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bnsf971 said:
Most “modern” Macs don’t have a drive for physical media, and this is no exception. It’s a Trash Can Mac. I wonder it I can rig up a USB to simulate a disc drive?
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I recently bought a bootable USB that had various Linux distributions on them and was able to use it to boot and then install on a 2008 MacBook. I think it was the Zorin that I got installed. It’s kind of slow but it’s a core duo from 2008. Not a trash can Mac Pro. My older 2008 Cheese grater MacPro has windows 10 on it as a native install (not bootcamp). Used to talk to DCC modules that have their own apps that are windows only.
 


For what its worth..........my favorite cartoons of old.

Tom Slick in the "Thunderbolt Grease Slapper" racing "Lionel Switchback" in the "Ram Steam Boil Bomber". A race from Muncie to Muncie ???
They had to cross the "Win, Lose or Draw Bridge".

Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Always good stuff. Can't go wrong with with an "ACME" product.

Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose battling Boris J. Badenov and Natasha. Along with Aesop Fables, and Sherman and Mr. Peabody.

Now, those were good days.

On the computer side : You can "test drive" the Zorin 17, Linux program from a thumb drive that you can create. If you like it, keep it. If not, just eject the thumb drive and reformat it and move on. The download process offers you the option of setting up a partition so you can have two operating systems on your computer. I suggest if you are interested in Linux, to watch as many YouTube videos on the subject as possible. There is a lot of good info available. Disclaimer......I am NOT a computer "Whiz Kid" by any stretch of the imagination and you should research any changes to be made to your computer BEFORE you attempt to do so.

Everyone have a great weekend.............John
 
Cartoons. I watched them as a kid growing up but I wouldn’t say I ever had a favorite.

Retirement. Congrats on week 1 Dave. The only thing I suggest to new retirees is to make sure you carve out time for yourself. It can get away from you if you don’t

Violins. Totally agree with you Willie. We r hoping to enjoy tonight

Walking. 45 minutes is an excellent time for 3 miles, thank you. In my 50’s before retirement I was doing 4 miles before work in 48 minutes outside and again after work but on the treadmill. I also got down to 185 from 221#’s in 4 months and held it until retirement at 62. I loved it, ear buds with the play list booming out music to keep me moving by. I find the group (about 7 show up daily on average now after a month) I walk with are good motivators to walk briskly. But no way could I do it twice a day plus I’m not bored, stressed, looking to get away from something or just looking to do something. Lost 6#’s in 4 weeks.

Believe it or not after reading the direct Athearn emails and watching the David Popps interview with Stacy Walthers-Naffah of Walthers I will not be ordering anything new in freight cars and diesels for awhile. 145% tariffs are a touch much right now. Stacy does a great job explaining Walthers position on tariffs and does it without the double talk of a politician. Prairie Shadows said this morning on their Facebook page to order prior to 4/30 so they can ship before the higher tariffs kick in. I will be searching the Facebook sales sites even more thoroughly and maybe even attend a Wisconsin or northern Illinois train show this Summer. I think we will be seeing $70 freight cars in HO scale this Summer. That’s sad
 
Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote...

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Scoobie doo? that is the nick-name they gave me in college. Usually just scoobie. We did not get that channel so I was clueless.

They also called me Gung Ho.

I did like Road Runner, now that you mention it, not sure why

We watched Mr. McGoo quite a bit, I thought it was really stupid but it came in on our TV

I liked Bullwinkle and Popeye. I guess I did have a childhood after all

Willie: I do the birds every day off (will be every day now). I have an APP that keeps track of them, I enter the ones I see/hear for a specified period of time, usually 20 min to an hour. Today I only had 20, which is still a pretty lot.

TomO: Roger that on the time for myself. I am something of a hermit so I am thinking I have to be more deliberate with my socializing, although the wifey usually takes care of that

Len: I hope the health issues to alleviate in that nice Cheyenne Wyoming air.
 
No cartoon favorites here, as we kids weren't allowed to watch too many. First of all, we didn't get our first TV until 1958 or 1959 and when we did, Dad strictly controlled what we watched even when he wasn't there. The TV was never turned on in the daytime unless there was a football game that he wanted to watch on Sunday. Since we all had desks in our rooms, we couldn't come out after school until Mom checked off our homework. The nuns made it easy for her by sending a daily assignment list home for every parent to check. No "lost assignment sheet" excuses because she would just call one of my classmates parents and have them read off the list. Then we generally watched "Slam Bang Theater", a locally produced kids show that had a few cartoons interspersed with some slapstick stuff done by the host and cast. At 5:00 sharp, it went to Walter Cronkite and then the local news afterward. Dad also controlled what we watched until our bedtime of 8:30. We saw what he & Mom wanted to see. I probably saw every episode of Ed Sullivan, Jack Benny and Red Skelton. We kids really didn't know what might have been on on weekend mornings. I only became aware if I spent Friday night at friend's homes! I remember the first time that I saw Twilight Zone when they went out and the babysitter turned it on.
He loosened up a bit in the late 60's, but by then I was in high school and didn't care.
 
So ,.,.. after posting the video from the Canadian gent doing the dystopian zombie layout, and then reading some of my Conrail: Western Division book, I'm looking for pics of my old stomping grounds to model. Of course I have to model Goshen IN on the Toledo branch of the Western Div.

Then my brain flips to Should I do zombie apocalypse scene in Goshen? Serve then right for that 4 years I had to work for the Goshen News.

And then my brain made the connection... what's the most abundant ethnic group in Goshen IN other than White Folks in the 1970s/80s? Yep... Amish...

And then I realized... AMISH ZOMBIES! OH YEAH!
 
Yeah the whole "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" and also "Mr Magoo" were ones we watched regularly as well. Also "Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines"

About the only cartoons we got to watch were Saturday mornings. I think there was an hour or so in the afternoons but we generally weren't allowed that daily (maybe special treat sometimes). Until my dad thought we were watching too much TV. He took a tube out and said the TV was broken and he couldn't fix it. We didn't have a TV for several years and I got out of the habit of watching TV and I never full got back into it. Which I am grateful for.
 
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