Tux

...making Linux just a little more fun!

On laws and cautions

Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxmafia.com]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:34:42 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

> 
> Ben's already been through the Phil Hughes crapfest, so he probably
> already figured out that there's probably no further damage in the
> present case other than noise.

Yeah, that kind of thing tends to give you a bit of armor, or at least a sense of amusement (or possibly boredom, after a while) when some slavering net.freakjob starts threatening and attacking you. I've also recently learned - and I'm not sure that the lesson has quite sunk in, so at some point, the Universe will teach it to me harder - to set a clock on the idiots. They can continue their blithering as long as I find it amusing; after that point, they get told "your nickel has run out. Behave, or get shut off - NOW."

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


Top    Back


Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:54:22 +0100

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 04:34:42PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > 
> > Ben's already been through the Phil Hughes crapfest, so he probably
> > already figured out that there's probably no further damage in the
> > present case other than noise.
> 
> Yeah, that kind of thing tends to give you a bit of armor, or at least a
> sense of amusement (or possibly boredom, after a while) when some
> slavering net.freakjob starts threatening and attacking you. I've also
> recently learned - and I'm not sure that the lesson has quite sunk in,
> so at some point, the Universe will teach it to me harder - to set a
> clock on the idiots. They can continue their blithering as long as I
> find it amusing; after that point, they get told "your nickel has run
> out. Behave, or get shut off - NOW."

I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing rapidly.

I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.

-- 
Steve


Top    Back


Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:00:40 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:

> 
> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> rapidly.
> 
> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.

Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to contemplate. :)

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


Top    Back


Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:12:16 +0100

2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
>>
>> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
>> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
>> rapidly.
>>
>> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
>
> Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> contemplate. :)

Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some appeal, surely? :)

-- Thomas Adam


Top    Back


Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:34:00 +0100

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> >> rapidly.
> >>
> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
> >
> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> > contemplate. :)
> 
> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
> appeal, surely?  :)

I'd be happy if I could just touch my toes again. Mind you, I'd also be happy if I could see them whilst standing again. I have to lean so far forward now that I'd fall over if I didn't hold on to something ;-)

-- 
Steve


Top    Back


Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:33:54 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> >> rapidly.
> >>
> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
> >
> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> > contemplate. :)
> 
> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
> appeal, surely?  :)

r!dict cankerous
 
2 definitions found
 
 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
 
  Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a.
     Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." --Thomson.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Misdeem it not a cankerous change.       --Wordsworth.
     [1913 Webster]
 
 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
 
  cankerous
      adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
             {ulcerous}]

:)

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


Top    Back


Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:37:53 +0100

2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
>> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
>> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
>> >> rapidly.
>> >>
>> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
>> >
>> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
>> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
>> > contemplate. :)
>>
>> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
>> appeal, surely?  :)
>
> ```
> r!dict cankerous
>
> 2 definitions found
>
> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
>
>  Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a.
>     Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." --Thomson.
>     [1913 Webster]
>
>           Misdeem it not a cankerous change.       --Wordsworth.
>     [1913 Webster]
>
> From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
>
>  cankerous
>      adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
>             {ulcerous}]
> '''
>
> :)

Uh-huh, but I was being even more crafty:

can-keros

:)

-- Thomas Adam


Top    Back


Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:34:21 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:37:53PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> >
> > ```
> > From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
> >
> >  cankerous
> >      adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
> >             {ulcerous}]
> > '''
> >
> > :)
> 
> Uh-huh, but I was being even more crafty:
> 
> can-keros
> 
> :)

Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your head, I don't know which. :) Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds "P.U."? :)

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


Top    Back


Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]


Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:32:11 +0100

2009/9/12 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:

> Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your
> head, I don't know which. :) Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds
> "P.U."?  :)

Ha -- I thought most Americans would get this instantly, didn't they teach you at school to filter out English words with "u" in them? :)

-- Thomas Adam


Top    Back


Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:34:09 -0500

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 06:32:11PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

> 2009/9/12 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> > Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your
> > head, I don't know which. :) Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds
> > "P.U."?  :)
> 
> Ha -- I thought most Americans would get this instantly, didn't they
> teach you at school to filter out English words with "u" in them?  :)

Nope; I missed the early indoctrination. You have to remember: I'm a dam' furriner, and didn't start learning English until my teen years. That's what makes me so dangerous: I don't even filter the fnords. :)

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


Top    Back


Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]


Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:28:12 +0100

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:00:40PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> > 
> > I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> > wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> > rapidly.
> > 
> > I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
> 
> Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> contemplate. :)

Oh bugger - here comes senility already - unfashionably early.


Top    Back