Popcorn Stuffing
Have you ever thought about why it is no one else is doing what you are planning to do? There might be good reason for it.
Return to the daze of my youth.
Many years ago I worked for a company that made concrete block. The trucking company who hauled the rock and sand used to make the concrete also hauled various grains in their dump trailers. On occasion, their drivers would fail to sweep all the dried corn out of the trailers before hauling rock and sand to us.
For those who might not know, concrete is a mixture of rocks, sand, water, and cement that varies according to the strength and finish desired. But not popcorn.
The corn-contaminated concrete blocks would explode when we placed them into the drying kilns. The result was thousands of blocks destroyed and hours of back breaking clean up every time this mistake was repeated. Sometimes production would come to a grinding halt to free up enough workers to clean up the mess. Other dried grains resulted in varying degrees of exploded concrete.
Think about that when you see that recipe for popcorn stuffing.
Highlights
I despise the highlighting of articles here on M*&%$m. The M^&%$m staff explained to me that the highlighting can only be seen by members, and only by members who are following you, but get this: I have a terrible time reading highlighted articles — it makes articles and stories harder to read.
Therefore, when I click on a story, any story, that is filled with highlights I simply pass it buy, choosing not to subject my eyes and brain to the torture. And because I didn’t read your article all the way to the end, you don’t get credit for a read, nor do you get paid for your work.
I can’t help but wonder if I’m the only one.
I also find that most highlighting on M^%*$m is nothing more than spam. Take this highlight for example. In my article, I’ll Follow You Even If Your Writing Sucks, someone highlighted the word ‘and’ and nothing more.
Talk about a slap in the face, an insult… There’s no highlighting in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or any of the other 13,080,000,000 results when searching Google for “online magazines” why must I endure it here? Talk about making the list of spam factories… Like popcorn stuffing it is blowing up in our faces.
When I contacted M&^*$m about this they indicated they weren’t currently planning to do away with highlighting. For those of you who aren’t members, this is what this page looks like to me.
Just a little more and every word on the page will be highlighted. Some people even go so far as to repeatedly spam a page over and over again. Yes, I can report them but why should I have to? If I want something to stand out I’ll make it bold.
Highlighting isn’t a feature, it’s a curse.
I wrote an article with the intention of helping myself and others become eligible for the M^%&$m Partner Plan. It worked. I had nothing but good intentions. So how do others repay me? They spam my articles, poems, and stories.
Popcorn is designed to explode. Are you putting popcorn in your recipes?
Enough ranting for now, continue with The Horrifying Story of the Greensboro Grand Prix.