mr_weasel! Lookie here!

Our favourite Onion article is back online!

Edit: Holy Crap. The Smoove B archives are up too, as well as his "personal page".

Heh.

Holy Crap

So, before heading down to Ancestral Casa Bitter for some Labour Day relaxation, Cyrna & I decided to pump up the air in our tires. They were a bit low.

The drive down here (admittedly a good one as it was 110 all the way, on a highway)? 35KPL. For our southern friends, 83.65 miles per gallon. I was happy when it was 20-22 KPL.

Yeah, I'm gonna be watching those tires a lot closer from now on.

Man. If this is the kind of performance you get when you're 2000 kms over your checkup, I may never see a mechanic again.

Can I say something?

Just that E-Prime has gotta be one of the dumbest ways in the universe to communicate? Or, repeating that in 'stupdese', E-Primg causes my brain to hurt when I think of how dumb it appears to be on holiday at the beach.

Okay, in theory, it's an interesting idea (many things are; trepanation seems like an interesting idea, especially if you have extraterrestrial insects possessing you. I ain't gonna do that either), but the idea of using it to write, well, anything seems simple an exercise in self-mutilation.

Absolute clarity is useful (or rather, some people find that clarity in writing has a greater level of utility for them, or did I make that sentence too easy to understand?), sure, but too inefficient, especially when you're trying to express a simple idea. Water is wet? Are you SURE? Damn fucking RIGHT I'm sure. Academic fooferah, while useful for some purpose (I presume) just becomes sand in the engine of humanity once you pass into mondus realicus.

Ah, I'm just cranky. Happy labour day.

Just don't try to write reviews using it. That's REALLY stupid.