Enough already!

[Mark Brownell]

On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 09:37  PM, Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:

> All,
>   Sheesh! I have read too much fluff and politeness: it's like the 
> whole RR list has become Canadian, eh.

Well that's sort of interesting, knowing that not all Canadians think 
alike like the rest of us on earth, but some having strong opinions 
that tend to isolate or denigrate others, especially people like us 
poor misguided Americans south of the border in some peoples eyes or in 
our own eyes.

Your numbered points of interest are best suited to discussion lists 
for psychological  interest groups that like heated discussions of 
prying the lid off the group to see what's inside and having that end 
up as the entire point of interest. At least that is what it seems like 
to me and my opinion. My brother is the moderator of the gestalt-l 
list. I watched this kind of communication for the last eight years. 
All the interesting e-mails are much like yours on that list. I only 
mention this because it would be easy to read your message as 
troll-bate. I don't think it is troll-bate and to me it doesn't matter. 
I'm used to seeing comments about how helpful someone has been. Just 
about everything on this list is volunteer contributions in support of 
something that is better than where at least for me where I came from 
with the tools that I had to work with. Because of Revolution I find 
myself considering doing things that I would never had tried with 
Director. So you can't blow the shine off the symbolism just to patina 
the carcass of the fatted calf just because the prodigal son has 
wondered home.

For me it's still a party and I'm just coming up on my first year with 
Revolution. So happy I discovered Revolution birthday to me... and 
thanks for all the good advice and ideas from all the great people on 
this list. Remember last week when I was wondering about icon and file 
recognition problems on Windows. Well it turns out that I spelled the 
name of my own application wrong while setting up Ken's recommendations 
for setting the registry three months ago. I bothered just about 
everyone and they kept asking me to look at Ken Ray's "Setting Document 
Associations in Windows." What a laugh. I did it to myself. There was 
never a problem.

Boy do I feel better having confessed that...

mb