Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-15-18 16:20 <=-

This was a recipe I was going to send to Ruth, but
I found a nonalcoholic one that was almost (not
quite) as relevant to the message of the moment.
So you get it. It's likely that you and I would be
the only echo members who would enjoy this anyhow.
Lung and loin Bourguignonne

You mean, because of the lung...? ;)

Yeah - you've been here for years, didn't you
loin anything about us?

Perhaps a bit... ;)

Not sure that I agree with the hypothesis in the first place... but the tendency to make snap judgements does seem to be hard-wired at times...

The appeal of that hypothesis is in its providing an
explanation for our tendency to careless thinking.

There are simpler explanations... such as in Genesis 3... :)

I know you had to bring that up, but let's not
go any farther along that line.

I wasn't planning to go farther, but, yes, I had to bring that up.. :)

close to 200 lines.... I find that a bit unwieldy... I have my Bluewave set to not cut messages short, actually... and have advised others about that setting... ;)

The limitation had real usefulness in the days of
sysops paying long-distance phone bills.

Also there were some bbs softwares (and messaging softwares, I think)
that just chopped off anything past a certain length, so a lot could go missing....

Which would have made a lot of sense in those
days of more pricy communication.

I was given to understand that it was somewhat a flaw in the software,
not intentional...

Now, it's
mostly to forestall the infinite quoting phenomenon,
something that irritates the heck out of me - iPhones
seem to default to that wasteful and annoying condition.

I'm glad that with EMACS and BW, I don't have to worry about not being
able to trim down quotes... the editor that comes with Pegasus (my email reader) isn't quite so user-friendly, at least for me... I've been known
to not quote at all there, just because all I wanted to respond to was a smaller bit I couldn't crop down to...

Whatever works. There should be a way within
your reader, though.

It requires much more proficiency with pointing devices and their magic
spells as opposed to the keyboard magic spells I can handle just fine...

True... the "names will never hurt me" fallacy...

Remember that that was chanted by the victims in
a sort of self-protective ritual. If I'd been
doing the taunting, I'd have sneered "so that's
the way you want it, you got it."

As I said... a fallacy.... I was never a taunter, sometimes a victim,
often an observer... it was readily obvious that names did hurt...
despite the protective chant....

I was seldom if ever the taunter unless taunted upon
first. As far as being the victim, sure, that
happened, but much more seldom as time went on, as
I learned that fighting back (in whatever way) was
satisfying, even if, as more frequently happened, I
unjustly got the blame for the incitation.

I didn't exactly fight back, but in time, there was much less being a
victim, mostly from learning how to diffuse situations... also I did
stand up for other victims, even if quietly....

Smelling the sausage. Eating it would be going
to successful concerts by the beneficiaries of
the aid and guidance.

Those often follow the interview, as on-the-air performance... for example, on Julia Figueras's Backstage Pass monthly program on
WXXI-FM... occasionally she's highlighting such enterprises locally. :)

And I hope the kids really are good.

They seem to be, from the performances I've heard... of course, it's
radio so one can't view the performance... :)

We've recently gone from audio preliminary auditions
to video ones, and I hate it.

With the video auditions one can see annoying traits one might have been
more blssfully unaware of otherwise...?

ttyl neb

... Reboot: What you do to the computer after the first kick fails

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