Turkeys of all sorts
An old friend tried to get a hold of me on GIMPNet the other day. I was kicked out of the channel by a child who long ago by now, I had to beg to "I am calling you the designer of the web site, please can you please write the stylesheet instead of telling people to make it do things?" and I think that is all that he did. I got kicked and banned when I was 'angry and showing it' -- not while 'angry and not showing it' the way I have been most of the time since November 2004. That is a long time for anger.
Today, I blame the publishers of books and magazines. The reason for this is that I would like to publish a list of all of the people who have been on the GNOME Foundation, but I think that "they" would just find some sucker to show up and be that person. That this is what O'Reilly and whatever Linux magazine published Akkana Peck did to me when I first went to Norway and came to be here in California.
This holiday about will be about turkeys rather than thanks -- I will thank everyone for stopping with the rough stuff when it happens. It was supposed to be beautiful, not artificially induced.
My first GIMP using friend; my first online misunderstanding....
Istanbul Not Constantinople
There were days when email was new to me and the first easy email exchange about GIMP and then life and other things will always be The First easy email exchange about.... One thing he mentioned then was that the people on the gimp-user list seemed like real jerks and assholes.
I actually logged in and searched through the tower of spam that is my mailbox looking to see if there was mail from an old friend there. I might have missed it for all of the real horrible dirt that is the mail I get now.
This mapped image is probably nicer the way I found it.
POTY Animal?
I have some new web pages which are not easy to find from here. They were actually more fun to make before I published the addresses anywhere. Not syndicated either, so if you see them in syndication -- that is just wrong and should be stopped.
I have a TODO list also. Since November 2005, there is supposed to be a new computer where my mail is. I even asked the admin there to allow me to rsync the mail to my computer so I could manage the spam and use the addy. Instead, I am getting stuff put into my food and getting everything I say verified -- oh, and also showing the young homegrown and educated California genius some of lifes more complicated things, like how the little marks work in between the big numbers on the thermostat. The TODO list is people that I should email as soon as possible that I am using their images on my web site and that some of them even look kind of cool and printable. One of the first user pages I visited there said something like, "please email me if you use my image" and later in the page it said "I never check my mail". I thought, there you go! they like email....
Search result editorial
o/~ Every picture tells a story, don't it? o/~ -- the Faces
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posted at Tue, 20 Nov 2007, 22:30