The Angry Drunk

I really do. It’s almost a cer­tainty that at least once a week he will grind out a blog post that amuses me. The lat­est case in point is this one. In the post, Dave explains that he wants some “no-frills” host­ing and gives a laun­dry list of the fea­tures that he requires. The funny part is that the way that he presents the list is exactly like a cranky old man try­ing to buy any rea­son­ably mod­ern prod­uct. “I don’t want a tele­vi­sion with that new-fangled ‘High Definition,’ my old set worked just fine.” In other spots he just comes across as need­lessly pissy. Seriously:

Don’t hype me. All the ser­vices I see adver­tised on the web are long on hype and clos­ing the deal, but I usu­ally can’t tell what they’re offer­ing. Ridiculous.

Yes Dave, we’ll be sure to find you a provider who does no marketing.

But the real fun starts in the com­ments. Of course, a slew of nim­rods show up offer­ing solu­tions that don’t exactly match Dave’s lofty cri­te­ria. So, Dave being Dave, he gets all cranky and starts wax­ing Scoble-like about the good old days:

This isn’t per­sonal because I

Continue read­ing I Love Dave Winer