Subject: Re: MS Win32 CommonLisp From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 05:35:07 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3207879305891782@naggum.net> * Eric Moss <ericmoss@alltel.net> > I agree with you and all that, but you should spend your considerable > talent on people you can save. Some smart guy once said he wouldn't > waste his energy on someone whose opinion he didn't respect. I > respectfully (really!) suggest you do the same rather than elevating > your blood pressure. I think you should be less concerned with my blood pressure than your own. This is general advice to people who become concerned about other people and just have to believe that others feel certain ways. In general, they do _not_ feel the same way you do, and the closer you look the more you extrapolate, the less the match. Respecting this is a good start in trying to deal with the _ideas_ that some people try, largely in vain, sadly, to communicate to others, with humor, emotion, and rhetoric. > I read from your home URL that you can't tolerate incompetence. That's > ok, but might I suggest laughing at it, avoiding it and going on? So you failed to laugh at my reference to the Borg and all the other humurous references in my article. Perhaps this should be a strong hint that you are unable to read other people's emotions and should stick to try to figure out what they are _saying_? It is not my fault that you read what I write with a dead serious attitude. Perhaps this lightening up suggestion is better served closer to home? Generally, I am not interested in the particular _person_ I respond to. I have yet to figure out why people are so interested in mine, but I wish they would leave speculations, from my blood pressure to whatever else they have a huge desire to fantasize about, alone. ///