Slog - Comments on Tim Burgess http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess Remember him? The guy who did work for Concerned Women for America, and is now running for City Council? We met with him yesterday. I just spent three hours writing a 2,000 word long post about it. And now, thanks to the magic of technology, that post is gone. Once I've stopped banging my head into my desk, I'll try to recreate it.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:38:43 -0800 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by nelson http://tinyurl.com/2ap57r

]]> nelson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797870 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797870 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:38:42 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Save. It's a good thing.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797875 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:40:43 -0800 Comment by trusty Me too!!! I have been waiting for that post ALL DAY!

Sorry you got pwned by technology. It's an experience that we all share at one time or another.

]]> trusty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797878 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:41:14 -0800 Comment by Feel It I so feel your pain! That sucks!!!!! (Plus, I have been waiting to hear about the interview).

ECB, I say go out and enjoy the sunshine for awhile and come back to it this evening or tomorrow. Your readers will wait.

]]> Feel It http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797880 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:42:18 -0800 Comment by Lake Aw, sucks.

Well sometimes the next version is even better after something like that. Good luck E SEE BE!

]]> Lake http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797882 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797882 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:43:00 -0800 Comment by Ben @2: I was working on a program once for my numerical analysis class. I was writing it on a lab computer, and uploading it to the school server to recompile. At one point I made the mistake of trying to FTP it to the server before it was finished saving a change I'd made.

The entire thing ceased to exist, on the server, or the local machine. Six hours of work that I'd been periodically saving, like a good user, was completely and comprehensively gone.

]]> Ben http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797894 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797894 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:49:21 -0800 Comment by elenchos God damn condos. Condos once deleted my whole MP3 collection. I blame men.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797909 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797909 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:55:33 -0800 Comment by 2,000 words? This saliva test was torture! Losing those 2,000 words was the Muse's way of saying don't bore the reader with overwriting.

Slog posting by Stranger, always insufferably cute, self-absorbed or just sophmoric and mean, have gotten really long...which makes them even more annoying.

Take the bus, blah blah.

Darcy's wonderful, blah blah.

Hey, nothing about Steinbrueck for at least a week. What gives?

]]> 2,000 words? This saliva test was torture! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797910 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797910 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:56:28 -0800 Comment by kid icarus That sucks. Also been looking forward to the story, but I guess now I'll just head home now! :-)

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797920 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:01:15 -0800 Comment by Ben @8: You should have stopped at "overwriting."

]]> Ben http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797926 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797926 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:05:28 -0800 Comment by Judah @7

Bwah-hahahaha!

]]> Judah http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797939 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797939 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:14:27 -0800 Comment by kate @Ben, heh, that was good. Also, ECB, I'm sorry. That's awful.

]]> kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797956 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797956 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:30:18 -0800 Comment by lostboy Ben @10, well said.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797962 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797962 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:33:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle This is why you have Auto-Save - and you set it for ten minutes.

And you backup a folder when you take a break (on a Mac it's click and drag, on a PC it's ... um, the same, cause they stole it).

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797964 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:34:09 -0800 Comment by DJSauvage What 1983 technology are you using that doesn't autosave? There's this new product out for computers called a Word Processor....

]]> DJSauvage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797968 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:36:21 -0800 Comment by Ben @14: Other things they stole:
*Displaying information on monitors
*Text input through a 'board' covered with lettered 'keys'
*Wires

]]> Ben http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797970 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797970 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:37:39 -0800 Comment by peanut gallery twenty bones says she was typing the whole thing in her web browser (blog post form) and it crashed.

If you're writing 2k words use a fucking word processor and copy/paste at the end.

Not that i'm bummed that your screed was lost to time. Karma is a slitty clit, yo.

]]> peanut gallery http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797972 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797972 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:39:11 -0800 Comment by Biff Erica C. Barnett to-do list:

1. Tools.
2. Options.
3. Save.
4. Save AutoRecovery info every X minutes.
5. Select X.
6. Join the 21st Century.

]]> Biff http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797979 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:42:47 -0800 Comment by Soo Well at least you didn't post the morning news before your were supposed to. Whew!

]]> Soo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797987 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797987 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:51:27 -0800 Comment by Sam @ 8: Yawn.

@ ECB: Sorry to hear that. I, too, was looking forward to this Burgess post.

]]> Sam http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797993 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c797993 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:53:54 -0800 Comment by Kiru Banzai I just came in here to say a big fuck you to anyone whose post was along the lines of "No big loss" or "Girls can't use internet". There's always more than a few on an ECB post.

]]> Kiru Banzai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798013 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:18:16 -0800 Comment by trusty ...for the record, I was merely stating that the experience of losing a ton of information on your computer is sucky and universal.

]]> trusty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798067 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798067 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:29:01 -0800 Comment by Katelyn AWW MAN!!! Now I wish I'd saved it too. At least I got to read it before it disappeared.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798079 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:44:32 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Oh. never mind

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798080 Housekeeping Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:44:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle You know we flame you cause we've been there, Erica. At least you owned up to it, instead of pretending Iran stole it, like Bush does.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/tim_burgess#c798337 Housekeeping Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:16 -0800