The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. George Will I'm a professional pessimist! Peace Debra > 5. Optimist/Pessimist (was Re: Where a program stores temporary > files) (Matt McKenzie) > 6. Re: Optimist/Pessimist (Guy Letourneau) > > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:27:01 -0700 > From: Russell Senior <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Where a program stores temporary files > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >>>>>> "RJ" == Russell Johnson <[email protected]> writes: > > RJ> On Aug 1, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Dale Snell <[email protected]> > RJ> wrote: > >>> Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half >>> full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. > > RJ> I prefer, the glass is at half capacity. > > When I was in engineer school that whole metaphor totally baffled me... > > Half-full is *EXACTLY* *THE* *SAME* has half-empty!!! > > I still don't quite understand what it's trying to imply. Use better > metaphors, people! > > > -- > Russell Senior, President > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 03:24:33 -0700 > From: Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] Optimist/Pessimist (was Re: Where a program stores > temporary files) > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <cakjiplq1vewjz5pyx8rzpmpkrjj_59gjftobpajbse71yr8...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Russell Senior > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >>>>> "RJ" == Russell Johnson <[email protected]> writes: >> >> RJ> On Aug 1, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Dale Snell <[email protected]> >> RJ> wrote: >> >> >> Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half >> >> full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. >> >> RJ> I prefer, the glass is at half capacity. >> >> When I was in engineer school that whole metaphor totally baffled me... >> >> Half-full is *EXACTLY* *THE* *SAME* has half-empty!!! >> >> I still don't quite understand what it's trying to imply. Use better >> metaphors, people! >> >> >> > I still like this one: > [picture a note, next to an empty glass] > > "While the Optimist and Pessimist were arguing over whether the glass was > half full or half empty, I just came along and drank it. > Sincerely, the Opportunist" > > Carpe Diem! > > ---------- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:32:39 -0700 > From: Guy Letourneau <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Optimist/Pessimist > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > >>> >>>>> Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half >>>>> full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. >>> >>> RJ> I prefer, the glass is at half capacity. >>> > > I heard it as "You're using too much glass." > > ruth. You cannot forgive what you do not know. Archbishop Tutu _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
