Scott Adams – Pompous jerk, with a great blog
In the last couple months I have stumbled upon a few different blog posts by Scott Adams on various things, usually on the reddit front page. One really struck me as a great and heartening read. He recently regained his speaking voice after over a year of it being inconsistent. It is such a striking story that some people went so far as to wonder if he was just pulling everybody’s legs with his gigantically massive MENSA member brain, you know for his own amusement. I certainly didn’t think so and that good impression tucked itself away in the back of my head until today when I saw another Scott Adams post hitting the front page, this one is a rebuttal of sorts to comments and commentary about voting based on previous posts. Again, it was a witty and humorous read and the previous good thoughts came back.
My next step was the hit the previous post link to see what sort of a writer this guy was. The previous post was about fences and again was quite humorous although filled with Americana (which makes sense as he is an American). His argument was why not fence in Iraq to keep the terrorists in and included the quotes “How do I invest in fences?” and “Cant we just put a fence around Iraq and hope they turn into Australians over time?” which I actually laughed out loud at. Going back further required wading through a few more posts about voting and being sick but I then came upon the post Blame Room Service which totally sold me on reading the rest of his blog in the coming months. He gives an anecdotal account of an experience he had with a belligerent author who was humiliated at work by her co-workers using cut and paste and an old Dilbert comic. She had the lack of brains to assume it was Scott’s fault and went so far as to call and attack him about it over copyright issues (of which there are none in the first place). I highly recommend you stop what your doing and read that post because it is hilarious and gives me leave to call him a pompous jerk.
For now I am adding the Dilbert Blog to my RSS.