phone line at home died friday night. thanks to the glories of cellular communication was able to phone in to globelines/innove's hotline. ...but not before a few false starts with my cellphone indicating that the hotline numbers were invalid. forgot to include the "02" before the number itself, for dialing a landline...
anyways, temper barely in check as answerdroid tells me first of all to check the connections outside the house... ...to which i say: okay, i can look at the wires, but what in the world would i divine by doing so? phone line troubleshooting is definitely out of my area of expertise -- this part, an internal monologue.
all right, sir, we'll try to send a crew to check in 24 to 48 hours...
...well, that's some level of precision.
saturday afternoon rolls around; lo, and behold! no, the phone's still not working; but the lineman shows up. he attaches some sort of doohickey gadget to the little box at the end of the phone line. i can hear the warbling sound it makes in his earpiece as he activates it. so: the connection inside the house is good. he goes out, i follow and watch as he climbs up a pole on a corner opposite our block. i go back inside and watch some tv. in a while, he comes back, and upon inquiry, reveals that the connections in the box on the utility pole 'had loosened'.
???
anyway, phone's working now. but had no time to compose nor post -- but i had intended to -- it would have likely been about the amazing absurdity of that happenstance. it's sorta unimaginable -- how do you install a telephone line in a junction box such that it will loosen over time? granted, there was a magnitude 5-some earthquake in the early part of october, but shouldn't the line have loosened then? ...ah, the mysteries of telecommunications (or the hands that maintain it) in this day and age...
...but enough of that.
the incredibles.
fantastic movie. had the same effect on me as the lord of the rings trilogy (and extended versions): it was possible to miss the fact that this was a seriously long movie (for an animated feature). about as long, i think, as katsuhiro otomo's akira, actually. a feast for the eye, and what a story... ...some of the parts that might seem obligatory to others went over without my cringing. then again, this director is the same guy who came up with the iron giant, that seriously underappreciated (in the US, anyway) gem of very well integrated 3-D and traditional animation (and, yes, the story was good too).
i think i'll watch the incredibles again, next time to go over the details. ...what are the chances, i wonder, of there being an extended director's cut?
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