Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
So I'm just going to come out and say it: My favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is "Conundrum." It's episode fourteen of season five, and I just deeply love it.
I don't know if it's because I literally just assumed Erich Anderson's Commander McDuff was a random Enterprise officer of the week (which we saw quite often during the show) when I watched it as a kid during the original run, so the twist actually worked on eleven year old me. I don't know if it's because I just like a good "everyone has amnesia" story. I don't even know if it's just because it's a good Ro Laren episode. I don't know if it's just because we learn that Starfleet doesn't give a crap about lasers.
I just like it. It's neat.
And I rewatched it last night, and feel that it holds up -- which is why I found it deeply weird that the folks who wrote the episode actually think it's not that good. My favorite episode of the entire seven season run of the show was a failure according to the folks who wrote it.
And maybe, as a writer and creator, I should remember that.
Like the hardest part of releasing creative works to the public is that often, after a while, I'll start to judge those things far more harshly than when I first made them. Or I'll compare it to the potential I thought an idea had in my head. And if I don't reach that potential, I'll think of it as "bad" -- when it might just be slightly different than that idea. I have one hundred percent published stories that I thought were just sort of okay and later had someone tell me how much it meant to them to read it.
*cough*I Hate November*cough*
So I should make sure I remember Conundrum. That one of my favorite things to rewatch is considered one of those failures by its creators. That the things I make might have value, just not in the way I originally thought they should.
It's just sort of how things work out.
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Is Garner using “everyone” in a manner both analogous and opposite to “how are we doing?”
He thinks something, and because he’s clearly right, everyone else must agree with him and just not be willing to say it. Because if they don’t then he might be wrong, and that’s just inconceivable.
(also, WOW, dude is sure blaming Lynn for his own damn problems, isn’t he?)
Lynn should just walk away and tell that staff to go find a new webmaster
To paraphrase an earlier comic: “Yeah, I don’t know why you’d think that was an option.” considering who is involved here.
One tactic is to say, “Hey guys, Garner tells me that I’m annoying everybody and acting superior. I’m really sorry about that. So I’m going to resign right now so you can find a webmaster that can work with you better.”
I was going to say that Lynn’s anger management therapist earned her money only if Lynn never came looking for a fight to begin with.
But instead, I’ll recognize the obvious progress she must have made to not throttle this guy.
Hahahahahahhaha!
Oh, god, I have been in a very similar situation. A con in my area had an entire dept quit, and came to my con to recruit people as a stop gap so they could rebuild their staff. We showed up and were treated like we carried the plague. it was like, well, why did you ask us here if you didn’t actually want the help?
It’s official – Garner is a complete bag of garbage. If you have an issue with someone, you don’t forcibly drag it into public view behind their back and take steps to “get back” at them. You don’t put a business other people have worked hard for at risk. You don’t spend hours wasting other people’s time. You go and talk to the other person.
Yeah, this may be something of a hot topic for me. I find these kind of people to be some of the lowest forms of scum.
….I still kinda hoping for a Garner sized hole in the wall…
Why cause property damage when you can just replace the website with a page that say “i quit its his fault dont call me” wouldnt even need to remove the site just change all the folder names
Fight? Fight? Fight? Fight? Fight?
Eight! Eight! Eight! Eight! Eight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAHpMxXt00&list=PL2EA30775CC195E3A