[BALUG-Talk] Tele-questioning Re: [BALUG-Announce] OpenMoko CEO @ BALUG (Tuesday Nov 18)

[Rick Moen]

John Regan (john_re at fastmail.us) wrote (replying to Andrew):

> But no reply from either you or Rick.

In my case, a sufficient reason was that you asked no question.

However, one might say you _impliedly_ asked one question, of whether
it's proper for you to festoon balug-talk with PenLUG-related
carpool-arrangements messages -- by posting them.  And I did answer that
implied question, by saying (in my role as listamin) "no":
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2008-June/004218.html

Other than that, no question at all.

I _did_ also "reply" in the sense of correcting the widespread
misconception, posted to the thread you started, that there's no way of
crossing the Bay Bridge with a bicycle other than on BART or in a car:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2008-June/004212.html


[Again, John was addressing this stuff to Andrew:]

> So, I truly _was_ disappointed that when I followed _your_ suggestion,
> you just ignored it.

That _could_ be because all you seem to have ever said on balug-admin
was "thanks for your efforts on behalf of the GNU(Linux) community"
(http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-June/000581.html).

> Seriously, Andrew, asking me to do something, then not bothering to
> reply when I do what you asked, is one of the things that kinds
> "drives" my wondering if you are being serious or merely having fun
> directing me (& others - Jesse - you didn't reply to him either) down
> pointless paths.

I suspect that Andrew carelessly misplaced the cryptographic one-time
pad that might have enabled him to decipher "thanks for your efforts on
behalf of the GNU(Linux) community" into your no-doubt extremely
elucidating, insightful, and valuable question.

Sorry if it's taken me a couple of days to notice your posting.  I have
mail from your address land in a Very Special Mbox, and clumsily missed
checking it.

 
> The trend both now & the long term is to decreasing physical travel,
> increased tele-communication, & more of new kinds of tele-communication

_and_ asking busy people to perform ludicrous stunts on your behalf
using _their_ cellular telephones (and PA-system interconnects they're
supposed to conjure up out of /dev/ass), I see.  Jolly good.

Are you _sure_ you aren't Robert E. McElwaine, John?

-- 
"Is it not the beauty of an asynchronous form of discussion that one can go and 
make cups of tea, floss the cat, fluff the geraniums, open the kitchen window 
and scream out with operatic force, volume, and decorum, and then return to 
the vexed glowing letters calmer of mind and soul?" -- The Cube, forum3000.org