"save" keeps taking me back to edit

I've seen that happen on rare occasions in the past, but so far I haven't been able to track down why. At the moment, I can't make it happen at my end, so my suspicion is that it's a strange cookie/browser/solar-flare combination that will magically fix itself next time you log in.

Are you traveling with your own laptop, or was this at an internet cafe? If it's your own machine and it happens again, try clearing out your cookies, logging in again, and pasting your blog entry back in.

Regardless, let me know if it keeps happening. I'll do some more digging from here.

Jason

written by

Jason Kester on September 12, 2008

It was on my laptop. I've tried clearing out the cache, cookies, and switched from Firefox 3 to Safari. Still won't post. This is what I'm trying to post: ose other two places were discovered by impulse. My real destination was Baraboo Wisconsin. Baraboo is where the Barnum and Bailey Circus started and wintered for many decades before being bought by the Feld family and moving to Sarasota, Florida. They have a museum called Circus World. It is also home to the fantastical scrap sculpture garden called Doctor Evermore's Forevertron.

I'll talk about the Forevertron first as it was my priority and the first place I visited today. Finding the forevertron is difficult. My directions listed the following: "On Hwy 12 between Baraboo and West Freedom, behind the salvage yard and across the highway from the munitions plant." There are no signs for it, just a few steel sculptures near the side of the road that hint at it's existence. I pulled into the drive way only to be met with a locked gate. There was a small washed out sign that told me to call Elenore. So I called her and she told me she was halfway to Madison, but that I could pull into the surplus yard next door, walk through their back lot and into the garden, but that I shouldn't climb on anything. She wasn't kidding. I walked through all this refuse and caught a glimpse of a very tall fantastical looking sculpture looking like something out of an apocalyptic disney land hiden amongst what looked like wild forest. Once I hiked through overgrown vegetation, I came upon 2 acres of rusted steel menageries and whimsical welded Jules Verne-esque futurist machinery. There was a little planning on its layout, but pretty much stuff was everywhere. with little thought to its placement. The whole grounds were overgrown and I'm sure there were many more pieces that I couldn't see hidden under brush and tall grass. My pictures do not do it justice. Go look it up and see someone else's attempt to document it. Here's a selection of the best of what I took.This represents about 1% of what is there. The forevertron alone made this trip worth it. please, come see this place. You won't believe it.

Also in the yard (and an excellent segue to the Circus World Museum) was this awesome Clown Car. Read the back inscription. Priceless.

Across Baraboo I found the awesome Circus World.

As it was a Wednesday in September at 3pm I had the whole place to myself. It was very creepy. Lots of circus music being piped in with no one to hear it. The museum was great though. Amazing displays of floats, costumes, clowns, animals and the world's largest collection of circus wagons.

Fuck Yeah!

They have 2 whole buildings dedicated to the restoration and display of hundreds of beautifully carved and painted circus wagons, most of which had the full life history of each explaining which circus and when they were used and what act or animal it was used to display. I didn't take enough pictures. oh well. They also had life masks of some famous clowns who then painted their own faces.

Later that night I met up with my couchsurfing hosts Rachel and Nick who were awesome. I so love couchsurfers. They just moved here and were as excited to see Madison as I was. We didn't get to see much as I wasn't able to stay that long, but we went out to dinner at a very Wisconsin restaurant where I had Mac and Cheese with grilled rings of bologna. Oh, and a can of Schlitz. i wish I had more time in Madison. I very much want to come back.

Today head to Chicago to visit my friend Joy who moved there to work for the Goodman Theater. I don;t think I'll get to see much Chicago, but then I'm off to Toronto to see my Burning Man campmates KGD, June, and who know who else. I should drive through Buffalo on my way down to New York on the 16th (?) and then finally see pick up Justine who I miss terribly on the 20th in DC.

written by

JRadhirsch on September 12, 2008

Fixed it.

Sorry to lead you down the wrong path. There was one more thing I should have checked right away, and that was the Spam Filter.

It turns out that somebody has been posting a ton of spam containing the word "Sarasota", and that your blog entry was the first time that word had shown up in a genuine blog entry. That poor word had been so abused that the spam filter had it down as being nearly a 100% indicator that any message containing it was spam.

I've rescued your first try at that entry, and cleaned up the dozen-odd attempts to re-post. You should be back up and running.

Again, sorry about that. I'll go in today and adjust the knobs on that spamfilter so that it's not quite so aggressive.

written by

Jason Kester on September 13, 2008

Quick update: I just pushed a fix for the Spamfilter so that it shouldn't do this to anybody anymore.

Hope the Midwest is still treating you well!

Jason

written by

Jason Kester on September 13, 2008

Jason,

wow. thanks for your attention to this. Everytime I have a problem you right there to help. I really am grateful.

Jared

written by

JRadhirsch on September 13, 2008

Thanks. It would be better though, if nobody ever had to say "everytime I have a problem" when talking about Blogabond!

written by

Jason Kester on September 13, 2008

Well, your one guy running a web 2.0 site right? and for free. I think that deserves some slack. I won't deny the frustration when something doesn't work, but your always there to help solve the problem which goes much farther than most other sites in my book.

written by

JRadhirsch on September 14, 2008

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"save" keeps taking me back to edit

Heading South?