Just wanted to thank you for being at Conflikt this weekend, and for taking the time to speak with me! I really appreciate it. :) It was my first filk con and I only knew Jeffrey and Jeri Lynn, and I was feeling pretty shy overall.
It was wonderful to watch and hear you play my Rover - thank you! :)
Relative StupidityharmonyheiferJanuary 28 2008, 09:29:26 UTC
It has been my personal experience that the most brilliant folk in the world can also do some of the stupidest things. I actually had to explain to Leonard Zubkoff once why he couldn't take the lid off the crock pot every half hour to taste his chili. My darling husband, who seems to be an emotional twin of yours, occasionally leaves me slack jawed with astonishment when I see him grinding to a total helpless halt over something I consider to be a no-brainer. Patrick and Leonard probably beat me by about 50 IQ points each, conservative estimate. The same goes for my lovely daughter, who was outwitting me by the time she was two. My theory is that some brains are so busy being brilliant, they just tend to skip over the more mundane stuff like how crock pots work or which way the underwear goes. It is the only explanation that really makes any sense to me
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I can't say I like macs myself much either. They've got some snazzy features, and are full of eye candy, but overall, I find the UI experience far inferior to a customized linux/X setup for me.
Re the case problem, why not distribute a loopback filesystem rather than a tarball for macs? Apparently, the mac will automount filesystem images when double-clicked in the finder -- so this would allow a case sensitive submount without repartitioning. Though this depends on whether an unencrypted, uncompressed loopback filesystem will be read-write on a mac.
That would work, but I'd also have to worry about the same brokenness on Windows, where it wouldn't. I really want to be able to tell somebody to unzip a file or check out a tree from version control and have it work.
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Just wanted to thank you for being at Conflikt this weekend, and for taking the time to speak with me! I really appreciate it. :) It was my first filk con and I only knew Jeffrey and Jeri Lynn, and I was feeling pretty shy overall.
It was wonderful to watch and hear you play my Rover - thank you! :)
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Re the case problem, why not distribute a loopback filesystem rather than a tarball for macs? Apparently, the mac will automount filesystem images when double-clicked in the finder -- so this would allow a case sensitive submount without repartitioning. Though this depends on whether an unencrypted, uncompressed loopback filesystem will be read-write on a mac.
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