Whitechapel - FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:18:25 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=144994#Comment_144994 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=144994#Comment_144994 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:09:15 -0700 Ariana up at the main site.

And, yeah, I know we just had a skip week, but please direct any whining at me -- after all, I'm the mechanic: part of my job is hitting things with very big sticks to make sure they're working smoothly. Clearly I was remiss in my duties this week, because THE FUCKING UNIVERSE has been acting up like whoa.

Anyone that feels like making a good "I HIT IT AND IT SCREAMS AND ALL IS BETTER" mixtape over on the 8tracks thread, I would appreciate it muchly...

How did everyone else fare, this week? Did you all get around to bulking up your profiles? I'm still noticing no profile pics when I roll over some of your usernames. I don't really need to see all of your faces, but it is nice to have something to look at, y'know? ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=144999#Comment_144999 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=144999#Comment_144999 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:12:18 -0700 mister hex
Oh well.

I am still In Love (TM) with you, Ariana. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145005#Comment_145005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145005#Comment_145005 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:43:49 -0700 poor_boy
Hope things calm down for you. Wish I could do more to help. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145015#Comment_145015 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145015#Comment_145015 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:44:43 -0700 twitch_ramirez FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145025#Comment_145025 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145025#Comment_145025 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:01:15 -0700 hellisforhipsters
I'm going to see Trembling Bells and Hamilton Yarns tonight, and will be eating chocolate turtles all weekend. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145038#Comment_145038 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145038#Comment_145038 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:13:04 -0700 CamyLuna
I'm still racing through my weeks until a better mood hits, and can't believe that it's Easter already. I added my email and birthday info to my profile, and am thinking of updating the picture soon. I'll be going to the Opera matinee on Sunday to see Die Walkure. The rest is up in the air.

Edit: For some reason I thought that the notice was from Paul and not from Warren when I was reading it barely awake this morning. Must have been the lack of threat in the tone. Sorry. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145065#Comment_145065 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145065#Comment_145065 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:47:32 -0700 mojojoseph
I actually met him once, at a con, I forget which one. I walked by his stall a couple times, asked about his books but didn't think I was gonna get one because I was short on cash and I had no idea who this guy was....but I as won over by the FEEL of his little books, as naff as that sounds. On the bus home from....wherever the hell it was...Thought bubble in Leeds maybe, I found out that he was acually hilarious and very talented.

Bought Phonogram: Singles Club #1 from his site, as everywhere had sold out. And was surprised to find he'd signed it when it arrived (he does the art for a back-up story in there). Which all in all goes to show he's talented, funny and a pretty ace guy. Mucho fan! ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145068#Comment_145068 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145068#Comment_145068 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:18:29 -0700 agentarsenic
no really, warren and paul put out a huge amount of effort every week, they deserve a break - especially on Easter so they can celebrate (which probably means getting inebriated and pissing on a church/easter rabbit). ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145071#Comment_145071 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145071#Comment_145071 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:49:06 -0700 moali FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145096#Comment_145096 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145096#Comment_145096 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:09:34 -0700 VertigoJones FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145165#Comment_145165 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145165#Comment_145165 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:39:24 -0700 BrianKellett
'Fell' and now this (and I have vague recollections of a third loss of data) means I feel less paranoid that I keep things on three different hard-disks and one online storage system.

Fingers crossed it doesn't happen again (or that you stop buying 'top quality' HDDs from the bloke in the pub who smiles a little too wide when you hand him your tenners).

It's either that or the nasty black thoughts that are stored on these computers have a nasty habit of burning themselves through the platters. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145169#Comment_145169 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145169#Comment_145169 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:47:38 -0700 warrenellis FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145174#Comment_145174 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145174#Comment_145174 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:04:01 -0700 Andre Navarro FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145182#Comment_145182 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145182#Comment_145182 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:34:36 -0700 warrenellis I mean, first a meltdown destroys the FELL scripts (and Desolation Jones too, correct?)

And COUNTLESS other scripts and documents. And a novel. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145186#Comment_145186 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145186#Comment_145186 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:49:45 -0700 ChrisD
And I thought I was pissed off when I mysteriously lost most of my downloaded porn.... ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145188#Comment_145188 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145188#Comment_145188 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:00:31 -0700 Andre Navarro And COUNTLESS other scripts and documents. And a novel.

I didn't know about the novel -- not to mention the "ideas file" (I think you mentioned once you've got one - or several - with "to be used" ideas).

How did everyone else fare, this week? Did you all get around to bulking up your profiles? I'm still noticing no profile pics when I roll over some of your usernames. I don't really need to see all of your faces, but it is nice to have something to look at, y'know?


Only added the Flickr photostream, which was all that still needed to be added really. Week was insanely busy and strangely... social, which isn't my modus operandi. A "transitional" kind of week that can either result in something very good or very bad. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145236#Comment_145236 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145236#Comment_145236 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:16:00 -0700 Spiraltwist How did everyone else fare, this week?
Blarg. First week of my new rotation and work starts at 6am Even with cocoa, I am dragging serious ass at this point. Why I am not sleeping now when I am totally exhausted baffles me. Only bonus is they appear to love me and want to hire me now. Potential new coworkers are pointing me out and talking to the head honcho that does the hiring. Strange, but pleasing.

