This morning, I woke up and my computer is no longer responding. It makes noises, and you can get the numbers lock key to work (cool!), but the screen is blank and nothing I do changes that. Not that I'm surprised. I knew this was going to happen: Y2K is Y2BACK. I've been telling people and I have been telling people: what makes us think that we are safe from this Apocalyptic computer crisis? If you ask me, far too many Americans (and governments) have let their Y2Guard down. I am currently working on a friend's computer, but it's probably (probably!) only a matter of time for all of the computers. This friend's computer is basically John Cusack's limo in 2012. Sure, I can race against the collapse of the Earth's crust, and punch this thing through a couple of toppling skyscrapers, but for how long? Eventually I am going to have to abandon it for an airplane that my ex-wife's husband doesn't even know how to fly but turns out to be very good at maneuvering through extremely unlikely and scary situations, and admittedly that is where the comparison starts to become less relevant, but still.
Also, this video is how I felt this morning, but in reverse.
Screaming followed by disbelief followed by dead eyes. Irreversible 2: Macbook Pro. Stop playing with me.
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Temporary Log-In Solution?• If you are having trouble logging in to your Official Videogum Commenter Profile, try clearing your cache and cookies. That seems to work sometimes.
You guys, I know that the commenter log-in system is a mess. Sorry. We are working on it. Until then, commenter Becca seems to have discovered a temporary solution:
try this. sign out. then sign in - NOT AT THE TOP - but at the bottom where you leave a comment. and then when you comment, put in your name and email, even though you're signed in. IT WORKS!
Hopefully that should work for now, and hopefully everything will be back to normal soon. Fingers crozzed. Thanks, Becca.
(This week, we're highlighting some of our favorite Videogum posts / video-related moments of 2008. So that's why things look different, and are old, this week. And Happy Almost New Year!)
First let me say how excited I am to have received your "Cease and Desist" letter. It is the first letter of this nature that I have ever received, and as such it legitimizes me. What your letter says is that someone thinks that this bullshit is read by enough people (it is not), and that it matters (it doesn't). Someone thinks that I have violated their rights! Success! A "Cease and Desist" letter is like a blog's Bar Mitzvah. Now videogum.com is a man.com. It would have been nicer if I could have received the letter right before Mother's Day, to fill our brunch with pride, but a Father's Day miracle isn't bad. Anyway, thank you for that.
Now, I'm no lawyer, but I've watched every iteration of Law & Order at least once, except for Trial By Jury, but no one watched Trial By Jury.
We're BACK• Sorry about that, you guys. Also, any comments you may have left from about 9:00AM until 2:30PM today have been lost. Why don't you take this opportunity to post them here without context as an act of protest.
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