Tag: Website

A word about my Facebook posts.

Those of you who have been quick on the draw recently and hopped over to read what I’ve posted as soon as you’ve gotten a notification may have noticed a puzzling tendency of late for the text, instead of being organized into clean sentences and digestible paragraphs with my usual care and impeccable taste, to resemble the run-on ramblings of a madman.

Here’s the deal: after years of empty promises, I’ve finally got a website under construction, thanks in large part to my friend Paul Moon, who is a technological whiz, and who, unlike me, does not shut down when confronted with seemingly insurmountable programming challenges. I’ll write more about this in another post, when I offer a kind of official launch.

For today, I want to explain that for the past few weeks, I have been writing my posts in Word, as I always do, but then cut-and-paste them at the website. Once everything is tidily arranged there, with an image, category, and search words selected, I hit post, and then voila, a minute or two later it is copied over onto Facebook.

Unfortunately, like sending Jeff Goldblum through a teleporter with an undetected fly, something happens in the translation, and most of the time, what turns up on Facebook is a misshapen abomination. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The bugs are still being worked out, so to speak, so for now, for several minutes after the post appears on Facebook, know that I am hastily at work behind the scenes, scrambling to shore up paragraphs, divide sentences, ensure all the hyperlinks work, and in general get everything in the aesthetically-pleasing form you have come to expect from Classic Ross Amico.

So if you click on a link and what comes up is Joycean stream-of-consciousness, please check back in a few minutes to enjoy another lucidly laid-out, well-crafted post as it was originally conceived.

For now, I thank you for your patience!