Notes on the Drama Thus Far
So I had taken the three photos that have, I hope, just gone up in the three previous posts, two days ago. And I wrote text around them and . . . pinned them to the blog. Whereupon the photos started Behaving Strangely in a manner they had not when they were merely open on my computer screen, so I freaked and deleted them. . . . But a few really annoying people* not only saw them in their forty-five seconds of existence, but the on-duty forum mod managed to post the thread.** Arrrgh. I didn’t find that out till the next day however. That first night I merely wrote to Blogmom and asked if she could help stop the photos tying themselves up in pixelated knots or whatever it was they were doing.
So I got a comforting email from Blogmom the next day–yesterday–and the links to the smooth and shiny tidied-up guaranteed-knot-free photos . . . and they wouldn’t paste into the blog entry windows. Panic. I hadn’t bothered to check about this earlier–what could go wrong?? Those whom Fate stomps she first encourages to make unwarranted assumptions–and it was now late and, as reported yesterday as I slapped the first couple of pages of Bells of Mazahan in your general direction, I couldn’t get hold of Blogmom again, she was probably, you know, away from her desk having a life*** or something.
So today we’ve been doing it all over again. This go-round first I couldn’t find them–I could find them fine from Blogmom’s email but I couldn’t get them to come up for me–and then when she caved and posted them in entry windows for me . . . as soon as I erased her place-holding ‘some text here’ next to the photo THE PHOTOS DISAPPEARED. ARRRRRGH.
At least I started earlier in the day today.
Now, this is the purpose for writing any of this at all, because everybody has Malign Deities of the Computer/Net stories.† But I really like this one and to me it demonstrates the essential deranged irrationality of computers. Science, schmience. I discovered that the photos didn’t disappear if I erased ‘some text here’ r e a l l y s l o w l y.††
Okay. I’m going to post all these now. Gulp. Maybe I’d better light a candle first.
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* You know who you are. And besides, you were busy talking about it on the forum.
** The eighth deadly sin is efficiency. Didn’t you know that? Stop it at once. You’re jeopardising your immortal soul. Go drop something or break something or lose something or something something.
*** T shirt I think I haven’t quite got the chutzpah to wear: A life? Cool. Where would I download one of those from?
† There’s a web site, right? Something like lolcomputers.^
^ I’ve just been attempting to google such an animal, and all I’m getting is lots of Stupid Computer User stories. Pardon me, but I’m a card-carrying member+ of the Stupid Computer User Club, and a lot of the time the computer helps. It’s not all failing to plug the thing into the wall and pressing the wrong little button.
+ But the cards aren’t nearly as pretty as the Klub of the Klutzim. Which reminds me, I think I’m caught up on the Klutzim memberships, I haven’t had any new applications in a few days, and I still have spare cards. Just in case anyone hasn’t posted because they think it’s too late. It’s not too late.
†† And, speaking of Malign Deities, I can’t wait to see what WordPress does to the spacing of ‘really slowly’ which I have carefully spaced out.
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