All y'all.

Post #10,359 by inthane-chan 9/24/01 12:22:07 PM Reply	All y'all. I'm not quite sure how to say this, so I'll go with the tried and true. I love ya, man, I love ya! Okay, now slightly more serious. This world has become an increasingly dangerous place, and who knows now if any day our number shall be decreased? As of next week, I'll be working two floors downstairs from one of the top ten potential terrorist targets in the PacNW, and who knows what could happen to the rest of you where you live? Whatever happens, my life has been transformed by knowing all of you. I cannot tell you what it means to me to be surrounded by people who can flame the Hell out of each other each day and still call each other friends at the end of it - truly this is the sort of friendship from which only greatness in any form may show itself. Only in the light of disagreement and discussion can true learning and enlightenment show, and I can only dream of having friends as good as you in my real life. Thank you. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #10,372 by Another Scott 9/24/01 1:14:38 PM Reply	Very well said. Ditto.
Post #10,431 by Ashton 9/24/01 6:08:20 PM Reply	Well put. Don't worry about your location - I think it's likely off the list: too many people they despise, would be made happy by that target's disappearance. 'They' don't want to make any of us 'happy' so.. Y'see? Even terrorists have conflicts about.. evading the Good? Ashton
Post #10,432 by inthane-chan 9/24/01 6:15:47 PM Reply	Not too worried specifically about the target... ...more about the fraility of life on this planet in general. I just hope I get to meet ya all in this life, not the next, yaknowatimean? "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #10,504 by a6l6e6x 9/26/01 5:16:17 AM Reply	Re: Not too worried specifically about the target... In line with your thought: [link\|http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html\|A word from Carl Sagan] Alex Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. -- Euripides
Post #10,443 by bepatient 9/24/01 8:09:30 PM 9/28/01 11:25:34 AM Reply	Whad'ya mean, real life? This >is< real life. I've made a point to try and meet as many of this group as is possible. I'm truly sorry to have missed an opportunity to meet Andrew last time I was in LA....but couldn't take my eye off the boss...lest he get me into trouble. I can tell you...this is no fluke. In the (somwhat modified) words of Will Rogers...I've never met a zIwetheyer I didn't like. Maybe I can negotiate discount airfares for the 4th of July party. Nothing like telling the wife you want to go to a party 3 thousand miles away ;-) It >is< a good party though...even if we didn't have enough l**e women for Karsten. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson}* [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient] Edited by bepatient Sept. 28, 2001, 11:25:34 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #10,514 by CRConrad 9/26/01 6:06:15 AM 9/28/01 11:17:27 AM Reply	"iabl"? (Still just wondering. :-) Duh, "ayab" lacks the 'l' to make it "layabLe"! And "ayabl" was too long for Bill's four asterisks... So what on Earth is it Karsten wants to do to women?!? Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Mostly Just Knows About Ordinary Fucking... Edited by CRConrad Sept. 28, 2001, 11:17:27 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #10,780 by bepatient 9/28/01 11:24:53 AM Reply	Humble apologies... ...the error has been fixed...there should only be 3 asterisks. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #10,782 by CRConrad 9/28/01 11:39:41 AM Reply	Aaargh! Thank you so much!!! :-)
Post #10,796 by bepatient 9/28/01 12:13:38 PM Reply	Does that mean you >get< it now? or was the argh! to... ...tell me that I continued to be of no use you you whatsoever. The 3 asterisks should be replaced by only 2 letters You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #10,852 by ben_tilly 9/28/01 8:28:08 PM Reply	Huh? Three letters works perfectly. The way I read it, two would mean that you just made one of the most annoying spelling errors out there. Cheers, Ben
Post #10,889 by bepatient 9/29/01 5:59:45 AM Reply	No... spelled correctly.... L _ _ _ E Where the 3 spaces are filled using 2 letters. And at dictionary.com...the ninth entry for this word is the most apropos...based upon the subject at hand. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #11,183 by Ashton 10/1/01 8:50:50 PM Reply	Antonym alert Odd.. I thought most preferred rather an opposite quality, er - Never mind. The whole topic is fraught with constriction. :-\ufffd
Post #11,350 by bepatient 10/2/01 10:00:35 PM Reply	Well it was more.... ...of the behavioral trait as opposed to the attribute. It was simply the running gag of the weekend. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #11,460 by ben_tilly 10/3/01 12:13:55 PM Reply	My memory must be bad The word I mentally filled in with was, "loose". What were you thinking, "love"? Cheers, Ben
Post #11,467 by CRConrad 10/3/01 12:31:45 PM Reply	Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Ben! FINALLY I get a fucking handle on this!!! I stopped replying after my second "Aargh", because I thought BeeP was just jerking me around... But "loose" makes perfect sense, if you read BeeP's instructions as, "filling in those three spaces using only two different letters". As a "the letter 'o' (in the abstract), and two occurrences of it", as opposed to "three 'letters': an 'O', another 'O', and..." kind of thing, that is. Sorry I suspected you unjustly, BeeP; and again, thank you, Ben. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #11,472 by drewk 10/3/01 12:38:13 PM Reply	Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Whew, thank goodness that's over. We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]
Post #11,728 by ben_tilly 10/4/01 10:21:49 AM Reply	D'oh I had missed the word game. Cheers, Ben
Post #11,498 by bepatient 10/3/01 2:11:43 PM Reply	We have a WINNA! You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #11,583 by Ashton 10/3/01 6:14:57 PM Reply	Well.. two at least, unless antonym was too suBPtle_____:-\ufffd
Post #11,628 by kmself 10/3/01 8:21:09 PM Reply	I should stop by here more often ...clearly somebody's got to keep y'all in order. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #11,648 by bepatient 10/3/01 10:05:27 PM Reply	And obviously it should be... ...you???????? Uh...sure...whatever you say Karsten. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #11,625 by admin 10/3/01 8:16:06 PM Reply	There is such a thing... ... as too much of either quality... Regards, -scott anderson
Post #10,698 by drewk 9/27/01 6:32:12 PM Reply	Always meant to post about that I met Bill(bepatient) and his wife, and Hugh(hnick) a while back when Bill was in Cleveland. My wife enjoyed it as much as I did, and said she finally understands why I'm always talking about this place when I get home. All she knew about online communities was what she'd heard, and the little she'd seen, of AOL chat rooms. She never could figure out why I bothered. Now she understands that the people I know here are better friends than most of the people I just happen to live on the same street with. I used to worry that maybe the fact that I could find people of like mind online would mean I wouldn't bother to look so hard in my "real life." I don't worry about that any more. Knowing everyone here has raised my standards for friends. If I'd rather talk to a bunch of people online than spend time with someone in person, that doesn't say much for that other person, does it? We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]
Post #10,695 by ben_tilly 9/27/01 6:20:34 PM Reply	BTW that reminds me... Some of us IT people are running a Linux camp, any chance we can recruit you for our campaign against [link\|http://www.microsoft.com\|The Great Satan]? Come on, what do you say... /duck Ben
Post #11,117 by inthane-chan 10/1/01 1:43:08 PM Reply	Would love to... ...I just need to get some Linux skills first. ^_^ Or I COULD be camp cook... "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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