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How splendid! Where was this?

What is your Star Trek project that only you would love?

A one hour "bottle episode" about the retro-inspired Starfleet designers of the TOS Enterprise, coming up with the refit designs, and the various bemused and dubious reactions of the officers and crew boarding it in spacedock.

Hmm.

The Time Machine Backup just crapped out again. I'm going to see if I can use Migration Assistant to try pull the individual categories one by one instead of doing the whole thing in one go

Oh, it's out of warranty. Down to me!

I will. But it wasn't looking good last night.

Thanks!

At this point, I'm just as adept as those guys, so there's not much point. I'm the guy most friends come to when their machines go down.

Whether the machine finishes rebooting okay or not in about an hour, I'm going to open up the back and clean up the ribbon connector for the keyboard.

Yeah, it's not the expanding battery. I've replaced logic boards myself a few times. I'm adept at it, but it's the better part of day to strip a machine down and rebuild it from scratch. (I reapplied thermal paste on two processors last year, which I'd never done before.)

That's my worry. I ran Disk Utility and it came back with some worrying lines in the results, which prompted me to do the reinstall. I think I've got an OS failure, which has translated to the backup, PLUS I'm concerned I might have a hardware failure in the MacBook chassis.

After that, I reinstalled again. Right now, I'm waiting to see if the Time Machine backup itself is corrupted. I swapped out the hard drive last Feb, so in the worse case scenario I have everything back to then still on the old hard drive. But I'll have lost a script rewrite of my own.

I started having issues with the ASDF keys, which we're non responsive. I went through all the PRAM, NVRAM resets, Diskutil fixes vis terminal. Took the keys physically apart and cleaned the board. So, did a full system reinstall...that was fine. And then the Time Machine backup caught in loop.

Anyone ever had a Mac Time Machine backup go belly up before? I switched to Time Machine after Carbon Copy Cloner hiccups, and it's never failed on me before. Just had to do a reinstall, and my Mac was in a feedback loop after reinstalling from Time Machine. Worried I'll have lost months of work...

I always used to joke that if it all hit the fan, a Spetsnaz team would evacuate him via submarine on the Potomac.

I've had a number of LA producer videocalls in the past weeks, and when it comes to the subject of shooting next year, my response is "If you get past the midterms and martial law's not instituted..."

I'm not even kidding about this.

48 hours later, my Mac woes have not improved

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When I was living in Sweden, I read Simmons' book "The Terror", and hated it so much I walked 20 minutes to a lake and threw it into the waters.

People pay me not to.

See? We Cro Magnons had no chance...

They're more into clubs.

Back in the 90s, I used to log onto all of the movie sites that had new film trailers every single morning to see what was new. Now, a film can come out, and I'm not even aware of its existence.

There Can Be Only One.

Doing a major reinstall on my Mac today, so normal Friday service...isn't.

I have a sanitized account there. And...an anonymous non sanitized account.

Vive La Resistance!

I keep forgetting to cross post over there. I mean...residuals are residuals...

You should look at it from us Cro Magnon Men's perspectives, baby!

I don't want that to happen, either.

Paramount and Warners need to be separate entities.

I'm not convinced this is over.

If it is...congratulations, Ellison. You've just inherited the Zaslav mantle of incompetence and Industry-wide hatred.

There's a reason Christopher Nolan jumped-ship from Warners to Universal.