Comments on: it's the little things i miss.

it's the little things i miss.

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:25:42 -0800

it's the little things i miss. After trying to download a plug in through firefox i had a complete computer crash. not even talking about the years of work, images, music, research-- (still in shock and denial phase)-- ahem-- it's the little things i miss, like my millions of bookmarks, work and pure subversive fun. lots like the baby jesus butt plug are gone forever, but as i got so many from you, lovely, wide ranging, all topic sprawling metafilter, help a recall damaged, traumatized gal out? give me your wacky, absurbed and heartfelt, human endeavor, holistic and achingly funny-- prove that the monkey represents sharing?

By: scarabic

scarabic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:32:25 -0800

Are you blue-green color blind by any chance?

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:38:19 -0800

Oh, dear, oh, dear. I am so sorry! This is probably too late but when I teach people to use a computer, I tell them "the question isn't *if* your disk will crash but *when*" and "data doesn't exist until it exists in two places". What have you tried to get your data back? What sort of computer is it? How much is the data worth to you??

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:48:20 -0800

no, i am not color blind; no, this is not my first or worst major crash; yes, i know to back up my data, but the way i work with lots of this is to have a massive pile of stuff to work from, as evident in my live work space, so it doesn't do to inventory and back up things, because in the evaluation-- it's a long story, and no, i don't periodically burn every bit of mental detrius i save. i am a bad bad compute-er. and i am still pulling info off other old comps as i got this new imac a couple years ago and it crashed the first week only to completely restore when i reinstalled. this time it didn't. most probably because like the first most devastating time when i lost over ten years of work, there was some accidental third party intervention that caused it (don't let random partners turn of the computer!) meanwhile, a currently fetus fascinated friend keeps sending me stuff like this.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:55:31 -0800

My point is that I think this belongs in the green of Ask MetaFilter, since you are soliciting help from people following a problem you had. The blue site is for posting "best of the web" links, not asking for them.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:55:42 -0800

Uh... shouldn't this be on Ask Metafilter? Also, what kind of computer "crash" was it? I can't see how some Firefox plugin thing could wipe your data, unless you're some kind of fool who reformats and reinstalls Windows at the drop of a hat (as many people appear to be).

By: Dillenger69

Dillenger69 — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:00:41 -0800

I've had this happen to me two times. 1. External FireWire drive. I turned the drive off without officially disconnecting it from windows, came back up and *poof* 6 years of email gone. now I back up to disk yearly with email and every few months with my documents dir. 2. Installing Linux and it didn't like my Raid card. Mandrake decided to write to the boot sector of one of my raid 0 disks, hopelessly scrambling the array. yay, buh-bye linux until I have a third machine. the moral, I now keep the bookmarks I use on yahoo, everything else gets backed up.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:11:40 -0800

and by the by, as someone who use to be able to effortlessly reel off all her credit card numbers, please feel free to bash my current neurological impairment ad nauseum if it feels like friday fun. soo mea culpa, yes the dumb chick didn't burn the whole of her comp on a daily basis and can't comprehend half her bookshelf any more, please excuse me as i painfully search for software updates as bits of ephemera resurface, flotsam on the sea of pain for the search. (lalalalamaintainingdeniallalalalala--) oh and in review, sorry, i don't usually post or use metafilter so much as scan for links and so i didn't know about the ask. i'm sure this will get wiped off, though i thought people might just like posting their fave absurd links. i had shifted a lot of info online at one time, it all a long story of crashes, theft, loss, hospital, trauma, etc. i'd go into how this happened from a corruption but it's long and not so very interesting.

By: ambrosia

ambrosia — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:12:15 -0800

Ever since I discovered Furl, I put things there instead of making a bookmark. Since it's web based, I can furl something at work, and pull it up at home, or vice versa.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:16:30 -0800

thanks, i forget the last thing like furl i knew of. i haven't kept up with comp stuff like i use to in a very long time. once life take you away from the internet, it's hard to catch back up in all the different ways if it's not what you do anyway.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:18:53 -0800

Point is, colour issues aside, your data might yet be salvageable... if you haven't reformatted the drive or anything irrevocable like that. Best idea -- take the drive out and put it as a second drive into someone else's working machine.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:27:16 -0800

thanks for the concern but i know it's not. i'm not gonna go into how the final nails got banged, especially because as my misposting is Such an affront. at least i know about ask now.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:34:51 -0800

I'm going to be nice here, or try to be, but direct too: You're obviously not the... um... most computer-literate of people. If you tell us what you did to your computer, someone here might be able to help you fix it, no matter how far gone you might think it is.

