From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190603310009l201290f2j98c18d4abf69a011@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:09:07 +1100 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: [OT] linux origins, why not? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6956b4e2a756ce5e83375d399bd04455@monitorbm.co.nz> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 293f46e0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 my interactions with jmk where talking crap while hanging around the coffee machine (always good) and approaching his office to ask a question. he'd find the right databook and often point me to the page. "dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, and satire"? don't cross him, it's true. he's a mate. brucee On 3/31/06, Andrew Simmons wrote: > > yes, brain cells have been burned on that and it has been done. > > but we're waiting for uriel's replacement for 9load before the > > details are finalised. after all, we don't want to waste our time > > doing something that's already been done but just not released. > > > Even rob was scared of jmk. He used ... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks > - dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, and satire.