From: David Lukes <pdlukes@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk>
To: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
Cc: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 Contributions area
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:23:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01021410361807.08554@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00c901c0960b$49816f80$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>
Warning: off topic!
> my old mate dave surfaces. don't be too 'direct'
I still remember that incident fondly:
if I recall correctly, the line from the customer's management was
"Your consultants are very direct",
after we'd chewed out the customer's hardware vendor's salesman
in front of the customer and described his products
(to his face) with the phrase
"it all looks like bullshit and vapourware",
(That's the royal "we", of course:
I just sat there and nodded whilst trying to keep a straight face
as the salesgremin and customer squirmed).
> :-)
Boyd, you're using smileys: what medication are you on?
> [APT]
Don't swear. I'm feeling delicate at the moment,
(due to a surfeit excesses of Perl and SQL) and my constitution
won't take the shock.
Dave.
P.S. A certain Mr Penn Jillette is reputed to have once said about smileys:
"the hateful :) which means 'just kidding' and is used by people
who would dot their i's with
little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano."
We now return you to the latest episode of:
"why doesn't plan9 use BIOS drivers?
where's the perl/emacs port?
I think fsync is really useful, even if I don't really know what it means".
Thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-14 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-13 16:06 rog
2001-02-13 18:13 ` David Lukes
2001-02-13 22:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-14 9:23 ` David Lukes [this message]
2001-02-13 22:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-13 23:18 ` Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian
2001-02-13 23:24 ` Boyd Roberts
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-13 22:33 rob pike
2001-02-13 22:42 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-13 22:22 forsyth
2001-02-13 22:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-13 23:40 ` Jim Bennett
2001-02-13 21:09 nemo
2001-02-13 14:33 nigel
2001-02-13 14:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-13 19:43 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-14 9:40 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-02-12 16:07 [9fans] " Dave Atkin
2001-02-13 14:21 ` [9fans] " Dave Atkin
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