notes from Sleep class, or, "forgery token"????

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This morning I attempted to take a quiz in Sleep class.

Instead of taking me to the quiz, as it usually does, the website gave me an error message telling me that my forgery token was incorrect.

Man.

I mean.  I didn't even know I HAD a forgery token, and then to find out that I do (or did?) but it's incorrect?  What a bummer.

Of course this raises a host of questions.

Doesn't a forgery token sound like something you might need in Dungeons and Dragons?

How would you know when a forgery token is incorrect?  I mean -- isn't incorrectness like part of the nature of forgery?  Isn't incorrectness part of the definition of forgery?

So who gets to decide whether or not a forgery token is correct or not, and why do *they* get to decide?  I didn't vote for them...........

And what is the purpose of a forgery token, anyway?  (How can we define its correctness, if we don't know what it's for in the first place?)

Is it a "get out of jail free" token, in case we are caught passing some other object off as real, when, in fact, that other object is a forgery?  If the token itself is expected to be a forgery, then it ought to be called a "forged token" (or a slug!), not a "forgery token."  But if the person who wrote the error message is not on top of those niceties of precision of speech, and the token is the forgery, then I'm right back to pondering the nature of unacceptable incorrectness in a forgery.  All I can come up with is "not enough like the original"??  Or, maybe, it has to have some obvious mistake?

Mona is in the public domain; it's ok to post her pic.

 

My thinking about correct vs. incorrect forgery..........

Ah well.

This afternoon I tried again to take the quiz, and was allowed to do so.  Apparently I got a new forgery token and the new one was ok.  Maybe I have a whole pocketful of forgery tokens, and one of them was ok?  Or maybe the powers that be decided to accept that my original forgery token was correct after all.

I don't suppose I'll ever know............



ps -- are these two forgeries different colors on your screen?  One is more blue, and the other is more red, on my screen. 

I was hoping to get them side by side, to demonstrate to myself the color change isn't a result of scrolling, but I can't seem to get them to do that.

Of course it's one image, reversed in Photoshop.  I am convinced the two versions on my home computer are the same color, and I'm pretty sure the two that Blogger uploaded are not.

Weirded out that Blogger would do this........................................ What sort of algorithm takes the same image (for all practical purposes)and makes two different things out of it?????????????  Sheesh.

Maybe, if I could just locate a correct forgery token, I could hand it to Blogger, and get Blogger to quit messing with my pics and putting its forgeries on my blog?

I bet what I'd actually need to do is revoke Blogger's forgery token.  "No more forgery for YOU, Blogger!  Not on *my* blog!"

But that would require me to give up my firstborn name and other personal data (which is none of Blogger's -- or Google's -- freaking business), and I don't really want to do that.............  I don't have any interest in helping myself be any easier to track than I already am.............. 

Sigh.

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