By: meehawl

meehawl — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:36:14 -0800

Raid 1. With disks so cheap these days it boggles my mind that systems are not sold with at least Raid 1 as the minimum config.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:46:49 -0800

gee, thanks, but i'm not the most illiterate either. if it were fixable, i'd be fixing it. i wasn't asking for computer help, and i appreciate the intent, but it is a lost cause at this point and reinstalled, and a dumb story of other people's good intentions and accidents, plus circumstances most probably curious to my comp and situation. i ignorantly thought people might just like posting fun links like i use to have. i'm probably going to make the most headway looking up usernames i remember posting most of the things i liked am an interested in. so who wipes these posts?

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:13:07 -0800

Don't you hate it when you mistake metafilter for your own blog? Oops!

By: keswick

keswick — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:19:46 -0800

c'mon everyone, let's pile on ethylene!

By: triv

triv — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:21:45 -0800

"so who wipes these posts?" you're joking, right? and yes, the pile on beckons...

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:23:32 -0800

yes please, don't miss a chance to flex your big brains in the two way mirror/filter-- watch those wrinkles ripple! sexy

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:24:29 -0800

Don't miss a chance to reply to every comment, ethylene!

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:24:30 -0800

i was joking but i have seen posts wiped.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:25:58 -0800

trying just for you Hilly!

By: taz

taz — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:27:11 -0800

Hey, thanks for the furl link, ambrosia; I'm going to try that out. ethylene - here is one of my favorite links: sandlot science

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:32:44 -0800

ethylene: There is absolutly no way downloading a software plug in could have destroyed your data. Most likely, all of youre files are still there, just out of reach. Unless you've already reformated your hard drives and reinstalled the OS, you can probably get them back. Just install the drives in another machine, and see if they come up. Beyond that, there are tons of data recovery services that can help you out (for a hefty fee). But seriously, if it was just a botched software install, your stuffs almost certanly fine.

By: sic

sic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:33:31 -0800

Jesus, what a bunch of dicks. All ethylene is asking for is links to fill his/her/its depleted bookmarks. Is that so hard? Here's a link that shows you how to toilet train your cat! have fun!

By: sic

sic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:35:12 -0800

and swear in 107 languages....

By: techgnollogic

techgnollogic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:36:12 -0800

Hildegarde: I think you meant this thread. Or maybe this one. Or this. Or that one. or this or that or this and that.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:38:08 -0800

why thank you, taz. now that the Hilly one has given me the will to go on, it's like hosting a booth at a hotel with warring conventions. the vulcan elvis still is the most amsuing thing here. seriously, i sincerely thank the people who want to help but it's been taken care of beyond help, by people with all too helpful intentions. much like another time when certain people who think they are "optimizing" your computer screw it up because they "know best." there was a window when i could have salvaged some things, but it's gone. it wasn't just the download but it did spark it all, and it was part haste and human error that make the last blow. funnel cakes to your left!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:40:05 -0800

geez, only a few people bitched about the post. Anyway, tell us what happend. Computer disaster stories are always intresting. The worst, for me, was when I was in Highschool, and had only been using computers a while. I had a doublespace drive, which took up a large part of the hard drive. i then misconfigured my BIOS so that it didn't support Hard drives larger then 500 megs, and subsiquently scandisk started marking every sector above that as bad. This included the begining of the doublespace drives. It sucked. And on top of that, my ISP had managed to fuck up the transfer of files from one webserver to another, causing me to lose all my subdirectories. Combined with the hd crash, I lost my first web page :(.

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:46:26 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:47:54 -0800

thanks, sic, it is one i had. i almost couldn't swear in swahili. and i am killing time between downloads. feel free to polarize fight fight fight! delmoi: things always looks harsher in anonymous text, people never know what's polite or cold or sarcasm. it's not the worst crash or even the worst loss of info, having my purse stolen while traveling was much worse, but it was bad and i'm really trying not to think about it. and it's just not even as particularly amusing.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:52:52 -0800

Toilet training cats is a pain in the ass. They did fine with the little bowl thing with kitty litter in it that sits on top of the toilet, but once I tried to take that thing away, and they had a big gaping hole of potty water staring up at them, the little bastards shit on the rug. Hey, maybe I did it wrong. Seriously, though, there are numerous backup solutions available for anyone who has a CD-RW, there's damned near no excuse to not do so at least once a week. Hell, the latest version of Nero, available with damned near every $50 OEM CD burner, has a weekly backup jammie built into it.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:53:02 -0800

reminds me of the infinite cat project and that marc maron quote about him first going into chats: "i like cats"-- this is the information highway? btw, i like cats

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:55:39 -0800

at least it's something almost everyone can understand. it's given me great excuse for not having to be forced to be nice to visiting relatives.

