Weird thing happening here.

[progressoid]

I'm working on the computer and suddenly Firefox will open up to Democratic Underground. And before I know it an hour has passed by.

So I close Firefox and get back to work. But then it happens again. DU's Home page or Greatest Page staring me in the face. And another hour of my day is missing.

This has been happened a LOT lately.

How do I explain this to my clients? "Sorry your project isn't done, I'm in some sort of weird time vortex"?

I think I'll get lunch and re-boot. Maybe that will help.

[condoleeza]

1. Same problem here, nothing I've tried fixes it n/t

[Avalux]

2. Sorry, lunch won't help, I tried that.

In fact, it gets WORSE after lunch. I can't even imagine what frame of mind I'll be in at 5, and how much work will have to wait until tomorrow!

[progressoid]

22. You're right.

Lunch is over and this screen staring at me again!

[landolfi]

3. Having a similar problem here.

In fact, it just happened again. Also using Firefox, but it happened with IE earlier today.

[fishwax]

4. hehe--yeah, my computer has had that problem too. There's no anti-virus scan for that, I'm afraid.

[Politicalboi]

5. Maybe your cat

Is hacking your computer from home. Looks like a smart cat, so I wouldn't put anything past them

[Baitball Blogger]

15. He's only smart if he remembers to close the door.

[progressoid]

23. What the hell is going on!!1??1

I work from home and that's not even our cat!



But you bring up a good point about cats.
Back when I had a CRT screen our cat was fond of sitting on top and watching me "work".

[codjh9]

6. I've been on here WAY too much the last couple of days too...

[lalalu]

7. Wow, sounds like the Twilight Zone.

[GoneOffShore]

8. Tell them that time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

[gottavote]

9. The cure is here. Election day. Vote, peak, get to work.

GOTV GOTV

[Tree-Hugger]

10. Next thing you know...

...it'll be 2:30am. Trust me, I've been there.

[Tx4obama]

11. LOL :) n/t

[postulater]

12. Synchronous event. 3 computers and an ipod at my desk all together.

[nonconformist]

13. Talk about a time vortex, I can't stop watching your cat gif

I've been staring at it for a couple of min now

[Gregorian]

14. If you want to help DU get rid of that 1 megabyte gif in your sigline.

The poor servers have enough to deal with.

[hootinholler]

17. Actually it isn't being served from a DU server.

It's being served from whatever server it lives on. That's the way images at DU work. They live elsewhere and are simply linked.

For instance, this one is on my server:


Along with the one in my sig line.

[Gregorian]

25. Oh, right. That makes sense. DU is spared. But someone is paying the price. Haha.

[yodermon]

16. well I was FINE until i just burned and HOUR staring at your geinus FREEZER CAT n/t

[SheilaT]

18. Ummm, I hate to tell you all this, but you're working with the wrong assumption here.

There's nothing wrong with Firefox. It was designed to open up on DU easily. The real culprit is the Time Wasting Gods. They're the ones that are removing all sense of responsibility from your brain and instead installing an app that allows you to spend hours on DU.


I often joke about the various gods that control things. For instance, the technology gods do not like me at all, and often technology simply does not work properly for me. Have no idea what I ever did to make them dislike me so, but there it is. On the other hand, the parking gods adore me. I always get good parking spaces wherever I go. And it's me they like, not simply my car, because if I'm a passenger in someone else's car, we still get good parking.

The baking gods are also quite fond of me, as anything I bake turns out quite well. The yarn gods, in contrast, love to toy with me. I crochet and embroider. My yarn and floss will tangle in the most amazing ways, even when I haven't touched them.

[union_maid]

19. My office is still closed because of Sandy

Gas shortages make staying at home the best option. So, free to obsess at DU all day and night.

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Happens daily at my work place.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. I have the exact same problem. My client picked today of all days to dump

a heavy work load on me. Hardly ever here from them either. At least it's helping to pass the time, when I'm actually working that is, ha!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

24. Dunno how to help with your DU issue but that cat-freezer gif is funny as hell!

[spinbaby]

26. Same issue here

I'm looking at switches and suddenly DU is on my screen and the time warp happens. Not what you'd call a very productive day.

I think I'll go home now and practice OCD housecleaning with MSNBC on in the background.