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Subject: Re: Tiger against Deep Blue Junior: what really happened.

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:

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>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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