OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.

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On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 06:37:08PM -0400, John Esak, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> Well, I hope I change this thread a little to levity by just saying...

*shriek of horror followed by a mad litte cackle*

You said....you said...  The-Phrase-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named!

> once.  Usually I don't register EDGE on my own or my family's machines until
> that final dire warning, YOUR 60 days is up!  And yes, I have seen it 59
> times before. :-)   Okay, guilty, caught red-handed.  It actually is a funny
> comment on something about our inherent SysAdmin skills (or lack of them)
> that allows us to just put off until last the things which let us put them
> off until last. :-)  

Oh, I'm like the opposite that way.  There are products...I've gotten
demos of things that are fully functional for 14 or 30 days, and I just
know myself well enough to the point where I won't even download a demo
unless I know i can afford the product -immediately-.  Cos if I like what
I see, I have to own it.  I might know full well I have another 10 days or
25 days of trial left, but if I like something enough to get it, it bugs
me that I'm using a demo instead of My Own Version.  I was that way with
Camtasia Studio, FontCreator, a few Serif and CoffeeCup applications, and
some others.  I'm horrible about it.  Thankfully my wife is understanding
regarding my software addiction.

You know, it used to be just games, now it's branched off into
applications.  This is not a good sign!  Time to start a Softwareholics
Anonymous, methinks.

>  Like I say, just my bad... Oh God! Did I actually

*STUNNED GASP!*

At least you didn't go "OMG".  Small mercies...

You know, I spend a good amount of time (or have been outside the last
three weeks of illness that's drastically curtailed my gaming) playing
online with a bunch of people from the UK and Ireland, and even Australia.
I'm just appalled that even the Brits amongst them have started saying
it.  In fact, it's simply horrifying to me that some of the Brits I know
actually have some of the most abysmal English speaking skills I've seen in
recent times.  Totally shocking and dismaying.  Sometimes I'll see one of
my UK friends say something drastically outside the King's English, and it
feels like someone's digging my eyes out with a mouldy spork--a little
piece of me dies inside, every time.

I'll let you slide with "my bad" -this- time, John.  But next time...
*gets out ruler for knuckle-rapping*  And I went to a Catholic school for a
few years...I know how to do it -properly-!.  :)

But I draw the line at "LOL".  I mean...there have to be -some- standards!
(Sadly, I have dear friends who are afflicted by the rather nasty disease
of LOLipsism.  I'm thinking of starting a charitable foundation to search
for a cure and to offer therapy.)

> And as your conselation prize... If I ever say "my bad" again, you may slap
> me until I can't talk anymore...

You say it again, I may take you up on that.  :)

I think I've even said it once myself, to be perfectly honest.  And not in
quotes, either...  I actually slipped and -said- it.  Aloud.  In PUBLIC!
In front of people that KNEW ME!!!  Imagine my shame and dismay!  Do you
remember how Dobby the house elf in the second Harry Potter book/movie had
to punish himself after saying something he shouldn't?  Imagine I've ironed
my own hands. :)

Leviosa Topicum!

mark->
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