Re: HELP Please: Sand in WSM

Brick wrote:
On 3-Jul-2009, "Dave Bugg" <davebugg2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Muncie wrote:

Dave - I doubt anyone has been here very much any longer than I have.
So, you've been posting to AFB for the last decade or so?

(Been doing internet since 83). I have just been recently posting as I
have the time now, that I have not have before.
So, you HAVEN'T been posting on AFB for the last decade or so.

You are quite right to point out I allowed myself to interact with two
others and *be* part of the problem that I should have just ignored.
And/or stopped earlier.
Fair enough. It is easy to get caught up in the moment. So did those with

whom you were arguing.

I did not know until a few minutes ago that VeGA and Steve had taken
what I said in the last post as me referring to those "two others"
being about "them". I was not. Maybe that early in the morning time
is a bad time to try and make a point when you are irritated with
others.
I've been known to be burdened with that same issue.

I mentioned plonk (and I did drop the two I mentioned into the filter)
as any one that wants to argue to no point, are wasting my times.

Both of those you were arguing with are people I respect. But I have a
certain loyalty to the friends I already have. I suspect that once I get
to
know you, I would feel the same about you after awhile. And yes, I have
personally met many of the regulars here. It would probably be worth
considering 'live and let live'. Folks here get hot and bothered
sometimes,
yours truly included, and then get on with life. No one needs to actively

apologize or hold hands; things just tend to smooth-over with time. I
won't
presume to speak for the other actors in this play, but I can't imagine
anyone holding a grudge for very long.

Maybe killfiles could be purged and everyone start out on a clean slate?

You, VeGA, and Steve are not ones I'd argue with. Maybe disagree with,
but argue no.
:-) Heck, then that will leave you out in the cold. Steve, Vega, and I
have
argued and will likely argue in the future. Heck, there have been
arguments
going on between regulars as a natural course from time to time.

--
Dave
What is best in life? "To crush your enemies, see them driven before
you, and to hear the lamentation of the women." -- Conan

I expect that I have crossed poison pens with just about everybody at
one time or another, Dave Bugg included. I've only been on AFB/ABF
since 2003. But I've been on the internet since way before windows.
My original Compuserve ID was 73577, 605. That's right. There's a
comma in there not a period. I was using a Heathkit H-89 back then
with a mammoth 64K of memory and a pair of 720K floppy drives.
Hard drives were still off in Buck Rogers land.

I'm not proud of some of the invective I've posted in the past, but I
believe that I've mellowed some in recent years. My killfile is empty.
I find that I can simply scroll past the posts that I don't want to read.

I've personally met many of the folks that post here. Some of them
several times. Several of us recently attended the latest HTH (Hog
to Hand) at Milan, GA. It's almost amazing how many common
interests you discover when you converse face to face. What's
more, gatherings of the (BBQ) faithful attract many who do not
post regularly in the newsgroups, if at all.


Thanks Brick - I see you the same way I see Dave, sometimes volatile, but you likewise have wisdom and common sense, and usually stay to the smart side of reasoning a posting rather just blathering into argument. So yes, I have been around awhile. Just NOT posting that much (the above is likely due to placing the apostrophe in the wrong spot, and the auto speller saying "he must have meant".

I can appreciate your history of having been there/done that. My first personal PC was a PC1 from radio shack with 8KB of memory, and if you splurged, you bought the 4 mini-pen printer to go with it.

My first Unix instructor was Evi Nemath(sp?) (one of the co-writers of Berkly SunOS from where all other Unix's came from.

My first "large" system had a Philco Ford (yes a division of ford made the computer) systems processor, and the drive space was a number of 10GB RL01 platter assemblies that looked like oversizes cake boxes and since they had see through covers, and the platters were exactly that, a hard disk crash usually looked like a crash as one to the platters usually took a nose dive into the other platters (probably where the word "crash" came from.

My next two systems were thea PDP 11/30 (precursor to the 11/34) and a VAX 11/750 so yes, I've been around the block a time or two myself. My first Inet access was through one of the alpha sites as only the the schools and the government had access. No ISPs yet. Other than the water having passed under the bridge, I haven't missed those days too much.

Thanks for reminding me of the past. I rarely go there anymore.

Regards,

Bob
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