Darrin, you're not back in grade school. You're in the real, grown-up world where you are supposed to put into practice all those things you "learned" back in school.
I'd have chosen to argue the literal. "Ah yes, I am a tool. As are you. For whom are we tools? For what? Do we serve our purpose? Do we cause delight and reflection? I am a tool for publishing items that generate page views. This brings advertising income. Advertising income is valuable. You are a tool as you serve to remind us to write at such a level that the lowest common denominator finds our text accessible. Please read our other related articles, and click on the ads in the side column."
Paul, have you read Steve Almond's "Letters From People Who Hate Me?" Based on this exchange, I am 99% sure you will enjoy it. http://www.harvard.com/book/letters_from…
Yes - but which tool? Plane, screw, pulley, wedge - and whatever the other two are. Also style-wise, always two spaces after a period ending a sentence.
@2, nope. Two spaces after a period went out with the IBM Selectric typewriter. Computers use variable-spaced fonts, for the most part, and don't need a double space. They look terrible in a proportionally spaced font. It is strictly a relic of the typewriter era. I learned how to do it in typing class in 1972, and unlearned it on a Mac fifteen years later.
I love whenever you guys post hate mail on slog. One of my favourites is still the butthurt director of Jolene's letter to all of the staff about how much he hates Lindy. I think there was a good one from the Cook to Bang guy as well.
@12: whoever decided that Natalie Portman needs to be run over by a bus. Hopefully the same bus that also runs over whoever decided that Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts were at all attractive.
@26/30: I've heard the phrase mentioned around here, but missed the original guy. Any memory about what his complaint was about? Who was he aiming his vitriol at?
@4: "Darrin, you're not back in grade school. You're in the real, grown-up world where you are supposed to put into practice all those things you "learned" back in school."
From the article he responded to, Darrin comes from "real 'murka" and does not follow US Gov't TYRANNICAL LAW.
I see that two of the hate mailers David Schmader has publicized have a connection. The "GO BACK TO FRANCE PUSSY YOU FAGGOT" fellow has a sister who has a blog accusing another hate mailer, Patrick J Lillis, or pjlillis of rape.
@39,
HOLY SHIT! Nice find. You snobs that hide anonymous comments are missing out. Notice in one entry she refers to her brothers Danny and Richard, who also wrote to Schmader.
@41, Interesting article. And some interesting articles linked from it too, like this one heralding the death of Caps Lock. (Whatever will the trolls do now?)
But you can have my second space when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
Darrin, you're not back in grade school. You're in the real, grown-up world where you are supposed to put into practice all those things you "learned" back in school.
http://www.harvard.com/book/letters_from…
can i filter out constant??
http://www.itcfonts.com/Ulc/4111/DoubleS…
I love whenever you guys post hate mail on slog. One of my favourites is still the butthurt director of Jolene's letter to all of the staff about how much he hates Lindy. I think there was a good one from the Cook to Bang guy as well.
Dear Paul Bobby: Thank you. Keep up the good work. Whatever that may be...
Yours, double-spacer 4eva...
KD
From the article he responded to, Darrin comes from "real 'murka" and does not follow US Gov't TYRANNICAL LAW.
http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/05/lord…
HOLY SHIT! Nice find. You snobs that hide anonymous comments are missing out. Notice in one entry she refers to her brothers Danny and Richard, who also wrote to Schmader.
But you can have my second space when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.