josh said:
>   You, sir, have just crossed the line.

yeah right.


>   Juliet, however, is the most even tempered,
>   nice, moderate, polite, and wonderful person
>   I've ever met on the Internet. 

yeah, when i met her in person, she was nice too.
and i said that her "rebuke" was atypical of her...

shows you that even "the most wonderful person"
can have a bad day.  i didn't hold it against her.
i just told her not to do it again.  and he hasn't.
on the contrary, since then she has stepped in
and told some people who were getting nasty
with me that it doesn't work like that over there.


>   She only stopped you from disparaging
>   the efforts of hard-working volunteers at DP.

"disparaging".  that sounds familiar.
maybe look up that term, michael...

interpreting "you are wasting your time doing that"
as "disparaging the efforts" of a person is an error.
if i didn't value the time and energy of that person,
i wouldn't bother telling them of their inefficiency...

to me, allowing people to waste their time by doing
work that is only going to have to be redone later is
the most disparaging way you can treat their efforts.

i objected to that spin, one that scapegoated me by
misinterpreting my words.  which is an error that you,
sir, have just repeated.  talk about "crossing a line"...


>   All you did at DP was tell us we were "doing it wrong."

and i went into detail giving you good reasons why.
and i would have given you even more good reasons,
and continued to tell you how to improve workflows,
except i decided why should i help people who abuse me?

i couldn't come up with one single reason, and i still can't.

and indeed, when i finally _do_ release tools you could use,
i will hobble them with my 4:20 system.  once every 4 hours,
the tool will work for 20 minutes, and then go back to sleep.
4 hours later, it'll come alive again, for another 20 minutes...

that way you'll know that it works, but you won't overdo it...


>   bowerbird, you are a slimeball and an evil, frustrated little man. 
>   And the fact that you DARE to turn your filthly mouth against
>   Juliet only comfirms that better than ANYTHING I could say.

you underestimate yourself.  what you just said
says quite a bit.  it says quite a bit about you...

at any rate, i wonder if juliet finds your "defense" of her
-- as if i was attacking her; i just said what happened --
to be "charming".  or maybe it simply embarrasses her.

-bowerbird