I have moved on the hitting things with The Shovel when they will not work. Just shove the wired back in place if they slip out. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145288#Comment_145288 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145288#Comment_145288 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:11:51 -0700 johnjones
And COUNTLESS other scripts and documents. And a novel.


Christ, I can't even fathom what you felt when that happened. I remember being pissed as hell when my younger sister overwrote the 3.5 disk I was using to save some fuckwit Thunderbolts fanfic I was doing back several years ago that represented maybe thirty hours of writing. I wanted to ring her neck for it. Gods, the scripts AND a novel. And that was that novel that would've been the follow-up to CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, right? ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145341#Comment_145341 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145341#Comment_145341 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:50:08 -0700 Gekko And that was that novel that would've been the follow-up to CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, right?
Aww my. I need a uchronic shot. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145367#Comment_145367 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145367#Comment_145367 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:58:23 -0700 mojojoseph
I have an awful habit of not backing up any of my work in any way at all. Luckily, nothing bad has ever really happened, and the one time this computer did get shut down by a virus my Dad managed to recover everything important.

Hmm, think it may be an Easter task for me to backup everything and research some online storage systems/external hard drives. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145377#Comment_145377 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145377#Comment_145377 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:28:42 -0700 Flabyo
There is no sound more painful than the noise an entire floor of games developers makes when the power goes out suddenly. To say the air turns blue is a slight understatement. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145393#Comment_145393 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145393#Comment_145393 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:01:15 -0700 agentarsenic
Internet backup solutions such as Novastor have saved many-a employee's ass. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145463#Comment_145463 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145463#Comment_145463 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:47:08 -0700 Val A Lindsay II FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145911#Comment_145911 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145911#Comment_145911 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:25:29 -0700 MarshallQuicksand
Your reccomendation of Marc Ellerby contributed greatly to my internal "What made my week?" list, other such items being Doktor Sleepless #12, Ignition City #1, and a girl I met. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145914#Comment_145914 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145914#Comment_145914 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:29:25 -0700 ScottBieser
I also use Memeo to back up to an external HD. Massive multiple megabytes of art files generated almost daily. Thought I was pretty clever getting this setup. Now I'm apprehensive. If this could happen to the Internet Fuck God, I have no hope at all, do I? ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145965#Comment_145965 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145965#Comment_145965 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:24:13 -0700 Flabyo FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145979#Comment_145979 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=145979#Comment_145979 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:40:49 -0700 warrenellis FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146031#Comment_146031 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146031#Comment_146031 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:19:25 -0700 Greg SBB! FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146544#Comment_146544 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146544#Comment_146544 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:09:40 -0700 PenguinGeneral FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146781#Comment_146781 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146781#Comment_146781 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:23:57 -0700 Kinsella5
I will admit I am new here and I had heard about Warren's computer crashing, but perhaps someone could shed some light as to what exactly happened, or if there was a post made by Warren announcing what happened, etc. Stupid question I am sure, but I also believe there are companies that can save a computer's hard drive and everything on it even when it is thought to be destroyed. It can be an expensive cost to have done, but is possible. Just curious as to what exactly happened, not trying to stir up any bad memories for Warren.

Also, does anyone know if "Ignition City" is a mini-series or an ongoing series?

Lastly, hopefully we will see more "Fell" and "Desolation Jones" in the near future, I know the answer to that will be to keep watching the site here for official announcements, but hopefully it is soon. I miss those books. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146837#Comment_146837 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146837#Comment_146837 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:12:19 -0700 Ariana Stupid question I am sure, but I also believe there are companies that can save a computer's hard drive and everything on it even when it is thought to be destroyed. You are correct: there are, in fact, such companies. Unfortunately (as Warren mentioned two posts before the one you quoted) sometimes horrible things happen when you take your machine in for data recovery. Like:
(which, I'd remind people, culminated in the 20-year-vintage top local computer shop closing down with the staff vanishing to the four winds after the proprietor evidently died on an operating table in Germany while my machine was still there undergoing data recovery, the shop now boarded up and no-one anywhere having a clue where any of the computers inside disappeared to)
]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146965#Comment_146965 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=146965#Comment_146965 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:12:46 -0700 severian
ZFS & Time Machine are definite steps in a good direction. It's too bad that they'll be under-utilized.

Triple redundancy is a minimum. At work I keep a separate system rsync'ed to the servers so that even everything if the whole server closet died all at once we'd still be up. It has actually come close to happening. One of the two servers died & fried its drives. The next day, the other developed a corrupted RAID array. ]]> FREAKANGELS Totally Unscheduled Notice 0005 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=155988#Comment_155988 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5555&Focus=155988#Comment_155988 Mon, 18 May 2009 15:47:39 -0700 PinkFearie