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Essays

rpollack — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:00:30 +0000

It seems like I’ve been writing a lot this year, and I’m curious to go back and see what my output was like as an undergrad. I don’t know if I’m actually writing more now or if it just feels like it. I’m definitely writing fewer but longer papers, but I’m not sure about totals.

Since September, I’ve written and turned in about 57 pages, or 18,239 words, in five essays. Plugged it all into Wordle (which is awesome) and produced the above.

Michelle Obama leaving voicemails

rpollack — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:35:48 +0000

Michelle Obama Voicemail

The Incredible Hulk

rpollack — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:29:09 +0000

I saw The Incredible Hulk, which was a spectacle, and was most excited to see Omar Little appear briefly on screen, saying nothing, just standing there and watching the spectacle.

(Google turned this up.)

One More Try

rpollack — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:54:00 +0000

So it’s been a while. The summer passed quickly, blogger ate some of my posts (which I later recovered and reposted), I stopped posting while I investigated moving to another host, I never really did, and now I’ve accumulated quite a pile of skipped blog-assignments. I’ll give it another try.

I left Sardis, as I discussed earlier. Since I’m not Up On Choctaw Ridge anymore, the blog needs a new name. I’m in Jackson now.

More to come soon.

Blogger Sucks, Part II

rpollack — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:29:00 +0000

The response from Blogger Support:

Hi Robert,

Thanks for notifying us of this issue. We had a number of unplanned outages in early February, resulting in various problems in Blogger and BlogSpot, including a number of cases in which posts would be lost when users republished their blogs. The full details were posted on our status page (http://status.blogger.com) at that time, though things should be working normally now. We apologize for the problems this has caused, but please be assured that we are actively working on preventing this from happening again, and on improving the reliability of Blogger and BlogSpot. Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
Blogger Support

Thanks to Hayden for digging up the cached copies on Bloglines.

Blogger Sucks

rpollack — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:53:00 +0000

I’ve completely lost two posts. They vanished. Something was fishy the night I posted them, because I remember that the first vanished before I posted the second, but I still had the first in a separate file so I reposted it. Now they’ve disappeared, and Blogger Support doesn’t seem to help much, as all their suggestions are clearly aimed at technically un-savvy users who might, say, delete their own posts by mistake.

I sent them an email and am still waiting for a response. I presume both posts are gone forever, which is lousy, since I can’t even remember what one of them was, and the other was a long-ish list/lexicon of dialectical features I’ve noticed in my students’ usage, and I spent quite a long time writing that one. I still have the rough list, but I’m not eager to re-write. I wish I could even remember what the other post was.

Maybe I’ll move the blog to another provider.

Nobody happened to cache a copy they still have floating around, did they?