If you are reading this, lucky you! I couldn’t access the blog for days and couldn’t figure out why, and about 7642 of you emailed to inform me of same. I finally got a wild hair and updated my version of Firefox, and blam! Fixed! I still don’t know what the fuck it was. The internet. Can’t live with it, can’t shoot it.
Meanwhile, please stand by for a trenchant post on something or other. It might not even be a home movie about insects.
End transmission.
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17 comments
liberality
July 19, 2009 at 9:33 am (UTC -6)
I missed you. Welcome back!
Comrade PhysioProf
July 19, 2009 at 9:54 am (UTC -6)
Thank fucking god!
BMS
July 19, 2009 at 11:13 am (UTC -6)
Freekin’ Firefox.
I upgraded last week.
Now my Adblock doesn’t work.
Shelly
July 19, 2009 at 11:19 am (UTC -6)
Huh. I’m still using the last version of Firefox (can’t upgrade until one of the plug-ins I use is updated). Your blog was kerplowie for me, too (wanted me to download it whenever I tried to view the main page or one of the posts). Even without upgrading Firefox, it’s now working fine.
Damned interwebs.
Jill
July 19, 2009 at 11:53 am (UTC -6)
Damn! I didn’t realize this! Why doesn’t shit just work?
Shelly
July 19, 2009 at 12:04 pm (UTC -6)
That is the question, isn’t it?
BMS
July 19, 2009 at 12:15 pm (UTC -6)
It’s all a capitalist plot.
slythwolf
July 19, 2009 at 1:00 pm (UTC -6)
Well, you can shoot the internet, but I wouldn’t recommend it; it just makes it mad.
Ron Sullivan
July 19, 2009 at 4:00 pm (UTC -6)
It was that damned centipede and you know it. Scared the dribbles out of Firefox, it did.
admirerofemily
July 19, 2009 at 5:56 pm (UTC -6)
“Why doesn’t shit just work?”
Whenever anything technological doesn’t work I definitely blame the patriarchy.
incognotter
July 19, 2009 at 6:24 pm (UTC -6)
It is my considered opinion as a computer scientist that most software upgrades are just poorly planned excuses to stick it to the little people while fixing what isn’t broken and thus breaking what is relied upon — all in the name of capitalism and respect for authority, of course.
Glad you are back and thus we are too.
B. Dagger Lee
July 19, 2009 at 6:53 pm (UTC -6)
My brother’s car engine was on fire once while I had the misfortune of being in it with him and about 7000 people slowed down and told us our car was on fire.
Michigan
July 19, 2009 at 7:10 pm (UTC -6)
Well, we can thank heavens it was only the internet and not an Airbus. Airbus fly-by-wire fubars are usually not-updateable for the passengers.
BDL, your personal Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of prime time? I think I might have been one of the 7,000 folks.
rootlesscosmo
July 19, 2009 at 7:56 pm (UTC -6)
It sure is a relief to have IBtP back.
larkspur
July 19, 2009 at 10:48 pm (UTC -6)
BDL, where are those 7,000 people when you have spinach stuck in your teeth, or TP stuck to your shoe? Or unzipped zippers, or nose fug? It’s all about the schadenfreude until you burst into flames.
speedbudget
July 20, 2009 at 4:56 am (UTC -6)
BDL- Did you ask them how they knew you were on fire?
Antoinette Niebieszczanski
July 20, 2009 at 6:39 am (UTC -6)
BDL, the same thing happened when the people across the street’s porch caught fire. Well, it didn’t so much catch fire as it was set on fire. Mr. People Across the Street foolishly tried to burn out a spider nest under it.