Category: The Kitchen Sink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmYDgncMhXw

Found at a most unusual site,

That’s just plain nuts! *heh*

Vonda McIntyre has a great lil howto for new writers on “Hunting the Wily Cover Blurb.” In comments is where you’ll find some of her best stuff, though, like this one on someone trying to shine her on about being a “big fan”–

If somebody says, “I liked your story ‘Moon Women of Titan’s Caves,’” the proper response is

(a) Oh, well, jeez, it wasn’t my best work;
(b) That piece of tripe? You’re a moron for liking that;
(c) I always hate everything I’ve written after it’s pubished;
(d) You BOUGHT that? In HARDCOVER? Why didn’t you wait for the paperback?*
(e) Thank you.

The correct choice is left as an exercise for the reader…

*heh*

BTW, she adds as a postscript to that comment, “You may guess that my idea of the proper response to someone who buys your work in hardcover is ‘Thank you.'” 🙂

I’m adding this to my collection of advice from authors (not that I expect to publish a book; I’d have to write one first ;-)) that includes, “How to Write Suckitudinous Fiction” from Holly Lisle, an author who tells a tale very well (the single most important criterion for a fiction writer, IMO).

I’ve stolen a small clip from one frame out of four panels of a Sluggy Freelance comic *whew!* to hint at something The 0! and his ilk know well: it doesn’t matter who you blame for a problem as long as you can pretend that “You’re dumb; I’m smart’ you’re little; I’m big…” (through the whole litany of excuses “Harry Wormwood” and “Agatha Trunchbull” used to oppress Matilda in the eponymous 1996 film–my personal fav DVD) and do something to make the problem into a “crisis” so you can “do stuff right now!” to make the crisis worse, so you can then… You get the idea. Why! Really all you have to do is pick something/someone to blame and stick with it, so why not just stick with…

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(To understand the brilliance of that concept, see that August 30, 2009 Sluggy Freelance comic. Of course *evil grin and a “bwa-ha-ha-ha”* to really understand that, you’ll need to check out the whole Sluggy Freelance background, but especially noting the character of Kiki and the background of the “Zombie on a Stick”. But that’s a “whole ‘nother” set of “issues”. *heh*)

Have this sound file available every time you hear some Dhimmicrappic flapper spew B.S.:

What a Maroon! (Opens wav file in new window.)

You’re welcome.

Alternate player (playing an mp3 file):

What a Maroon

Greenie self-lobotomized dumbasses=~90% of the “movement” IMO.

Then again, perhaps I’m being too generous. Surely there can’t be 10% of greenies who are wittingly deceiving folks?

2009-07-14

Finally, after many months of legal wrangling and more than a million dollars spent by The 0! fighting the release of his birth certtificate, the matter can be laid to rest:

Now that The 0! has finally satisfied the constitutional requirement folks have been so needlessly concerned about, can we just get along with the business of utterly destroying the U.S.? Hmmm?

I’m bored and I need a new place to keep my foot.”

http://sluggy.com/images/comics/090704e.jpg

Gotta love that Bun-Bun … *heh*

Geeky. Skip if compgeeky stuff isn’t your thing. Other stuff below.

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About once or twice a week, I use several “Internet speed test” sites to check my ISP’s service. I was REALLY disappointed the other day when it was down to about a 4mb/s download speed and latency was an order of magnitude worse than my usual; yeh, even though I already knew everything was loading r e a l l y, r e a l l y s l o w l y, I was still disappointed. Still, with an average d/l speed of 8.36mb/s (and my peak, so far, of 8.92mb/s), I’m not too disappointed with my ISP. Upload speeds are under 0.5mb/s, of course, but I rarely upload multi-gigabyte files, so that’s not a huge bottleneck (I break my uploads for backups into more manageable chunks, and usually do them overnight, anyway).