Author: Graham Laight
Date: 02:23:58 07/26/00
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On July 25, 2000 at 20:30:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: <snip> >My position regarding DB is that it came to the party, ate all of the best food, >drank all of the alcohol, and left. It was not much of a conversationalist, and >it has made it clear that it will speak to nobody, and I'm not happy about this >display of bad manners. Remember that they put the good food and alcohol on the table in the first place! >I'm not going to dig through its garbage hoping to understand more about it from >reading its shopping lists. > >I am not interested in speculating about the tiny bit of evidence that exists, >so as far as I'm concerned the thing doesn't exist and isn't worth talking >about, certainly as long as they snub our field while taking its honors. The >project is not science and it's not competition, it was just a well-financed PR >gimmick, and that's shit and I'm not going to let it mess up my life. > I'm afraid this comes across as bordering on the embittered. If I may presume to offer advice, beware of attitude decline with age - this may just be what happened to Chris Whittington. This phenomenon is discussed in the book "The Attitude Factor" by Tom Blakeslee. I personally feel that my attitude has steadily improved since I read the book, about 2-3 years ago. -g
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