RocketMan, CobaltBlue, (ahhaha, and All,)
The two of you two have tags that sound as though you were on opposing teams in a SciFi flick... I feel out of place here. For more reasons than one, but by no means for the reasons that CobaltBlue cites:
>>at least you never say anything to him like "Can't you read?" <<
OH YEAH? You would think so, eh?
ahhaha tries to kick my butt in PMs at times. More often than not, when we're discussing other matters of the abstract. You think you're having fun here?
I suppose that by the time we get it on here, and over in the Silk Road Thread, he's feeling all guilt-ed out already. The gods are good that way.
Let me see, thus far I don't know my American History, I should go back and do a focused take on the turn of the century in order to understand the new economics[!] ; my objectivity and non-committal behavior as a consultant is a sign of a dis-jointed state of mind; I simply don't understand anything that I have an opinion on; and then some. Just writing this down now makes me laugh my ass off. Not surprisingly, the observations he makes always have at least a whisper of truth in them, for it is ahhaha who is extremely cautious in that he never lets himself into a situation where he is totally and absolutely wrong about anything, despite the manner in which he presents.
I liken his writings at times to tomes of sage, and at other times, they are shenanigans that are put on like legitimate, clinical role playing. The latter is a tool that I am entirely familiar with, and perhaps for that reason I welcome it for its therapeutic and mental fitness aspects. Leveraged properly, it can be made to work both ways.
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In another venue, I once had a two-year-running thread going between myself and several other folks from the industry. Consultants, an engineer from Antec, one of my WAN editors, and some industry writers... but principally between myself and one Brad Buxton from a partnering firm of ours in Salt Lake City.
The name of the thread in question was Total National Bandwidth or TNB, and covered everything from emerging WDMs of the time, to VON/VoIP (which at the time was called I-Phone), to cable-caphony [smile], to submarine fiber placement, to the buying and selling of bandwidth futures on the commodities exchanges.
What a ball we had predicting the future very, very accurately from two and three years back. We still discuss the thread at times, when either of us feels the need coming on for congratulatory relief.
[For a taste of the flavor ot that time, go to:
applied-research.com
The positions in the above article were altered so that Brad would come out on the winning sides of each argument, naturally. He knows it, and I've told him about it.]
Well, Brad's firm actually became a partner of ours AFTER the TNB thread died down, but while it lasted, only he and I, and our spouses knew that it was only a put on.
Others came from near and far on Compuserve to witness the daily thrashings and the cantankerous behavior we displayed. Some actually thought that we were on the brink of legal actions against each other. The other sysops in the forum didn't even know what was going on, and they occasionally stepped in to attempt to quell things. But just like in any good WWF wrestling match, we threw them out of the ring, as well.
Gradually, members of the board caught on that it was just an act, one that bore plenty of substance in its kernel (or, as ahhaha once told me, "Inside of my humor there is always the marrow of the bone of contention."), they tuned in daily anyway, to what became known as the Frank and Brad TNB Show.
So, what does this have to do with the price of an ISP dialup port in Uruguay? Probably nothing, except that I became immune to this manner of presentation and dialog a long time ago. Another thing that this points out to me is that if I ever showed up here using the persona that I used then, most of the folks who I am accustomed to speaking with here would probably think that someone else was using my login privileges.
ahhaha's having a grand old time here, while educating us, and dishing it out at the same time. But no one should have any doubts that he too is getting just the same level of education, if not more through his perverse means of analysis, as he portends to be delivering, and he would be the first to inform you of that, if you only asked him.
I wont betray his philosophical views concerning his writing motif by quoting him directly from any email or such, but in effect I infer that his position is this, By behaving the way he does it aids him in staying in shape mentally, and this give and take on his terms aids him in learning how to cope with issues that demonstrate heavy swings due to dynamic and erratic growth patterns. It helps him, in other words, cope with the chaos that is all about us.
We all have carefully sculpted personas to carry forward, the ones we came into any venue with and cultivated anew. This is especially easy for those of you who use aliases. Not so easy for those of us who don't, but if the populated areas we visit are far enough from one another... I think you know how that works.
And we carry those personalities forward. Lest we develop a different personality for each of the threads we visit. Now, if we did that, then that would really be like presenting a sign of a disjointed state of mind. And I couldn't do that, because that would only prove ahhaha right.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
