Comments for The Dark Seamstress's Scattered Patchwork http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com Scattered Patchwork Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:29:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Site/Shrine Updates for October by Cendri http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/siteshrine-updates-for-october/#comment-8 Cendri Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:29:13 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/siteshrine-updates-for-october/#comment-8 Ah, the constant process of change. Ah, the constant process of change.

]]> Comment on Andrew Keen: Killing Free Culture by t. pirate http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/andrew-keens-agenda-killing-free-culture/#comment-7 t. pirate Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:04:02 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/andrew-keens-agenda-killing-free-culture/#comment-7 mm, you are right to be miffed and right to want to state a different point of view (and, frankly, you likely articulate yourself better than this Mr. Keen person)... but, you know, people like this aren't really trying to promote discussion and are likely too set in their ways to even be open to it. No one small man's voice is going to 'kill the internet'. The sense of community out here can be remarkably strong. There may be sheep that follow him and his points of view because he speaks louder than others but then again there will *always be sheep*. You understand the value of what you do out here and so do other like-minded people. There will always be people out there with an over-inflated view of their own importance. I don't mean to sound completely laissez-faire but he's probably not worth getting your feathers ruffled over. People like him come and go... and yet we're still here. ;) -T. pirate mm, you are right to be miffed and right to want to state a different point of view (and, frankly, you likely articulate yourself better than this Mr. Keen person)… but, you know, people like this aren’t really trying to promote discussion and are likely too set in their ways to even be open to it. No one small man’s voice is going to ‘kill the internet’. The sense of community out here can be remarkably strong. There may be sheep that follow him and his points of view because he speaks louder than others but then again there will *always be sheep*.

You understand the value of what you do out here and so do other like-minded people. There will always be people out there with an over-inflated view of their own importance. I don’t mean to sound completely laissez-faire but he’s probably not worth getting your feathers ruffled over. People like him come and go… and yet we’re still here. ;)

-T. pirate

]]> Comment on Wiping the Slate Clean by t. pirate http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/wiping-the-slate-clean/#comment-6 t. pirate Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:53:18 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/wiping-the-slate-clean/#comment-6 Don't be embarassed about the nightmares. When I worked as a tour guide, I had tour-nightmares and I *loved* my job. XD You'll figure something out ... try not to reorganize all of your life at once! It's okay if you feel overwhelmed trying to handle a move AND school AND a family AND job hunting ... why not treat each question as a mini unit and see what you can do in each first? Work out something to help pay the bills and then start thinking about school. University degrees don't actually get you a job unless you get one in nursing or engineering. I find it kinda silly when people think that they're set up to be perfectly happy and employed just because they have their little piece of paper. The degrees do, however, up your credentials. You have access to a higher pay bracket. No, I don't understand it either. Half the students I know aren't worth the salt from your boots as far as I'm concerned. (... I can't believe that I just used that expression in a sentence.) -T. pirate Don’t be embarassed about the nightmares. When I worked as a tour guide, I had tour-nightmares and I *loved* my job. XD

You’ll figure something out … try not to reorganize all of your life at once! It’s okay if you feel overwhelmed trying to handle a move AND school AND a family AND job hunting … why not treat each question as a mini unit and see what you can do in each first? Work out something to help pay the bills and then start thinking about school.

University degrees don’t actually get you a job unless you get one in nursing or engineering. I find it kinda silly when people think that they’re set up to be perfectly happy and employed just because they have their little piece of paper. The degrees do, however, up your credentials. You have access to a higher pay bracket. No, I don’t understand it either. Half the students I know aren’t worth the salt from your boots as far as I’m concerned.

(… I can’t believe that I just used that expression in a sentence.)

-T. pirate

]]> Comment on Site/Shrine Updates for August by darknightdestiny http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/siteshrines-facelifts-and-new-content/#comment-5 darknightdestiny Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:52:03 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/siteshrines-facelifts-and-new-content/#comment-5 Thank you very much! As for genres, there's a bit of a problem with that. For one, I've only got about thirty stories on the page—and still, most of my stories don't fit so clearly into a lot of common genres. Many of them center around some kind of relational issues, but if I lumped them together, I'm afraid I would have about twenty stories on one page, five on another, and then three somewhere yonder. For now, they'll have to stay in alphabetical order, although I might be able to think up a new system. At any rate, I've got lots of material yet to post! Thank you very much!

As for genres, there’s a bit of a problem with that. For one, I’ve only got about thirty stories on the page—and still, most of my stories don’t fit so clearly into a lot of common genres. Many of them center around some kind of relational issues, but if I lumped them together, I’m afraid I would have about twenty stories on one page, five on another, and then three somewhere yonder.

For now, they’ll have to stay in alphabetical order, although I might be able to think up a new system. At any rate, I’ve got lots of material yet to post!

]]> Comment on Site/Shrine Updates for August by CloudANDTidus http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/siteshrines-facelifts-and-new-content/#comment-4 CloudANDTidus Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:14:32 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/siteshrines-facelifts-and-new-content/#comment-4 Oh yes, the new fanfiction page is much nicer than how it looked before. Sites looking good Rachel. Keep up the good work. :D Have you thought about categorising fan fiction in some sort of way, btw? Maybe into genres? Just to make it a bit easier to navigate. Just an idea. :P Oh yes, the new fanfiction page is much nicer than how it looked before.

Sites looking good Rachel. Keep up the good work. :D

Have you thought about categorising fan fiction in some sort of way, btw? Maybe into genres? Just to make it a bit easier to navigate. Just an idea. :P

]]> Comment on Andrew Keen: Killing Free Culture by John W. Ratcliff http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/andrew-keens-agenda-killing-free-culture/#comment-3 John W. Ratcliff Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:45:03 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/andrew-keens-agenda-killing-free-culture/#comment-3 A wonder if Andrew Keen is simply taking an absurd position to sell his book? I would so *love* to 'debate' him. My first question would be, "Why don't you believe in the right to free speech?" As far as self-publishing goes, our most famous of Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, was a self-made man, without a formal education, and changed the world through self-publishing. Blogs are as American as apple pie and this British tart Keen needs to realize that his country already lost that war A wonder if Andrew Keen is simply taking an absurd position to sell his book? I would so *love* to ‘debate’ him.

My first question would be, “Why don’t you believe in the right to free speech?”

As far as self-publishing goes, our most famous of Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, was a self-made man, without a formal education, and changed the world through self-publishing.

Blogs are as American as apple pie and this British tart Keen needs to realize that his country already lost that war

]]> Comment on Darknightdestiny.com to Get Facelift by Cendri http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/main-site-to-get-facelift/#comment-2 Cendri Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:15:13 +0000 http://darknightdestiny.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/main-site-to-get-facelift/#comment-2 Embrace change. Change is good. Embrace change. Change is good.

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