AliceTheOwl

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I don't remember that. *shrugs* And even if he had, I only get bothered by the accusations with a grain of truth in them. Call me a stupid, weak woman and I might have to say something on behalf of my gender. Call me a bad writer and I'll be affronted.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm sorry! DT! (as opposed to dt or DT) stands for Dub This! It's an online comic I read and whose board I moderate. Heh. No, no, I wasn't calling you a git. Thank you for not getting angry. And I wouldn't call the outsourcing discussion an argument. I'd have to feel affronted first.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yes, I saw that one. Strangely, I think it was on Snopes.

Re: The cranky thread Likely harder than it looks. I agree that people vandalizing and stealing signs should be harshly punished. Regardless of whose signs they're stealing or vandalizing. Don't they realize the money to pay for those usually comes out of the taxpayers' pockets? Sheesh.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I haven't eaten anything today. Well, time for breakfast.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Thank you. I feel better, anyway. Which is all that matters, in this one. I'll settle for, "I can sleep without chemical aid," rather than, "He's come to see things from my perspective."

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It's copied into my LJ. Some bad language, accusing me of playing the victim, nothing that directly calls me a bad word. Hopefully he reads reply #2 before reply #1. Or at least reads reply #2 before he responds to reply #1.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER *bumps* So I'm still arguing with this DT! git, but at least now I'm satisfied I've presented the best argument I could. Almost. Hey, at least I'm not stooping to address his personal attacks.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Wolf's (roommate, female) mother just called. She wanted to know if Wolf's Aunt Jeannie cancelled her weekend in enough time. I told her she cancelled the day before, but that was enough notice, anyway. Our apartment complex is very understanding, I told her. She was satisfied with that answer, and I got off the phone with her in record time. Maybe I should answer the phone more often.

Re: The cranky thread

Re: The cranky thread Josh posted on the board I moderate, regarding the comic it revolves around, that he didn't see the foreshadowing leading up to the current point, so he was disappointed. Another person posted that foreshadowing wasn't necessary, it was just a tool writers use. I did a double-take on that one, then temporarily derailed the thread to address that idea. Because that's one of those things in Creative Writing classes they don't really bother teaching you, because they figured you learned it in high school: that you'll piss off your readers if you throw things in out of the blue. If you MUST surprise your readers, foreshadow it so they don't throw your story across the room in disgust. Well, he argued, there really WERE things out of the blue that nobody could've seen coming, with no foreshadowing. So I asked a writing community I hang out in, is foreshadowing necessary? They said yeah, and we think your friend's just yanking your chain. Nobody who writes can believe that. I kept up correspondence for several e-mails, until he had shot down all of my points without really considering them. I explained that foreshadowing is functionally invisible when it works - it shouldn't be a blatant show of "THIS is going to happen!" He refused to accept that as a definition of foreshadowing. I explained that, if he persisted in defining it wrong, then yeah, it wasn't in most good writing. I got condescending about it (but how else could I respond, when pointing out I earned a BA in Creative Writing and was backed by a community of puclished writers, to his retort that his high school teachers told him he was pretty good, and he was dabbling?). And this is STILL going on, five days later. I just wanted a nice, quiet, relaxing weekend. Right now, it's a case of who gets the last word. I'm rather stubborn, so I CAN'T let his rants go, expecially when he started swearing at and threatening me. My most recent reply has been a case of my pointing out that he won't listen to my good points, he refuses to see I'm right, so good luck in learning it the hard way. I really don't like arguing. I don't really put my foot down all that often. Nor do I get genuinely angry when I'm arguing that much. I just wish I knew how to let it go.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No objections here. Yup, those are real. Wow.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings My mother just sent me an e-mail wanting to know what I was doing up so late, and cautioning me not to get sick. She wasn't too concerned about my staying up close to midnight when I was staying under her roof and still a child. What the . . . ? Every time I think I've figured that woman out . . .

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: Musings on Random Musings Don't you DARE

Re: A Thread for Random Musings This is a very interesting new device . . . Iwonder why it's so popular? http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/10/21/tvbgone041021.html

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . Though I think those might be implants. Hmm. We need more pictures so I can tell definitively.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005631.html#005631 Unless you want a loooonnnnnnnnnnnnng read, start at #2. Then it's only a freakin' long read. Just wanted to share.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Thank you, I already have those notions in my head. And I already have a squirrel to implant me. So thank you, but no.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Squirrel Minion #13: put the ferret in a coma. Squirrel Minion #14: start a "No stealing cereal" campaign amongst squirrel minions. ^ v ^

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Squirrel Minion #11: Photoshop a better avatar for Josh. Squirrel Minion #12: Implant random people with subliminal messages that television is evil and to vote Libertarian while they're sleeping.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Squirrel #8 can cause a major disruption in our roommates' bank's computer system, so that the tires they put on their debit card don't overdraw the account. Then it can go mess with other banks. Randomly.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Squirrel #4: Go to South Carolina and change all the signs around so they refer to the Dark Tower. Oh, wait. Another squirrel beat you to it. North Carolina, then.