I don't remember if this was posted before...
A useful scientific study: On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
Abstract
Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
Heh.
I guess I'll be throwing out all my aluminium hats.
Someone hates me!
It's odd. When I read a bad review, I want to pick up the book and judge for myself, rather than taking one person's word for it.
Just for books, though. I bad review of a movie will make me avoid it like the plague.
I guess I'll be throwing out all my aluminium hats.
Thank goodness they're recyclable, Gud.
It's odd. When I read a bad review, I want to pick up the book and judge for myself, rather than taking one person's word for it.
For me (books and movies both), it totally depends on what I know of the reviewer. Some of 'em, I know that I'll love whatever they love and hate what they hate (and sometimes vice versa). A review by someone who's a total stranger to me doesn't have much effect one way or the other.
Except that this guy's review might possibly have made me a bit more interested -- he seems to be reacting mostly to paperdol's authorial voice and the way she presents herself, and the way people react to that element in an essay is so particular and individual that it wouldn't necessarily put me off. A voice strong enough to elicit a really negative reaction in one person is at least a strong voice, and it might get an equally positive reaction from someone else.
Except I'm also filled with surly envy of shrift.
Aww. I'd totally send you Thai, but I suspect it would go off long before it arrived, what with the Chicago postal system being somewhat worse than Ankh-Morpork's.
paperdol, he's definitely deserving of a MarkTwainesque "Dear Sir; You may be right at that" comment. Not sure though if you should use your LJ identity to do it with.
Not to mention that instead of condemning =you= for deciding that your memoir was worth making into a book, it's the agent and publisher he should be castigating primarily. Inasmuch as they seem to be
right
that Other People would be interested in reading your stories, I think we can get a good idea of just how far up jheaton's ass his head is.
Yeah. I'm just sort of amused. I've no idea what to do with the critique of not being interesting, or being unlikeable.
I'm okay with that.
Having someone I respect call me a shitty writer is about the only thing that would send me to bed weeping for a few days.
Being unlikeable and boring? Shit, I say that about myself all the time.
ICompletelyON, eep! Recruiter interview today, job interview (with a different recruiter) on Friday.
It's not as good as (and rather more stressful than) good Thai, but it is most definitely good.
