Comments for Eschew Obfuscation http://eschew.littleoldone.com Brooding Enlightenment! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:09:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Fascination with fire… by stevo http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/09/16/fascination-with-fire/#comment-19 stevo Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:15:31 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/09/16/fascination-with-fire/#comment-19 heh. heh.

]]> Comment on The march of time… by Meh http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/06/30/the-march-of-time/#comment-17 Meh Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:55:21 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/06/30/the-march-of-time/#comment-17 You need to write more of the stuff you are not sure of, more of the "I’m wondering at the things that I have to say and find myself doubting the validity and relevance." stuff. You need to write more of the stuff you are not sure of, more of the “I’m wondering at the things that I have to say and find myself doubting the validity and relevance.” stuff.

]]> Comment on The march of time… by Maree http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/06/30/the-march-of-time/#comment-16 Maree Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:18:11 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/06/30/the-march-of-time/#comment-16 Sometimes flippant, sometimes idiotic (NOT often though), but always AWESOME! I want to hear more of your musings! I love reading your writing--I AM biased, but I think I'd still like it. Your being comfortable with who and what you are has REALLY helped me to adopt like thinking. Keep it up! Sometimes flippant, sometimes idiotic (NOT often though), but always AWESOME! I want to hear more of your musings! I love reading your writing–I AM biased, but I think I’d still like it. Your being comfortable with who and what you are has REALLY helped me to adopt like thinking. Keep it up!

]]> Comment on Creative curmudgeonry… by halfdime http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/05/14/creative-curmudgeonry/#comment-15 halfdime Mon, 19 May 2008 04:38:59 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/05/14/creative-curmudgeonry/#comment-15 Absolutely not! Absolutely not!

]]> Comment on Creative curmudgeonry… by JustKristin http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/05/14/creative-curmudgeonry/#comment-14 JustKristin Mon, 19 May 2008 03:48:11 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/05/14/creative-curmudgeonry/#comment-14 So, should I be working at IBM? I love your classifications! :) So, should I be working at IBM? I love your classifications! :)

]]> Comment on The call of the, um, blog… by Jamie http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/29/the-call-of-the-um-blog/#comment-13 Jamie Wed, 07 May 2008 02:23:13 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/29/the-call-of-the-um-blog/#comment-13 Hey stupid - we're over here ;) Waiting (semi) patiently for your next post....... :D ~Jamie Hey stupid - we’re over here ;)
Waiting (semi) patiently for your next post…….
:D

~Jamie

]]> Comment on The call of the, um, blog… by Stevo http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/29/the-call-of-the-um-blog/#comment-12 Stevo Tue, 06 May 2008 14:00:51 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/29/the-call-of-the-um-blog/#comment-12 >Nah. I think I’ll just take a cue from my >daughter and talk until someone hurts me. heh... but I'd say that's part of your daughters charm as well as your own. You mentioned a quote one time from the movie "Strange Days", where the villan says "Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale". People like us think different, lot's of things in our life are shiney. We're ADHD commercials waiting to happen, but without the meds. Too much input bud. We're bound to drop a few of those packets (or want to). It's one of the things I enjoy about you, and probably why we can end a conversation with "my butt itches, gotta go" and an abrupt hangup. And nobody thinks twice about it. I was reading a book on memory. It said we receive approximately 10,000 inputs a seconds (sight, sound, touch) but our brain only processes 1-10% of that. We remember even less long term, unless it's done repetitively or if wiring is different in some folk. That's why keeping a blog is good IMO. It let's us keep some of those shiney things a little while longer. ~ stevo >Nah. I think I’ll just take a cue from my
>daughter and talk until someone hurts me.

heh… but I’d say that’s part of your daughters charm as well as your own. You mentioned a quote one time from the movie “Strange Days”, where the villan says “Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale”. People like us think different, lot’s of things in our life are shiney. We’re ADHD commercials waiting to happen, but without the meds. Too much input bud. We’re bound to drop a few of those packets (or want to).

It’s one of the things I enjoy about you, and probably why we can end a conversation with “my butt itches, gotta go” and an abrupt hangup. And nobody thinks twice about it.

I was reading a book on memory. It said we receive approximately 10,000 inputs a seconds (sight, sound, touch) but our brain only processes 1-10% of that. We remember even less long term, unless it’s done repetitively or if wiring is different in some folk. That’s why keeping a blog is good IMO. It let’s us keep some of those shiney things a little while longer.

~ stevo

]]> Comment on You just might be a sysadmin… by halfdime http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/#comment-11 halfdime Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:28:56 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/#comment-11 To clarify, by top-post I mean that someone takes an email and without any thought posts to the top of the message. This is most egregious when associated with long email threads and "me too" relplies. I prefer in-line replies. For a good treatment of the topic, please see <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855" rel="nofollow">RFC 1855</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Posting_style&printable=yes" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a>. To clarify, by top-post I mean that someone takes an email and without any thought posts to the top of the message. This is most egregious when associated with long email threads and “me too” relplies.

I prefer in-line replies.

For a good treatment of the topic, please see RFC 1855 and wikipedia.

]]> Comment on You just might be a sysadmin… by JustKristin http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/#comment-10 JustKristin Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:30:50 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/#comment-10 Dude, you'll have to constantly have homicidal feelings for me, then, because I feel like killing people who do NOT top-post (if, by "top-post", you mean insert the body of your reply at the top of an email). The only time I will include original text above the body of my reply is when I am quoting it to give it specific attention. I hate <i>hate</i> <b>hate</b> having to scroll to the very bottom of an email to find the response. A related pet-peeve concerns email clients that assume that you always want your signature to go at the bottom of an email, reply or otherwise. @#$%#$ :) Dude, you’ll have to constantly have homicidal feelings for me, then, because I feel like killing people who do NOT top-post (if, by “top-post”, you mean insert the body of your reply at the top of an email). The only time I will include original text above the body of my reply is when I am quoting it to give it specific attention. I hate hate hate having to scroll to the very bottom of an email to find the response. A related pet-peeve concerns email clients that assume that you always want your signature to go at the bottom of an email, reply or otherwise. @#$%#$

:)

]]> Comment on I love my wife… by halfdime http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/03/i-love-my-wife/#comment-9 halfdime Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:56:40 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/03/i-love-my-wife/#comment-9 *blush* *blush*

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