\t\t\t\ti am my hero right now.
\nthe desktop computer has been borked for a few days turning into weeks,
\nand i’ve been unable to find a way out of the problem. BSOD on startup,
\nSafe Mode does not work, nothing fucking works. i booted to MEMTEST and
\nfound no errors after 3 passes. i didn’t think it was a hardware problem
\nto begine with, but you gotta do these things. finally i read up on
\nanother product, whcih i can’t think of the name of now, and after much
\nreading and planning i decided it was the best approach to salvaging the
\ndata, and eventually wiping the drive and starting the fuck over, or else
\njust throwing the whole goddam piece of shit into the trash can. it is the
\nworst computer i ever had, and i blame it mostly on Vista, though the
\nhardware had its issues too.<\/p>\n
at any rate, nothing quite compares to a screen filled with all the stuff
\non your file system that you thought sure was wiped out… now that i know
\nhow to do this i might try and salvage an old external drive that has been
\nsitting in a closet for a couple of years. i don’t know for sure what’s on
\nit but it might be the hours and hours of audio recordings i made of my
\ncassette tapes. those vanished after the server blowout of last year, and
\nthat mystified me, since i can’t possibly have put my only copies of those
\nfiles on the web server. so maybe the other copies were on this external
\ndrive. i’ll find out, maybe.<\/p>\n
it’s a grand and glorious feeling to have salvaged all this, but the joy
\nis offset by the time wasted getting to this point.<\/p>\n
i had most everything i needed backed up to the RAID, and again backed up
\nto the cloud. but not everything made it, since i disabled all those
\nservices the last few days thinking it might help debug the problems. i
\nwas most in need of restoring a particular Word document and a batch of
\nWAV files that my gf and i made last week. the wav files for some reason
\ngot written to the internal C drive, and the big Word document did too,
\nthough that’s expected. but the backup and cloud storage were both turned
\noff, so those last few days of changes could have been lost, and that
\nwould have been very depressing, because it was good stuff, i thought. it
\nwas worth the effort to salvage all the stuff for the sake of that one
\nfile, and that small batch of WAV files. i could have made a few hundred
\nbucks off this maneuver if someone hired me to do it for their computer.<\/p>\n
…..<\/p>\n
today i picked up a book at the Amazon Locker on West 57th Street. it was
\nkind of hilarious, in a way. i doubt i will ever use that service again,
\nbut it was kind of neat to order a book and pick it up in the basement of
\na midtown grocery store. you order something and they deliver it to
\na locker, and then they mail you a secret code that opens the locker,
\nrevealing your purchase. i bought a book, but in deciding what to get i
\nfound that the service has a lot of obvious limitations. everything i
\ntried to order at first was unavailable for locker delivery, and with no
\nspecific explanation per item. i guess they were all too big, but i saw
\nthe lockers and the larger ones looked plenty big enough to fit inside the
\nlarger units. maybe those units were already in use. i don’t know, but i
\ncan’t see using this strange-to-me service too often. maybe if i was
\nhomeless i’d find it more useful, but even then, well, that’s why i have a
\nPO box, as a fallback for homelessness and a lack of address. yeah. and if
\ni was homeless i don’t know that i’d be making too many orders off
\namazon.com anyway. they don’t even take paypal…<\/p>\n
…..<\/p>\n
i walked to midtown and back. this weather was too perfect for to sit
\ninside and work, so i just got out there and walked the walk, like old
\ntimes, the weather was such crap this summer that i made way fewer of
\nthese rambles than usual. now i am tired, but it is a good and righteous
\ntired. i slept well last night, for the first time in a long while. i
\nwoke up at 7 and couldn’t believe the redwood between my legs. i haven’t
\nhad that in a while. well, not since the night before, but before that it
\nhad been quite a while since that signal of good health rose up. i
\nmanaged to adjust my schedule rather abruptly, from sleeping past noon to
\nbeing up before 10. yesterday i was up before 9, wtf is that? what do
\npeople do with all this time in their days?<\/p>\n
i noticed that the AM radio programming sounds a lot zestier at that hour.
\nthat’s the drivetime audience, which is their bread and butter, and the
\ntone of the programming is different. more professional and polished
\nsounding than the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n
i read once that daylight savings time is known to influence virtually no
\nknown industry or livelihood any more (not even the farmers) but that one
\nsegment of commerce which depends on the sun coming up at an early hour is
\nthe terrestrial radio circuit. their signal depends on atmospheric
\nconditions, especially sunrise and sunset, and when DST causes 8am to be
\nthe new sunrise then they lose a big chunk of their advertising revenue,
\nsince they can’t go on the air until after the drivetime is over.<\/p>\n
or so it was assplained to me. i may have missed some nuances to the
\ndiscussion…<\/p>\n
then i heard that fishers who depend on the tides and on getting their
\nstuff to market by a certain time are also influenced by DST.<\/p>\n
…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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