Well indeed. One of my good friends (who will remain safely anonymous) gave me
a critique of this page. It started off very well. It said:
"I was laughing out loud. Nothing could be more "Alex" than that site."
It was at this point that it got to the substantive actually critical bit:
"My only critism (sic) is taht (not-sic. This one is genuinely *my* typo)
you seemed to be trying too hard, adding every little aside possible in."
Well, what can I say. In my defence, much of this page was dreamed up at the end
of the summer break when I was bored to death, and had nothing better to do
than dream up stupid witticism.
However, I'm not one to denigrate the value of good feedback, so I'll deal with
it. It seems the problem here is that there are too many punchlines per unit
text. I've already gone and speant the effort thinking of all the
one-liners, so i'm not going to get rid of them now, BUT THERE IS A SOLUTION!
I figure, simply by increasing the amount of non-funny text, i can bring the
whole thing harmoniously back in line. So, in order to fix this horrible deficit,
here is some boring drivel that i'm going to attempt to spontaneously spew:
I'm sitting in a computer lab on campus, typing away at the little page here.
I'm in the lab in Sidney Smith Hall, to be precise. It's one of those big,
modern "what do you mean style?" type buildings which the powers that be saw
fit to give me a lot of classes in. Right now, I just went to an office hour for
the TA (teaching assistant) for PSY377. I got him to give me Good Advice about
how to make the printers work in the Computer Department Facilities. Apparently
one of their printers is called "reduce" and the other is called "reuse". It's
vitally important that I know this because I have to use unix to make them work,
and unix was invented by sadists who really didn't like their end-users.
Some Girl just came up to me and asked me if I was Rob. I was forced to admit
that this was not in fact the case, and she said "oh", and asked me if some
other guy in the lab was Rob. I said "who?". It turns out she was looking for
the computer lab help guy who is called Rob, and who is apparently supposed to
come to this lab at this time to help poor end users who don't know how to use
the printers (ignorant newbies, it serves them right, HAHAHAHHA). Well, I guess
that makes her pretty brave to walk around asking people. There's only 5 of us,
no, a 6th just came, here in the lab anyway. Of those 3 are male. I count 32
computers for us all to use. Now you may be thinking that these statistics here
are pretty banal, even for a friday afternoon. But that's the point really. It's
all stupifylingly dull, sort of as a counter weight to any depraved notions you
may have been getting to the idea that he rest of this thing is somehow amusing.
Anyway, I'm going to stop talking now, cos it's getting depresing, not to mention
a tad monotonous. la la la. happy happy happy.
I have also heard it claimed that this page paints me in an egotistic
pretentious light. One is not amused by this implication. I mean,
lets face it, if you sit down to write a page, you gotta think of
things to write ABOUT. I could have written about other people, but
then this isn't other peoples' page. If any of you out there also
think that this page is self absorbed, then YOU try making one of
these things. One could always have made it a themed page, and talked
at great length about, say, Les Miserables. But then one wouldn't have
made a personal homepage, one would have a Les Miz page. As it is, I
did try to talk about my interests, give lots of quotes written by
other people, etc.
So in summary, if you STILL think this page egotistical (other
than just the "bit about me" bit, which even *I* labeled "applied
egocentrism") then all I can say is ***CENSORED*** ***CENSORED***
***CENSORED***. Have a nice day :)
Gadzookes, I don't believe I made it through all that tedium,
take me back to main before my head
explodes.
No, I want to see the dumb reviews
again.
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