That essay was amusing, but her method of alarm would probably turn me into a true homicidal maniac. Must be awoken slowly by NPR. I dread sundays, because sunday means that when the alarm goes off, there is jazz. And I suspect it is bad jazz. It makes me very very angry. Angry in a way that Morning Edition and BBC Worldservice do not. Not even when they are interviewing pompous, holier-than-thou politicians.

Perkins is coming to the Bay Area! Yay!

That's all I got.

So I got into a stupid internet slapfight honest argument with someone online the other day. When I went back to apologize for getting too wound up, I found out that the other party had (a) sworn nastily at me and (b) deleted not only all her posts in the thread, but all of mine and another person's as well.

I was probably a bit too snarky in my dissection of their lack of logic; but isn't it a violation of netiquette to delete someone else's posts? It was a fluke of the argument that she was able to do it at all, since the disagreement showed up in the comments of a post in a meta community that she had made. If anyone else had made the original post, nobody else would have been able to make those deletions.

I'm actually more bothered by the deletions than the swearing. Okay, and the obvious dearth of logic.

How big is a 50c piece?

How big is a 50c piece?

30.56 mm in diameter. [link]

Not, as I was going to guess, twice as big as a quarter.

Bigger than a quarter.

Ooh, deleting someone else's posts? Cree-pee.

Half-dollar is say 50% bigger than a dollar coin.

It's the Kennedy silver dollars that are huge, I guess. That's what I was picturing when I thought "50 cent piece".

(eta: I'm having trouble getting passed the possibility of deleting someone else's posts to the ettiquette of it. Seems wrong, in any case)

Ooh, deleting someone else's posts? Cree-pee.

Yeah. I want to be sympathetic, because I was snotty and condescending (there was no logic to be found in their arguments), but I really am put out that they deleted other folk's words.

Clearly someone who hasn't mastered the whole arguing-on-the-internet thing.

Oh, 'Suela. That's awful. I think I know the debate of which you speak and the wrongheadedness of the involved person. Swearing and deleting? Talk about childish.

Btw, I have to e-you about the memorial weekend thing. I'm gonna have to book the plane tickets soonish.

On an unrelated note, say a person has only been driving for a little over 6 months and therefore had an insurance for less than a year. If the said person--oh, frakk it, I mean myself--had a reasonable driving record except for a ticket I paid when I, uhmm, nicked a parked vehicle (which I didn't use insurance to pay), what should I expect as a reasonable monthly premium? I have to renew my auto insurance with GMAC and it turns out to be around $200/mo, and something tells me I could do better. Except I really can't be arsed to shop around too much.

Swearing and deleting? Talk about childish.

It smelt a great deal of "taking my toys and stomping off home".

Sorry about the ding! But the ticket could be a problem -- you'll probably get points for that. Reasonable insurance varies too much depending on where you live, how much you use the car, and so forth, so I can't really give advice on that. But $2400/year seems kinda high.