FAQ
Who the heck are you?
The name’s Jon, aka Zel-kun. I experience things, then I write them. I live in the South Side of Chicago, I have a steady job that I’m happy enough at. I work in IT, which means I deal with the compu-ma-jiggies.
And why should I care?
I’m not making you care, not even making you read. I’ve always felt that writing is a catharsis of sorts, and I’m sure there’s at least one or two people out there that will find this stuff interesting.
Why Zel-kun?
The first time I logged onto the web was in 1999. It was a different time, with the overhyped threat of y2k looming over our heads. I was a high school senior, and didn’t even have my own computer. It was a time when I was considering becoming a teacher, making a career out of IT had never even crossed my mind. I didn’t even understand what the internet was.
During this time, I was really into the Japanese anime series ‘The Slayers.’ I still am, to a degree. When I logged on to AOL (eww…), my screen name was Zelgahdis, after my favorite character in that series. I made a few online friends, one who still affectionately refers to me as onii-sama (big brother) and Zel-kun. This name just sorta stuck. And before long, all my friends online were calling me it.
NOTE: -kun is a Japanese suffix attatched to best friends who address each other. This suffix is considered to be slightly childish, but nowhere near as childish as -chan.
Why do you use big words?
For a few reasons. First, I like big words, they make me sound intelligent if I use them correctly. Two, a big word is just a synonym for a smaller word. Using them helps conversations seem a lot less boring, rather than using the same simplistic words repeatedly. And three, I feel you are invariably judged by your language, whether it be negatively or positively. Using big words you know the other party will not understand makes you sound arrogant, whereas using simple and incorrect grammar makes you sound like a dimwitted moron. Finding the balance between these two extremes is entertaining to me.
You sound pompous.
That’s not a question. But I am, with good reason, I spend most of my day thinking, whether I like it or not. I feel that the process of critical thinking is dying in this world, and that the average person is ignorant. I’ve spoken to people who were highly educated, with bachelor’s degrees in one discipline or another, and I can only shake my head at their idiocy when they speak. Certified paper doesn’t make you intelligent, thinking does. If you feel the need to contest anything I have written here, by all means, post it. I’ll read it, I’ve been proven wrong on occasion, and I’m sure it’ll happen again. But until then, I’m right.
You say you’re intelligent, but I found a spelling error/grammatical error here! What’s the deal?
The deal is I’m human, its called a typo, get over it. If it ends up muddling the message of the statement I’ve made, I’ll correct it.
I commented on a post but my comment didn’t show up, why?
There’s four reasons this can happen.
1. I haven’t gotten to approving the comments.
2. You didn’t supply a valid email address.
3. Your post was either irrelevent or vulgar. (btw, I don’t mean it just contains profanity)
4. Your post contained a blacklisted word. I get a lot of junk comments, or rather I used to until blocking out commonly-used junk words. This SHOULDN’T affect any legitimate comment, as the blacklisted words are generally addresses. If you suspect this, feel free to contact me.
How do I contact you?
if you want to contact me, whether is be to request a review, complain about something, or just shoot the breeze, there’s always the forum. Or you can send me an email at:
What happened to the Maxwell Project?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Would you like to go to my poorly-spelled website specializing in porn, drugs, and creepy fetishes?
I could not, would not, look at your porn. I could not, would not, no matter how forlorn. I will not browse for vicodin, I do not care what hole it’s in. I do not need a bigger breast, your concerns about my love life can be put at rest. I could not, would not, buy your drugs. I could not, would not, even had you thugs.
You didn’t answer my question in this FAQ, why?
Because your question wasn’t asked frequently enough. I’ll update this FAQ page as I see fit.