Thanks everyone. Yeah, my comp had some kind of harddrive problem; had to totally replace it. On the bright side, this one holds 200GB and the old one was 180 or something.
Dragonlily wrote:If I can replace any of your files, let me know.
, but I doubt I sent you either of the two stories I lost. No worries, though. I'm going to rewrite part VI of the Trimur-Nakati conflict; still have bits of it on paper. Will probably wind up becoming better.
Oh! And I also lost all my pr0n. Guess I'll just have to use my imagination from now on.
Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:I feel your pain, Foul. My laptop died a few years back, and took the harddrive (with a couple hundred pages of stories and ideas, never mind all the pics and school work) with it. I still cling to the dead husk of the thing in the hopes that somebody, somewhere, somehow, can get the data off of it one day.
Hey A, I have a new idea which may be able to work. My advisor gave it to me when my old desktop recently crashed. It's called a Linux Live CD. Boots your computer in a Linux OS, right from a CD. Then you can save your data somewhere else. (Your laptop has a USB port, right?) It worked real well on my desktop. Maybe it can work with your laptop. Maybe the next time I see you we can give it a try.-jay
kevinswatch wrote: Hey A, I have a new idea which may be able to work. My advisor gave it to me when my old desktop recently crashed. It's called a Linux Live CD. Boots your computer in a Linux OS, right from a CD. Then you can save your data somewhere else. (Your laptop has a USB port, right?) It worked real well on my desktop. Maybe it can work with your laptop. Maybe the next time I see you we can give it a try.-jay
Sweet! That sounds like it might work. The problem is that the whole thing was probably virus-induced, and the hard drive keeps reading as physically corrupted (which I knwo it's not), so I don't know if anything will transfer easily, but that'd be great to try.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
So, um, not to un-derail the topic, but what about some numbers from the committee? Like, how many submissions did we get this time around? I realize it's only one week since the deadline, but I'm already curious
Last post here was 9-11-06, its been 15 days. Anyone have any news or updates?
Its my job to help keep things moving toward our publish date so any help would be appreciated.
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
Just for the record: I found my Anthology submission. I had sent a draft to a friend, and Gmail happens to save all sent emails.
Variol son gave me till Oct. 1 to turn it in, because of my situation.
College has been giving me speedbumps, but I'm 1/3 through with the final chapter. Expect it either Friday or on the weekend. Sorry for all this delay, but it is coming!
**I was going to pull my submission to enter it into a contest through the CBC---but they want a SHORT story (2000-2500 words)..so I'll keep it in the running.
I thought you were a ripe grape
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
Guess I'll just have to use my imagination from now on. 
That sounds like it might work. The problem is that the whole thing was probably virus-induced, and the hard drive keeps reading as physically corrupted (which I knwo it's not), so I don't know if anything will transfer easily, but that'd be great to try.
I had sent a draft to a friend, and Gmail happens to save all sent emails.
