hello community,

I am Nathan Hokenson, a 20 year old Junior at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. My intended major is film, but at UAF I must be a film minor with a Journalism Major which is fine by me. I work in my university’s Student Activities Office. And one more thing:

It appears that I have been cursed.

The blog post I have been writing comprehensively for the past two hours dissapeared in about .0001 seconds. Apparently WordPress decided that I had no business writing about comedians who inject politics into their shticks. This angers me slightly as I believe the piece was magnificently worded and the fact that I will have to write it once again will mean it will lose at least a 1/4 of it’s original content just as I have lost a 1/4 of my desire to use wordpress as my new blogging medium.

This incident proves how useless technology can be even at it’s prime. So I was typing and revising and thinking about how great my subject matter was and then just to make sure things were fine and saved I placed my finger on the track pad and maneuvered it down slightly and a little to the right so that it rested over the SAVE AND CONTINUE EDITING button. Then I pressed the only clickable button on my machine, other than the power button as I use a MacBook Pro [named Salmon Warrior] complete with Apple’s fantastic design flaw- one single large mouse click button. So as I hit this enormous clicky bar, the next page prompted me to sign in which I figured was a logical step of the process, so I do so….

Username:

[skapunk60]

Password:

[x********y]

OK I said, time to get this awesome thing posted! I’m all signed in and ready to post! 553 words of pure delicious reading material!! I just cannot even wait! My professor is going to love this piece!

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no dice. what did appear to be saved was the working title of the piece: “a random”

and in the text body was scrawled the initial subject of the piece, “black moor.”

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Well now, as you can imagine, I panicked, and scrolled up and down in a panicky state examining the page for what I wrote. . . which was not there. I flicked the mouse to the upper left and clicked that single clicker on the green arrow pointing left. Back I went only to find a blank canvas with nothing written in it. All of my work gone! I went back and forth for five minutes thinking that Salmon Warrior was just screwing around with me, and that he really hid the text in a hidden window– but of course I was wrong, my faithful friend had betrayed me and erased every bit of evidence that I had written such an exquisite blog entry. I guess the autosave feature is irrelevant as well, because, as it turned out nothing actually got saved! So here I am freakin’ out, my first assignment is gone, merely skid marks burnt into the side of our world’s beloved superhighway.

Verdict: When blogging from now on, I will use an offline program such as Microsoft Word, notepad, anything that autosaves onto a hardisk, to ensure the internet will not murder my words in cold ignorance. The internet cannot hear you, it does not live, you cannot punch it in the face. If it hurts you, the only thing you can do is tell others how pitiful you feel.

I feel very pitiful.

So what happened was I started panicking until I finally looked at my left wall and saw a poster of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy proclaiming: DON’T PANIC. So I quit panicking and wrote this, and photoshopped my feelings, as photoshop helps me calm down. So that’s the scoop. I will rewrite my political comedian article in approximately 24 hours, so good community, I bid you farewell until then.