Glitch Happens

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By Ian Linkletter

February 20^th, 2015

CATASTROPHE

A couple of years ago I bought a huge new hard drive. I moved everything to the new drive and the trouble came.

The first thing I noticed was that when watching stuff from the new drive it would skip. The audio would be fine, but the video always struggled to catch up.

Then I looked at my photos.

DISCOVERY

Everything clicked. Corrupt data! My photos were ruined. Most of them wouldn’t even open, but some would. None of them looked the same, so I restored from backup and tossed the drive into my box of computer FOMO.

This past week I’ve been working my way through the box. Somehow I convinced myself that opening this box and strewing its contents all over my apartment will help me achieve harmony. I haven’t read the organizational book I got for Christmas yet.

I’m working my way through hard drives, and each one is full of stories. The defective drive has a bad memory.

#NOFILTER

Looking through the corrupted photos, some are much improved. I didn’t make a single edit to any of the photos in this post.

This here’s a sperm kite I got my friend as a joke present. Joke’s on me, it turns out when you buy a sperm kite the kite shop guy yells “SPERM KITE!” and everyone looks at you and you accidentally make eye contact with a baby and it’s the absolute worst.