the mobile phones are not reliable in the village.
Now the mother of the ladyboy-in-training is saying over the loudspeaker that minors must leave the Internet cafe as the police will come and check after 10pm. Some teenagers are getting up from their seats and going out.
My uber-Mac is back. It took only a week to repair it, which is amazing speed for Bangkok. They gave it a new monitor. Or I hope it is new, it had some scratches on the surface. But the scratches don’t show when I turn it on so I haven’t complained. I get paranoid in Thailand, wondering if the repair guys are cheating by reusing parts while charging for new ones. It would be just like them. But in this case Apple is paying.
Steve Jobs came by dressed in jeans and a turtleneck sweater. Jobs shook my hand and apologised for the faulty iMac. He gave me a joystick as compensation for my troubles, a Logitech 3. That’s what he should have done. In reality I bought the joystick myself for 1,390 baht. I want to use it flying airplanes in the flight simulator.
I was flying in the Austrian Alps when Chalerm came in with another Thai boy. Chalerm was embarrassed that I played games like a child. I said this was a game for grown-ups.
Chalerm tried it briefly and crashed his private jet.
- Where can fight? asked Chalerm.
- There is no fighting, only flying, I said.
- Boring, said Chalerm.
Speaking of crashing, I tried to install Windows on the Mac. The purpose of this ill-conceived idea was to try Micro$oft Flight Sim, which is only for Windows. Till now I have used X-plane, which is for Mac.
Surprise! The XP installation messed up my system, made the computer crash and left it for dead. I had to use a First Aid disk to recover it. This wasted two hours of my life. I wiped XP from the hard drive and promised not to do it again. I didn’t try to install Vista. I am not completely mad.
Tags: gay Thailand, Mac repair
May 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Try FlightGear. Runs on OS-X, much easier than X-plane. Thai boys. Sigh.
May 11th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I don’t use a MAC (yet!) but I am told but a knowledgable person that this process works:
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/HOWTO
May 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
And there is this as well, which sounds interesting. With this process you do not have to reboot to select XP or Mac OS. XP runs in a virtual machine; again I have no experience with this.
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_my_mac_with_parallels_desktop_1.html
May 12th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Ah, I used to use X Plane, it’s a pretty good simulator. The more recent versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator are getting insanely complicated though, which I guess is good for some of us, who are trying to compare it to the real thing.
(It’s probably not worth a new PC though!)
May 12th, 2008 at 2:50 am
I am running WinXP on my MacBook, using VMWare Fusion. It’s a virtual machine and works like a charm. No need to reboot or whatsoever, both are running in parallel.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I’ll stick to my B35, V-Tail Bonanza N5849K. It’s an S model (for speed!) with panel mounted Garmin 430 and a 496. Three blade prop, chrome spinner.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Will have to agree with Chalerm, SF. You sure have an uber machine there, but without games which involve fighting, sorcery, duels and stuff it’s a tad boring indeed. Lovely post though.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
As long as you guys don’t lay your hands on any real plane controls while in air or on ground…hahahaha
May 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Flying is my pasion. Been flying for over 17 years and have over 1200 hours with my hands on the controls.