<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:04 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
[me drifting a bit off topic below, which I'll have to keep an eye on]<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> [as am I, so I'll keep this brief :p] <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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But then I played back what I'd been seeing ever since 2006 in the<br>
theatre of my mind, and I realised that every front yard except mine had<br>
a similar look, and that absolutely -everyone- with the sole exception<br>
of me _hired out_ to a gardening service. Friggin' weird. Startling.<br>
And it somehow hadn't occurred to me that I was out of step, because, in<br>
my mind, if you own a house in the suburbs and it needs yard work,<br>
_obviously_ it has to be taken care of by you or others in your<br>
household, because that's The Way Things Are Always Done. ...</blockquote><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Weird. A bit unsettling.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I ran into the same phenomenon when I visited the San Fernando Valley</div><div>town of my youth about 20+ years ago. All houses' front yards also had the <br></div><div>same identical look and some houses had a sign on the front saying</div><div>"Patrolled by <insert company name here> Security." I felt like I was in</div><div>a ST:TOS parallel universe. :p<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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[CCSF LUG goes 'pfft!':]<br>
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Stuff happens. The pres. of CCSF LUG, I'm sure had her own problems,<br>
and she knew of no special reason to listen to my advice. So, that<br>
happened. I didn't feel _entitled_ to be listened to, so it was less<br>
frustrating-as-such than 'Oh well, sorry to see it go.'<br>
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Maybe I should have been clutching a clipboard. People with clipboards<br>
have automatic authority, don't they? ;-><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Especially if you talk like an "authority." :-) Doesn't really matter what subject,</div><div>just sound like you know what you're talking about or as the old saying goes: <br></div><div>"If you can't impress them with knowledge, baffle 'em with BS." :p Ah well. Perhaps<br></div><div>someone someday will resurrect the CCSF LUG.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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[Noisebridge:]<br>
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Gotta love the geek mentality, eh? All problems can be solved with<br>
sufficient documentation. The transcendant optimism of this world-view<br>
is almost inspiring, even at the same time as it being completely<br>
delusional.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well as an ex-tech writer, I was quite impressed with the concise manner</div><div>in which the subject matter was explained and the beautifully drawn diagram</div><div>to go with it. I should point out there seems to be much documentation</div><div> that also appears delusional, but I digress.</div><div><br></div><div>-th<br></div></div></div>