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Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> posted 453A1214.3050009@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:27:00 +0200: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>>> The writeup was way more than I had expected. Thanks. |
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>> As regulars here will attest, that seems to be my style. <g> |
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> You can say that again :D Just a few days ago I stumbled across that old |
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> mail from yours [1] and decided it would be worth to print out. I'm |
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> using it as wallpaper now, because the printout has exactly the same |
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> height as my room: |
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> http://blubb.ch/temp/duncanmail-printout.jpg |
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> (I hope you don't take this as an insult, because it's not meant as one. |
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> I just find that picture hilarious, and as you're admitting that your |
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> style is rather special, I thought I could as well share this funny |
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> picture with the community.) |
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> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64/6542/ |
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Not an insult, now anyway. I was a bit... mystified... as to why you'd |
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have pdf-ed it in your devspace [1] when someone (CiaranM as it happened) |
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referenced it as a case in point a few months ago, and would have |
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appreciated knowing why it was there, from you, before just coming across |
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a URL to it as I did, but then I realized that if it's posted in a public |
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forum such as this, I've no reason to be offended, certainly not when the |
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intent isn't obviously malevolent. Anyway, that was after your "urgent |
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request for funds" for a new monitor, after one of the "heated debates" in |
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-dev, so after a few seconds I was able to appreciate the humor of the |
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situation from that perspective. =8^) |
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Shortly thereafter I actually linked to the pdf once or twice, |
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illustrating my own points, so I was quick to take advantage of it once I |
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knew it was there, in any case, and am actually sort of proud that my work |
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is considered unusual enough for such an honor, dubious tho it might be. |
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=8^) "Who wants to be a Clone?" in the words of a song from a few years |
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ago. Certainly not me, so if my work is unusual enough to stand alone |
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like that, well, I'll choose to take that as an honor! =8^) |
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[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~blubb/duncan.pdf |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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