Crestfallen and Frustrated
| Last night I wrote the post on Pirates ... to quote the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy on space "It was big ... I mean it was really big ... seriously, you wouldn't have believed how incredibly big it was." I'll admit, it was a bit cumbersome, not exactly what you would call "tight" - but decently organized for the siza, had sub-headings breaking things down somwhat into a major structurefor digestability. But it was packed with lots of interesting stuff and tidbits along the way. And then ... it was not so big - in fact it was not there at all. Due to an error on my part the text vanished before I could hit the publish button. In fact I was in the midst of trying to avoid such disappearances from technical complications - I was selecting the text to copy into a word document in case it got dumped in the publish process ... and then it was gone. It would have been bad enough having to repaste it into blogger from Word because I have never gotten around to getting the blogger for Word plugin and would have hade to go in and replace all of the quotation marks and other things that tanslate goofy without the plugin ... but, I guess now I don't even have to worry about that (I walked around the room for five minutes saying, "where's that monkey? I need to shoot something!"). Anyway, I greatly apologize Sumara ... I'm going to write another version here in the next day or two. Most likely it will not be as chocked full and packed but that may make for a little less cumbersome read. I sympathize greatly with Harry in book 5 when Snape vanishes the contents of his cauldron using "evanesco." |
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Pauli said ... (July 20, 2006 2:53 PM)
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Sumara said ... (July 20, 2006 6:31 PM)
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Sumara said ... (July 20, 2006 11:25 PM)
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Merlin said ... (July 22, 2006 8:19 PM)
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post a commentBeen there done that. Sadly it's a more common occurence than many realize w/ Blogger. Some time ago I began doing a quick CRTL-A / CTRL-C before posting so I have the whole thing saved, but I usually throw it into Word first anyway since Blogger's spell-checker is so stinky. So that's kind of my "ace-in-the-hole" against sending a post down to the proverbial "Davey Jones Locker" of the internet.
yeh, that's happened to me too.
you have my sympathies.
rats. i wanted to read it too!
jo
So, in windows operating on top of blogger "ctrl-a" does a select all?
see that was the key I needed. I used to have it in my head to watch out for that same thing happening as happened last night, but for the past month I have been working in Word so heavily on this silly encyclopedia project, and taht doesn't happen there (basically "that" is I put the cursor at the bottom of the text I had typed and then had shift and the up arrow pressed ... in word it will just keep going and then stop... not make the text go bye bye - in Word I usually do alt-E [to the edit menu] and then L [sellect all] and then ctrl-c, but that is a menu specific path to Word so I just did the old thing with shft-arrow key ... and it was good bye
don't worry Jo, most of it will be up again soon and what I remember later will probably go into comments
Oh no! How amazingly frustrating!
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Bloody pirates!!!
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I'll be keeping a weather eye out for it. ;-)
(I've been saying that about everything lately, my husband thinks I'm nuts) (which I probably am)
On another note; I started reading HP and the Philosopher's Stone. :-) I've only read a few pages but I'm sure I'll catch up with you all in no time! LOL.
Oh, and I thought you might like this blogger's post on Pirates... (sorry I don't know how to link in a comment)
http://www.hereisnowhy.com/blog/2006/07/pirates-of-caribbean-dead-mans-chest.html
I'll have to read the post on Pirates after I do the two posts I have planned tonight after watching the movie again (uncovered somore more booty ... which allows me to split out the posts mor, since some of the stuff I tossed in that made the first run so cumbersome, fits under this new discovery much better) - I'll leave the math to you all as to how many times that is, I won't embarass myself by actually stating the number :)
I was joking with my our friend Nate today about the lost post - he said "maybe it was a sign" and I said thought it was, that I had written taht one too much "under the influence" - although the rum in this case would be the soudntrack which I bought on Sunday and have been constantly consuming ever since. I have the first three tracks thoroughly stuck in my head: Jack Sparrow, The Kraken and Davey Jones. Jone's theme is just so haunting and kicks in so hard when it goes to the full organ, orchestra and choral. And the I realized tonight that the organ part that the Kraken piece crescendoes into is used for the beasties final kill, particularly of the ship which will is on (and I still shudder at Jones' speech when they call the Kraken: "Let no joyful sound be heard, let no man look to the sky with hope, and let this day be cursed by we who awaken ... the Kraken"). Anyway, I joked to Nate that God had to curb me some because with that blasting on the stereo as I typed that essay I probably looked a bit too much like Jones playing the organ with his beard-icles.
But I originally just hopped onto this thread to mention one thing in regards to your husband thinking you are crazy (I am going down to set up my own computer in the basement and compose my two POTC posts on it while I burn some copies of a DVD Paul's dad made from a camcorder tape of my Dad and his brothers singing together at an amateur competition society's stage/venue last October in Colorado"
as far as being nuts, from movie 1 when Will and and Jack are under the water with the boat upside down, walking the bay bottom to the Dauntless to pretend to steal it as a ruse actually to get the Interceptor (well this is a paraphrase from memory ... basic jist):
Will: "Your either a genius or completely mad!"
Jack: "It's amazing how often those two threats coincide."
Oh yes! I love that line! I'm going to turn on the DVD now and check the actual words.... (you'd think, having watched the movie four times in a week, I'd remember but I can't resist checking!)
Will: "this is either madness, or brilliance"
Jack: "it's remarkable how often those two traits coincide"
And thank you, I'd think to think I'm brilliant rather than mad! :-)
Oh please do state how many times you've seen DMC! If I had more money and no kids to organise I'd have seen it about 5 times by now. As it is I'm seeing it for only the 2nd time, this weekend. And planned again next week with a friend. :)
I listened to it a few times and you may be right with Jack saying "threats" Sounded at first like "traits" to me but he slurs that line particularly well so it could be either. :)
went to the video shop today to hire number 1 pirates and there were none there. *is sulking*
i got out narnia instead, cos i heard the outtakes are really funny.
woohoot for sumara reading harry. i hope you fall in love with him.
but i will still talk to you if you don't...
jo
Ahhh, very excellent choreography on Tilda Swinton's two-sword fighting - fits her body-style very well, sweeping but powerful moves and coordinations - much better than the "hopped up on speed" pyro-technics of the Star Wars Prequels (but I think I may have said that on this blog before ... It's like Dejavu all over again :) - funny thing, how often that happens for me, heh heh, ... um *making a quick Sparrow exit stage left/right*)