Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Huckleberries Online

TUBOB: More Characters Please

Brent, thank you for that elegant yet slightly ejaculatory metaphorical support for the 3000 character diet we are all hungering on, while, in most cases, a 3000 character limit seems adequate and particularly efficacious for those, like you, apparently, Brent, trying to distill and winnow their wordiness down to a Haiku like precision, there are, I must confess not entirely objectively, others who are able to trust in the brains God gave us to rapidly filter, sort, screen, and reorganize large amounts of text and still, in a nearly miraculous manner, make sense of it all. I do not need my posts boiled down to some hideous and nightmarish caramelized spoonful of Walla Walla Sweet Onions to festoon my large drippy rare ribeye post thread steak/Bob. More here.

DFO: Blogmeister Ryan was tweaking the comments thread Saturday, his day off fuhcryinoutloud. I don't know if he increased the size of potential posts. But I do know that he hears the voice of my peeps. I'm sure eloquent posts like this will go a long ways toward expanding the number of characters for everyone.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

Follow Dave online: