At 1:27 PM -0500 on 11/15/98, Rabid Wombat wrote:
No, but could Bob Hettinga be Vin McLellan's sock puppet?
Um, it's *meat* puppet, Rab, meat puppet... Or, better, "Bwahahahahahahah!" Seriously. Like most normal people, I hate saying facially outrageous things in well-known watering holes and being wrong, but it's particularly annoying when you're consistantly ambushed by self-appointed, um, holes of another kind. Vin did this kind of vigorous error correction on me twice now, on my own turf, in the past three weeks. Not only were both flames about two standard deviations outside the bounds of altruistic desires to correct the record, which even *I* can excuse once in a while ;-), this kind of silly dreck is getting to be a positive habit with Mr. McLellan. I mean, Socrates was right, and all that, but he was also a pain in the ass. I fixed my problem with Mr. McLellan this morning, though. Mr. McLellan can crusade against threats to his world view on someone else's list, I figure. So, yup, mea fucking culpa. As Frank Lloyd Wright was fond of saying when he'd been caught in a stretcher, or at least vigorously propounding an error, "Well. There you are!" Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'