How much time to you spend?
SereneBabe
After not reading Zero's posts for a while, I've been popping in and out of his
threads now and again and the thought occurred to me (as it always does,
reading his posts): just how much time do you spend constructing your posts to
the newsgroup?
I mean, for chrimines sake, Zero's posts are crafted with thought and what
looks like bucketloads of effort (all that creative citing and stuff).
Me?
How much time I spend writing my newsgroup posts is just about equal to the
time it takes to type out the words as I think them.
I usually read it through once (or twice if it's something relatively important
to me) to be sure there are no GLARING typos or loser word combos.
I spend no time on or offline writing my newsgroup posts besides sitting at the
keyboard seeing what comes out onto the screen.
Do you take time to craft your posts?
--Heather
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Re: How much time to you spend?
2540Q: ZeroTime Spent
seren...@aol.comNOSPAMMY (SereneBabe) wondered:
>After not reading Zero's posts for a while, I've been popping in
>and out of his threads now and again and the thought occurred
>to me (as it always does, reading his posts): just how much
>time do you spend constructing your posts to the newsgroup?
personally, aside from my painfully slow two finger typing,
i spend very little time writing them. as you can tell by all
the typos.
"The passage of my life
is measured out in shirts"
-- Brian Eno [song: "King's Lead Hat" from
the album: "Before and After Science"]
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>I mean, for chrimines sake, Zero's posts are crafted with thought
>and what looks like bucketloads of effort (all that creative citing
>and stuff).
that comes natural to me. as you can see by the speed in which
i cited this stuff for this post. besides... i have it down to an art.
that's my oft self-proclaimed creative-genius at work.
"I'm a godd'mn marvel of modern science."
-- Randle Patrick McMurphy
[from the movie: "One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)]
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in fact, i just read your post here a few minutes ago...
i was waiting for an email reply to that email i just sent you...
about babysitting language and word-bigotry... and i was
busy doing other stuff online... so it took me even less
time than it might appear from the timestamps.
i have that citation thing down pat.
[while Walt explains how computers work to
a techno-fearful Ed, Ed has a revelation:]
"Zero and One, that's it?... heh.
that's kinda like what Leonard told me...
[Leonard is Ed's shaman healer/teacher]
reality is one... nothing is zero...
and the universe is made up of
all different combinations of
reality and nothing."
-- Ed Chigliak [actor: Darren E. Burrows;
from tv's "Northern Exposure" (1990-1995)
rerunning twice daily on A&E at 8:00 am
and 2:00 pm ET see also: alt.tv.northern-exp]
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>Me?
>
>How much time I spend writing my newsgroup posts is just about
>equal to the time it takes to type out the words as I think them.
ditto.. ecept for maybe the one or two minutes i take to think of
interesting (usually contexually-related) quotes to sprinkle in.
"You are completely aware
of the subliminal message
you've just absorbed."
-- $Zero... <Zero...@aol.com>
3160Q: You are now reading this title.
[posted to misc.writing on Day 13743]
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>I usually read it through once (or twice if it's something relatively
>important to me) to be sure there are no GLARING typos or loser
>word combos.
obviously, that's way more than i do. <g>
>I spend no time on or offline writing my newsgroup posts besides
>sitting at the keyboard seeing what comes out onto the screen.
i write offline sometimes... but only because aol crashes on me.
>Do you take time to craft your posts?
yes and no.
i've never taken any _real_ time...
(like i would if i was craffting a free article
for say... a free punblication <g>)
sometimes i scribble a bunch of witty
replies on a printout of someone's post
(which is usually the kiss of death as
far as it getting posted ever.. i hate typing
up shit i already wrote)
"you're soooo analytical.
sometimes...
you just have to let art
flooowwww over you..."
-- Nick [actor: William Hurt
from the movie: "The Big Chill"]
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>--Heather
>***********
>
>"It's All About Me!"
>a weekly column by SereneBabe at
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>May 19, 1999: "A Rusher's Salvation"
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Steve Pritchard
SereneBabe wrote in message <19990522021551...@ng25.aol.com>...
>
>After not reading Zero's posts for a while, I've been popping in and out of
his
>threads now and again and the thought occurred to me (as it always does,
>reading his posts): just how much time do you spend constructing your posts
to
>the newsgroup?
Oooh . . perhaps as long as . . maybe . . .seconds.
(Sadly, it shows)
Wendy Chatley Green
wrote:
:Do you take time to craft your posts?
Depends--if I'm being Pedantic, then yes--I get out the
reference books and double-check my facts. Otherwise, I run the
spellcheck and post.
--
Wendy Chatley Green
wcg...@cris.com
Susan
^
^ seren...@aol.comNOSPAMMY (SereneBabe) wondered:
^
^ >After not reading Zero's posts for a while, I've been popping in
^ >and out of his threads now and again and the thought occurred
^ >to me (as it always does, reading his posts): just how much
^ >time do you spend constructing your posts to the newsgroup?
