November 22nd, 2010 / 12:27 pm
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11. Paula Bomer book. Mike Young book. Word Riot. Pre-order special ends Dec 1. I reckon you better.

2. Calvino died before finishing his memo on Consistency.

14. From Paper Cuts.

Audience Q: How do you know when you’re getting better?

Lorrie Moore: Maybe you don’t.

Audience Q: How do you know when you’ve found the right ending?

One of the Brooklyn guys named Jonathan: Maybe you don’t.

5. internet stunts versus blurbs: is there a difference? (Or how do I get Tao Lin’s name into this post?)

77. My computer crashed two days ago. Do you back up your writing? How and how many times? Any horror stories like when Hadley lost all of Hem’s stories on the train, etc?

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28 Comments

  1. Tinytim

      Scrooge.

  2. Eric

      77: My computer also crashed two days ago. I had to perform a complete system restore. I am in the process of applying to mfa programs, and trying to finish a couple of research papers for school, so I considered sticking my hand in the garbage disposal. Luckily, I backed up all my writing up via google docs.

  3. Sean

      The comp dude wiped it all clean and gave my windows 7. Can I just say WOW. My computer is about 10 (or maybe 7?) times faster now. I am floating.

      Is there a term for the feeling you get when your computer gets way faster? Then it wears off in a few days, slows, or your mind slows to its recognition of this new speed.

  4. jereme_dean

      Restoring an OS/Installing a newer OS to resolve a “computer crash” is the tool of the weak and lazy.

      You guys should shop for better mechanics.

  5. Tinytim

      Scrooge.

  6. jereme_dean

      How so, moron?

  7. Eric

      That depends on what led to the computer crash.

  8. jereme_dean

      Only if it is a hardware based crash.

  9. christopher.

      Dropbox. Seriously. Get into it. It’ll save your life.

      getdropbox.com

  10. Tinytim

      I liked this for irony’s sake, whether intended or not.

  11. Sean

      Well, you make a goat-load of assumptions.

      That’s not ALL he did.

      He did a ton of things. I’m just saying the computer is a fucking drunk hummingbird rattling down an alleyway now.

      And I like it.

  12. jereme_dean

      I’m making no assumptions. My comment is based solely off of your description.

      I am glad your apparatus is running faster. What does it have to do with lost writing on a crashed computer?

      In my 18 years of computer engineering experience, wiping the hard drive to resolve an issue is the tool of the weak and lazy. The computer techs are unable to resolve the ACTUAL issue because they lack the intimate knowledge to do so.

  13. Sean

      OK, OK, I’m not questioning your experience.

      It has to with subject because I freaked out when I couldn’t start up my computer, couldn’t get onto it, period, and had about 200 drafts and so on and all kinds of crap (it was my writing, so certainly crap) on the computer and it got me thinking, “How do others backup? Have they faced this?”

      Anyway, I started in “safe networking” mode and put my drafts to flash then the computer people fixed the problem, pretty much erasing every single thing on my computer.

      I don’t know if it was a cheap fix, but it worked. Most non-computer people, the end-user, just want the thing to work. Like a car with a mechanic. Whatever. Make car work.

  14. mj

      About your computer crashing…. it is the easiest thing to get your documents back, really. Now if you say your hard drive got fried…. well shit, eve that is kind of an easy fix. Just replace the controllerboard, usually. So, no, I don’t back up jackshit, except by sending out submissions then there are natural back ups floating around cyberspace.

  15. mj

      dude, are you a computer tech also? because that is so true…

  16. jereme_dean

      Sean,

      Yeah man, you are illustrating my point. If you hadn’t removed your drafts, the computer dude would have erased them without hesitation.

      They don’t give a fuck about your files. They care about getting paid as quick as possible.

      Don’t trust any tech who claims the only way to resolve a computer issue is by wiping/restoring the OS. The files are there.

      My comment wasn’t an attack on Eric and Sean. It was information in case the issue happens again.

  17. Sean

      “They don’t give a fuck about your files. They care about getting paid as quick as possible.”

      Now that’s just harsh.

      But maybe…

      But since you obviously have a knowledge base, what IS the best way to backup Word files?

      Hiding flashes in fire-proof safes? (I do this)

      or dropbox

      etc

      or tattoos?

  18. jereme_dean

      Depends on how hardcore you wanna get. Key word is “redundancy”.

      For most people, online file storage is the easiest way to get down.

  19. Sean

      cool.

      will do

  20. mjm

      About your computer crashing…. it is the easiest thing to get your documents back, really. Now if you say your hard drive got fried…. well shit, eve that is kind of an easy fix. Just replace the controllerboard, usually. So, no, I don’t back up jackshit, except by sending out submissions then there are natural back ups floating around cyberspace.

  21. mjm

      dude, are you a computer tech also? because that is so true…

  22. Sean

      And when your computer is stolen/lost, mj?

  23. jereme_dean

      Hey mj, I am a systems engineer for an entertainment company.

  24. deadgod

      Brooklyn now sports an “Upper East Side”??

  25. Dennis

      I was into drugs is cool stunts back when i first started blogging and posted something on tao lins comments and he said something that i think was mean but maybe he didnt and i am just imagining through memory and now he is into drug is cools stunts and i dont know what this means

  26. John Minichillo

      I love that Calvino book / lectures. The first two chaps Lightness and Quickness taught me a lot and helped me see anew.

      I’m pretty low-tech. When I dropped a jump drive I had longer than the past couple computers I realized I was pretty attached to it. So: hard drive / jump drive / email yourself in gmail (which is searchable).

  27. mjm

      Then I’m assed out.

  28. Vasudha Pande

      +1 for Dropbox.

      My hard drive malfunctioned last month, so I lost all the videos and photographs I had taken in the last five years (lesson: back up -all- your data). Fortunately, I had discovered Dropbox a few months ago and had stored all my writing and project reports in the Dropbox folder. I am now in love with the service.