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I just sent an editorial query pointing out that a "900-pound dinosaur" was not actually large by the standards of well-known dinosaurs (though there were some fine small ones, even in the old days [1]). I think the writer was thinking of "900-pound gorilla" for large and does-what-it-wants crossed with dinosaur to signify old-fashioned relic. I doubt anything will be changed here.
Other than that, I've been wrestling with fax stuff (at their end this time, I think), waiting for the mail (a package to be redelivered—I was going to go out and grab some cold cuts, but saw the letter carrier's stuff in the lobby, without him, so came back upstairs). If he doesn't ring soon I'm going downstairs again.
In between, I tried installing einstein@home, which runs on the Boinc distributed computing platform, and discovered that it froze my machine badly enough that I had to throw the power switch (in the power strip), in order to reboot in safe mode and remove the software. So now my answering machine is blinking "CL" alternating with the "2" for how many saved messages.
Fortunately, before all that I had a nice time in the park, talking with two neighbors and their lazy old dog.
[1] The only surviving dinosaurians, class Aves, don't get that big.
Other than that, I've been wrestling with fax stuff (at their end this time, I think), waiting for the mail (a package to be redelivered—I was going to go out and grab some cold cuts, but saw the letter carrier's stuff in the lobby, without him, so came back upstairs). If he doesn't ring soon I'm going downstairs again.
In between, I tried installing einstein@home, which runs on the Boinc distributed computing platform, and discovered that it froze my machine badly enough that I had to throw the power switch (in the power strip), in order to reboot in safe mode and remove the software. So now my answering machine is blinking "CL" alternating with the "2" for how many saved messages.
Fortunately, before all that I had a nice time in the park, talking with two neighbors and their lazy old dog.
[1] The only surviving dinosaurians, class Aves, don't get that big.