Facebook silliness

It’s pushing 10 p.m., and since I don’t do FlagOut any more, I have more time to pursue things like Facebook.
Facebook is one of six tabs I keep permanently open on my machine.
FireFox (WOOPS; “Fox-Fire”) will do that; keep sites permanently open, so that I never have to log in.
Permanently open are -a) FlagOut; -b) the Curve web-cam; -c) my MyCast weather radar; -d) my blog site, -e) Facebook; and -f) my RoadRunner e-mail.
Being permanently open, I never have to log into any of them; although -1) I’ve been considering deactivating FlagOut; and -2) my RoadRunner e-mail has some security protection requiring a FireFox master password.
Usually, when I highlight the Facebook tab, I get my Facebook page — no log-in required.
But not this time.
“Robert Hughes already has a Facebook. Please sign up to access it.” (It shows my profile tongue-shot.)

Photo by Dave Wheeler with flash.

“WHAT?” Oh well, nothing new. Facebook does this every once in a while.
I click “sign up.” No, I don’t want that — I already have a Facebook; I don’t need two.
I make the tab the Facebook log-in; a bookmark (“favorite” to you IE users).
Crank log-in information to log-in page.
BOINK! “Invalid password.”
“I just took it off my prompt-sheet!” I cry.
Okay, maybe I typed the password wrong. All it is is dots — I can’t see what I typed.
Trying again, BOINK! “Invalid password.”
“Okay Facebook,” I say; “I never cared that much anyway.
All ya’ve ever done is lob steaming hairballs at me, and reward me with the latest news about somebody I don’t know picking their belly-button.”
“Somebody has badmouthed Obama with the Facebook bombast tool.”
BOINK! Facebook tab vaporized.

“FlagOut” is our family’s web-site, named that because I had a mentally-retarded kid-brother (Down Syndrome) who lived at home, and loudly insisted the flag be flown every day. “Flag-Out! Sun comes up, the flag goes up! Sun goes down, the flag comes down.” I fly the flag partly in his honor. (He died at 15 in 1969.) —I have kind of stopped participating in my family’s web-site. Too much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

RE: “Fox-Fire......” —All my siblings use the Microsoft Internet-Explorer (“IE”) Internet browser, and claim FireFox is a tinker-toy. I’ve used both, and find FireFox better. The fact I use it means I’m of-the-Devil. They call it “Fox-Fire” as a put-down.

Horseshoe Curve, west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.) —Horseshoe Curve has a web-cam, but it’s awful.

MyCast is my weather radar web-site.

“RoadRunner” of Rochester, NY, is my Internet service provider (”ISP”). It’s Time-Warner cable. My e-mail is through them. I use Netscape 7.2 here at home to process my e-mail — it accesses my e-mail via RoadRunner on the POp-server, but RoadRunner apparently also has web-mail; and it throws spam in a folder. I have to delete it once-in-a-while.

RE: “Profile tongue-shot....” —My Facebook profile picture is one of me sticking out my tongue. Whenever my mother tried to take my picture (she was always taking pictures), I’d stick out my tongue.

“Dave Wheeler” is an editor at the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over three years ago. Best job I ever had. He’s also a Houghton grad. (“Houghton” is Houghton College in western New York, from where I graduated with a BA in 1966. I’ve never regretted it, although I graduated as a Ne’er-do-Well, without their blessing. Houghton is an evangelical liberal-arts college.)