The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jim Flannery:

Okay, did I leave any out?

A couple, and fairly important.

Friday Feb 11 (three days before firing, after last working day before firing): "But today, my first day off in 12 days!"

[Weds Feb 9: the firing offense, as noted; also note that there are only three posts between 2/4 and 2/11]

Sunday Feb 6: Titled "Weekend Work Post"

Friday Feb 4: "Its actually Saturday morning now and I am slugging it out at *work* this weekend. Ugh-12 days straight before I have a break. Shitty."

Sat. January 29: "I managed to head to the UWS on Friday even though I had a terrible bout of nausea on Thursday. Again, constant exposure has made this the worst winter for illness. Vitamins, echinecea tea, 8-9 hours of sleep a night, and still my immune system seems defunct."

At some point in one of the comment threads Tessy notes that this 12-day unbroken stretch was required as "make-up" for her sick days. Personally, I'd have already quit by the time the 11th came around, but it's taken me a couple decades to learn that one.

As to when Olen started reading: Towards the end of Dr. Bitch's comments, Tessy says that telling Olen about the blog was the same event as telling her about the Sharon Olds poem. So Olen's reading of the blog begins sometime after Dec 13, and she presumably reads backwards ("scroll[ing] down to the next entry").

Ack, never mind, I finally found her post on the PW board and she thinks that's a blog too. Sorry.

It's sort of late, since her page has changed, but I did want to point something out. The "Hello bloggers" message made specific reference to something along the lines of her "books you don't need a ten-foot pole for" so it would be a reasonable assumption that she was addressing people coming from Making Light. This is a "blog", nicht wahr?

It's the devil in me that makes me point to Fear's "New York's Alright, if You Like Saxophones"

Sci-fi:

I don't think I've ever really thought of it as an insult so much as a marker of outsiderness, in the manner of "sibboleth" to the Gileadites or "Frisco" the the Bayareans; a sign that the person using it is either "not one of us" or needs to be immediately corrected. When did people stop reflexively correcting people?

Some additional information from yesterday's Tidbits:

"If you were unfortunate and did lose data to this problem, there's at least some hope of recovering your critical data. We've heard from several sources that Prosoft Engineering's Data Rescue X has had some success in recovering files, sometimes after erasing the disk with Disk Utility (which just clears the directory, scary as that seems). Jay Nelson at Design Tools Monthly also tells us that Prosoft is offering $10 off to people suffering data loss due to Panther; use code PAN911 when ordering.




"Alternatively, our friends at DriveSavers tell us they've been successful in recovering data from drives that experienced this problem. Better still, DriveSavers is offering a discount to customers who have lost data as a result of the specific Panther and FireWire 800 issue. If you plan to send your drive in to DriveSavers or a similar company, _do_not_ attempt to restore data using disk utilities; that could exacerbate the problem and make it less likely that your critical data will be recovered. (I can personally recommend DriveSavers, which once helped me recover a failed hard disk; see "DriveSavers to the Rescue" in TidBITS-495_)."




They also note that this has bitten some folks with Firewire 400 drives with the Oxford 911 chipset.

Good luck.

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