Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:27:00 +0200:
> Duncan wrote: >>> The writeup was way more than I had expected. Thanks. >> >> As regulars here will attest, that seems to be my style. <g> > > You can say that again :D Just a few days ago I stumbled across that old > mail from yours [1] and decided it would be worth to print out. I'm > using it as wallpaper now, because the printout has exactly the same > height as my room: > > http://blubb.ch/temp/duncanmail-printout.jpg > > (I hope you don't take this as an insult, because it's not meant as one. > I just find that picture hilarious, and as you're admitting that your > style is rather special, I thought I could as well share this funny > picture with the community.) > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64/6542/ Not an insult, now anyway. I was a bit... mystified... as to why you'd have pdf-ed it in your devspace [1] when someone (CiaranM as it happened) referenced it as a case in point a few months ago, and would have appreciated knowing why it was there, from you, before just coming across a URL to it as I did, but then I realized that if it's posted in a public forum such as this, I've no reason to be offended, certainly not when the intent isn't obviously malevolent. Anyway, that was after your "urgent request for funds" for a new monitor, after one of the "heated debates" in -dev, so after a few seconds I was able to appreciate the humor of the situation from that perspective. =8^) Shortly thereafter I actually linked to the pdf once or twice, illustrating my own points, so I was quick to take advantage of it once I knew it was there, in any case, and am actually sort of proud that my work is considered unusual enough for such an honor, dubious tho it might be. =8^) "Who wants to be a Clone?" in the words of a song from a few years ago. Certainly not me, so if my work is unusual enough to stand alone like that, well, I'll choose to take that as an honor! =8^) [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~blubb/duncan.pdf -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
