Certainly a NON-pirate's tale, when you get down to the pesky facts of the case.
But-- I do consider this a textbook example of people skills at their finest: how do you find a gentle, respectful way to point out that people, sometimes, are idiots?
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Re: My blog: "A Pirate's Tale"...
Applause, Joel! Gold!joelpatterson wrote:Like anyone else, I am wondering if my childhood fascination with Kafka has somehow brought on this reign of terror? That's not really possible... I don't think. I mean-- the guy was prophetic, that's all. I was responding to his insightfulness about the direction the modern world was taking. It's not that by absorbing his dark, mechanistic, nightmare vision of a future run by robots, I was dooming myself to inhabit that future?
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Unfortunately, I've often found that the only way to achieve what is a rightful outcome is through determination and persistence that most people would find unseemly. This has held true for everything from ordering a part from Fender to getting my local county clerk to get my Social Security number off her website. Sometimes the enemy is stupidity and laziness, other times, (like yours), it's good old bureaucracy.
Good job, Joel. If I may offer a word of advice, perhaps next time you could be slightly less specific in your labeling; especially if you're merely looking to test out a signal chain.
Although I think it's amusing how all the customer service representatives' names just happen to be women's. And they also just happen to be names one might give a sexy Russian spy in a Bond film. That's some People Skills there.
Good job, Joel. If I may offer a word of advice, perhaps next time you could be slightly less specific in your labeling; especially if you're merely looking to test out a signal chain.
Although I think it's amusing how all the customer service representatives' names just happen to be women's. And they also just happen to be names one might give a sexy Russian spy in a Bond film. That's some People Skills there.
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Thank you, Gentleman Jim and Gregg Juke, for sharing your concerns.
I value your input!
You don't think the irony got a little too heavy-handed, my counter-robotic praise and worship? I always worry about that, but I guess that's silly-- and then my other regret, the pirate hunters at IFPI backed down before I was able to use the phrase "lurching around like a blind, drunken cyclops" to describe their activities.
And then my further examination of that phrase, how a "blind cyclops" was essentially no different from someone with two eyes who was blind... really... in every practical sense... yet... certainly there are associations that "blind cyclops" imply that perhaps would fit the occasion to a goddam "t."
Then... wouldn't surprise me if Ivanka had a thing for cyclopses....
I value your input!
You don't think the irony got a little too heavy-handed, my counter-robotic praise and worship? I always worry about that, but I guess that's silly-- and then my other regret, the pirate hunters at IFPI backed down before I was able to use the phrase "lurching around like a blind, drunken cyclops" to describe their activities.
And then my further examination of that phrase, how a "blind cyclops" was essentially no different from someone with two eyes who was blind... really... in every practical sense... yet... certainly there are associations that "blind cyclops" imply that perhaps would fit the occasion to a goddam "t."
Then... wouldn't surprise me if Ivanka had a thing for cyclopses....
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Not sure that would have worked, Joel; it's a good thing you held your pen.
A blind one-eyed Cyclops would only be blind in_mono_, while a blind giant, or a normal sized person with two eyes would be given at least the presumption of stereoscopic vision (and by extension, hearing; a leap in logic I know, but which might help them distinguish between pirated and non-pirated violin solos). While all of this might seem to prove your point, I think that the insult would be far too obvious and grave for your use in a friendly, fact-finding e-mail.
Just remember to thank them for their service; I think that's the most important thing.
GJ
A blind one-eyed Cyclops would only be blind in_mono_, while a blind giant, or a normal sized person with two eyes would be given at least the presumption of stereoscopic vision (and by extension, hearing; a leap in logic I know, but which might help them distinguish between pirated and non-pirated violin solos). While all of this might seem to prove your point, I think that the insult would be far too obvious and grave for your use in a friendly, fact-finding e-mail.
Just remember to thank them for their service; I think that's the most important thing.
GJ
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