I spent yesterday fixing the 800+ dead links on this site. There are some videos I need to track down but on the whole I think everything is back to normal.
Well. Two things wrong with that sentence. A) “normal”, obviously, and B) “everything”.
Three images are missing. You’d think I could get them from my SiteSucker backup, but I can’t access things too far back, like before 2010. I can keep learning more about SiteSucker, maybe I can still find them. Still, I had to remove the post or specific link pointing to these images:
- The menopause party cake: a sheet cake made to look like my birth control pill case. I believe the cake knife rested on a maxi-pad.
- A pair of photos in a post that is still there, in fact one of my favorite posts: Old Fish, New Fish, Pink Fish, Blue Fish, about the dismay my vibrators feel for disappointing me (evidenced by the expressions in the hand-drawn eyes of Old Pink and New Blue).
- A later post showed an image of every vibrator I owned (seriously, like six), sitting on the bed, just kind of chatting. Can’t find that image either.
Yes. I noticed the trend. I am crossing the line of decency.
So now I did some research and found you can’t just post any nonsense on WordPress. They have Standards, LaLAH.
One’s site can be Adult, Mature, or some other paragon of decency I am not. Adult contains visual depictions of sex acts. I don’t do that. You are welcome. Mature, though? I’ll cop to Mature.
It’s such a change from TypePad. You see, Typepad just threw everything out there. They didn’t care. There have been times on Typepad when I would see they had spotlighted some Painting Progress post and I thought, “click back twice and you’ll read some scandalous stuff, stranger.”
But WordPress is looking out for you, the readers. That’s good. But … it means I have to register as Mature. LIKE A SEX CRIMINAL — Well, no. Just as a responsible adult.
There are ramifications to self-registering, mainly that I won’t be thrown spread-eagled into the WordPress Reader for all to see. Yet I am registering as Mature for the sake of those who search for “Jesus’ dog” and then stumble on a photo visually enumerating the four failings of my Pink Vibrator. Because oddly, THAT photo’s still out there. Even I even shudder to see that photo head on. I should blur that photo.
(I know you expected to see a link to that photo above but after the 800 dead links I can’t add another link today.)
What’s funny is that I was sure I’d thrown that pink fella away years ago, but Gary recently cleaned out his closet and found a lonely bag of rejected vibrators, including … Old Pink.
Pink plus some little friends I didn’t even recognize.
I might need to re-stage a photo. I have stick-on googly eyes now.
5 responses to “TWIL: I am mature, but not a mature adult”
I endorse stick-on googly eyes!
(individual posts still don’t have the site structure around them, but after fixing 800 links, take a break! 🙂 )
(I am assuming that those photos cannot be found in the Wayback Machine; it covers more text than it does photo content, presumably for reasons of storage space, but might be worth a look? archive.org – enter the web address of the specific blog post into the search box labeled the Wayback Machine rather than the lower search box for their book/document/music/etc. bulk archive…)
KC – not in Wayback. Did not see an Archive section, though. Also I did not add the exact page.
KC – well it appears it grabbed an image of my socks and that is it.
You do need to enter the specific blog post’s address in the Wayback Machine – I am not sure I have understood your comment. (The Wayback Machine does add things if you ask it to politely, but also it’ll munch through content quite happily without anyone asking it to, so sometimes things are there…)
Socks: way less scandalous. Which of the images turned out to just be socks?
There was a whole photo album called Life Socks then You Die in which I wear every cute sock in my formerly extensive collection. And I did add the specific post but for several early years it only grabbed about five photos.