Re: Crankiest LD member contest

["Paul Sanders" <paul_sanders@adelphia.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Crankiest LD member contest


> Dude, you're so in.  We should do an Oscar style LD awards where we
> have categories and nominations and we could all vote for our favorite
> posts.
>
> What Paul doesn't understand is that while we're busy tearing him a new
> asshole, (I hope he can shit faster and spend the extra time he gains
> reading his gear manuals) most others are just rolling their eyes and
> ignoring him.  I get pissed because I'm trying to help someone who
> can't be bothered to read all the helpful posts we've spent a lot of
> time and care writing.  I hope someone's getting something out of all
> this.

Maybe there are some folks rolling their eyes and ignoring YOU too!

The silly part is, you HAVE helped. I'm really not sure what you are
expecting to make you feel warm and fuzzy about that. Of course what's NOT
helping is my taking all this time to respond to this pissy flames because
you don't think I've utilized your valuable information effectively enough.

But, that's MY bad. I could just drop it and go on. I guess I will...maybe.

Paul

>
> That being said, writing about this stuff helps me better understand
> what I myself am doing and gives me new ideas to try, so it's not all
> altruistic.  Most of you guys are amazingly great sources of
> information and I cherish this list because of that.
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
> On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 12:18 PM, Chris Muir wrote:
>
> > At 12:02 PM -0700 7/19/03, Mark Sottilaro wrote:
> >> I propose a crank-off to decide once and for all who is the crankiest
> >> most sarcastic loopers delight member!  Me or Kim!  May the crankier
> >> man win!
> >
> >
> > Oooh! Oooh! Can I play? Here's my submission:
> >
> >> But do you expect people who run your software on these systems to be
> >> able to run it without understanding it, or at least something of the
> >> *nix world? No, you probably assume a basic understanding of *nix.
> >> You probably assume the users of your software will read the
> >> documentation or at least the man page, no? And even in your
> >> documentation you probably don't have anything to cover the case of
> >> "Gee, I did a 'chmod 0000 your_program' and now it doesn't run".
>