“If I don’t get what I wish for—
If the changes aren’t profound—
Then I’m voting for The Donald
And we’ll burn it to the ground
Yes, we’ll torch the old foundation
And set fire to the rot
And what rises from the ashes
Can’t be worse than what we’ve got” [Read more…]
The apocalypse is coming! All the scientists agree!
And it won’t be caused by Jesus; it’s the fault of you and me!
As we stomp our carbon footprints, and we foul the fetid air
The apocalypse is coming… but we mostly do not care. [Read more…]
The big bad wolf was hungry
And of course, he wanted meat
So he searched the forest pathways
For a little girl to eat [Read more…]
The good guys with guns are protecting my homeland;
The good guys with guns keep me safe
The good guys with guns have the media charmed
While the doves and the liberals chafe
The good guys with guns say they have all the answers—
For safety, for strength, they’re the ones
The good guys with guns are our saviors, except…
I’m afraid of the good guys with guns. [Read more…]
The first school shooting happened, as the year had just begun;
I considered getting angry, but, you know, it’s only one. [Read more…]
No, not me, of course–to defend that particular rant, you need the help of experts. So it’s breitbart.com that shows us how everybody in the liberal media got it wrong. [Read more…]
Social media breeds hatin’
There is really no debatin’
But text messages from Satan?
I’m not certain I believe! [Read more…]
You mustn’t keep an open mind,
No matter what they say
An open mind is dangerous;
It leads your soul astray! [Read more…]
A million people disagreed (far more than I deserve!)
Which tells me very plainly, that I must have touched a nerve! [Read more…]
So… my hard drive, now, is busted,
And my backup’s busted, too,
And I sorta have to wonder…
If it happened, say, to you…
Is there something irreplaceable
You cannot do without?
The odds are you will lose it,
Why, there’s very little doubt!
So, consider this a warning
(Cos I’m trying to be nice)
It could all go south tomorrow–
Best to back it all up… twice!
The Tech geniuses at Cuttlefish U. tell me my desktop computer is a total loss. Which would not be a problem (I have an external drive dedicated as a Time Machine backup) except that my external drive is also now a paperweight. The computer is nine years old, more or less, which means it is older than Cuttlefish is (more or less), and has files I don’t remember writing. Much of what is there has been backed up multiple times… but if it is like every computer disaster I have known, there will be one or two things that I discover some time next month or next year that cannot be replaced, that I just lost.
Last time this happened, I was moving offices, and a case of notes I had held back (so as not to be lost in the move) was thrown away. They were what might, by now, have been a book (and no, not a book of verse). This time, I have much more of it backed up here and there. It will likely be a month or two before I discover I have lost some irreplaceable file.
But… (and this is my point)… I just lost a lot of data that I thought I had backed up. In fact, I just lost a lot of data that I *had* had backed up. So… back up your data twice. Be redundant. Burn a disk or two or seventeen, as well as that backup hard drive. Or that cloud thingy really I don’t actually understand or trust.
And… What’s the worst you have ever lost this way? Testify, so that others may learn from your losses!