The Hell, Cory?

[omorka]

I have had neither cause nor particular desire to join in the Cory Doctorow hate that much of my flist engages in - until someone linked to this post.

Now, I'm not a published writer, but I know a little about knitting, and his comment about "the hint" - which is TOTAL CRAP - just knocked me off my chair. Where the hell did he get that? There's only one place you can start in a piece of knitting, and it's where the working yarn ends!

Now he's in the same category for me as Michael Crichton, after he claimed a human female was homecoming queen at Rice in the opening of Jurassic Park. :-/

Comments

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Heh. Welcome to the club. :)

I read the copy of Little Brother last weekend, and enjoyed it well enough. But yeah. I've got issues with the guy.

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Oh, and for the pedestal that people put Patrick Nielsen Hayden on, I caught two glaring errors in Little Brother, and PNH was editor...

[pinesandmaples]

Maybe he meant spinners? Because I do leave a bit of fluff poking off of both the fiber I'm drafting from and the fiber I'm drawing up to make sure the two will meet where I intended them to meet.

Eh, I'm just trying to be nice, I suppose.

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I thought the concept was good, but it was not executed really well. I feel that he had a lower threshold to cross than most writers in getting his writing career, and he is much more popular than his writing actually merits.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a WTF -- I know better, and I don't even knit!

OTOH, the "don't research while writing, just mark it" and "shut off the damned IM" tips make a lot of sense.

Does Rice just not have homecoming queens, or do they use the word in a different sense?

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have them! The two homecoming queens I remember from my years at the Alma Mater were a pet iguana and the inner loop shuttle bus for the campus. It was a lot easier to get the iguana onto the center of the football field for her crowning than it was the bus, let me tell you. Some years we go for more subtle - one year the queen was the Martel College Move-In Date, which had changed several times that year. Fickle creature, that one.

There is one case I can remember when a human female won Homecoming Queen, but she wasn't a student - she was the secretary at Lovett College. (And a UT grad. The UT paper apparently found this hysterical.)

Human males win on a fairly regular basis, often in costume, sometimes not. Human females sometimes win for king, although usually the king is someone's pet or car.

Did I mention that Rice treats homecoming as more of an elaborate practical joke combined with a convenient excuse to beg the alums for money than a big football event?