At 10:12 PM -0800 on 2/7/00, Tim May quite politely wins another round,
mostly through sheer dogged perserverence, then spews some invective at the
last, just for entertainment value, and apparently for old time's sake:
> You've been doing a relatively good job of writing directly, without
> overuse of smileys. I urge you to restrain yourself...or hire an editor.
>
> Overuse of smileys and other editorial voice asides undercuts points made
> in writing. Those who use smileys promiscuously are in effect saying "I'm
> so unsure about what I'm saying that I'm telling you to disregard what I
> say, to not take it all seriously. :). Wink. Nudge. :)) Or something like
> that. I haven't haven't had this much fun since I tossed my baby brother
> into the hog pen and milk shot out my nose. Wink, nudge, :)."
>
> Nietzsche didn't need smileys. Neither did Marx.
Fortunately -- for both of us, I'd say -- I am neither?
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
Who is absolutely, positively, unsure of his opinions at all times, even
when they're done in characature -- or with smileys. And, who still thinks
that most appeals to the ineffable complexity of the universe are
frequently a refuge for those who doesn't know enough about it themselves:
the spherical earth, heliocentric ellipses, warped space time, the double
helix, and geodesic networks are excellent, and beautiful, counterexamples.
"It's too hard to explain" usually means it's too hard to understand enough
to explain well.
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
