am I on your Ignore List? - Page 7

Flint · 04-20-2006, 12:55 PM

"everybody watching can figure out exactly what you're replying to without having to either scroll up the page or go back a page"

@Maui Nick: This method works just as well. Is it clear who/what I am responding to? I do it this way, sometimes, and the other way, sometimes. What a silly thing to get all insulting about. Lighten up.

Oh, nevermind, you have me on ignore, you can't see this. Remember, don't reply or I'll know you still read my posts!

MaggieL · 04-21-2006, 11:23 AM

It can be so hard for a troll to hit that sweet spot between "too annoying to not be on ignore" and "getting as much negative attention as possible". It's an art, I tell you.

Flint · 08-29-2006, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

It can be so hard for a troll to hit that sweet spot between "too annoying to not be on ignore" and "getting as much negative attention as possible". It's an art, I tell you.

You should write a book, Maggie. (Seriously, I'd read it...)

MaggieL · 08-29-2006, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

You should write a book, Maggie. (Seriously, I'd read it...)

Oh, c'mon. Anybody who's been a sucessful parent (or a very successful child) understands that principle.

I may write a book or two someday, if I ever get to retire. As it is there's much more money in writing software...especially software written by people who can also write coherent documentation. So that's what I'm doing now.

Until then, you''ll have to settle for what I write here and elsewhere...and there's also Gwennie's book, which *is* published.

Flint · 08-30-2006, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

...you''ll have to settle for what I write here and elsewhere...

After years of compulsively discussing every subject under the sun, on online forums, and composing these detailed positions on these various subjects, prodded and prompted by the comments of anonymous internet people, sometimes I stop and think about the transitory nature of it all . . . our thoughts are recorded only briefly before dropping off the end of a server, somewhere out there . . . and I feel okay with that. Anything of substance I have encountered has been filed away neatly, internally . . . the whole thing is like a lesson in not letting your ego form attachments to things.

I imagine being an author as one of the most excruciating occupations imaginable.

MaggieL · 08-30-2006, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

...sometimes I stop and think about the transitory nature of it all . . . our thoughts are recorded only briefly before dropping off the end of a server, somewhere out there...I imagine being an author as one of the most excruciating occupations imaginable.

Well, Willy certainly knew:

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Originally Posted by W. Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Flint · 08-30-2006, 02:19 PM

Homage (Track #4)...

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04-20-2006, 12:55 PM	#91
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	"everybody watching can figure out exactly what you're replying to without having to either scroll up the page or go back a page" @Maui Nick: This method works just as well. Is it clear who/what I am responding to? I do it this way, sometimes, and the other way, sometimes. What a silly thing to get all insulting about. Lighten up. Oh, nevermind, you have me on ignore, you can't see this. Remember, don't reply or I'll know you still read my posts! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

04-21-2006, 11:23 AM	#92
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	It can be so hard for a troll to hit that sweet spot between "too annoying to not be on ignore" and "getting as much negative attention as possible". It's an art, I tell you. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

08-30-2006, 02:19 PM	#97
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	"Willy" Homage (Track #4)... __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio** Last edited by Flint; 08-30-2006 at 02:26 PM.

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