{"id":2902,"date":"2014-06-19T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:56","slug":"106-cheeto-crumbs-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/106-cheeto-crumbs-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"#106 Cheeto Crumbs on the Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bert in a previous life as a U-2 and SR-71 pilot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bert Garrison<\/a> is a \u201cDoozer\u201d.\u00a0 After several days at the helm of that airliner, he drives a fur piece to get home and then launches himself at all the chores which have been waiting for him at his little farm.\u00a0 He builds a new henhouse, rigs a webcam to keep an eye on the chickens, splits firewood or does maintenance on a vehicle.\u00a0 He works into the night, never watching TV or doing nearly anything for entertainment.\u00a0 As a man vitally interested in videography and the involved and highly technical job of \u201cgetting the shot\u201d, Bert does a lot of studying of what others are accomplishing in the area of gyro-stabilized camera mounts.\u00a0 His own shop is filled with prototypes of such mounts to be used in Tailwheel Productions\u2019 videos and he flies his projects, then uploads the resulting test footage so that I can see it.\u00a0 Lots of times, Bert will find a link to someone\u2019s RC camera flying tests or something on the editing system we use and send it to me so I can take a look at it.\u00a0 The guy who produced that video was consumed with the engineering of the mount, the use of the servos and gyros, the flying of the ship and the planning of the route.\u00a0 Although his interests\u2026 and ours\u2026 are in the technical side, he can\u2019t resist a bit of editing and the placing of a music bed underneath the result.\u00a0 That\u2019s the showman in us all.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll go to the link and look at the footage. The first thing I\u2019ll do is to turn the volume way down so I don\u2019t have to listen to the raucous, horrible music.\u00a0 I may have to wade through the overly long title.\u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019ll pay attention to the stability of the image and how the ship was flown.\u00a0 Sometimes I\u2019ll be admiring, sometimes critical.\u00a0 And underneath that video frame will lurk the comments from others who have viewed it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll scroll down to the comments.\u00a0 And that is when my blood pressure rises.\u00a0 Because, you see, the overwhelming majority of those commenters seem to be \u201cCheeto-eating Trolls, living in their mother\u2019s basement\u201d. \u00a0That\u2019s the term I learned from Bert, who is quite familiar with the phenomenon of Trolls and, because he\u2019s smarter than me, rarely reads their illiterate rants.\u00a0\u00a0 Often they pay no attention whatsoever to the video.\u00a0 One of them will always inquire, \u201cwhat\u2019s the music?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trolls usually miss the point, but they never fail to raise my blood pressure.\u00a0 When we first started this practice, I would exclaim to Bert about the ignorance of the comments.\u00a0 Bert would reply, dryly, \u201coh, you\u2019re not supposed to read the comments\u2026 they\u2019ll just piss you off.\u201d\"DSCN2910\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed they do.\u00a0 When I was developing the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal website, the question arose of whether to allow comments.\u00a0 Naturally, I turned to Webmistress and Editor, Jami, whose opinion on almost everything is usually smart and well-considered.\u00a0 \u201cAllow comments\u201d, she advised.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019ll have approval and you can always reject one if you like\u201d.<\/p>\n

As usual, it was pretty good advice and I\u2019m glad I took it.\u00a0 I enjoy the comments I receive on the articles which appear in the Journal.\u00a0 Occasionally I\u2019ll reject one, usually because of unclear writing.\u00a0 After all, we\u2019re a \u201cliterary website\u201d and it wouldn\u2019t do for a comment to be so riddled with grammar, punctuation, style and spelling errors as to be unreadable!\u00a0 I\u2019m delighted that the articles or videos are interesting or thought-provoking enough to prompt a comment in the first place!<\/p>\n

But the Cheeto-eating trolls have a couple of things in common.\u00a0 Because they spend so much time munching Cheetos in that darkened basement while hunched \"DSCN2912\"<\/a>over that keyboard, they don\u2019t get out to fly very much.\u00a0 Sometimes they aren\u2019t\u2019 fliers at all.\u00a0 Sometimes they just enjoy taking potshots at those who do.\u00a0 And they take those potshots from the safety and anonymity of their darkened basement dwelling.\u00a0 And it seems to me that they must have something else in common.\u00a0 They probably all have orange Cheeto crumbs lodged in the crevices of their computer keyboards.\u00a0 Cheeto-eaters are also rarely smart or prescient.\u00a0 One of them recently referred to the singer, Adele, as a \u201cone-hit wonder\u201d.<\/p>\n

So, Tailwheeler Friends, here, like \u201cWhuffo\u201d, are a couple of terms with which I hope you will become familiar (but not TOO familiar):\u00a0 \u201cCheeto-eating Trolls\u201d and \u201cCheeto crumbs on the keyboard\u201d.\u00a0 Now, as a member of the TJ cognoscenti, you will know to what those terms refer.\"DSCN2913\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Trolls are part of our relatively new world of net-surfing and idea-sharing.\u00a0 Seems like every good and valuable development has a few negative side effects and I guess that if we can spread knowledge and ideas, video and technology around the world at the speed of light, we have to put up with an occasional Cheeto crumb on the Keyboard.\u00a0 For the most part I\u2019ll take Bert\u2019s advice and ignore it.\u00a0 But at the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal, we will always value the ideas and friendships that have been the product of our practice of allowing comments.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 We don\u2019t get any Trolls commenting on OUR stuff\u00a0(well one Troll did refer to me as a \u201cDumbass\u201d)\u00a0but, for the most part,\u00a0they\u2019re all too busy watching those other videos while munching those Cheetos.<\/p>\n

Happy Swooping!<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We don\u2019t get any Trolls commenting on OUR stuff (well one Troll did refer to me as a \u201cDumbass\u201d) but, for the most part, they\u2019re all too busy watching those other videos while munching those Cheetos.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,39,174,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}