there is no spoon
Or in Aussie terms, the teaspoons go walkabout. There are actually people who have studied the phenomenon of missing spoons. Their findings are that within 5 months; it is 80% accurate to say that there is no spoon.
And probably of the macabre humour variety, Polonium is much in the news in these parts due to the murder of the ex-Russian spy. Like probably everyone else; I think the message sent is rather clear. “Don’t fork with us”.
And almost finally (but not quite), What the fork is that? Well, it’s art.
And completely unhumourously, the US has spent more time fighting in Iraq than during WW2. Talk about a fork in the road, huh?
On 27-Nov-06 at 6:40 am,
sage wrote:
why do your links go buggery every once in a while?
On 27-Nov-06 at 8:57 am,
drac wrote:
I don’t see the phenomenon in any of the links
didn’t see it last time either. Which ones? And what exactly is the problem with them?
On 27-Nov-06 at 10:47 am,
Tz. wrote:
It’s true! Your links do go buggery. I seen ‘em do this.
On 27-Nov-06 at 11:56 am,
sage wrote:
okay, the “studied the phenomenon of missing spoons” is a different colour, but on rollover it isn’t clickable. it is clickable only between on “studied t”.
same thing with “the murder of the ex-Russian spy”, where the whole thing is unclickable.
and for some further, odder and more mysterious reasons, the unclickable parts don’t like to get highlighted. making it very difficult to cop-paste the text.
Tz. sees it too. i am not making this shit up. psscht. and you never believe what i say.
On 27-Nov-06 at 1:23 pm,
drac wrote:
Meh. I is officially teh mystified. I’ve tried loading the page on multiple machines; multiple browsers and it still WFM.
Greasemonkey and a misbehaving script?
Opera, FF (both 1.5 and 2.0), IE and Konqui. Heck, I even tried Lynx. They all worky.
On 27-Nov-06 at 5:06 pm,
Chickenbutt wrote:
oh you guys have the same problem too? i thought it was my firefox playing up. Drac : sorry dear, it aint working in mine too
On 27-Nov-06 at 5:10 pm,
drac wrote:
OMGWTF People! More information?! Does this happen on the same links each time? Different links? Does it occur each time you refresh the page or what?
I cannot see it. Dayum
On 28-Nov-06 at 5:58 am,
chickenbutt wrote:
Interestingly enough, i dont have this problem on the farm machine. The most notable difference between the firefox install at the farm and home is that i dont have any extensions installed in the farm version except for color zilla
On 28-Nov-06 at 5:20 pm,
The Lair » is this thing on? wrote:
[...] It appears that gremlins have once again taken over the blog. Since I couldn’t figure out a prosaic explanation for why some people get linky problems I decided to go on an upgrading spree instead. [...]
On 01-Dec-06 at 7:55 pm,
Tz wrote:
Hah. New developments. One hard disk crash and reinstall later, I’m back on FF 1.5.0.8 and minus Greasemonkey entirely.
THE LINKY PROBLEMS ARE DIFFERENT NOW.
The only links that don’t work are the two that break across multiple lines, namely:
studied the phenomenon of missing
spoons.
and
murder of the ex-Russian
spy.
In each case, I can get the link if I mouseover the last word, which is at the beginning of the second line (”spoons” or “spy”) but not for the rest of the linked phrase.
On 01-Dec-06 at 8:53 pm,
drac wrote:
This just _has_ to be something interfering with the rendering… but what?! Aargh. The suspense is killing me. Quite apart from that, I’ve never had this problem. Not even once.
Hard disk crash? You sound remarkably unperturbed about it.
On 02-Dec-06 at 9:28 pm,
I/O Error « adamantine wrote:
[...] As Drac noted, I am comparatively calm about this -mostly because I didn’t lose all my stuff. Both work and personal email is in Gmail these days, so that’s fine. A gigabyte or so of work-related data is rsynced daily to a server at work, so that’s fine. Novel and associated notes are tarballed and emailed to myself on a daily basis, so that’s fine. Most everything else important is on a weekly backup, which means I’m losing precisely a week’s worth of data, given that my weekly backups go on Fridays and the crash happened Thursday evening -but nothing life-threatening. Apparently backing up really is a Good Thing. [...]