Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-03 Thread Ian S. King
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:55 AM, geneb wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian S. King wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:24 PM, geneb wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: >>> >>> WTF did I just read. >>> Fred in absolutely rare form.

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-03 Thread Liam Proven
On 3 February 2017 at 19:32, Josh Miller wrote: > I love this. Mr. Stross's work is a favorite of mine. The laundry > files are particularly crunchy. The Internet is awesome. He's a superb writer. I have all of his books up to about 2012, because he gave me copies of

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-03 Thread Josh Miller
> A friend of mine, Charlie Stross I love this. Mr. Stross's work is a favorite of mine. The laundry files are particularly crunchy. The Internet is awesome.

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2017-02-03 Thread Liam Proven
On 2 February 2017 at 23:21, Fred Cisin wrote: > Frankly, it SCARES me that that wasn't absurd enough! A friend of mine, Charlie Stross, recently had to rewrite the outline of a novel because his bleak dystopian vision of the near-future "free world" wasn't _nearly_ bleak

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-03 Thread geneb
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian S. King wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:24 PM, geneb wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: WTF did I just read. Fred in absolutely rare form. I nearly choked on coffee at the "yodeling jellyfish" bit. I'd give him fake internet points

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2017-02-03 Thread Raymond Wiker
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Ian S. King wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:24 PM, geneb wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: > > > > WTF did I just read. > >> > >> Fred in absolutely rare form. I nearly choked on coffee at the > "yodeling >

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-02 Thread Ian S. King
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:24 PM, geneb wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: > > WTF did I just read. >> >> Fred in absolutely rare form. I nearly choked on coffee at the "yodeling > jellyfish" bit. I'd give him fake internet points if I could. :) > > Also, QUIT TOP

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-02 Thread geneb
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: WTF did I just read. Fred in absolutely rare form. I nearly choked on coffee at the "yodeling jellyfish" bit. I'd give him fake internet points if I could. :) Also, QUIT TOP POSTING. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only

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2017-02-02 Thread Eric Smith
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Reality is weirder than the most ridiculous crap that I could come up with? > Yes. Satire is dead.

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-02 Thread Fred Cisin
I intended it to be absurd enough to provide some humor. It apparently failed at that. Sorry. On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian S. King wrote: Fred, you have to turn it up to 11 - after all, consider your competition these days in the domain of absurdity. It wouldn't be so bad, if people just said

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-02 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Fred Cisin" <ci...@xenosoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 4:23 PM Subject: Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk

Re: OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-02 Thread Ian S. King
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: > >> WTF did I just read. >> > > An agreement with Mouse about plain-text, by sarcastically > objecting to use of plain text in the RFC, segueing into an > off-the-wall rant objecting to

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2017-02-02 Thread Fred Cisin
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote: WTF did I just read. An agreement with Mouse about plain-text, by sarcastically objecting to use of plain text in the RFC, segueing into an off-the-wall rant objecting to planned obsolescence. It was inspired by finding only Youtube videos for some simple

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2017-02-02 Thread Ian Finder
WTF did I just read. On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > If you think that, you _really_ need to read 3676. >> > > Nobody's going to read that the way that it is formatted. > > If they expect people to read it, they will have to punch it up, with > fonts,

OT: RANT (Was: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-01-31 Thread Fred Cisin
If you think that, you _really_ need to read 3676. Nobody's going to read that the way that it is formatted. If they expect people to read it, they will have to punch it up, with fonts, colors, background images and textures, formats, animated emojis, audio accompaniment, and embedded