Pissed off

I was about 98% finished with a necrology entry for the week when I ran into some sort of funky #@!*&% machine error that caused my browser to crash.  No recourse, no way to save my work, no way to recover it.  Poof ... gone forever.

No way am I going to try to recreate what I’d so carefully composed, so you’ll just have to imagine the pithy and incisive thoughts I’d written about:

• Bob Hope, 100 (was he the last vaudevillian?)
• Peter Safar, 79 (father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the ICU)
• Sam Phillips, 80 (discovered Elvis, Cash, Lewis, Orbison, Perkins, Twitty, and many more musical giants)
• Vance Hartke, 84 (Indiana Democratic Senator, early Vietnam War opponent)
• Henry Redd Stewart, 80 (co-wrote The Tennessee Waltz)
• Tex McCrary, 92 (helped devise talk-show format, convinced Ike to run, created Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen)
• Eric Braunn, 52 (Iron Butterfly guitarist)
• Charles Rhyne, 91 (argued and won Baker v. Carr in 1962)

It was a really, really good essay, full of URL references and peppered with interesting quotes.  Sorry you won’t get to see it.

Comments

Here’s a suggestion: draft in Notepad.  You have a separate archive that way, and if the browser/connection dies you’ve got backup.  That’s what I do.

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