Outright Rant

I have one thing to say to the people that attempt to belittle or berate me because I run Microsoft Windows on my desktops: I don’t care what you think, so please STFU. I don’t tell you what to run on your desktop, and what I run on mine is not up for debate. The shock of your learning about my desktop/laptop/home PC OS choice inevitably leads to you trying to enlighten my heathen mind. Mistakenly, I humor you. And my response goes like this: When applications like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and games like Civilization 4, SimCity 4, and GTA: San Andreas run under Linux I’ll switch. No, vi is not equivalent to Dreamweaver. You’re joking? Ha ha, screw yourself. You …

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This post inaugurates the “outright rant” category in this blog. Today it’s remedial English, specifically the unforgivable mistakes that scream “I’m a total and complete idiot.” Now, I can and do excuse people who speak English as a second language. I know enough Spanish to not get into serious trouble, but I’m positive that I sound like a complete idiot to a native speaker. Having had that experience I’m not going to hold second languages against anybody. Hell, my gripe isn’t even with people who can’t spell well. I’ve got a friend who just isn’t wired to spell anything properly, but when it matters he has someone check his work. Half of the native English speakers in the U.S. speak …

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