So I just went through ‘approving’ for ‘restore’ anything that didn’t look like a duplicate.
This may stuff the pages with ton ‘o deleted things and maybe even some you don’t want back, but I didn’t see anything that looked like the secret plans to FTL or plots to rob a bank, so I hope it is ok. If not, tell me which one and I will deep-six it again. This goes way back so it is page archaeology.
It brought back the known-to-be-missing comments on the countertops thread.
I programmed my first computer in 1966, 52 years ago. I quickly learned one thing: computers are so literal they’re stupid. But a corrollary to that is: never trust a computer to do the right thing. The more complex the “program”, the less trustworthy it is. What we do today is at the very limits of the complexity we THINK we can manage.
Paul, you haz a wisdom there. I do not know why in all reason it has been storing perfectly ordinary comments in a secret pocket, and then delivered them to the deleted comments section of admin. The only thing I can think of is that we comment on our comments, and may have exceeded some ‘nesting’ limit via the ‘Reply’ button. Possibly we should avoid replying to a reply to a reply, as it seems to lose its mind…or maybe that wasn’t it, at all, and it merely ‘decided’ to do that because….Friday the 13th. Who knows?
It’s not just nested replies that disappeared: my comment about starting knitting that disappeared yesterday wasn’t posted as a reply.
I don’t know what triggered the disappearance; I can’t find any impolite combination in the words of that post that might have triggered a rejection, it wasn’t excessively long (for me, that is), and it didn’t contain any links.
Maybe it was just a random timing issue, if two people tried to post something at the same time; or something in the mobile connection?
I looked for the posting I made a few days ago after the rescue, but didn’t see it. I don’t think it was a nested reply either.
I restored something about knitting to the place where it was originally posted…
I’ve been being logged out without doing anything to provoke it. I may have tried to post while logged out.
At my old home, sometimes WP would “eat” a post that would just vanish into the celestial aether / great bit-bucket in the sky, for no apparent reason. A few times, I asked if a post had been somehow shunted to the approval-needed folder, but each time, the posts had not. (This would be now over a year ago.) So I shrugged and considered it a thing that happened for reasons known only to the internet gremlins.
Hmm, Paul, I was born in 1966. Heh. I’m now less than two months shy of 52, and I had thought I was over being twitchy about that over the hill thing, but nooo, I find myself wondering how all that time passed. :: shrugs ::
Ah, well, if anyone finds plans to the jump drive, I’d suggest do please forward them to Pyanfar or Mallory or Sandor Kreja, or perhaps Fletcher Neihart. Anyway, someone who can see they’re put to good use. Harrison Ford, however, seems to be celebratory about his well-known character’s untimely fate. Perhaps Wash or Kaylee could use the plans instead?! 😀
(Or, y’know, Jake from that 70’s Disney movie or the kid piloting the UFO in Flight of the Navigator from the 80’s. Just for completeness’ sake.)
Ah, quite likely Will Robinson is in urgent need of a copy! Just saying.
Time marches on. — Tonight, I was reminded either of how far we’ve come or how far we have yet to go in modern times. We are nearly 100 years from the end of World War I, 1918-11-11 (I had to look up the date to be sure); over 200 years from the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 (I did not look up the month and day); and we are 8 years away from the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and still the outcome of the “great experiment” remains to be seen, challenged somewhat lately. But a quarter of a thousand years isn’t bad for a milestone, considering how doubtful and audacious it was that the USA would remain, when it began. Ah, and the end of World War II is now around 73 years past. We are a few months more than a year away from the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. One more date to make you all wonder where the time went: This May or June, (nearly) all those kids born in 2000 will be graduating high school. For them, 9/11 is before any conscious memory and the space shuttle is maybe a dim memory, if at all, and the space station is old news. They may or may not wonder why we have not set foot on Mars yet. That Alcubierre warp drive idea is just as new to them as it is to us; that is, to the techie and space geeks among them, though that, and science fiction, are significantly more everyday reality to them, and being geeky or nerdy is, well, cool, dudes. And that is how our little blue-green globe spins tonight. It is occasionally strange and humbling to realize tase things, along with any personal milestones.