Re: Hello? Anyone here?

On 11/30/2024 11:34 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:59:54 -0800, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
 

One post in 24 hours; this is really bad.

 Yes it is. But (IIRC) it /was/ on-topic!
 Thanksgiving, in the USA, is, of course, a major holiday, and I
believe the East Coast is currently snowed in down to at least
Northern Florida, but that's no excuse for residents of other places.
 

I should try to fill the void; but I find myself unable to write very
quickly (it doesn't help that I keep deleting words after I write them).

 I strange affliction and, no doubt, an irritating one.
 

I did finish something after 15 minutes of struggle, thus a question for
any present:
>
I once spent a good deal of time studying the 2015 Hugo nominations.
While the Rabid Puppies were definitely block voting, the Sad Puppies
appeared to be different. Either there were secret puppies with their
own nominations lists (which overlapped the Sad Puppy list) or many of
the Sad Puppies were only nominating works that they had read. If the
latter was the case, while they could be accused of ungood literary
taste, was this block voting?

 I am divided on this point. While I would think even nominating a book
one hasn't read is ungood, it is, of course, a part of block voting to
vote with others in the same block, so not nominating them is ungood.
 Fortunately for me, I never have and never plan to nominate anything
for anything.

Here in northern MA we got a dusting of snow last night. Further north
snow was over foot. It looks like upper NY will get slammed with lake
effect snow this winter.
For reasons, I had to drive in the vicinity to two major area
malls on 'Black Friday' - both were slammed with customers.
This year, we didn't do Thanksgiving dinner at home - we went
out to a restaurant 45 miles away that was doing a
Thanksgiving buffet. It was very nice, though spendy. There
were sand and salt trucks on the roads as we returned.
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