Is it just my vision blurring, and my mind slipping, or do the comments on my journal seem to be repeating themselves? Is it something I did? Do I appear to be so slow on the uptake that everyone is finding that they need to repeat themselves? Am I a technical anomaly?
Answer me SG Gods! I demand an explanation!
Answer me SG Gods! I demand an explanation!
Repeating themselves? What makes you think that?
Actually, I think what happens is that people get confused and hit the Back button when they shouldn't, thereby invoking the dreaded Double Post. It took me a while to learn not to do that. They'll figure it out eventually....
I was coming home from the bar tonight (The Bar, Mad Mex, the former place of employment, "The Mex", the old digs... why do I still go there? A feeling of camaraderie, a hope that I will know some faces there... I can't be that desperate for aquaintences, can I?) and there was a spider in the weather-seal of my driver's side window. It was just crawling along, as happy as a clam. Then I moved around a bit, adjusting the seat-belt, turning on the music, and I got caught up in a spider web that had been strung across the inside of my car. The inside! How did that get in there?!?
The only other thing I can think to ramble drunkenly about is the recent email-forward stupidity that has gone on between my sort-of-friend Mike and I. My buddy Ross, ever the gullible one, sent out one of those mass email chain letter type things warning everyone about some program or another on your computer that you 'MUST DELETE NOW, IT IS A MALEVOLENT VIRUS!", or words to that effect, to which I made a rather half-assed reply, which satirized his gullibilty and made fun of the whole 'email-virus-scare-delete-some-random-thing' hoax.
Right. So I sent that out to my list of email victims, and received a number of rather funny replies.
Then, amidst the other amusing replies, my sort-of-friend Mike sends along an email which is, essentially, the exact thing that I sent out, but the joking parts are re-written, un-funnied, and filled with the glaring spelling errors that are his trademark.
My reply to the same list of recipients was perhaps a bit too scathing, but I felt as though he had just taken my attempt at humor, dumb as it may have been, and sucked all the remaining humor and originality out of it, and passed it off as his own, or worse, passed it of as <i>mine</i>, and made <i>me</i> look like the unfunny lamer who can't spell.
Maybe I'm just being touchy and churlish and I'm way out of line.
You be the judge. I'll post the whole transaction on my journal page, which is listed to the left.
[Edited on Sep 09, 2003]