The IFIXIT battery kit for my Google Pixel 4a is here. It includes a tube filled with something to heat in the microwave, to soften the glue that’s holding the OLED screen. I also have another, crafty, microwave oven option for warming up the glue. It was a gift from a friend years ago, during a bout of lower back pain.
I won’t rush into this job. Before tackling it, I’ll watch all of the available videos on the repair, to see the various techniques people have used, successfully… or not.
As Ben Grimm would say, whatta revoltin’ development this is! Back on New Year’s Day, none of the Jeopardy! contestants knew the solution to this clue.
Here’s something to brighten your day, one week into what promises to be another dark year under DJT’s heel.
A few posts ago, Petula Clark explained a personal crisis she experienced in 1969. Performing a bilingual show in Montreal she tried, and failed, to please both the French and English speakers in the audience.
Reduced to tears, on a whim Petula visited with John and Yoko at their infamous Montreal bed-in. She explained the cause of her distress and John’s advice was, “fuck ’em!”
The split between French and English language music in Quebec in mid-1969 can be heard in the two most recent ’88 Rewound’ programs on WMBR, the MIT radio station.
French Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59020
English Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59104
Spectacular Spider-Man #1 from 1968 is my only black & white e-book comic. Making it the only one suitable for viewing on my Kindle e-reader.
Maureen Starkey is missing from this Sixties portrait of ladies who had Beatles, Stones, and Donovan personal relationships.
