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Tried to simplify my life, ended up bluescreening my computer. There's either a moral or a really funny satire in there somewhere.

Mainly I'm trying to set it up so that I spend a longer time focused on fewer things throughout the day, because right now I jump from task to task not more quickly than I'd like but apparently more quickly than is good for my sanity. So I've been shuffling "daily" reading into "weekly" reading and removing certain things I'm not extracting much value from. Which has sort of worked, right up until my computer violently rebelled against all this change and freaked out. Adobe may never be the same. I perhaps should have had fewer pdfs open at once, but they were all on the same subject and I needed to do some compare and contrast, goddammit.

I can't handle a crashing computer, rebooting takes too damn long. Both the computer and my attention span.

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Here you go: something to cheer you up! http://www.buzzfeed.com/doubleday/terry-partchetts-latest-comes-to-life-with-magica-dfcu

Aw, neat! I still need to read Raising Steam...

Me too; looks good, though!

It might not be you. After the recent Windows update my computer bluescreened on boot up every day for nearly a week. It would bluescreen. I'd reboot and the repair thingy would run and suggest going back to the last good save point. Which would delete the update so the computer would then redownload it and I'd bluescreen the next time I booted up after it installed again. I finally realized it was a driver causing the error and told it NOT to get that as part of the update and it stabilized.

In the middle of all that my power cord died in a puff of smoke.

I'm in the market for a St. Vidicon medal if anybody wants to make any.

Ah, I rarely get the updates -- they have to do them from IT, since I'm not an authorized admin on my own computer (nuts).

I have had a power cord death though. Those are a giant pain in the ass, aren't they?

Glad to know it was just not me! I had that issue too. What driver was it btw?

This one:
Realtek Semiconductor Corp. - WLAN - Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11N PCI-E NIC

It seems to me that any Windows product with 'Real' in the name is garbage.

Saint Vicodin?

St. Vidicon of Cathode patron saint of Engineers from Christopher Stasheff's Warlock series.

http://www.st-vidicon.net/vidicon.shtml (http://www.st-vidicon.net/vidicon.shtml)

Not mentioned in the linked article is the fact that the Monks of the order of St. Vidicon wear habits with a breast pocket for the tiny screwdriver that is the sign of their order.

And in other news the update may not have been the culprit. After working fine for most of the week my laptop bluescreened again and now is totally bricked. I'm posting using an old netbook without a functioning b key (Yay for on-screen keyboard). It also runs XP which will cease to be supported in about a week.

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