My step-sister Cathy taught me how to search Google Cache. And I’ve restored 3 of the missing posts. The cat-blogging isn’t there and of course my saved-for-the-future posts are gone, but I feel so much better!
Archive for Site News
I lost last week
I lost The Kite Runner review (which I can get back, because I cross-posted at IIRTZ). I lost Cat-Blogging. I lost the Sunday Meditation, which was one of the best things I’ve written in ages, and which I’d planned to save for a book I’m writing. Plus two or three posts I’d written and saved for the future, including a really fabulous one about a conversation with my mother.
Since my web host does a daily backup, I don’t worry about backing up my posts. In fact, he told me not to bother in so many words. Because of the backup. But his hardware somehow ate a week’s worth of backups. They’re all corrupt and cannot be restored.
I’m more than a little upset. And this effects the James Bond blog as well (same host). I actually lost more writing, more pre-saved posts, over there. Did I mention upset? I just can’t believe…I mean writing is what I do. In some ways, it’s what I am, and to see it die…
Oy. No trivia today. Can’t deal.
Site Outage
I’m back. Sorry. Life is full of uncertainty.
I think I fixed the slow load
I think it was a plugin. Let me know how it’s loading for you.
Mad Men Mad
My sister and I have started a blog about the AMC show Mad Men. I’ve posted about this show before, and in fact, I have a half-written post about the feminism of the show sitting in my Drafts folder.
It was Roberta’s idea (the blog) and I hope it’s going to be fun. My plan is, I guess, to cross-post here if it’s about feminism or something else I like to talk about here, but mostly Mad Men stuff will be over there.
So please come visit.
Property of a Lady is Two Years Old
My blogiversary date is fuzzy, as I explained on my one year Blogiversary. In addtion, the Name the Blog contest wasn’t until December of 2005, so I wasn’t actually Property of a Lady at first.
Yet, there must be a date, and October 14 is it. I celebrate the me that is me. Also forcing myself to write a lot. Also having fun chatting with folks who come and visit.
Yay me.
Arthur: An Introduction
Hi. This is Arthur speaking. I asked my mom if I could blog on here, and she said “Sure.” So here I am.
I am the oft-mentioned teenage son whose thoughts and actions are at times wise and odd, naive and unexpected, insightful and provocative, and just generally unique. I think about a variety of things, and blog often about my take on pop culture, as one who is both fascinated and perplexed by the world he should be a part of, but sometimes is not. I notice things about my friends’ taste in music, fashions senses, youth vernacular, and other assorted teenagery things. An anthropologist in malls, you could call me.
Still, I make an effort to keep relatively current on political and social issues, although I’ve been so busy lately that it took me over a week to notice that Karl Rove had resigned. I’m still not sure that his resignation is real. Nothing makes sense anymore in this world and especially this administration, not even the few quasi-good things that the White House spews.
I also think a lot about philosophical problems and hypothetical dilemmas. I will conclude this post with a relatively short one.
Two research psychologists are studying brain wave patterns. They are studying prisoners convicted of violent crimes, especially multiple violent crimes. The two scientists are analyzing the brain wave patterns of these criminals, and also of an equal-sized control group made up of normal, everyday people.
The first scientist comes up to the second one, and says, “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we proved our hypothesis. The anomaly we were looking for was present in100% of the prisoners, and absent from the control group.”
“Well, what’s the bad news then?”
“The anomaly was present in one of the members of the control group.”
The question is, what happens next? What should happen next?
Fantabulous Blogroll Addition
I don’t always post when I update the blogroll, but Shapely Prose is such a fantastic and wonderful blog that I wanted to point it out extra special. Go read it.
I’m back!
The site has been down most of the day. Sorry. I’ll get a hint up for our last remaining trivia question in the next few minutes.
UPDATE: Hint is now hinted.
That was weird
When I opened the blog this morning, I see that Tuesday Trivia from yesterday was marked “Private.” I have literally no idea how that happened. None. I’m looking at the spot in WordPress where you can switch something to private, and it’s nowhere near where you might accidentally click something while trying to click something else.
I’m baffled.
I’ll leave the hints off for an hour or two since I don’t know how long the basic questions were inaccessible.
