greg said:
>   What tournament? 
>   You're the one who imagined it

gee... somehow i got the impression that
-- under the rubric of "crowdsourcing" --
you were _soliciting_ "improved" versions
of p.g. books, versions that were "fixed"
and "tweaked" such that they gave people
"better" experiences, either because they
had had their typos and errors "corrected",
or because they were "more friendly" with
some hardware/software, or a combination
of both those factors.  i _also_ thought that
you proposed to "host" these "new" versions,
_and_ that the "best" one -- out of many that
were "submitted", thanks to dedicated efforts
by volunteers -- might get "folded back into"
the p.g. library (nudging the present files to
the "old" folder) subject to careful "evaluation"
and "approval" by the whitewashers who would
"analyze" 'em closely, _and_ that the workflows
and tools that created these "superior" versions
could well be considered for "adoption" by p.g.

but i dunno...  i guess i got all of that wrong...
i just can't tell where i got all those silly ideas.

oh, yeah, right, i "imagined" it.  hey, no wonder
people always tell me i have a good imagination.

because heck no, we don't "compete" here --
we get along and be agreeable with each other.

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>   you are competing by yourself

oh please, greg.  i already _won_ this horse-race.

i won when you and marcello and p.g. officially
adopted light-markup -- which was _my_ horse!
your tei/xml horse went down on the backstretch.

plus, with the charismatic marcello now doing
his famous ram-it-down-their-throats schtick,
i'm winning again, because you're _botching_ it.

even with a better horse, your jockey can't win.

even better horse _and_ he cheats, he can't win.

you're more right than you seem to know, greg:
yes, quite indeed, i _am_ competing by myself...

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but... ya know... we're all one big happy family,
pulling together, living in peace and harmony...

***

the doublespeak and lack of integrity here
is starting to become seriously troubling...

not to mention the _noise_, now overwhelming...
signal, anyone?  is anybody picking up any signal?

-bowerbird