[Taylor514ce]

Thank you for asking if I'm serious. There is something I've hinted at and joked about around here (look up "passive emotifaction"), the tendency to ascribe emotions to posters based on one's own viewpoint. It's a fallacy to assume that I was in a berserker rage when I posted at Tor. Or that I'm an inarticulate howler, because my "nose is always in a book".

In fact, I think most people, when they post, are sitting calmly in their seats or during a brief lull at work, no matter what they write. They may not be distraught at all. My veins weren't distended when I posted that I felt Tor had screwed me over. I can say that sentence with a normal pulse and even a sardonic smile. So, it's amusing to see that post referred to as an inarticulate rant. Really? Ok. Maybe I'm not the one who needs to calm down, here.

So when I write that I get "mad" when a show I'm engrossed in suddenly ends with "See Part Two next week", it's fair for a reader to wonder if I'm serious. Mad? Really?

I say, take things at face value, without any emotional overlay of your own. You don't need to picture me as shaking with rage, howling "TOR!" like Captain Kirk's famous "KAHN!!!", nor me shouting abuse at a TV set.

Instead, realize that I was probably simply searching for something we've all experienced to which to compare the Tor e-book fiasco.

Yep, I feel like Tor screwed us all over. <-- typed very calmly, in between sips of coffee.