If there’s something you’d like to read, or see, and get the error business, please try again. Driving me batshit, it is, but I can’t do anything about it. Thanks so much for your patience.
Affinity
Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
If there’s something you’d like to read, or see, and get the error business, please try again. Driving me batshit, it is, but I can’t do anything about it. Thanks so much for your patience.
Between the evils of Verizon, and the FTB server also hating me today, I’m giving up. I can’t get anything scheduled for morning, so if I get up, stuff will be on time. If I don’t, well, things will get started a bit late.
You can blame the Evil Empire, aka Verizon. Trying to get net access has been extremely trying lately; I have to kill and reboot the wireless unit from 4 to 12 times in order to even have my connection show up, and even when it does, I keep getting kicked off, making blogging a right pain in the arse. There’s a tower down or summat like, and as Verizon doesn’t seem to be overly aware of rural users, it might be a while until it gets back to the normal level of truly crappy, overpriced ‘service.’
Anyroad, if I’m late getting started (like today), or gone entirely for a day, I’m fine, I’m just probably trying to walk off the desire to smash the wireless unit into tiny splinters.
Aaaaaaaaand, in line with this being a remarkably shitty day, just pulled a fucking godsdamned tick off my head.
I just realized that Akismet is going a bit over zealous again, so as I rarely look at the spam filter, if you find you commented, and it doesn’t show up, please, don’t hesitate to drop me an email (see sidebar) and holler at me to check the thing. Thanks.
By way of admin stuff, my alarm didn’t go off this morning, so if things are very late starting Sunday, that would be why, partially dead clock.
© C. Ford.
I don’t like the whole “April Fool’s Day” nonsense. So, there will be none of that crap here at Affinity, and if you’re someone who just loves it, I’ll thank you to indulge elsewhere. I have enough to do already, without having to track down even more deliberate bullshit.
So, if you love your pranks, jokes, whatever, please keep them off Affinity, and we can get through the day with a modicum of sanity. Thanks.
The Mad Artist has been in her lab all night, and may or may not be around, depending on whether or not she can manage to drag her arse out of bed sometime today. Remember that The Endless Thread is always open!
© C. Ford.
but it wouldn’t have been much of a party without all you wonderful people who bother to read and comment here. You are what keeps me going, and you have provided a great deal of support through many dark days. You have also provided me with a wealth of content, my profuse thanks for that, too! So…
And Happy Anniversary to us all!
Don’t mind me, just having problems. Testing, testing. Still can’t get videos to display at the right size. Effety.
NOTE: this post is stickied, there is new content!
© C. Ford. All rights reserved.
There will be no politics here today. No reporting of ugly people doing ugly things. No evil assholes. Today, I’m going to ignore reality, and dive into all the good things, art, photography, cool stuff, neat science, the whimsical, geeky, fun, and informative, all that. If you’re paying attention to reality today, and need a break, I’ll do my best to provide one, all day long.
The Drain the Swamp? thread is being used as a link repository, for all things pertinent to the election and state of government. I can’t cover everything, so check there now and then, to see what’s up. Also for open discussion on current affairs, so bookmark it, and when you need to grumble or panic, you have the place. There’s a thread link on the sidebar.
If your answer is yes, you do have something to say, consider saying it on FTB. We are actively seeking applications now. Here’s what you do:
send an email to ftbapplications@googlegroups.
Name:
Contact email:
Do you want your email public?:
Twitter account, if any:
Link for donations, if any:
Links to your current blog, any biographical material, or best examples of your writing in comments or forums or other media:
Why do you want to write for us?
As someone who is privileged to read the applications, personally, I’d like to hear a bit about your particular point of view, say as a person of colour, or queer nation member, a woman, military, educator, parent, artist, crafter, and so on. Whatever it is that drives your particular perspective on issues. That’s not a requirement at all, just a wish of mine, so you can ignore me with no consequence. Group blogs are happily considered and accepted, you just need to have one person who will consent to being the ‘head’ of the blog, meaning they get all the headaches, and the job of dividing up all the pennies. Give it a bit of thought, and if you have something to say, send it our way. I look forward to seeing all manner of bright, shiny people here.
Urban Threads.
I just rescued a comment (by parrothead) out of the spam filter. There was nothing wrong with it at all, but my comments at other FTB blogs have been swallowed by the spam filter too, so it seems Akismet may have a bit of a problem right now. If you comment, and notice it doesn’t show up, please don’t hesitate to let me know, and I’ll go looking for it. Email address is linked on the sidebar. My apologies to parrothead, I don’t keep a sharp enough eye out for that kind of thing. I’ll do better.