Up, Down, Repeat
June 28, 2010 in Blogs
The computer does not do well in the heat, and today has been hot enough that it has crashed multiple times. It even crashed several times during my efforts to defragment the hard drive so as to stabilize it against more crashes, and that was after the office temperature, which had been around ninety-four, had cooled significantly following an abrupt downpour, to ninety-one. It’s still ninety in here, so there are no promises that this is going to make it to the board–or that I am. At one point the computer asked me if I wanted it to load in its last stable configuration, and I said yes, so it booted up DOS 3.0. No, it didn’t, but that gives you my impression of Windows in a nutshell.
I did, however, manage to post the latest Examiner temporal anomalies article, The Lake House part 9: ratcheting, looking briefly at the way in which each passing of letters slightly alters the history between recipient and sender. There were also some comments I addressed yesterday, critical of the replacement theory approach being used, which I have mostly relegated to an answers article yet to be composed.
Speaking of yet to be composed, I have a first full set of notes on The Time Traveler’s Wife, and hope to begin pulling together the series for that this week, although I will probably have to watch it again to find some of those answers I don’t yet know that I don’t know. I’ve also got what I think is a full draft of the next article in the Adapting series, and have completed notes on the one after that so I can start writing it. So I’ve been busy despite the heat and its constant interruptions of my computing and word processing functions.
Let’s see if this will stay stable long enough to post.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on June 28, 2010
If Bill Gates had a nickle for every time Windows crashed….. Wait a minute, he does.
Tadeusz said on June 29, 2010
The Ladyfaire, after I told her of your computer problems, suggested you move the workroom out of the garage (guessing thats where it was), or get a small AC unit.
We have our older computer which struggles with heat issues all the time, but it was really struggling in May before we put in the AC unit (I try to wait until the first week of June to put in the window units.)
M. J. Young said on June 29, 2010
Good gag, John. I laughed.
Sorry, no garage. Office is the corner bedroom, southwest, gets lots of sun. Trying to get central air fixed, don’t have much money and the electric bills really soar when both it and the pool pump is working. Thought of installing air conditioning in the office (we have a unit in the bedroom), but the power demands on that circuit are pretty near maxed out and you can’t run long extension cords for something that draws that much current.
Thanks for the advice, though. Getting an estimate on the central later this week, I hope.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on June 29, 2010
I’m going to have to work on the roof, putting on those plastic rippled sheets, it looks like. We have one leak in the laundry room that my Dad and sometimes I have worked on like three times without success. And we have some other leaks as well. Hundred year old house.
And I don’t want to know what next month’s electric bill is going to look like.
JohnA1nut said on June 29, 2010
I read a comparison from 2001 the movie to 2001 the year. One of them was 2001 the movie, “The rise of the HAL 9000. A vengeful computer system bent on human destruction.” 2001 the year “Microsoft.”
I’d say the prediction was fairly accurate.
Tadeusz said on June 29, 2010
John,
In my Cereal Novel: You Elsewhen you get to ‘meet’ Bill Gates, as he’s the owner of a frozen meal company….I may have chosen or will choose to call the company ‘Microsoft’ as in microwave soft food.