The Watercooled PowerMac G5 Rebuilding Conundrum

󰃭 2026-04-05 (updated: 2026-04-20 )

This “Quad Core” PowerMac G5 rebuild has had a rough start, partially due to its age (2008) and the rest due to a moving company’s negligence during interstate transit.

Rebuilding the water cooling system, fine… replacing the entire aluminum chassis due to load-torque and drop damage… not so simple.

It was mostly perfect before moving back to the land of “everything is pointlessly overpriced and overtaxed and overpopulated”… sadness.

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󰃭 2025-06-05 (updated: 2026-01-07 ) |  #Emotive #Logistics #Musings #Photography

At airport gate, waiting. Originally, a dawn departure. The story is generally uninteresting, but that’s okay because we’re leaving on a re-booked flight a few hours later — sleeping in would have been nice. Instead of rest, Robin is finding coffees somewhere on the concourse. Goodbye Chicago.

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