Re: So ORIGINS is no longer in continuity with YANKEE WHITE.

BTR1701 wrote:

On Nov 18, 2024 at 1:40:02 PM PST, "Nyssa" <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
wrote:
 

BTR1701 wrote:
 

 On Nov 18, 2024 at 1:07:02 PM PST, "Nyssa" <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
 wrote:
 

 anim8rfsk wrote:
 

  suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

  On 11/16/2024 10:31 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

  suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

  On 11/16/2024 5:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

  Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

  On 11/16/24 11:53 AM, suzeeq wrote:
 

  On 11/16/2024 10:57 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

  On 11/16/24 10:42 AM, suzeeq wrote:

  On 11/16/2024 10:02 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

  On 11/16/24 4:26 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
 

 
 
https://tvline.com/recaps/ncis-origins-young-tobias-fornell-cast-gibbs-lala-undercover-episode-6-1235376195/
 
  NCIS: Origins Just Intensified the Gibbs/Lala Bond and ?
  Surprise! ? Introduced a Young [Spoiler]
  BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH
 
  NOVEMBER 11, 2024 8:00 PM

 
  OK, because the article doesn't make your claim clear,
  you're going to have to explain it...

 
  Yes it did. Who was Gibb's good friend in the original NCIS?

 
  Again, for those of us who aren't "NCIS" fanatics, just
  explain it, please.

 
  Since you don't watch the show much, would you even recognize
  the character's name?

 
  Yes, I know who Fornell is. But I don't know the specifics of
  how he and Gibbs were supposed to have met, according to the
  NCIS: Mothership.
 

  We see Gibbs and Formell meet for the very first time in YANKEE
  WHITE. Which is the first production episode of NCIS. The first
  episode after the pilot on JAG. The episode that introduces Kate
  and memory holes Blackadder.
 
  So ORIGINS has Gibbs and Fornell knowing each other decades
  before they
  met.  In 1991 instead of 2008.

 
  I've forgotten already, even though I just watched the episode
  Thursaday. Were Gibbs and Fornell actually introduced to each
  other?

 

 
  While I was checking this out for Suzi Q a fun thing happened. I
  am in a rehab facility and the CNA who was doing some stuff in the
  room heard the episode start up and not only recognized it just
  from the sound as NCIS but as Yankee White, he knew more About the
  show than Ian will ever forget.
 
  He says Gibbs and Fornell have yet to actually meet on ORIGINS;
  apparently Fornell met Franks. But he has no doubt Gibbs and
  Furnell will meet they have to.
 

  Thanks. What are you doing in rehab, your leg get worse?

 
  I got bad insulin. Blood sugars hit record high. Wackiness ensued.
 

 Geez! Glad you're semi-okay!
 
 Get well soon. The froup relies on your platinum-quality snarks
 especially since the TV content these days deserves that snark so
 very much.
 
 Nyssa, who thinks Big Pharma needs to upgrade their QA procedures

 
 Welcome back! Haven't heard from you in a long while. I had despaired
 that you were among the many who have given up on Usenet lately.

 
Thanks for the re-welcome!
 
Multiple computer hardware and a couple of software problems have
caused cascading headaches since mid-August. Even now, I'm stuck using
a laptop with a wonky "e" key just to check email and Usenet while
I attempt to trace down the hardware problems on TWO desktops that
decided to turn ornery one after another. :/
 
I'll keep trying to get one of the desktops working while cussing
at this danged crappy HP laptop keyboard and it's wonky "e" key
until I get *something* else working correctly.

 
I myself had to endure the demise of the Mac Pro desktop I've been using
since circa 2013. It was frozen in time on an old version of Mac OS X
because if I upgraded the OS any farther, my newsreader (MT Newswatcher)
and Finale 2009 (the music engraving software I use to make some side
money) would stop working. (I had a newer Mac mini running in another room
with the latest version of the Mac OS for all my other computing
activities.)
 
Back at the end of October, on a sunny Saturday morning, the power went
out on our block for approximately 1.5 seconds. Not even long enough to
send the
clocks back to flashing 12:00.  But it was long enough to crash that old
Mac and when I tried to reboot it, I got the Apple logo and the progress
bar but it would then stop halfway through the boot-up process and after
about 10 minutes, it would just shut itself off again. Took it in to the
Apple Store and they couldn't get it to boot, either. They speculated that
the power shut off right at the moment the computer was writing/modifying
a system file which caused the file to be corrupted. Only option was to
completely over-write the hard drive with a fresh OS install, but that
would cost me all the data on the drive.
 
Of course, according to the laws of the universe, this hit at a time when
I'd been uncharacteristically lax in backing up my files. I had about
eight film score cues that I'd engraved that I hadn't backed up to the
other Mac or to my Google cloud drive. Eight doesn't sound like much but
it represents about a month's worth of work that I do not relish having to
redo.
 
I had resigned myself that something like this would happen eventually.
The computer was a dinosaur, after all, so all I really want are those
files. I bought a hard drive dock off Amazon for $25 and I'm going to open
up the old machine and remove the drive and put it into this dock and plug
it into my more modern Mac with the hope that it will mount as an external
non-system disk which will bypass the corrupted system file and I can pull
all those data files off it without having to redo them all.
 
And yes, MT Newswatcher is now history for me. I'm using Usenapp on the
newer machine now, which is fine, but I really liked Newswatcher's
interface the best. Sad to see it go.
 

And no, I'll NOT be getting a "new" desktop unless I can find one
configured the way I want it without any taint of a Microsoft
product or paying a Microsoft tax for an OS I will never use. :P
 

I feel your pain.

I've got similar problems with retrieving data fromthe hard
drives of the first of the two desktops to quit. I had taken
the drives and tried to put one of them into the then-working
desktop, but only got my home directory copied over before, as
amim would say, wackiness ensuded. None of my "real" data has
been transfered yet.

As for older software, I've got a full tower desktop I built
back in the mid-1990s (with an MMX processor) that I keep
running with MS-DOS and Win3.1 in order to access my financial
software, the word processor AmiPro, and PatternMaker design
software. Plus an older version of CorelDraw I did a lot of work
on.

I used to have a side gig for well over a decade doing counted
thread embroidery designs that I published and/or sold for
publication in hobby magazines. All of my work archives for
those are in AmiPro, PatternMaker, and CorelDraw5. Two of the
three are no longer published (AmiPro was first purchased by
Lotus who did a good job maintaining it, but later sold it
along with Lotus123 to IBM who rewrote them (WordPro) then
abandoned it all; PatternMaker was published by a one-programmer
shop and was abandoned after version 4). I still use AmiPro for
my knitting pattern translations (from German and charts)
for my personal use. Best danged word processor EVAH!

I'll get back to trying to revive at least one of the newer
desktops and getting the data transfered once I can catch up
on a list of other to-dos that need doing before winter weather
gets here.

Meanwhile I can at least still post to Usenet and deal with
email with this stoopid HP laptop with its wonky "e" key and
a capslock key that's too close to the "a" key that I keep hitting
my mistake. :/

Look on the bright side with your engraving software; if your
older Mac hadn't bit the dust, you wouldn't have grabbed a newer
version of the software before they took it off the market. At
least you've stil got *something* that will get the job done for
now.

Nyssa, who has gobs of old software that works just fine provided
you can find a working copy of the right OS to run it AND a floppy
drive to load it onto the hard drive