Consummated

GG1 #4896, on my rationalized ‘pyooter desktop. (Screenshot of ancient photo by the so-called “old guy” with the Pentax SpotMatic camera.)

Yesterday afternoon (Saturday, July 11, 2009) the great rationalization of my ‘pyooter desktop was finally consummated.
My desktop-picture (“wallpaper,” for youz Windoze people — I drive a MAC) is the Pennsylvania Railroad’s GG1 (“Gee-Gee-one”) #4896 (pictured).
Anyone who reads this blog knows I think the Pennsylvania Railroad’s GG1 electric locomotive is the greatest railroad-locomotive of all time.
I saw #4896 many times, even got shown through it once at midnight at Washington Union Terminal in 1966.
But I only got this one picture.
So I made it my desktop-picture. 4896 is long gone; scrapped. The last GGls ran in the early ‘80s. 4896 was built in 1940 at Altoona, PA.
But my ‘pyooter desktop was obliterating it with 89 bazilyun items and folders, mainly images (photographs).
Images take up a lot of hard-drive space, although with a 60-gig hard-drive I guess I needn’t worry about it.
60 gigabytes was HUGE when I got it about seven years ago. Now they’re twice that; which is big enough to swallow the entirity of human knowledge.
So I was trashing stuff.
Well, ho-hum! As I understand it, trash occupies hard-drive space too until emptied. It was getting bigger-and-bigger.
And I had images in my desktop folders years old.
A slew of ‘57 Chevy photographs, and photos of rusting classic-cars my all-knowing blowhard brother-in-Boston never identified.
So I picked through my trash, saving what few images I thought I might need (no Dr. Ruth), and trashed major portions of my desktop folders.
Finally, the great moment: “empty trash?”
Cruncha! OS-X does a crunching sound of breaking glass.

• RE: “‘Old guy’ with the SpotMatic.......” —My macho, blowhard brother-from-Boston, who is 13 years younger than me, calls me “the old guy” as a put-down (I also am the oldest). The “SpotMatic” is my old Pentax SpotMatic single-lens-reflex 35mm film camera I used about 40 years, since replaced by a Nikon D100 digital camera.
• “‘Pyooter” is computer.
• “Windoze®” is Microsoft Windows. The scuttlebutt among Apple-geeks is that Microsoft is inferior. My siblings all use Microsoft Windows computers, but since I use an Apple Macintosh (“MAC”), I’m stupid and of-the-Devil.
• “My all-knowing blowhard brother-in-Boston,” the macho ad-hominem king, noisily badmouths everything I do or say.
• “Dr. Ruth” is Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a supposed sexual therapist for the elderly. —I did a blog on her a few months ago.
• “OS-X” (OS-10; also OSX) is the current operating system for Apple computers.