On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > > Well that was a nice little read, straight from the voice of experience. > > I was going to say "that bit of smugness is going to come back and bite him > in the ass" but of course I didn't..
I rather saw it as Chris finally growing a spine. He never asserts anything with any real authority, and leaves everything up for endless debate; ultimately to be decided by anyone but him. That post had a very rare last word quality about it that I found rather satisfying, I must admit. Maybe it's because I'm quite the opposite, and I tend to be extremely assertive about my opinions, even when it turns out I'm completely full of crap. Which reminds me of this time I was working in a garden center, back in college. This job depended on me having a great deal of plant knowledge, and I got it by weaving together a tapestry of complete bullshit about my horticultural prowess that was based on nothing more than having given my parents the barest minimum of help in their vegetable garden as a child. So here we are in the tree corral, and my mother comes to visit me at work. She asked me why this one oak tree had red branch tips, while all the other ones had brown ones. I hadn't the first clue on earth, but I laid it on thick and heavy, with some kind of blather about extreme winter temperatures causing differing cellular growth rates at the branch nodes or something that sounded vaguely scientific and authoritative. She was very impressed until she noticed the tag on the odd oak tree out that labeled it as a red maple. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
