On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 at 00:35 -0700, Brent Thomson scribbled: >I say we make the next poll question read thus: Who is your favorite >UUG-er from the "glory days"? Here are my selections (in no particular >order): > > - Stuart Jansen > - Evan McNabb > - Michael Halcrow > - Grant Robinson > - Jon Jensen (both of 'em) > - Ross Werner > - Glen Wagley (the dude's hilarious) > - Art Moore > - Jason Holt > >I hope I haven't forgotten anyone. I hope the UUG lives on forever. The >input and feedback from people like these have helped form who I am and >helped me become more dangerous (and political) than I ever thought >possible. Thanks everybody. > >If we're worried about the current state of the union, why don't we >solicit input from the old-timers? They may have suggestions for helping >us relive the glory days. Art? Stuart? Evan? Any thoughts? > I had to freakin create a new account on the uug website because I wanted to vote for myself...oh well.
Here are my thoughts: Where is Art Moore? I miss that dude. I think I heard that he is selling hip waders somewhere in East Texas. Evan McNabb was seen somewhere around Roswell lately all bleary-eyed and mumbling something about a Sparc machine that blew up when he tried to dual boot LFS and Mandrake/driva/drivvle (kidding jake). Seriously though, the UUG seemed to more active in days past. Could it be the meetings? Could it be the topics? Do we need more SCO stuff to ignite (as in flame, not unite) us? I just don't know. Maybe it is getting easier for everyone to get their devices to work. I remember thread after thread of "I have wireless card/adapter/pci (X), I've tried the linux wlan junk and nothing works." Maybe those kinds of things carried us for a long time. It also could be that some folks think that their questions are stupid and don't want to post them. Some of them may need to be directed to uug-newbies but do a lot of newbies want to learn how to tweak spamassassin or make cool procmail recipes? I don't know that either. I'll shut up now and go back on my head. I can't believe Brent Thomson got me to post something. I've been lurking for like a year now...sheesh. Long live the UUG! -- Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible." -Alan Kay ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
