I poked my head out the window this weekend to see if I could tell why the neighborhood was being attacked by TIE fighters and discovered that that was actually the sound of hundreds of feet of power lines snapping during a storm on a three-street perimeter around me. Our electricity is back, but when I went to check the computer, I discovered that pressing the “on” button did nothing but produce a gradually spreading smell of burning plastic. Something, evidently, got fried when the power lines went down (I picture a thin scrim of blue lightning playing over the inside of the machine, as if there were a tiny, angry Emperor Palpatine loose on the motherboard): possibly just the power supply, possibly the whole thing. I won’t know until the new power supply I ordered gets here later this week. In the meantime, I’m working on a combination of a miniature Apple touch screen and a backup laptop that I stole from the Museum of Natual History. It was in an exhibit, being used by a caveman who couldn’t believe how long it was taking to get on Netflix.
So I’m asking for your patience. (Give it to me. Give me your patience.) This came at a pretty bad time, as I am smack in the middle of a magazine piece that was already taking forever to write. Most of my stuff is backed up, but I don’t have access to Football Manager or any Pro Vercelli notes, save games, or screenshots, which means—assuming these things haven’t been voltaged to death—no Pro Vercelli updates for a while. And honestly, writing about preseason friendlies under these conditions would be frustrating for both of us. Well, it would be frustrating for me.
So don’t be surprised if there’s not a lot of new content on here for a few days. I’ll keep the Twitter fires burning, possibly literally. In the meantime, if you’re checking your email and it’s just screaming in with amazing speed, picture me standing on your shoulder, shaking a tiny fist at your ear.
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by Brian Phillips · August 3, 2009
The potential loss of PV is somewhat distressing to me, so I cannot imagine how it must be to you, Mr. Phillips. I hope everything’s okay.
I pray that Pro Vercelli is not lost, its why I keep coming back to your site!
Best of luck Brian – my laptop suffered a similar fate a few weeks ago, and I just pray that Luke missed the main reactor in the PV DeathStar
Eeeek. I hope that didn’t fry your mobo. If it did your hard drive still has a chance at being recovered if you can get it hooked into another machine. Best of luck.
(cue R.E.M. music) – altogether now!!:
“It’s the end of the world as we know it”
Ouch, I hope Pro Vercelli return soon, I have really enjoyed reading that. As magnificent and preposterous as Yeovil’s ongoing march to glory.
Ps, have you listened to the football ramble podcast. Pretty much the best footie podcast I have found, if naturally a bit UK centric. I reckon Pro Vercelli (the real version from 100 years ago) would be a good bet on a place in their Dean Windass hall of fame, alongside inductees like the entire Honved team 😉
pps, given there is no edit comment thingy here
the football ramble > http://www.thefootballramble.com/
Oh and the music you use for your vids is a particular highlight, I assume you don’t like/have any Billy Bragg? Otherwise I guess you may have shoehorned in “God’s Footballer” in there somewhere, as a highlights reel for David maybe
Hope you’re up to speed soon.