Squid Ink

[ehowton]

Wife created a spooky meal for us today, Goulish Spaghetti & Eyeballs! It was cheesy and delicious, and quite creative to boot. It turned out exactly like the picture on the recipe card. About halfway through my meal, I inquired to my wife as to what made the spaghetti black? I know that spinach noodles are green, and tomato noodles are red, but what do they add to the noodles to make them black? She handed me the package. "Squid Ink" it read. Ugh. Suddenly I felt as if I could taste fish in every bite, even though I knew that wasn't the case before I made this discovery. Of course as soon as the children heard this, they lost ALL interest in finishing their meal. One might say that lunch was therefore a rousing success. Even my wife wouldn't eat another bite.

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Two nights ago I dreamed I was hired to work for the government in their "Central Intelligence" division. It was a small group of people, each with their own talents, working as a team with a team lead. Some of the technology was older, and some was not even on the civilian market yet, but these guys were bright. And I was thrilled that I was finally able to settle into a job which befit my unique experience. At one point a photograph was brought in and the team was asked to identify three bright spots on the image. I suggested that a near-infrared optical device was used and created a trihedral return. The group laughed and the team lead said, "Well, he's new here." And explained that it was tea-candles. Hrm.

And to counter my egotism of landing the perfect job in Central Intelligence, last night I dreamed drax0r and I worked at Love's Truck Stop. Our responsibility was to clean the restrooms on all three floors of this multi-level facility. Trucks came in at two levels, depending on which side of the building you were on, and we were often accused of being perverts and low-lifes when the customers acknowledged our presence. I was trying to be helpful and courteous, but the customers wanted nothing to do with me, so I just continued to clean the bathrooms. Such was my lot in life.

I have no idea what any of this means.

Comments

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

How many times have I told you you're long-winded and trite? Keep them short and fresh, no more than a couple of subjects at a time. Use fewer words, and post more often.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Like Dan?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

If you're referring to danzigfried that's a poor example. He doesn't post at ALL anymore. If you're referring to our mutual friend on Xanga (http://www.xanga.com/TheTheologiansCafe), then yes, he also employs this tactic.

Understand, however, that I don't always have a lot of comments. Scroll through any of my pages and you'll find plenty of single-digit responses. Some of this is due to poor timing on the post (Friday evening posts generally don't do well) and sometimes I'm just as boring as you. So for you to hold such animosity toward me is really unwarranted.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I'm not holding animosity, I'm getting clarification.

Jeeze!

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

You piss me off. No matter what you post, you get a slew of comments. (Emphasis mine.)


You're right, sorry. I see no animosity here, just you asking for clarification. Of course.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

You do make a great point. When I post, I have a lot I want to say on many different topics. How do you suggest that I deal with this problem? Multiple posts I don't think are the issue as I only get certain blocks of time and so they would be posted one right after the other.

I do agree, however, that timing does have a lot to do with it, but that's more of a Xanga problem then an LJ problem.

Discuss.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

YOU WOULDN'T REQUIRE A LARGE BLOCK OF TIME IF YOU POSTED SHORTER ENTRIES.

POOR TIMING ISN'T LIMITED TO ONE BLOGGING SERVICE OVER ANOTHER.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

What a piece of work you are! You simultaneously misinterpret and ignore my question all at once.

I will break it down for you so that there is no miscommunication.

1. I only have certain blocks of time during the week when I can post.
2. I have a lot to communicate when I post.
3. If I broke up my thoughts into different posts at said times, I would post many short posts at the same time. You have mentioned that anything above a post a day pisses you off. Studies have shown that more then a post or two a day does not work unless they are like our mutual Xanga friend's site which lacks substance.

Given these facts, do you suggest that I make a whole bunch of short posts in rapid succession on the same day breaking my thoughts up per topic per post?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

The short answer that you apparently seek without any qualification whatsoever, is, "No."

Let's put those variables back into play now and see what turns up, shall we?

Good. Now, I'm going to tell you how I manage to post often even though I am very busy at work. In this real-world scenario, we're going to assume that your situation is similar to mine, e.g., you are currently able to respond to comments during the day.

Excellent. You're far less retarded than you'd like us to believe. Let's continue, shall we?

I bring up a "Post to Journal" tab in my broswer. Though I am busy, I manage, over the course of about an eight hour workday to put as little as a sentence at a time, up to a paragraph at a time during my very short breaks between phone calls and emails. At the end of the day, I've authored a post!

Hit, "Post to schpydurx"

Tomorrow, repeat.

In short, if you have time to comment as often as you do, you have time to post. You cannot argue this fact.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

This might work, but there would be many continuity issues. Furthermore, I could loose my progress in a varitiy of ways, therefore I suggest (for myself) modifying this procedure to have an office document with auto save and auto recovery.

Also, as I cross post, I have to change my markup for certain things.

I will consider your suggestion.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

If you have continuity issues with this, the problem is outside my scope, and I would suggest you contact your local pharmacist at once.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

writing is not something that is done flippantly. It's called train of thought.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly! But if you can't string two sentences together over an eight-hour period without having "continuity issues" perhaps you ought to take up basket weaving.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

But if you can't string two sentences together over an eight-hour period without having "continuity issues"
The issue is not time versus continuity but rather contiguous blocks of time.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

This entire exercise was designed to show you how to blog in small increments of time. You stated, "This might work, but there would be many continuity issues." which does NOT suggest 'contiguous blocks of time' rather, your own inability to string a single thought together if you were only able to write half of it down. You really are retarded, aren't you?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

You really are retarded, aren't you?
no, I just know how the process works. I might ask the same question as you.

One does not start a thought leave it for an indeterminate amout of time and come back to it with clarity.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

One does not start a thought leave it for an indeterminate amout of time and come back to it with clarity.

Those of us with a command of the English language and keen mind for thought-process have no trouble whatsoever. Might I suggest sir, that you ask your pharmacist to double your dosage of Ritalin.