OK PEOPLE — LISTEN THE FUCK UP!
I can’t hold all of your hands here or teach you how to use the technology that you’ve got sitting in front of you — nor do I have any inclination to do so even if I could.
If a video doesn’t appear on a blog that you’re looking at — any blog — then refresh your fucking browser! That will usually make the video appear.
Usually
If it doesn’t, then try a different browser. There are a bunch available and if one doesn’t work for you then another probably will.
This holds true for those of you wishing to post comments to Bill in Exile and who can’t seem to get the math question to appear.
In other words — try shit out on your own and see if you can figure out what will work for you rather then emailing me or posting comments here asking what you should do.
Because I have neither the time, energy, nor inclination to play personal tech consultant for you.
That is all.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:06 am
I love it when you get all ranty. It makes me feel like I am standing at attention, in a long line of all your other readers, silently giggling at the one that you are mad at.
Such a warm feeling.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:14 am
Call the Geek Squad not the grump squad ! LOL
August 20th, 2012 at 10:18 am
Oh lord. I have Dyscalculia and the math question is always fun. So glad my school did rote drills in math.
August 20th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
But you would make an excellent personal tech consultant!
August 20th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Oooo….I love it when you get rough, Scott!
August 20th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
I don’t know why but comments like this always put a smile on my face….of course I could easily lose that smile if it were I being the fuck up, but then I would just remind you that I am a pervert and I suspect that would make all well in the world
August 20th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
What is really going on? This response from the man who asked the blog to help him with his tech problems and got over 20 offers of help.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Yes Evan — because I’m just one fucking person and I write and publish this blog {free of charge} that more than 5,000 people a day read. People like you Evan.
So when I get 35 to 50 or more emails, as I have in the last 4 days alone, from people who don’t know to simply refresh their fucking browser because something isn’t appearing — when if they simply read the comments to the post they were having trouble with they’d see that other people are clearly seeing the content that they aren’t and they would, therefore, hopefully realize the problem was on their end and not mine — which of course they don’t, they simply fire off emails to me asking me to help them fix their problem — it becomes a real issue for me and one that I address in the manner that I did in this post.
Now consider this Evan — the problem of mine that you refer to that I asked for help from readers with was a problem of such magnitude for the blog that it took the actual reprogramming of the blog’s CSS and source code by the people who invented WordPress, the platform this blog runs on. A reprogramming that took almost two days to accomplish BY EXPERTS.
Oh, and it would seem like a no brainer to me that there’s actually a pretty big fucking difference between someone who writes a blog consumed by almost 2 million readers a year asking for help to fix the blog from the same people who ummmm. . . . you know Evan. . . . . consume the content for free and benefit directly from the entertainment {such as is} provided by this blog and by me??? So that they can then continue consuming that content for free once the blog is fixed, versus the problem of readers who simply can’t see a fucking porno video because they don’t know to refresh their browswers and who email me by the dozen asking me to tell them what to do?
Because if you can’t see that difference Evan then you’re clearly a fucking moron.
August 20th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
I get the difference, Scott. But I have to say, I really appreciated it when I asked a tech question months ago and you were very helpful. I appreciate overload, but those of us out here who have benefited in the past from your largess might not always realize how many directions you are being pulled from, and might innocently ask of you more than you can give on a given day, fellow, fallible human the you are. Yeah, get a grip and get a clue, reader. But accept the fact that people feel connected to you, when you put yourself out here, as you so often do, with such naked honesty. It’s a compliment, really.
I think of a video (customer service related) I saw once, I think called, “Fish.” About the fish market in Seattle. About how the mongers appreciate that while they have answered the question a thousand times, for the person asking it, it may be the first. So they answer the question as if it was the first time asked.
You are clearly unpaid by your followers, and the situation is so different in many ways. But still, you are out here, for public consumption, and people have formed a relationship with you because of you accessibility, passion, and point of view. Maybe we aren’t total maroons when we cross lines and expect too much. Maybe we are just fellow, fallible humans.
August 21st, 2012 at 5:35 am
I totally get that TJ, and I appreciate your thoughtfulness in your comment. I actually do try — as you know — to answer questions put to me by readers. But when they come in bulk it gets overwhelming and I get annoyed {also, too; as you well know, my writing style tends to be ever so slightly acerbic, especially when dealing with readers} but the reader requests don’t piss me off — they just get me exhausted more than anything.
What pissed me off was Evan deciding to post his idiotic comment/comparison without bothering to even walk through the fairly obvious first.
August 21st, 2012 at 9:44 am
Scott, I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your reply to me. Thank you, and have a great day.
August 21st, 2012 at 12:53 pm
yes SIR! sorry SIR! won’t happen again SIR! Lovely lights SIR!
August 24th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Well said Scott.
I usually tell people to do whatever they would do if were not around to ask.