The faulty calendar of 1984
Posted Sunday, May 09, 2004 @ 12:20 PM
"i'm torn, my dear glynnis. on the one hand, i love it when you update your website because i like what you write and it makes me happy. on the other, when you do update, it means i can't ever read the old entry ever again, because your links to past entries simply bring me back to the current entry.
my life is pain."
As our dearest liz has noted, the calendar to the left of this mass of a column (and down a little) is a little more than misleading. I can picture you all clicking on previous dates and thinking to yourselves "How is it that one girl, so bonny and smallish" -- and yes, I have used the word "bonny" and not "boney" (though the latter may also be true) -- "rules her own internet dimension?"
It's as if with every new entry, all the ones previous are erased and rewritten -- as if I am truly living in the present and always have been. And you, readers, find yourselves on the less-desirable end of some great organization in likeness to the Ministry of Truth. You are caught in a digital 1984 -- 2004 -- in which, as far as you can tell, I am your Big Brother, and the delectable delvings into my own psyche are some kind of faulty propoganda. The happenings of today in the life of rocket-fish have always been happening --
and you would not believe the amount of work that millions of readers like yourselves have to go through to keep the future a secret, to keep the present as the past. Here, we like to call it "the laziness that comes with using moveable type," or "the apathy regarding the errors on one's own website." Please forgive the party. We are still watching you.
For the more devoted readers, there is an alternative -- The Brotherhood -- in which you may journey to the past. (Or perhaps it's the less devoted that will arrive there -- after all, if you're reading back entries, it's because you don't come here often, you undevoted reader, you.) Beneath the misleading calendar, there is the "archive" section, which can only be found by clicking the arrow of the pulldown menu. This is a calendar that I update "manually" (because it is easier than rewriting my faulty MT codes), and you can read back entries there.
In closing, I'd like to share a completely unrelated gem of a quote:
"Nothing was more natural than that these things could be the other things that they absolutely were not." - Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
How is it that such a canonized man can get away with such multitudes of ambiguity? He's a sneaky one.
Welcome to the past, bucko. You're swimming through the archive of rocket-fish.org. If this isn't where you were headed, I suggest you get out of here while there's still time.
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actually, my smug and bonny glynnis, i realized the archive menu worked (it used to not work, so i hadn't expected it to) right after i said that. also: verdict on summer project? i need something to look forward to during exams or i will die.
also:
"shadows present, foreshadowing later shadows to come." --herman mellville
09 May 2004, 2:31 PM.
ach nah, ye wee bonny lass.
yeah, i'd say more but i'm horrible with accents (even typed ones).
but anyway, i'm glad the email and website are back.
11 May 2004, 7:51 PM.