Author: David

Over-educated Curmudgeon, Bit-Bucket Tuner and Budding Brewmeister.
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People Just Gonna “Peep”

Yeh, it’s a bit small-minded of me, but what can I say? Those folks who assert that music in a Xian church can ONLY be a cappella–no instruments–like to say that musical instruments featured in worship in the Book of Revelation don’t count because references to musical instruments in Revelation don’t mean what they say. Like, for example, the words in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven” apparently do not mean what they say, either. *shrugs* Their self-deception is no greater than those who assert that ONLY Psalm-singing is allowed, for some obscure, unscriptural reasons they rationalize with eisegesis and hand-waving.

It’s just the way of folks to lie to themselves to justify their own biases, ya know?

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The Joys of Cat “Ownership”

A bit tired of dealing with “cat-bottom” flavored coffee. Wish I could effect a good way of keeping them from waving their, urm, posteriors over my coffee mug. Oh, well. At least my mugs are cleaned frequently. *sigh*

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“Don’t Care; Won’t Read”

Is “Thanks for sharing” the current, least-dismissive seeming “TL;DR,” or “Does not confirm my bias, so I’m ignoring it” dismissal? It most often assumes the place of “Don’t care; won’t read.”

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“Dunning-Krugerand”* Writers FTL**

All kinds of little “gotchas” are traps for Dunning-Krugerand writers. One of my fav gripes is the inability of some to distinguish between uses of “have got” and “have gotten.” If nothing else has emerged in text before “have got,” its typical misuse by Dunning-Krugerand writers in cases where “must” cannot be substituted, for example, is a sure tell.

*Dunning-Krugerand is a term Larry Correia coined to refer to those incompetents who have a massive, undue respect for their own non-existent competence.
**FTL here denotes “For the Loss.”

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Small Pleasures

Fun lil piece of dialog:

“I’m trustworthy, I just don’t seem like it, because seeming trustworthy is suspicious.”

“You are an unnecessarily convoluted man.”

“Thank you.”

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Wee, Teen-eintsy Comp-Geeky Thingy

Nice. Just booted a lil EePC running “Puppy Slacko” for the first time in over a year. Sweet lil baby lappy with a lean Linux distro. When it was running its preinstalled Win7 OS (still available, but who cares?) it was a bit of a (baby) slug. Not posting this from it, because I’ve not swapped out its wireless card, and the one that came installed is. . . still a slug. Need to get that done, eh?

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Just a Wee Comp-Semi-Geeky Thingy

So, cheap lil Windows-based “email and internet cruiser” notebook. NOT specced like my desktop, but OK for casual stuff. Almost a disposable computer. Almost. Lil hybrid hard drive went flaky. Still sorta worked most of the time, but not really. So. repaired the system, pulled the drive, installed it in an external case. New drive (NOT a hybrid, this time): same deal: external case. Plugged both into desktop and used Macrium Reflect (recommended for Windows users who like good, inexpensive software) to clone the freshly-repaired drive to the new drive.

Installed new drive in lil “almost disposable” notebook, and. . . all is well.

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Filed Under. . .

Words I never thought I’d read: “. . .get your elegant and beautiful ass back in the saddle and get thee hence.” ?!? Oh, well. Next book. (Yeh, that was a high point. Would have been prettier if it’d been a picture of a Hi-Point. *smh*)

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Pro Tip for Self-Pubs

Actually, this lil tip is not for all self-pubs. This one is just for subliterate Dunning-Krugerand fiction writers with delusions of competence. Here ya go, guys n dolls:

Always be sure that your “brilliant, genius” characters reflect your own brilliance and genius by having them be completely unaware of the significant differences between in/out, come/go, take/bring, number/amount, less/fewer, and be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN to sprinkle their dialogue with non-words common to the vocabularies of pinheaded morons, like “anyways.”

I hope this helps.