another author takedown.
Oh well - her story about all this will probably make a good book. see some conspiracy theories at althouse (the comments, not the slug).
It makes me slightly concerned re: my current project, since it really only gained momentum after I decided to believe what Stephen King said in On Writing:
NOTE: I DID NOT COME UP WITH THIS IDEA; NOTICE THE QUOTES. I ATTRIBUTE THIS TO STEPHEN KING, BILLIONAIRE AUTHOR OF “THE STAND” and “CARRIE”. ALSO, I’M PARAPHRASING. PARAPHRASING.
“Forget the idea that you are going to say anything that hasn’t been said 1,000 times before, and probably said better.”
NOTE: NOT MY IDEA. REPEAT: NOT MY IDEA
Perhaps the following disclaimer in some sort of preface will help save some time later on:
So maybe we can make this easier for everyone by assuming now that none of it is even remotely true. Or original. In fact, the best thing I can recommend to increase your quality of life is to sell this book and immediately reclaim the future hours you would have spent reading it / getting angry.
The names are lies; the people described herein were actually not even people, but talking dogs. The product models and serial numbers are complete fallacy; there never was a RAID array called the HDS 9981V. As a matter of fact, when I mention that computers only count with 0’s and 1’s — yup, a lie. A terrible, terrible lie with no factual basis whatsoever.
If you do waste your time by working through these pages, you’ll see these references to a type of operating system called “UNIX”, which is clearly a play on words; I mean, who would name an operating system after a guy with no nuts?
Also - I did not come up with that joke; a software instructor I once had did, and for all I know he stole it from someone else. What I’m saying is as far as I know, it was his. See bibliography on page 490, and also Safe Harbor Statement on page 493.
Finally, I did not invent the English language as I claim on page 301; that was a humorous device suffering from a lack of humor.
rds
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