[OT] Off or On Topic
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Thu Aug 7 11:46:44 CDT 2003
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:51 pm, Greg Kedrovsky wrote:
> {LUG-Lord] sent me a personal message letting me know that
> humor was not well
> received on the list because it was not considered professional or
> technical or ... Linux-like...
He must never have studied the kernel source then. Lots of humor there.
Where's that "printer on fire" error code? What about "fortune"?
Yeah, we get off track. I think the job hunting discussion is relevant,
because that's how we either fund Linux or put Linux to work.
I think it's important to point out that comprehensible grammar and spelling
are important parts of conveying a technical message - just like getting the
syntax right in code.
Perhaps your LUG-Lord has never heard of The Journal of Irreproducable
Results. I remember discovering, at an impressionable age, a collection of
those essays from MIT under the title "Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening
Gown". Proof that some geeks both have a sense of humor and can write.
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