9 Comments on “Incidentally”

1. How could you think that anyone is the worst person in the world when it’s obvious that the worst person is you, for being so far behind on e-mail? I mean, jeez. I bet Nero would have kept up with HIS e-mail, if he’d had e-mail…

2. I half considered sending you mail to make you further behind, but that would just be evil.

3. Me, I’m not doing so bad – I just got caught up with ALL of May’s messages…

4. And here I was thinking that magical night in the Cote meant nothing at all! Sniff.

5. I haven’t send you an email!

6. Worst person algorithm for discerning you are the worst person in the world:

   Send Scalzi email
   Scalzi reads email
   Worst person in the world?
   Is your name Dick Cheney? Yes -> Worst Person Mod
   No -> Is your name Axl Rose Yes ->Worst Person Mod
   No -> Did you vote yes on Prop 8 Yes ->Worst Person Mod
   No -> Do you eat soy bacon -> Yes Worst Person Mod
   No -> Are you Spencer Pratt -> Yes Worst Person Mod
   No -> Scazli is behind on his email

   Worst Person Mod
   Ignore email
   Delete person from Contacts Folder
   Grade person’s hate mail
   Tape bacon to his/her cat
   Go kill zombies with Athena
   End
   End If

   [Note: This is pseudocode. Were it real code, I might have written something that, yanno, worked.]

7. Phew! That’s a relief.

   …so, if you were exposed to kryptonite, would you then end up being less behind?

8. Yeah, it had to be pseudocode. ‘Cause if it were a real programming language, like FORTRAN, the compiler would gently remind you with the Sledgehammer Of Epic FAIL that having an END IF statement without a preceding and properly written IF statement isn’t allowed in Kosher FORTRAN. (grin)

   *** FATAL ERROR 0001
   END IF
   *** FATAL ERROR – ENDIF STATEMENT WITHOUT IF
   __ 1 __ Fatal Errors

   No code generated.

   Compiler runtime 0.006 seconds.

   Dr. Phil

9. I wanted to thank you for Zoe’s Tale, i finished it last week and loved it. I also want to thank you for recommending “One Second After”, I finished it yesterday. Not only is it very good, I think it is an important book.

   Thanks again, and keep up the great work.

   Gary