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On 11/30/2024 11:34 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:59:54 -0800, Robert Woodward
> <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
>> One post in 24 hours; this is really bad.
> 
> Yes it is. But (IIRC) it /was/ on-topic!
> 
> Thanksgiving, in the USA, is, of course, a major holiday, and I
> believe the East Coast is currently snowed in down to at least
> Northern Florida, but that's no excuse for residents of other places.
> 
>> I should try to fill the void; but I find myself unable to write very
>> quickly (it doesn't help that I keep deleting words after I write them).
> 
> I strange affliction and, no doubt, an irritating one.
> 
>> I did finish something after 15 minutes of struggle, thus a question for
>> any present:
>>
>> I once spent a good deal of time studying the 2015 Hugo nominations.
>> While the Rabid Puppies were definitely block voting, the Sad Puppies
>> appeared to be different. Either there were secret puppies with their
>> own nominations lists (which overlapped the Sad Puppy list) or many of
>> the Sad Puppies were only nominating works that they had read. If the
>> latter was the case, while they could be accused of ungood literary
>> taste, was this block voting?
> 
> I am divided on this point. While I would think even nominating a book
> one hasn't read is ungood, it is, of course, a part of block voting to
> vote with others in the same block, so not nominating them is ungood.
> 
> Fortunately for me, I never have and never plan to nominate anything
> for anything.

Here in northern MA we got a dusting of snow last night. Further north
snow was over foot. It looks like upper NY will get slammed with lake
effect snow this winter.

For reasons, I had to drive in the vicinity to two major area
malls on 'Black Friday' - both were slammed with customers.

This year, we didn't do Thanksgiving dinner at home - we went
out to a restaurant 45 miles away that was doing a
Thanksgiving buffet. It was very nice, though spendy. There
were sand and salt trucks on the roads as we returned.

pt