Did she jump or was she pushed?

[cyrano]

It's Friday. Ask me a question.
(Also, 24 hour update. After following detailed 'extermination plans' and hunting down an old copy of iTunes, I am once again able to listen to music on my computer.)

Comments

[loupyone.livejournal.com]

Why did Firefly get canceled and yet Survivor keeps coming back over and over?

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

I want to know that too!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and also, Firefly was signed to Fox by an executive who got fired within months of bringing it onboard and the new crew didn't want it around because it had his taint all over it.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Because Survivor makes bajillions of dollars and, aside from the exotic locales, really costs very little to make. Whereas Firefly made a respectable amount of money and cost more than a little.

[hamgallon84.livejournal.com]

Why do you have so many problems with iTunes when I've never had any problems with it?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I really really wish I knew. iLife is supposed to be about not thinking about your hardware or your software, and I wouldn't mind being let into that circle.

[hamgallon84.livejournal.com]

Aww. :(

[aberrantvirtue.livejournal.com]

Who will you be tomorrow?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I hope that whoever it is, it's not who I am today.

[darth-snarky.livejournal.com]

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Only those who have something to hide from Her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands. Those who wish no harm to her or her realm have nothing to fear from the Wolf.

[reggie-coward.livejournal.com]

Excellent recovery from the crisis of losing iTunes.

What are your disaster recovery tips for other disasters (famine, flood, fire, Friday questions, and so forth)?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hee. The 'excellent recovery' involved going to the web page and looking for other people who were also complaining about the update. And then trying what they tried over and over until it worked.

I do not do much planning ahead for other disasters, outside of earthquakes, because the odds of them happening are low enough I feel foolhardy enough to think they can't happen to me.
So it'd be all about the aftermath. Which pretty much I'd deal with the same way I deal with anything else. Analyze the situation, find out what my resources are, what my options are, decide what my optimal solution is and then strike out for it.
For a bear of very little brain, such a plan is simple and straightforward enough that I can actually manage it while still in disastershock.

[kit-n.livejournal.com]

Will my obsession ever die?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It will starve if you do not feed it.
There is no guarantee that sating it will make it sleep.

[kit-n.livejournal.com]

Why couldn't you just say, "I don't know"?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Because it is more important that the answer indicate that the solution lies in your own hands, and the choice, the answer itself is yours to give.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Who put the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

My stars. It is a week for esoteric questions. Hrm. The first question to ask is, who benefits from putting the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp? Follow the money, as Woodward and Bernstein learned. And whoever it was, they did it three times. So they're either very methodical or were putting the bomp in with a great deal of passion and lack of control. Personally, I'm leaning toward the methodical, here, given some of the other clues we've seen. Which leads us, really, to a single possible conclusion.
J'accuse: Colonel Mustard, in the Billiard Room, with the Lead Pipe.