Intellectual Entitlement

I am autodidactic. I technically never finished high school. (I did eventually take the GED and take a few college courses.) Subsequently, there are great holes in my knowledge base. I may know a little html, a little javascript, etc, etc, but the other day, for example, I had to ask someone how to burn a movie to dvd. (I download software not movies.) Most of my learning is the ol’ trial and error method.And believe me, there’s been plenty of errors. In the computing arena, there have been a few memorial ones-like the time I downloaded a virus in the early days of Netscape. (Must have been that yak porno site from Uzbekistan.) We, still to this day, don’t know what the fuck it was. All I know is that we ended up replacing the entire motherboard. Now that’s a gnarly virus.

In the writing arena, my mistakes are self-evident. Most of these are intentional; some are not. (Thank God for Livewriter. Without prompts, this article would resemble your daughter’s fifth grade comp class assignment….probably does anyway.) I break a lot of grammatical rules because I know what I want to say and how to say it. And I’m not going to be limited by rules that say that I shouldn’t start a sentence with “and”. I use “----“ and “;” and “….” quite often in the wrong place. It indicates my mood as I’m writing. And isn’t that what writing is all about…..getting your thoughts out to the world?

Time for me to check my Reader,(probably got 100 entries), and see what’s new and weird on the internet today. Have fun. I will.