Re: [WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-18 Thread Ray Saintonge
Kevin Wong wrote:
 But is it a tragedy or a comedy?
   

That depends on your proximity to the events.  From within it is high 
gothic; from without it is pure slapstick.

Ec
 On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
 Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
   
 My latest Netflix confirmation e-mail had this:

 Get personalized recommendations from our wide selection in Drama.
 The more movies you rate, the better your recommendations will be.

 My first thought was that they were going to start suggesting areas
 of Wikipedia internal politics for me to get involved in.  You
 showed an interest in the debate over the BADSITES policy in the
 past.  Our recommendation engine indicates that it is likely you
 would be interested in the SPAM-BLACKLIST debates going on now.
   
 Our actors create drama; they don't rate it (except for some when rate
 is used in the sense of to merit).  It reminds one of the old speech:
 All the world's a wiki. :-)
 

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Re: [WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-18 Thread Alvaro GarcĂ­a
Oh, that's better.


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On 18-02-2009, at 2:10, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote:

 On 16 Feb 2009 at 10:30, Alvaro Garc?a wrote:

 Do you frequently get *confirmation* e-mails? How many times do you
 sign up?

 Confirmations of DVDs being sent or received, which are generated
 very frequently in the course of use of a Netflix account.


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Re: [WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Ray Saintonge wrote:
 Kevin Wong wrote:
   
 But is it a tragedy or a comedy?
   
 

 That depends on your proximity to the events.  From within it is high 
 gothic; from without it is pure slapstick.


   

Heh, remembering the epic battle between you and Angela
over the redirects of years (which curiously enough is not
even currently present at [[WP:LAME]] despite richly deserving
it - involving me at teh sidelines and finally bringing in both
Tim Starling and Brion VIBBER), I can attest that your sentiment
is better phrased:

From within it is high Gothic; from without it is Greek tragedy,
and far removed in either concern or time, it is pure slapstick.



Yours,

Jussi-Ville

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Re: [WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin Wong
But is it a tragedy or a comedy?

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:

 Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
  My latest Netflix confirmation e-mail had this:
 
  Get personalized recommendations from our wide selection in Drama.
  The more movies you rate, the better your recommendations will be.
 
  My first thought was that they were going to start suggesting areas
  of Wikipedia internal politics for me to get involved in.  You
  showed an interest in the debate over the BADSITES policy in the
  past.  Our recommendation engine indicates that it is likely you
  would be interested in the SPAM-BLACKLIST debates going on now.
 
 
 
 Our actors create drama; they don't rate it (except for some when rate
 is used in the sense of to merit).  It reminds one of the old speech:
 All the world's a wiki. :-)

 Ec

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Re: [WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On 16 Feb 2009 at 10:30, Alvaro Garc?a wrote:

 Do you frequently get *confirmation* e-mails? How many times do you  
 sign up?

Confirmations of DVDs being sent or received, which are generated 
very frequently in the course of use of a Netflix account.


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[WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
My latest Netflix confirmation e-mail had this:

Get personalized recommendations from our wide selection in Drama. 
The more movies you rate, the better your recommendations will be.  

My first thought was that they were going to start suggesting areas 
of Wikipedia internal politics for me to get involved in.  You 
showed an interest in the debate over the BADSITES policy in the 
past.  Our recommendation engine indicates that it is likely you 
would be interested in the SPAM-BLACKLIST debates going on now.


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Re: [WikiEN-l] A wide selection of Drama

2009-02-16 Thread Ray Saintonge
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
 My latest Netflix confirmation e-mail had this:

 Get personalized recommendations from our wide selection in Drama. 
 The more movies you rate, the better your recommendations will be.  

 My first thought was that they were going to start suggesting areas 
 of Wikipedia internal politics for me to get involved in.  You 
 showed an interest in the debate over the BADSITES policy in the 
 past.  Our recommendation engine indicates that it is likely you 
 would be interested in the SPAM-BLACKLIST debates going on now.


   
Our actors create drama; they don't rate it (except for some when rate 
is used in the sense of to merit).  It reminds one of the old speech: 
All the world's a wiki. :-)

Ec

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