Noting Instability
October 11, 2010 in Blogs
Yesterday was ten ten ten, if anyone cares who did not notice it. I noticed it, but didn’t particularly care. I’m good at spotting patterns, so they’re all to common to my mind.
I’ve been delayed today by the instability of my computer. The room temperature has been flirting with eighty most of the day, and things got so bad I had to dig out the emergency repair disk and do a restore point just to get the user accounts back onto the system. I’ve had it crash several times per e-mail response, and am at this point simply hoping that between the slightly cooler room temperature, ice packs, and fan, I’ll be able to get through the rest of the night without losing the computer yet again.
Today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article also deals with stability–temporal stability, whether the history of the world in the movie can stabilize given certain suggestions it makes about its reality. Yeah, that’s a pretty vague statement, so I guess I’ll just point you to The Time Traveler’s Wife part 19: a question of stability and let you figure out what I mean from reading it. To turn a phrase, Able was I ere I saw Alba. She just might have made a mess of the whole story.
I could go on about other problems, but there’s not much point to that, so let me instead go deal with them.
–M. J. Young