LinuxWorld 2008: Thoughts and Pictures

Well, we yet have to see any pictures of you actually being there... For all we know you simply offered herzeleid a hundred bucks for his pictures and you're drinking away the rest of your budget in a cocktail bar in downtown Phoenix ;-D

Quoting:and you're drinking away the rest of your budget in a cocktail bar in downtown Phoenix ;-D

Hey now! I am drinking away what's left of my budget in a bar in downtown San Francisco mind you. :-P

You suspect him of hanging out in downtown phoenix?

Hmm.. Phoenix: 112 degrees. San Francisco: 68 degrees. I don't think so.

But seriously folks, I've been looking for Scott and I've had absolutely no luck. And to top it off, the pictures he posted look suspiciously like some of the very images I emailed him this afternoon. What's up with that?

> As in, they mocked you?

They were not disrespectful of me, but they gave the strong impression that they hold their noses at any distro other than their own redhat clone. I've run a lot of distros and I'm here to tell you ubuntu does a fine job as a server. I told them the market would eventually have them singing a different tune.

Quoting:So, does everyone believe that I am actually in San Fran and have attended LinuxWorld?

Not I! Everyone should know you are a card carrying Moonie, right now siting on that gray silt sipping super cooled beer through a straw. While wheeling your machine by remote control in S.F. at the AshCan summit. Give me a break, i know you are on the same set they used to film the phony NASA moon landing.

Your damn robot cannot even take steady pictures. I guess it's getting too lubricated on the free oil.

You can't fool me that easily this time ... by the way when are you going to visit me on Mars at the studio down the hall?

Txt.

P.S. Next you will be telling everyone that ice like substance was water on Mars. Well,everyone knows it dry ice and the erosion seen was caused by bursting forth of carbon dioxide as a critical state liquid that carved up the landscape with violent rapidity that then quickly vaporized. Mars is young as the Earth. It says so in the new text I am writing. You will see.

Well.... a friend of a colleague mentioned that there WAS a sighting of you at LinuxWorld. You were checking out the Installfest for Schools area in the back of the Exhibits floor, and one of the other volunteers apparently greeted you as a "Mr. Ruecker" or "Dr. Ruecker" (LOL). SJVN was also spotted in this same area of the floor, which is itself near the heavily-visited LUGs and .org areas.

Steven and I met in the media area just off the floor, very cool guy, I asked him about leaving ziff-davis ans stuff. I will take pictures of my self to ensure proof of my attendance. I will be wearing a dark green backpack, and I will be in the .org pavillion and install fest for most of my time on the floor.

Quoting:I asked him about leaving ziff-davis ans stuff

So, LXer has the scoop? Or can't you publish it? :-)

Its not something I would want too. It would be seen as nothing but the throwing of dirt and I will not soil LXer's reputation, whatever reputation we may have, for that or any story like it. Ok ok ok, I'll tell.

To put it in a sentence..

Ziff wanted to make their bottom line look better so they got rid of all their senior writers and hired newbies. As told to me by SJVN.

Makes sense to me, if you want to immediately become irrelevant and not be taken seriously, at least less than you already were, you do just what they did...idiots.

By the way,

I am on my way to Mel's Diner (just west of the Moscone Center) for some breakfast, I will be wearing a Los Angeles Fire Dept. t-shirt if you are there. Then its back to the PickWick Hotel to get ready..

Proof? Proof? Huh? Huh? LOL!!!!!!!!!

Heh. No wonder the stories at DesktopLinux and other sites are so bad these days. That said, I see SJVN's name around in quite a few other webzines these days. I don't imagine he's much worse off than he was with Ziff.

Quoting: Ziff wanted to make their bottom line look better so they got rid of all their senior writers and hired newbies

Typical spin- I happen to know a pig was involved.

Now, now, TC, that's no way to talk about the owners...

LOL

He didn't complain about any bread being taken off of his table. He has always had options when it comes to who he writes for.

Herzeleid said: They sneered . . .

Funny, they sneered at me, too. And all I asked them for was a bag. I think that's the Oracle way.

I-see-A,

What kind of bag? The kind airlines give out when you feel air sickness coming on? That's the opinion bag thrown at them repeatedly by drive by shooters that are reluctant to risk a capital charge. You would sneer too if that's the respect you got from those at the lofty echelons of the corporate hierarchy to the lowest level of inept users. It that's the regard you had, you too would sneer.

Just maybe, the response might have differed if you inquired about an employment while you surreptitiously filched a bag or two. With Oracle that is the better approach. Had they caught you in the act, you might have been hired on the spot.

[Part of my creative writing assignment, no intention to sully Oracle's good name. Not meant to be libelous or to be otherwise legally actionable. All characters living or dead are purely imaginary, with the exception of the crooked airlines ... and as in all fiction not relating to real characters or events. Otherwise see my lawyer.]

Larry, it's your buddy Txt. with the highest of regards.

Txt --

Nope, not an air-sickness bag, but just a regular bag for materials and swag. You know the drill at Linux World: Park the fork lift outside, get bag(s) for the metric tons of swag hurled at you, return to forklift, go home. Repeat the following day. You'll never go shirtless again.

Really, look at how the post was addressed: I-see-A,

I prescribe an immediate mega dose of unseriousness pills, forthwith. While I am not a doctor, not even having played one in either a commercial or even in a soap, hence, I am barred from prescribing medication, I can legally, however, preface my name with a "Dr." in polite company. Nonetheless, I am bound not to prescribe therapeutic drugs not having taken the full treatment in a recognized medical school. However, I have taught medical students as part of their medical studies. Would that suffice to hasten your following my advice of getting an injection of humor into your vitreous? I sense you are in dire need.

Warning, any post seen under my byline where it is not noted to have serious tags is meant to be enjoyed for its implicit disconnect from culturally agreed upon reality. However, as I have posted elsewhere humor can plumb deeper truth than serious discourse, if done correctly.

Understood?

Your buddy Txt., just trying to get you to loosen up.

gus3,

You really use that stuff? Guess you got problems ... but that woman in the ad was nice to look at, thanks.

If there is anything I can do to help you through your troubles, just write.

Txt.