^
^ personally, aside from my painfully slow two finger typing,
^ i spend very little time writing them. as you can tell by all
^ the typos.
Not to mention the lack of actual content.
--
- Susan Hogarth (But the boy sure does have the -form- down, though)
Donna deMedicis
SereneBabe wrote:.
>
> Do you take time to craft your posts?
Nope. It shows, too.
Donna
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aj
>On 22 May 1999 07:29:21 GMT, ZeroFund mewed piteously:
>^
>^ seren...@aol.comNOSPAMMY (SereneBabe) wondered:
>^
>^ >and out of his threads now and again and the thought occurred
>^ >to me (as it always does, reading his posts): just how much
>^ >time do you spend constructing your posts to the newsgroup?
>^
>^ personally, aside from my painfully slow two finger typing,
>^ i spend very little time writing them. as you can tell by all
>^ the typos.
>
> Not to mention the lack of actual content.
>
i suppose i could be offended at this, because i happen to find many of his
posts content full. but i have free will, so i choose not to be. <g>
aj
rejecting the brainwash that zero is "bad"
Jenny
wrote:
<snip>
>Do you take time to craft your posts?
>
I assume my posts make the answer to that glaringly obvious.
Who has time for craft when there's all this chocolate to eat?
Jenny
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SFDrake
>Do you take time to craft your posts?
No.
;-) -- patricia
Lorrill Buyens
>How much time I spend writing my newsgroup posts is just about equal to the
>time it takes to type out the words as I think them.
>
>I usually read it through once (or twice if it's something relatively important
>to me) to be sure there are no GLARING typos or loser word combos.
>
>I spend no time on or offline writing my newsgroup posts besides sitting at the
>keyboard seeing what comes out onto the screen.
>
>Do you take time to craft your posts?
If I have a lot to say in response to someone, or I need to go check
something in my book/magazine/record/tape/CD collections, or I think
I'm coming off as too pompous or awkward, or it's an MWV post - yes.
Flip one-liners usually take but a few seconds... :-)
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Hello?
SereneBabe
"How much time *to* you spend?"
I must be getting less uptight, this thread's been up for a while and I just
now caught that one.
Grumble.
(Let it go, Heather...)
--Heather
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May 26, 1999: "The Children are Listening"
Anna Banana
: "How much time *to* you spend?"
: (Let it go, Heather...)
A typing error is just a typing error. You don't seem to make
them, not often. So the law of averages dictated that you had
a typing error coming. And it came.
I do spend some time thinking about what I write in the newsgroup.
I don't want people to skip my posts. I have an ego as big as the
all outdoors.
It's about pride. I have more than my share of pride. I also
have some respect for the people who download my messages.
(The level of respect fluctuates with my moods of course;
sometimes I don't have that much respect and have to fake it.
I don't think anyone can tell the difference. People believe
what they want to believe.) If I had a mind to waste people's
time and bore them to tears, I'd quote Dominick Dunne out of
context, just to be precious:
"Good evening," answered Ann, not looking at him as she
passed him and entered the hall. She walked straight
to a gilt Chippendale mirror over a console table and
eyed her windblown hair critically in it.
Is it just me, or did Anne eye her hair in the table. I don't
know. Maybe it is just me. Maybe there's something esoterically
grammatical in that paragraph.
But I digress.
People have lives. They have things to do. So I ask
myself why people should take a moment out of their busy
lives to read what I have to say. Sure, I offer the novelty
of eccentricity. Of course I'll always have eccentricity.
As reading incentives go, eccentricity is good for three or
four posts on a good day. But when all is said and done,
eccentricity is trivial. Without substance, it gets old
very fast. People get confused; it gets on their nerves.
They start skipping your posts. It's like playing the
accordian. There's just no real future in eccentricity for
eccentricity's sake.
I once heard a porno movie actor explain why she chose to
enter "the business." She said: Before she turned
professional her boyfriends would video tape her as she
and they were having sex. It was fun for her, of course.
If it hadn't been fun, she wouldn't have let them do it.
But she was not truly aware of the audience as an element
in her sexual adventures. Then she remembered a bit of
inspirational advice her mother gave her: If you're going
to be a bear, be a grizzly.
If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly. The rest is
history. She became a real porn star.
If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly. It is
profound advice, I think. And we can apply easily to any
situation where people are watching us dick around. Look
up. Think of your audience. You're posting in front of
real people. If you are going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
Anna
Also be sure to give advice as often as you can, preferably
in a condescending manner. And try to appeal to people's
squishy parts by talking about sex at least once in every
post. It's the right thing to do.