godspeed, steve

[Christian Sciberras]

Just because no one deserves to die from cancer doesn't mean you can post
things around about it, especially in inappropriate places.





On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, <Bowerbird at aol.com> wrote:


> christian sciberras said:

> >   spam

>

> i'm guessing that you did not _intend_

> for that to sound quite that insensitive,

> so i'll choose not to interpret it that way.

>

> you probably were trying, in your own way,

> as clumsy as it may be, just to encourage me

> to "get back on-topic", which i would assume

> means to post about markdown, even though

> the so-called "inventor" of markdown, gruber,

> would be the first to tell you that if it wasn't for

> steve jobs, he'd likely be in another line of work.

>

> so i'd think your definition of "on-topic" is narrow.

>

> but nonetheless, fine.  i'd like a little recovery-time,

> so i won't discuss it right now, but i can point y'all to

> an interesting article, by joe hewitt, where he discusses

> how he uses markdown with dropbox to handle his blog.

>

> >   http://static.joehewitt.com/2011/10/03/dropbox-is-my-publish-button

>

> i will indeed want to discuss this article sometime later, so

> christian, if you want to go read it, and start the discussion,

> please feel free to contribute to the list in a meaningful way,

> instead of whining, so -- in contrast to death from cancer --

> nobody has to wonder if you are really that insensitive or not.

>

> -bowerbird

>

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