Twisted

[Jack Diederich]

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:47:20PM +1000, Tim Churches wrote:
> David Mertz wrote:
> > I suppose I'm pretty guilty of the same sin.  I've never used an IRC,
> so
> > no sinfulness on that channel.  But if you check the history of my
> posts
> > to this group, I'm sure it shows a disproportionate number of plugs
> for
> > my own software or articles as a solution to discussed problems (and
> not
> > so many suggestions for other developers quite excellent libraries).
> 
> Sackcloth and ashes[1], David. Henceforth you should only ever use the
> third person when referring to yourself or your work. Furthermore, you
> should ask your colleague, Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters, to write your IBM
> DeveloperWorks articles for you, in order to avoid further such
> self-accusation. Besides, we are familiar with your mug shot (at the
> foot of each DeveloperWorks article), but we really want to see what
> Lulu looks like.

Mertz's mugshot is quite prominent on the IBM pages (those who question
his python bonifides stand justified - note the lack of mustache[1]).
re: "Lulu" I interacted (via email) with both Mertz and Lulu[2] many times
and very differently before I noticed they shared an email address.

-jack

[1] google for the video "introducing pyhthon" to see mugs of your favorites.
    Strangely Guido is the lone bare-faced man.  And ESR rivals Stallman for 
    his "is this the early seventies?" look.

[2] I don't know David personally, but I come from the land where you call
    men by their last names until they do something notorious enough to
    warrant a nickname.  Or as Lulu might say, "the patriarchy"

nb, I started two sentances in the footnotes with conjuctions and I don't care.