[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "sigh"     Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose Topic #424
Reading Topic #424
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22401 posts		 Apr-14-14, 03:57 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
"sigh"
 
   I'm really annoyed that of all the thousands of threads on these boards, the one that got eaten by a random disk glitch before the migration was the one with all the reaction to What's Past Is Prologue in it. Not the one about the birth of Prince What's-his-Face. Not the one with the stupid argument about the feasibility of Dyson spheres. No. The one about the story covering the long-delayed birth of Annabelle Tenjou. If that isn't just frigging typical of the way the universe works, I'm not sure what would be.

I realize this happened months ago and I'm just getting around to being publicly fucked off about it now, but you know what, I'm in the tool crib on a beautiful sunny 63° spring day AND THE STEAM IS STILL ON IN THE MTL BUILDING so I'm pretty sure I'm having a temperature-induced neurological incident at this point, and my injured leg is very sore and I have a lot of work to do in the next three weeks and god dammit I'm not happy. And I want some damn ice cream. And a MakerBot. And a pony. No, wait, I don't want a pony. I had one of those when I was a kid and it was just... not as awesome as the reports would lead a person to suspect. They're a lot of work and they bite.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
sigh [View All] Gryphonadmin Apr-14-14 TOP
  RE: sigh MuninsFire Apr-14-14 1
  RE: sigh twipper Apr-15-14 2
  RE: sigh Zemyla Apr-15-14 3
     RE: sigh Gryphonadmin Apr-15-14 4
         RE: sigh JeanneHedge Apr-15-14 5
             RE: sigh Gryphonadmin Apr-15-14 6
                 RE: sigh JeanneHedge Apr-15-14 7
                     RE: sigh Gryphonadmin Apr-15-14 8

Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic
MuninsFire
Member since Mar-27-07
457 posts		 Apr-14-14, 09:31 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail MuninsFire Click to send private message to MuninsFire Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
1. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #0
 
   That there is the reason why the one true god of sysops will always be Finagle, for anything that can go wrong always will in the -worst- -conceivable- -manner- -possible-.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
twipper
Member since Jan-8-03
279 posts		 Apr-15-14, 02:15 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail twipper Click to send private message to twipper Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
2. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #0
 
   >And a pony. No, wait, I don't want a pony.
>I had one of those when I was a kid and it was just... not as awesome
>as the reports would lead a person to suspect. They're a lot of work
>and they bite.

On my west-bound drive to work there is a small group of ponies in one of the hobby farms between Wamego and Manhattan KS.

Presided over by a rather brilliantly colored rooster. And damned if the ponies don't seemed more than a little wary of him.

Brian


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Zemyla
Member since Mar-26-08
430 posts		 Apr-15-14, 07:46 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Zemyla Click to send private message to Zemyla Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list Click to send message via AOL IM  
3. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #0
 
   If you know the address, you may be able to get it from either Google cache or archive.org.


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22401 posts		 Apr-15-14, 08:15 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
4. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #3
 
   >If you know the address, you may be able to get it from either Google
>cache or archive.org.

This does not appear to be the case. It used to be thread 384 on DCForumID 16, technically speaking, and the convoluted CGI URLs the Forum uses to retrieve that kind of thing don't seem to lead much of anywhere in archive searches. (Searching by URL doesn't even seem to register on google.)

It would've been something like "http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=384&forum=DCForumID16&viewmode=threaded"; (that's the format the URL switches to after there are more than three replies). "om=384&forum=DCForumID16" still exists on the present Forum as the blank, wrong-subject-lined version that was left behind after the disk error happened (which, judging from the TFI thread that appeared about it, seems to have been on or about December 18 of last year).

If anyone out there was wizard enough to conjure the pre-glitched version out of the aether somehow, that'd be dope (it probably wouldn't be reintegrable into the Forum, but at least the text would exist), but I'm not optimistic. The NSA probably has it somewhere, but they'd never admit it, much less send it back. :)

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
JeanneHedge
Charter Member
933 posts		 Apr-15-14, 09:07 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail JeanneHedge Click to send private message to JeanneHedge Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
5. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #4
 
   >>If you know the address, you may be able to get it from either Google
>>cache or archive.org.
>
>This does not appear to be the case. It used to be thread 384 on
>DCForumID 16, technically speaking, and the convoluted CGI URLs the
>Forum uses to retrieve that kind of thing don't seem to lead much of
>anywhere in archive searches. (Searching by URL doesn't even seem to
>register on google.)


I hate to ask, but I was just poking around in the SOS archives. The archive entry with the subject "S5DS03 - Goodbye, And Hello, As Always" has a strange looking date (Dec-- 05:11 PM) and "-1" replies. I clicked, and it's indicating that that is thread 384. But you say the missing thread that has you steamed is "What's Past is Prologue" and above you say that *that's* thread 384. Related?

Jeanne

Jeanne Hedge
http://www.jhedge.com
"Never give up, never surrender!"


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22401 posts		 Apr-15-14, 09:15 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
6. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #5
 
   >I hate to ask, but I was just poking around in the SOS archives. The
>archive entry with the subject "S5DS03 - Goodbye, And Hello, As
>Always" has a strange looking date (Dec-- 05:11 PM) and "-1" replies.
>I clicked, and it's indicating that that is thread 384. But you say
>the missing thread that has you steamed is "What's Past is Prologue"
>and above you say that *that's* thread 384. Related?

Yes. That was the Prologue reaction thread; what you see in the archive is what it mysteriously turned into.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
JeanneHedge
Charter Member
933 posts		 Apr-15-14, 09:27 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail JeanneHedge Click to send private message to JeanneHedge Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
7. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #6
 
   LAST EDITED ON Apr-15-14 AT 09:32 PM (EDT)
 
Geez.

Just asking a basic question that may have been missed in oversight (sometimes people jump straight for a complex solution). When was the last backup before everything went down the crapper?


Jeanne
(can't get archive.org to show any board activity after mid 2007; something must have changed)


(edit - to remove something I missed the first time through)


Jeanne Hedge
http://www.jhedge.com
"Never give up, never surrender!"


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22401 posts		 Apr-15-14, 09:36 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
8. "RE: sigh"
In response to message #7
 
   >Just asking a basic question that may have been missed in oversight
>(sometimes people jump straight for a complex solution). When was the
>last backup before everything went down the crapper?

I'm not sure there ever was one on the previous vhost; the disk was too small.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)