🚀 go-pugleaf

dpierce@cartchunk.org wrote:
> 
> Howard Ferstler wrote:
> > It would have hurt even more if I were still in the
> > audio-writing business. As an "outsider" I can now take Mr.
> > Pierce's insults with a grain of salt. Well, almost.

> Get over it.

Not a chance. Actually, your little straw "broke the camel's
back" as it relates to my situation, and for that I thank
you. I have been itching to get out of the audio-writing
business for a while, and after getting back into book
reading (retired library clerk, remember?) I have recently
remembered just how much I miss that and how much I abhor
writing audio commentaries. 

Yeah, it was fun for a while, and it even paid a bit, but
when I started to dread the deadlines and started to wince
whenever I was notified that a product was on the way to be
reviewed, I knew it was time to fold up my keyboard and get
back to books. Thanks for delivering the final impetus to
quit. I leave the audio-commentary field to you. Welcome
back to the fool's paradise.

> > The problem is that in so many ways we are on the same side.
 
> Howard, we most assuredly are NOT "on the same side," 
> and
> never have been. 

Speaking of never, never have I been so glad to read
something printed here. That I thought I could be on the
side of a guy like you mystifies even me. Hell, there are
tweakos here who think that you are on their side.
Congratulations.

> For years you have been spouting your nonsense,
> quite clearly and deliberately misrepresenting the position of
> myself and others, you've been ducking responsibility for your
> quite deliberate errors and generally blaming everyone else for
> your own shortcomings. 

Hey, Dick, do not take this personally, but Fuck You.

> This has happened time and again and you
> have demonstrated that you are either unable or unwilling to
> change your attitude. 

Dick, the hobby is populated by opportunists, con artists,
goofballs and true believers. You actually think that I want
to continue to hang around with such people. Heck, the
Circuit City and Best Buy shopper crowd is a full order of
magnitude saner than the typical "serious" audio buff. And
happier, too. And, Dick, this "serious" gathering is a group
that you belong to. Charter member.

> The current thread is merely the latest
> in a long series where you have been so cock-sure that you were
> absolutely dead right, be it from how amplifiers work to how
> objectivists or subjectivists "think."

I know how they think better than you do by a long shot. I
also know how a bloated egotist such as yourself thinks.

> You don't like having your nonsense given back to you in the form
> of an enema? Then stop spouting it to begin with.

I certainly will. Good luck with your work.

PS: just joking about the final sentence.
 
Howard Ferstler (retired, and glad of it)