For the past couple days, my computer has been doing something unfortunate: it suddenly powers off. No warning; just suddenly no power.<\/p>\n
At first I thought it was something weird about some web page I had open. But tonight, it died when I didn't even have a browser running, just email and DVD Player. I restarted, and tried to launch Mail, and it told me I had to re-import my mailboxes. I told it to go ahead (it said it would take 3 hours), and I settled in to continue my interrupted episode of Gilmore Girls<\/cite>. Ten minutes later, the computer powered off again.<\/p>\n And just as I was about to go Google for ideas about what could be causing it, I remembered: this is how MacBooks react when they overheat.<\/p>\n I can't tell for sure, but I think that the fans aren't working. (I tried smcFanControl, and it tells me the current fan speed is zero.)<\/p>\n I used to deal with this problem temporarily (before I had the fan fixed) by putting ice packs under the computer. But although my hotel room has a refrigerator, it has no freezer. I guess I could try putting the computer in the fridge for a while, though I'm a little hesitant.<\/p>\n At any rate: for the time being, I can't get to my email (except I can sorta kinda get to some of it via bad web interface), and I can't do anything on the computer without the possibility of it suddenly dying.<\/p>\n Looks like there's a conveniently located Apple Store I can take it to tomorrow. But still. Feh.<\/p>\n Anyway, I'll try to figure out a way to get to email and to respond to a couple of time-sensitive messages. But don't know if I'll manage it.<\/p>\n (And in case you're wondering: nope, not an April Fool's joke.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past couple days, my computer has been doing something unfortunate: it suddenly powers off. No warning; just suddenly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}