Re: Cowboys herding cats

On 31 May 2009 13:35:37 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

David Loewe, Jr. <dloewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It *especially* didn't occur to me that *you* would make that
mistake. The reason I say that is because you had to look up my
posting history when you asked where I had gone to while I was
having connection issues (as you mentioned that I had not posted
anywhere else besides rasff during my absence from the group).

I wasn't doing detailed research. All I checked on was *when* your
last post in any group had been, not *where*. I couldn't have cared
less if it had been in alt.fetish.velociraptors.

I thought it would have popped up.

Oh, well...

Only you would think to stoop to using my concern for your well-being
as yet one more stick to beat me upside the head with.

You're rather paranoid if you think that was an attempt to "beat you
upside the head with" (BTW, do you have these masochistic fantasies
often?) anything.

Since you don't use my setup, you have no idea how easy it is or
isn't to clean up posts with it.

The fact that you think the minor fixes I quickly and easily do are
symptomatic of OCD

How "quickly and easily" they are to do has nothing to do with whether
or not they can be classified as OCD. It has to do with the obsessive
nature of the urges.

implies that such fixes would be a tremendous
effort with your setup. It also implies that you've never experienced
a better setup. Presumably you just look at the GHz and mbps numbers
as if they were the only relevant criteria, and since your numbers are
big, you think your setup must be very good.

<snerk>

My computer is 6 *years* old. It has had some upgrades, but is WAY out
of date and I have NO illusions about that.

Once again, you try and define how I view something and you fail
miserably. One would think that you'd get tired of stepping on this
particular rake and having the handle fly up and bash your nose for your
troubles.

Since I'm actually almost certainly the second most prolific
"cleaner" of posts (although far behind you) in this NG (you rarely
see "- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -" in my posts as an
example - and when you do, it is because I just plain didn't catch
it), ...

Am I supposed to be impressed that you often delete outright rubbish?

Impressed? No. I am simply illustrating what I'm talking about.

I just don't care as much as you do - leading to the semi-serious
accusation of OCD.

Yes, it's obvious that you don't care about the readers as much
as I do.

To be frank, I don't see anyone BUT you and I fixing post formatting.
Perhaps you should be grateful that I do anything at all.

The fact that I post more than anyone else here,

This just proves that Usenet is your life.

Sure, I often spend a whole two hours a day on it. Sometimes more.
Sometimes, such as last Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and this
coming Thursday, no time at all. That's my whole life. Never mind
the other 90+ percent of it.

I suggest you watch Flashdance.

How do you feel about the millions of people who spend more than twice
that much time each day watching TV? That's the majority of Americans.
What diagnosis do you give them, Dr. Loewe?

I was unaware that "Usenet is your life" was a diagnosis.

Think about it. Your whole Internet setup is optimized to read from
and post to Usenet.

And also for reading and writing email. And also for reading and
creating (non-graphical) web pages. In fact it's optimized for pretty
much everything except pretty pictures.

Heh..

You get distressed when the volume goes up and you think you'll have
not respond to some of them.

I get apologetic when that happens. You are the major cause of that
happening. Perhaps I should catch up on replies I owe others before I
even start on yours. Ironically, you are the one who gets most upset
when I fail to quickly respond to every point in every message.

Of course, this is yet another distortion by you of something I do (or
believe). I get annoyed when you totally blow off the most important
part of a message and only deal with relatively trivial bull*** instead
- in the very same post.

I'm still waiting on replies from you from over a year ago. "Quickly"
doesn't enter the equation.

hell, I've taken several breaks while composing this reply just to
play Free Cell. In fact, I think I'll play some more Free Cell now.

If you carefully check my posting times, you'll see that I take
frequent breaks too.

Only an obsessive would even think that someone else would be in the
slightest bit interested in whether or not it is discernable that he
takes breaks by analyzing his posting patterns...

despite only spending an hour or two each day on it, proves that
whatever I'm doing doesn't take me much time.

Which proves what, exactly?

That formatting messages for readability does not keep me up half the
night, as such stereotypical OCD behaviors as constantly checking and
rechecking the door and the stove would,

So, you have a mild case.

and as formatting messages for readability apparently would if I were
stuck with a setup such as you have.

There you go again, making assumptions and drawing unwarranted
conclusions from data not at hard. It is not difficult at all to fix
formatting with my setup.

Unlike others, I actually perform this task.

Unlike you, I don't boast about how nice I'm making it for everyone else
- I just do it. And when I don't feel like doing it - I don't.

That you type faster than the rest of us?

Perhaps.

I see the concept of humor flies right past your ear...

If you want your jokes to be recognized as humor, make them funny.

IOW, make them not at your expense...
--
"Clams on the half shell...and rollerskates."
Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers
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