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(Unverified)Aug 30th 2009 4:40AM
Why do you keep taking ad hominem shots at me? What I wrote was an attempt to illustrate the absurdity of your comment.
I didn't cast any direct aspersions on your mother. Given that you've already established -- being obese -- I'm not capable of qualitative statements about hygiene, I'm not sure why my personal opinion of your mom would matter one way or the other. More on that in just a sec.
What exactly qualifies someone as a comedian and, who nominated you to be the thin bland line protecting the public from a marginally funny blogger?
Your original comment was clearly a very rude attempt to take the "fine" out of my day. That's pretty lousy. If you heckle me, why should I be prohibited from heckling you back?
Remind me again, which one of us is being childish?
And yes, as referenced above, you've made a brilliant observation; All fat people display substandard personal hygiene. We're slovenly, lazy, unkempt, undisciplined and, mentally? Quite a bit slower than all the rest of you. Fortunately, it's also *very* easy to see us coming and we can't run very fast.
Pro tip: In the event that one of us should get a lucky shot at sharing our distasteful hygienic habits with you, we're also easily distracted. Just drop something shinny -- or a Hostess Twinkee -- as you run away. We're pretty likely to forget all about why we're chasing you.
I think it's pretty obvious why you're picking on me. You should really drop this charade and just ask me out already. I totally don't have the cooties or anything.
Disclaimer: I am a very expensive dinner date. Please bring a credit card, some sort of poncho or splash guard, and a change of clothes sealed in a plastic bag. Trust me, you'll be happy you did.
(Unverified)Aug 30th 2009 12:04PM
+1 for Grant
RocketboyAug 30th 2009 12:42PM
Wow, multiple fails in one...
Comedy fail.
Retort fail.
Figuring how to use the comment system on the blog you write for fail.
Realizing that almost EVER TIME you editorialize in a blog post, your readers tell you to stuff it fail.
Trying not to sound childish while blaming the other guy for being childish fail.
Let's see what schoolyard taunts you send me...
Someone who claims to be "Grant has served as Lead Blogger for Download Squad", your posts have been rather, well, lame.
Let's see what your latest articles have been, shall we?
Fugly Friday.. Wow. Point us to a website that's ugly. That's a tough job. The sort of thing you could spend a weekend banging out a few months of content, so you don't have to do anything for a while.
History of the hard drive, not bad, but again, the sort of article that you can write at anytime and post up when it looks like you're slacking.
An article about the plans for a gov't run data center which mis-represented the Representative's position, and approached the level of childish mocking due to it.
Removing the fugly friday posts, let's check out the frequency of the "Lead" blogger.
Aug 29th 2009
Jul 27th 2009 (The HD article)
Jul 24th 2009 (The datacenter debacle)
Jul 20th 2009 (This based on a news report that EVERYONE knew about and blogged about)
Jul 20th 2009
Jul 8th 2009
So, on a blog that has multiple posts a day during the work wee, you've done, 6 posts between July 8th and Aug 29th.
(Unverified)Aug 30th 2009 9:08PM
Rocketboy, nearly every time we write a *post* some reader tells us to "stuff it". Here are just a few of the generic ways we've been told to stuff it before.
When we cover Linux or Apple, we're anti-Microsoft.
When we cover Microsoft, we're just shilling for the corporatist overlords who are trying to keep Richard Stallman, GNU and FOSS from succeeding.
When we cover web apps, we're not *Download* squad.
When we editorialize, we're not being a tech news blog.
When we're a tech news blog, we're just parroting press releases.
When we're critical of something, we're being unfair.
Most of these fall under a generic type of gripe that I like to call "The armchair editorial calendar". "You should cover X, not Y." "You spend too much time covering Y, why are you ignoring X?" Feedback is great, but if we knee-jerked and changed focus every time a reader yelled, "Bloggin', UR doin it Wrong!", we'd all have whiplash.
As for my lack of prolificacy, I think you -- and likely many other readers -- misunderstand my role a bit. Blogging is part of it. So is editing, planning, training bloggers, coordinating coverage of special events, holidays and releases, enforcing our style guide, recruiting, and a host of other minutiae that people rarely think about when they think "blogger". Sometimes I've written quite a bit in a month, other times I haven't. I'm definitely more silent lately than I should be. Not to offer excuses but, I do this job in addition to a more than full-time job as a consultant developer. With the rough economy and resulting staff reductions, I'm definitely being pressured for more time and attention at my day job. I think that's likely the case for a lot of people.
I really don't understand why you've decided right now, right here, in the middle of this particular comment thread is the time to go back, re-read my last two months of blog posts, subtract an entire series from the total, and offer your opinion on the quality and relevance of each one. Why jump in an already messy thread to kick me when I'm down?
RocketboyAug 30th 2009 10:37PM
"Rocketboy, nearly every time we write a *post* some reader tells us to "stuff it"."
Of course there's fanboys of all sorts.
The original complaint was just a fanboy of comedy that works.
"I really don't understand why you've decided right now, right here, in the middle of this particular comment thread is the time to go back, re-read my last two months of blog posts, subtract an entire series from the total, and offer your opinion on the quality and relevance of each one. "
Again, the victim. And it took oh, one click to see what you've posted in the past. And one page was 2 months worth of stuff for you. As the majority of them were of a 'phone it in' type of post, and I recall the one you posted about the data center as another "Grant's yammering at the mouth again" posts, it wasn't too hard, or too much of my time to talk about the quality/relevance of the few that I did.
So, maybe you're good at the editing thing. You might be a wiz with the style guide. Maybe that's what you should stick with.
Comedy, and responding to criticism, not so much.