Heh, I don't fit the pattern very well.  I am known to be grumpy.  But my 
agnosticism is much too broad for me to engage in code rage.  I sometimes 
cut-n-paste.  I sometimes put the curly brace on the same line or the line 
after.  I sometimes use library widgets and sometimes roll my own.  Patterns 
are phantastmagoric pareidolia.  I'm incapable of playing code cop ... not 
because I don't care, but because it's all about context to me ... whatever 
gets you through to a _working_ pile of @#%!$ is fine by me.  I think this is 
because I was reared as a simulant.  At the end of the day, it doesn't matter 
what's _inside_.  What goes in or out is all that matters ... maybe I'm a 
behaviorist ... the holographic principle gone awry.

But I will defend those spittle spewing morlocks to the death, perhaps because 
of my inability to play their role.

On 10/31/2016 02:40 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
but I don't know you to sport a beard?   The rest is something I can feature 
though!

I miss your ur-signature: " get off my lawn <fistshake>! "

This whole line of observation seems somewhat like a simple point-example of 
the broader idea that nothing (and no-one) exists in isolation, everything is 
part of a larger ecology, and every role, no matter how absurd nor humble 
contributes to the milieu.

I suspect even the lowly dung-beetle imagines him(her)self to be a (ig?)noble 
apex predator!

- Steve
PS.  I DO have a gray beard and it is more often flecked with my lunch than spittle, but 
I do recognize the image you paint in the mirror... now "get off my lawn!"

--
☣ glen

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