I don’t think I can or will read Amanda Marcotte anymore. She is a good writer, but is consistently wrong about many things (Duke lacrosse rape case, Scott Aarronson and hating all low-status men unworthy of her, and others I’m forgetting, though there is at least one glaringly wrong thing on her site a week) who frequently and maliciously mischaracterizes her opponents’ arguments and intentions.

She is, as pointed out in a comment, a mediocre mind who believes she’s much smarter than she actually is. While this is common to many people, probably me included at times, her nearly-unparalleled compulsion to belittle those in real pain and her deep lack of compassion makes me intensely dislike her despite agreeing with her on perhaps 90% of issues.

The world needs firebrands, but she is not one; no, she is more like a tiny spark that fizzles out in a huge sea while thinking it has a chance of setting alight the entire ocean.

She is the epitome of the over-educated but actually relatively clueless person who believes that her education makes her better than us poor schmoes who didn’t waste $60,000 on ideas and thinking we could and did learn on our own in a quarter the time, for as the saying goes $1.50 in late fees from the library.

Good lord, this makes me feel old.

Of course A: and B: drives are a MS-DOS/Windows thing. The first OS I ever used didn’t have that concept, but instead on the TRS-80 the drive numbers were appended after the file name, like MYFILE.TXT:1 or whatever.

I actually prefer the Linux way anyway of mounting drives or volumes in directories. Most people don’t know this, but you can also do this on Windows now. Though I don’t recommend it as it confuses the hell out of Windows users and even Windows sysadmins.