Comments on: And Now, An Incredibly Long and Detailed Assessment of My Own Last Decade, With Footnotes and Annotations Where Desirable, and Such Digressions As Will Elucidate the Subject in a Manner Amusing to All, Not Sparing Heart-Tugging Anecdotes When Appropriate, Phrased in the Vernacular of Our Times http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eternal Density http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184963 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:34:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184963 Aight.

]]> By: Tinker http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184816 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:56:54 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184816 “All right” is not correct as a description of the year. That in fact is the point. (SEE comment #51.) Hence “all right” is not alright! If it is not alright, then it is not okay, not good to the properly desired state of goodness. All right implies that every thing was correct, as it should be. Alright is a morose teenager’s response to “How did the math final go, dear?” when the question is put to him by his dim-but-loving mother.

Alright has that same sort of subtext, “It’s anything BUT all right, and it never will be, and can I throw myself under a bus as soon as possible?” Alright is an acknowledgment of your interest, but a polite way of saying IT SUCKED. Alright?

I rest my case.

]]> By: Karl C. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184719 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:55:25 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184719 “Okay” sounds like a reasonable assessment of your decade to me, especially considering that you made a stellar entry into sci-fi-dom only in the last half of it.

Assessing the decade as a whole (minus your contribution) I’d have to opine: “freakin’ disaster.”

]]> By: DG Lewis http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184657 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:03:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184657 Cool.

]]> By: Off Colfax http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184574 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:59:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184574 Seriously. Quoted in full.

Do you have to be a professional author in order to distill ten years of experiences into a mere two sentences? For God’s sake, I can’t even distill two sentence fragments into two sentences!

]]> By: RickWhoIsNotThatRick http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184571 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:26:33 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184571

RWINTR@40: no, he’s not sending the Templars after you. He’s going to kill you himself, and frame the Templars.

Got it?

Aight.

Alrighty then. Though I still hate blaming Temps. No one appreciates them and the full-time people take all the credit.

]]> By: adelheid http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184569 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:58:03 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184569 @10 I knew that Alice’s Restaurant would make an appearance.

@44 John has Kodi who trumps cats any day IMHO.

The way I look at it is that we all got out of 2009 alive (at least, I hope we all did) which is an achievement in itself. Here’s to getting out of 2010 alive!

]]> By: crayonbaby http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184567 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:51:46 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184567 Yeah, right, whatever. Alright. I’m sorry, I was giggling through this whole thing. Your title: this is why you’re the author and we are your minions.

]]> By: Luna http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184552 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:00:33 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184552 Guys, guys!

It’s ay-iggit-blah.

What, no one else watched Greg the Bunny?

]]> By: Lauretta http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/31/and-now-an-incredibly-long-and-detailed-assessment-of-my-own-last-decade-with-footnotes-and-annotations-where-needed-and-such-digressions-as-will-elucidate-the-matter-in-a-manner-amusing-to-all-no/#comment-184549 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:25:57 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9558#comment-184549 Gee, how emo of you, John!

There are a lot of mis-spelling v. malapropisms conversations going on today – here’s a cartoon on it for you to enjoy:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Thank you for the giggles this year, folks + John. Especially John who has kindly instigated and hosted this entertainment!

Note: you don’t need Templars if you have cats. Hmn, perhaps the cats have their own super secret society of assassins?

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