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Paddington in the Criterion Closet

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1807

Joystick killer.

I will never write a review on there. For me, it's just a glorified "Cinemania '26" list maker. (For those of you who wistfully remember the sound of a dial-up modem.)

My movie-watching was down a bit for February thanks to work getting in the way... #filmsky

Watched "Freud's Last Session".

What a great movie. Terrific Matthew Brown direction, very smart script from Brown and Mark St. Germain. Lovely Ben Smithard cinematography. Hopkins in mischievous form, and Matthew Goode excellent as a PTSD C.S. Lewis.

My #6 ranked for 2023. Recommended. #filmsky

Yeah, it's all kinds of amazing. Great Lalo Schifrin score.

Watched it countless dozens of times. I once asked Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz ""Eagle Has Landed" or "Where Eagles Dare"?" He said this. (I can't choose between them.)

I always thought Jack Higgins ripped the book it was based on, from the movie "Went The Day Well?"

Back in 2000, I lost a decade's worth of digital photographs. Irreplaceable.

I had my first word processor in 1990, a crappy old Amstrad that'd take 45 minutes to do a Save and frequently crash and make me lose everything. So I diligently printed pages before a Save, so at least I could transcribe them when the machine failed.

When I sold my first script, I bought a Mac.

Jesus. Day Four of trying to get my MacBook back to where it was last Thursday. I'm losing valuable work time.

Kids: don't just make one backup of your digital goodies. MAKE TWO!

Very nice!

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.