By: sleslie

sleslie — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:01:11 -0800

(so, we're stating from day one, are we?) The dichotomy between the two kinds of people posting will magically become extremely easy to understand upon reading this from this book. The data you want is right inside your computer, ethylene. Baring you burning the computer to pure silicon and carbon, it is recoverable.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:09:18 -0800

i know but i don't really have the resources and i have had to move on. i know if there is something i can't get one way or another i really need i can do it if the need balances out the cost and effort. i'm trying to think of it as a buddhist headshaving. it's interesting to overview the posting anyhoo, as i don't usually. free fridge magnets in hall two.

By: sic

sic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:18:01 -0800

btw, i like cats posted by ethylene at 12:53 AM GMT on June This should make you chuckle then.

By: sic

sic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:19:23 -0800

and this

By: scarabic

scarabic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:22:09 -0800

Okay, so now that the pile-on has run its course... I'm still not 100% clear, but if you're looking for amusing little bits of internet ha-ha, here's a very very old index (oh-so 2001) of wee net movies and such that I used to maintain. Enjoy.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:23:17 -0800

oh... cats? Did I mention Pinky?

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:23:20 -0800

marked but i still have to get different thing up to speed to play stuff. i do miss lots of clips and japanese links, like one matrix pingpong one, and i got all hooked on domokun from that cat pic.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:31:10 -0800

and the liking cats does not denote crazy fanatical cat collecting liking cats, not more than, say, oddities or scientific quirks. above fistulas, close to dadaist social action.

By: eperker

eperker — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:42:37 -0800

The least I can do is get you your Baby Jesus Butt Plug back.

By: dvdgee

dvdgee — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:01:27 -0800

your bookmarks were not deleted! unbeknownst to you, everything you've ever bookmarked that was worthwhile has been secretly backed up here.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:01:53 -0800

awww, i thought that site went down ages ago. the copy is different but it's still sacrelicious. (time to power down this monster and walk away swiftly into the deepening night)

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:05:03 -0800

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."

By: jeremias

jeremias — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:00:29 -0800

It seems like the question you wanted to ask is where can I find a page of Free Bookmark Managers. They allow you to save your bookmarks in a different location than your own computer. Regarding the little links- have you ever seen the Netscape Fish Cam?

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:49:58 -0800

Wait ... this is an iMac, and firefox means Mac OS X. There's practically never a reason for reinstalling Mac OS X, especially something that's been done at application level. Creating a new user would have almost certainly solved the problem. Administrator! Hope please!

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:56:10 -0800

ethylene, have you met thomcatspike? I imagine you guys having a very chummy high noon zen showdown at the streams of conciousness ... :)

By: euphorb

euphorb — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:57:36 -0800

blah blah blah should have backed up. blah blah data recovery. blah blah blah post doesn't belong here .... Now that that's out of the way here ya go. I went through my archives and pulled out a bunch of stuff. Most of it I either snagged from Metafilter or it ended up here anyway. 6'5", 6'9" with afro Druid Porn X-entertainment reviews My Little Pony American Crusade Trading Cards Hot AT-ST on AT-ST action Rejected He-man action figures Human virus scanner The Art of Alice Kelly Physics inside a Microwave Oven Blood Type Columbus's Competition Drug Slang The abstract sculptures of George Hart Updated pulp scifi covers Home Depot marathon Butt Candle Weird band names Ftrain's Baffling Cuteness Lego Old Testament Your life path Classify or Identify craters The Art of Jim Warren Demographics by zipcode Smashing Peanuts Was Jerry Garcia born before the invention of the aerosol can? B3ta's top ten web games The Internet Sacred Texts Archive Interview with the Soup Nazi (and recipe for crab bisque) Engrish The '80s Tarot Card Deck The Art of Mear The Fake Detective Inexplicable Objects The Star Wars Holiday Special The Secret Fun Spot Cute pussy pics Bloodninja: The cybersessions The Evil Overlord List American Dialects 20 Q

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 21:17:35 -0800

Ethylene is my new favorite MeFite.

By: trharlan

trharlan — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 22:44:28 -0800

Ethylene is my new favorite MeFite. And mine.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 00:20:48 -0800

ethylene is the name of a duck i know

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 01:55:36 -0800

Reminds me when I used to post drunk.... sinfest comic strip Hubble Deep Field images (very cool)

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 10:59:17 -0800

Where's evanizer when you need him?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:02:43 -0800

this might be good for a few chuckles...

By: quin

quin — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 02:40:25 -0800

Thanks euphorb, it's nice to see someone read the post and tried to offer her what she was looking for. i've seen these 'best of MeFi' posts come up before and since i can't spend every waking moment in the Blue (much to my dissapointment), i look forward to them as the introduce/ reacquaint me with some great links. Sorry some of us were so hard on you ethylene i hope you get your Mac working and are able to resurrect your lost data. Oh, and i [heart] quonsar for reminding me of sinfest. i forgot how much i love that comic.