Commuter notes

It occurred to me today that thanks to iPads and PS3s we now have the opportunity to movie-watch over the shoulders of our fellow-commuters….

A guy was watching a movie I couldn’t identify but which looked European. A character was following the movie-smoking trope where he was evidently trying to calm his nerves, and kept running his hands nervously through his hair while holding the lit cigarette. Whenever a character does that I always expect them to set their hair on fire.

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green_trilobite's email has been refusing to receive since yesterday afternoon; even though the same email address on my laptop, with the same router, is fine. He tried talking to tech support last night and finally gave up around ten pm. I went on the phone with them after dinner today; after an hour or so of trying things, they decided the problem was with the MacBook and gave me Apple's number; I'd been talking to someone there but my call was dropped about ten minutes ago; since I hadn't yet been assigned a case #, but they had taken down my home phone #, I've been waiting in hopes she'll notice we got disconnected and call back.

ETA - fixed it. OK, in retrospect, that was an obvious thing I should have tried right off the bat - look at the settings on the computer that worked, and match them on the other computer.

Commuter Notes, pt 2.

The teen sitting across from me on the train in a Finch t-shirt and cutoffs nonetheless looked more like a Richard Dadd painting than any human I've ever seen.