Xander ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
This conversation made me start clicking through the BRQG, and I found this:
DavidS: Now, if you'd read my book you'd know that was a song written by a gay, alcoholic dwarf for a dim and lumpy rentboy.
and I must know, what song was this in reference to?
The song in question is "My Funny Valentine."
Oooh, another choice bit from Clay Shirky:
We had every bit of technology we needed to do weblogs the day Mosaic launched the first forms-capable browser. Every single piece of it was right there. Instead, we got Geocities. Why did we get Geocities and not weblogs? We didn't know what we were doing.
One was a bad idea, the other turns out to be a really good idea. It took a long time to figure out that people talking to one another, instead of simply uploading badly-scanned photos of their cats, would be a useful pattern.
I browsed through some of the bureau threads but so much was referring to things going on in other threads that it was very confusing. Seems like all y'all have really mellowed. But I think you've been allowed to mellow, for all of the reasons Hec and that article discuss. I guess we are always better with a bit of structure, and confidence that asses can generally (and formally) be shown the door.
Huh. I'm taller than Lorenz Hart.
Thanks ita. My memory was just that he instigated a group huff-off. I repressed all the acrimony.
Btw, Ple, you were #14 in the Go14.
I just found that post. (I was #9.)
eta: Burrell you were 16.
Where is the post?
Heh. I do like this post of mine (which turned out to be prescient too).
DavidS "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 12, 2003 9:36:21 pm PST
Man, I was democratic:
Again, my biggest impulse is to try things out and see what works. I am less interested now in my own opinion, and much more interested in what the vote will tell us about the community's opinion. That's what I want. Not my way, but the way that works for the most people.
Btw, Ple, you were #14 in the Go14.
Not exactly, Ple had been going off a former count provided by DX. I suspect it didn't cover exactly the same range of posts that John H's count did. Oh, and I'd be pretty tickled if it were posting about the Gang of 14 that promoted Ple into the Gang of 14.