I've been using Mac computers ever since issue 3 or 4 of Bound & Gagged (I started the magazine on a Kaypro—has anyone ever heard of those?!!) and have always found them very user friendly and reliable. But I have to admit that my latest laptop, which I recently upgraded to the pretentious sounding Yosemite, has proven to be a real lemon. In the three years I've had it, it's had to go back twice to have the hard drive 
replaced, and right now it's lying in some Apple hospital having its keyboard replaced, one whole row of keys having died on me. In any case, I dug my former laptop out of a dusty drawer, plugged it in and, miracle of miracles, it still seems to be working, even if the battery's stone dead; but I'm told the battery won't explode on me, and I've even found some photos on this one that I don't remember having seen on the other; maybe I never transferred them over.
The first of the batch I offer here (above), 
received years ago from a reader, is the only one I've ever had of someone tied up in the snow. I can't think of anything less appealing. To me even being tied up and unable to cover myself in a chilly room is torture. But as the snow piles up outside (5 inches so far as far as I can tell, from its height on a patio table) I offer it to those of you who get off on such things—I know some people do.
I also offer a bunch of black and white photos sent in for one of our photo contests. In this day of HD clarity, I love their raw, murky, down-and-dirty quality.
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