The next thing that occurred to me for troubleshooting was to go sit at another computer and see just what it looked like from there. In a matter of minutes I've seen the works in progress shows appear absolutely correct with photos displayed as expected, blurs of photos that don't display completely and fade immediately, and also plain white where the photos should be. And this was with all no intervention at all from me other than viewing, clicking somewhere else and then returning to look again.
This feels far too much like having my brother and sister simultaneously trying to teach me to drive a stick-shift. And by that I mean all of us in the car at the same time. They're both younger, but have a tendency to gang up on me, always have. That's a particularly vivid memory of unresolved confusion. They both tell me what to do, they correct me and the result is sometimes the car moves forward and sometimes it dies. The whole process is mysterious; I can't tell what was different at all between the times it worked and the times it failed. At least here I have a more powerful reassurance that it's not me. Since no changes were attempted and the result varied based on nothing more than a few more seconds time passing, I'm in an area outside of the sphere of cause and effect. Feels a bit too familiar, in a very infuriating sort of way. Random can be very uncomfortable. Randomness is not usually my friend.
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