___Goodbye, Listology!___
Submitted by lukeprog on Mon, 10/25/2004 - 01:50
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Just so there's no confusion:
I love Listology, but I have to abandon it for now. Here's why.
My lists and articles that aren't already out of date will quickly become so.
I will still reply to emails and questions directed to me.
I hope to return when I am able. The best to all of you! Thank you for your friendship, intelligence, and humor.
UPDATE: I'm still mostly absent from Listology, but I have returned to blogging.
Many people wish they had that kind of strength...good luck Luke! You'll be missed around these parts.
T'ho
:?)
bye luke, good luck with your script writing.hope it all goes well for you.
bb mate
It's hard to imagine a better reason for leaving. Best of luck! Be sure to use at least a portion of your single-Internet-hour to pop in and say "hi" once in awhile. We'll miss ya!
Yeah, take care, Luke! If my life goes as planned, maybe I'll see you in Hollywood someday! But you'll be missed around here, that's for sure.
Remind me again what your path is to Hollywood and what kind of timetable you're thinking of...?
Well, at one point I thought like you, I wanted to be a screenwriter. But my dad convinced me that it would be pretty tough to get into the business just being a lone screenwriter. So that's why I'm at business school now, hoping to double-major or perhaps minor in film studies, and then get into the film industry after I graduate. I don't really have a timetable, but I'm a freshman now, graduating in 2008, and I'll most likely seek employment after that.
I wish you the best of luck! It is tough to be a single screenwriter, but if you've got the talent, you can make it. You've definitely got some great ideas here.
Cool!
Well, I'm not sharing my best ideas here, anyway - they might be stolen! :-) And, in any case, a great screenplay is, like many things, 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
I'll miss you, too! I'll miss your support when I argue religion, and I'll miss your instigating those arguments :). I appreciate all your comments or questions about my lists. Take care, and may God bless you with courage, discipline, and success!
Good Luck...Now Go and Write something amazing.
Desperate Plea for Help:
My computer has been down for several days, and it's beginning to look like it will never come back.
I'm hoping there's some kind of Amazing Computer Genius on Listology who will help me out, as I've tried calling tech support and writing to allexperts.com and nearly a dozen tech support forums with NO luck. Maybe I'm the first person on the planet to experience this problem!
Here's the situation: I bought a new barebones (case, power supply, motherboard, processor, RAM) and plugged into it my AGP video card (Radeon 9700), 2 hard drives, and 2 DVD/CD drives.
One 60GB HD had WinXP installed on it, the other (250GB) has just data in NTFS. I've unplugged the 250GB one to avoid messing with it, but the BIOS detects it fine when it's plugged in.
I boot the WinXP Setup CD (came with my OEM system, but doesn't say OEM on it or anything) and repartition, reformat (NTFS) the HD, then begin setup. It copies filse to C:\Windows\ and then restarts the computer. If I boot it to CD again, it starts from the very beginning, asking me to repartition/reformat HD as if no setup progress had been made. I boot to the HD and I get the "Windows XP Home Edition" screen with moving green bar at the bottom, then it immediately says "Windows XP is being restarted..." and restarts the machine. It does this in an infinite loop so that Setup never goes any further.
I boot to the CD and use the recovery console, but it prompts me for an admin password that I haven't set up yet! I just hit ENTER, but that restarts the PC.
I tried installing WinXP to a different HD with the same problem, so it's not the HD.
Anyone know what else to try?
Everything I'm trying to do in my life has come to a crashing hault with my PC down for no reason and it's killing me.
If no, thanks anyway, I just thought I'd try; I'm getting pretty desperate!
Sorry man, hardware and operating systems are not my forte. I hope somebody can help though!
Well, thanks anyway. Thankfully, the operating system install decided it would work for some reason around the dozenth try. Yippee! Alas, I still cannot access 3 years @ 6 hours of work a day from my other drive! Time to call the data recovery specialists, I guess.