31
May
2014
Spitznagel Snaps
Whoa, when he’s not taking calls from Dan Aykroyd, Eric Spitznagel goes off on people on Twitter. To get my Austrian fan base to read Eric’s NYT piece, I tweeted out:
This amused Eric (I’m using first names not because we’re buds, but because I don’t want you to confuse him with Mark the investor) such that he issued forth a string of comparable tweets, such as:
You won’t believe what happened next!
I thought that the elves and dwarves did a pretty good job of working together against a common enemy. Admittedly, I’m not a LOTR ubergeek, maybe someone else can explain the details.
I can’t tell if you’re just playing along, Tel, but Eric’s point is that my “summary” of his NYT piece is ridiculous. But, duh, of course it was. I was trying to get people to read it, not give a book report to my 5th grade teacher.
What? You can’t fit an intellectually detailed and compelling analysis into 140 characters? What are you some kind of ignoramus???
Bob, no need to take screenshots:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets
Shouldn’t he be lobbying for more monetary intervention?
Frodo: “There is the ring I promised you!”
Wow, what a jerk. He evidently doesn’t understand Twitter, humor, manners, how to interact with others, etc.
Never heard of either Eric Spitznagel or his brother before yesterday, but subsequently looked them up on Google.
Eric seems a pretty talented and witty journalist, and his twitter response an amusing, slightly edgy but not (totally) dis-respectful response to Bob’s post.
I’m not sure why you are calling him a jerk. I am pretty sure that his responses show he actually does get twitter, humor etc. His published interviews indicate he can definitely interact with others.
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I think you are right Transformer.
Am I missing something?
2014 was the precise year I stopped knowing what technology products do.
But it seems like he was playing along. Is there some Twitter faux pas I’m not catching?
Or maybe I’m being trolled and falling victim to one of those Laws of the internet invented to explain the inevitable de-evolution of discourse provided by advances of technology.
Your retort was pretty awesome.
I just baked some delicious spitznagel snaps!
I think it is Tom Woods who evidently doesn’t understand Twitter, humor, manners, how to interact with others, etc.
I like edgy humor (the tweets were simply hilarious) , but let’s be honest here- E. Spitznagel resents his brother’s success, and that comes through loud and clear not only via the essay’s contents, but the very fact that it was written in the first place.
So I came across your tweet and I looked into both of you. I read several articles and, as a completely neutral party who has never read anything by either of you before, here’s my final take: Eric is a very funny, warm heated guy. He’s the type of guy I’d like to have a beer with and hang out. Mr. Murphy is the type of guy who irons and perfectly folds his underwear before putting them away.
William Coffin I refute you thus.