Aug 02 2007
How to Spot an E-Tard
It has come to my attention that as the Internet fills with many, many young children, the e-tard quota rapidly increases. If you find somebody afflicted with this common problem, you’ll notice that they’re probably aged 12-15, they use 8 different colours to highlight their text (because just “bold” is obviously not enough) and assume that being artistic means blending colours on the top of an illegally acquired celebrity photograph.
Our first case of e-tardia.
These e-tards tend to misspell even the easy-peasiest of words (like “obese”), they assume the entire world uses WordPress (because they’re too lazy/stupid to imagine anyone could possibly have the intelligence to write their own CMS), and often distribute that heap of shit known as Waks Ask & Answer.
Entry inspired by lyrical.NU: so you too can be an e-tard.
Warning
This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.
As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.
Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.
