The Electric Journal of Adel Gabot

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Episode XX - "Running Hot and Cold"

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( Running Hot and Cold )

I am having a (really frustrating!) problem.

I plug in my iPod classic (120 GB, 6th gen, if that'll help at all) to sync, everything's going just fine, it says it's copying...and then, I get a message "This iPod cannot be synced due to an unknown error." I reset it twice, and I still get the same message.

Now, this iPod's not even 2 months old...and it works just fine, I unplug it and it plays and everything...I opened our other library and synced my mom's iPod and it worked just fine. How can I fix this (w/out restoring it, hopefully..it'll take forever to resync 22 GB and I'm going on a trip tomorrow)?

Here's a screen cap of the error message.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m299/gncurrier/error.jpg

Thanks for any advice.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/07/are-you-comix-experienced.html

The next blog was meant to be about reading aloud, but I wanted to blog this rather than Twitter it to make sure that everyone had an equal chance:

Go and read http://savagecritic.com/ (and you need to read both http://savagecritic.com/2009/07/neil-gaiman-at-comix-experience-719.html which is the story behind the signing (and has some photos of me in 1989 with the most remarkable mullet) and http://savagecritic.com/2009/07/neil-gaiman-at-comix-experience-719_08.html which is the facts.

Short version, I'm doing a signing at Comix Experience on on Sunday, July 19th from 11 AM to 12:30 PM. And because time is limited, it's limited to 100 people. Brian Hibbs decided that the easiest way to pick the 100 people was to presell them copies of the WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER hardback, which will be out then.

Preorders for the book can be taken immediately by visiting Comix Experience at 305 Divisadero St. (at Page) in San Francisco, or by calling 415-863-9258 from 11-7 Monday-to-Saturday, Sundays 12-5, PST.

And my Metamorpho Page with the brilliant Mike Allred is out in Wednesday Comics -- details of what this thing is at: http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21941

Last night I witnessed one of the best tennis matches ever played.

I felt lucky - lucky enough to witness such display of athleticism and intelligence that to me is the peak of evolution for humanity, but also lucky that I do sports.

I cry when I watch sports. I cry because I know what it takes and I know what it feels to succeed, and more importantly to fail. I even know how cruel sport can be - to lay it all on the line, go beyond yourself and still come up short.

Sports builds character like no other endeavor in your life will. Sport is about patience, hard work, fortitude, discipline. Your success is directly related to the amount of hard work you put in. Sport builds friendship - one of my most solid friendships is built on a foundation of a shared love of sport. You can't hide who you are when you're out there competing and wearing next to nothing. Because toiling away hours and hours in training to improve guarantees a bond. And racing/playing on the same arena as your friends gives you comfort that someone else knows exactly what it is you are going through.

I am lucky enough to have started sports at an early age (albeit I started in dance) and lucky enough to have the resources to continue playing them to this day. I'm lucky that I've met and call a few world-class athletes friends - they are an inspiration and a reminder of what we can achieve through hard work.

All the lessons learned in sport translates to everything else in life. Some may think it trivial, playing sports, winning medals. Sometimes my only motivation to get to a workout is to burn some calories. Even that is somewhat noble - to be a bit better than who I am today.

Whatever it is you do - soccer, golf, boxing, what have you - you are lucky. The lessons I've learned in volleyball, rowing, triathlon, and now tennis all point to the same thing. The meaning of life as I've learned through sport, in the absence of a definitive answer of the existence of a higher being and his/her take on the subject, is to be the best that you can be.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/07/death-wish.html

I went to Los Angeles, had a sort of a working holiday, came home, and am writing. Working out a lot with the trainer, got a new trampoline. The cherry tree is covered in cherries, and the wild raspberries (red and black) are out in the woods, and I find them when I walk the dog.
Hello Neil,

And finally, there are now more than 666,666 people following me on Twitter. So we had a party. It's still ongoing, the party, over at http://bit.ly/666party and to join in all you have to do is upload a photgraph of you and a Balloon. And once 600 people showed up at the party, the webgoblin made this: a mosaic. Edit to add, and here's a wonderful click to zoom in, shift-click to zoom out version at http://www.uslot.com/neilballoons/

The tetris has dispersed worldwide and its idea is maintained till now, all know that it was thought up by Alexey Pajitnov from Russia. Color Lines game also became the beginning of the whole genre, but only few people knows about it. We have decided to revive classics and show to it to everyone.
It's an original version of year 1992 russian game Color Lines. It's not a clone or remake, It's 100% authentic Color Lines of DOS times, spawned hundreds of remakes.
One of the best logic puzzle game that was installed on almost every PC in the beginning of 90's are now on iPhone and iPodTouch.

I currently have an iHome iH9 (which I love and highly recommend) and I just received a second iPod.. I was wondering if anyone here has recommendations for a similar device but one that has 2 docks for 2 iPods? I've come across some that can dock an iPod and an iPhone, but I'm not 100% sure it if would work with 2 iPods. Thanks.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/06/locus-award.html

Arrived in LAX airport to find that the NorthWest lounge is closed for renovations, and cannot use the lounge or the Wifi. And the airport Tmobile Wifo connection is slow -- it's taken it ten minutes to give me a Blogger screen.

You have good years, and you have bad years. I'm having a really good year right now. The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Medal, which made me happy, and it has now won the Locus Award which makes me equally happy, in a completely different way. It's one thing to get approved of by the world out there, it's another thing to get approval from your family, and the vastness of Locus Readers and voters, comprising as it does SF and Fantasy readers and writers, editors and artists, is a family, even if it can be a quarrelsome and incestuous one, and its approval means something special. I suspect that I may be the luckiest boy in the world, and would not want you to think for one moment that I am not grateful or aware of this. The Graveyard Book took me a very long time to write, and I want to thank my son, Michael, who inspired it; my agent, Merrilee Heifetz, who supported me, my editors, Elise Howard and Sarah Odedina; my illustrators, Dave McKean and Chris Riddell; and the people at Harper Collins and Bloomsbury, who have worked so hard to make sure that people read it.

And then run for the plane. (Also, congratulations to P Craig Russell, who got a Locus Award for his beautiful graphic novel version of Coraline).

I scored a pair of shoes at 85% off at Marc Jacobs. And a bag at 70% off.
The bag was 1K USD, the shoes at 800 USD. SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!

I was syncing my Ipod, when all of my songs disappeared. They still show up on Itunes, and the Ipod (A 2nd gen touch) stil has all of its apps, pics, and videos. I have no idea what happened, and I want to fix it as soon as possible.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/06/hollyday.html

So twenty-four years ago today, Holly Gaiman turned up in my life. At that point she didn't even have a name: we had thought she was going to be a Gemma, but she didn't look like a Gemma, so Mary and I went back to the drawing board, or rather the baby names book, and decided independently that Holly was the name we both liked. Her middle name is Miranda because I wanted her to have a bigger, posher name in case she needed one. She hasn't needed it yet, but you never know.

I miss her. She lives in London, now. I don't see her as much as I'd like, and I speak to her most days only because she's really good about phoning me.

She's my daughter, and I love her. That goes without saying. She has the most amazing smile in the world, a will of iron, a huge heart, and is, I'm proud to say, one of my very best friends in the whole world. That stuff is all a marvellous bonus.

I love you, Holly Miranda Gaiman. Happy Birthday.

(I'm in California now, and it's still her birthday here, but it's finished in London, and she'll be asleep by now, and I haven't spoken to her yet today. Sigh. Love you so much, girl.)