Cool it!

[captainsblog]

I go on the premise that this is not a spoiler at this late date, but.... scroll down if you must;)

Episodes 8 and 9 of The Newsroom, the only two-parter of the season, are main-titled "Blackout." And,... there is one. Dramatically timed, and following a celestial plea by Emily Mortimer's character which virtually begged for the smiting of the electronics at that key moment.

That I knew before just now. Just now, after loading the second part, moving the finale into the on-deck circle (plus the usual reviews of emails, budgets and whatnots), I watched as Mac began explaining to the assembled-in-the-dark newsroom staff how this divine miracle had come about....

and at that very second, my laptop powered off on its own, as it does roughly once or twice a month when I'm running too much high-powery stuff and, especially, with my desk all cluttered and impeding the fan function.

Obviously, there's someone out there bigger than Will McAvoy.

So I'm letting the beast cool off and am going to clean the damn desk off. After posting this from the tablet, of course.

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Facebook tip of the day:

If someone who's not your friend sends you a message, chances are good it will get relegated to a secondary-level message folder that does not put a numeric sign up that you received one, and may not even display anything at all unless you click on "messages" on the left side of your screen. That will reveal an "other" tab that may include useless stuff, but in one experience today also wound up as the receptacle for a fairly important reply to something from several weeks back.

I'd check my own "other" folder, but the tablet browser can't access Facebook at the moment.  I totally blame the stupidity of Anthony Weiner for this.

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Comments

LOOOVE the Icon

[cinematixyz.livejournal.com]

One of the MANY reasons I refuse to have a FB.

Zu

Re: LOOOVE the Icon

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

It's been nice as a means to catch up with longlost friends from 20-plus years ago, but not without peripheral annoyances. So far it's at least kept me from the final plunge into 140-character Twitland.

Re: LOOOVE the Icon

[cinematixyz.livejournal.com]

I also refuse to 'twat' ;) Just Gplus and here for me. As you know, I have three LJs. This that I am one of four of, my private one (going on ten years!!) and my 'autobiographical' one that helped me sort out the past without boring other people. LOL. But I won't keep my thoughts down to 140 characters and I refuse to FB. It offends my delicate sensibilities... LOL

Z

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

It's actually somebody who isn't at least "a friend of a friend". But I've missed important messages myself before I learned about the existence of the Other folder.