congratulations!
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| Author | Content |
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| mbaehrlxer Apr 07, 2014 3:41 AM EDT |
let me be the first to congratulate from over here in china! greetings, eMBee. |
| theboomboomcars Apr 07, 2014 11:10 AM EDT |
Congratualtions. |
| jdixon Apr 07, 2014 11:18 AM EDT |
I hope he has some idea of what he's gotten himself into. :) Good luck, Tony. You're going to need it dealing with myself and the assorted cast of characters here. |
| penguinist Apr 07, 2014 11:25 AM EDT |
LXer made a good choice. Congratulations on your new position! |
| tuxchick Apr 07, 2014 3:29 PM EDT |
Congratulations, Tony! You will do a great job! |
| Ridcully Apr 07, 2014 5:27 PM EDT |
Thanks everybody. I'm finding it "unusual ?" to deal with the warmth and friendship that is coming my way over this announcement - not that I don't appreciate it, but it's very unexpected. I'll do my best and you can occasionally kick my shins as necessary please - that's what friends are for - correction and help without offence intended. And I am very pleased and proud to be part of the best (in my opinion anyway) Linux website on the internet. For content, interest, friendship and discussion, it's tops. Sorry to say this Jdixon, but if you are typical of the "assorted cast of characters" I'm in for a great time. Thankyou all again. Tony :-) |
| tuxchick Apr 07, 2014 10:47 PM EDT |
We'll roast you later. Enjoy the warmth while it lasts. |
| Ridcully Apr 08, 2014 4:20 AM EDT |
Tuxchick.....I am surprised, mentally damaged, psychologically distoibed, "rooned", my fragile psyche has just been irretrievably shattered.......and those words came from a fellow editor.......oh deary me. I take heart in the fact that as "Tuxchick" your pseudonym indicates you will be very averse to roasting feathered brethren.....So, I shall make like a chicken: "Cheep, cheep, cheep......." :-) PS......it just struck me, many people will have probably read my little screed on the "Team" heading for LXer and possibly wondered about my involvement in the world of fungi. I can help here because the first of my articles for the Qld Mycological Society have just hit their website and you can scroll down and see three images of the lovely fungal species I am currently researching. http://qldfungi.org.au/resources-2/fungi-keys/ramaria |
| tuxchick Apr 08, 2014 12:56 PM EDT |
They look like seaweed! |
| Ridcully Apr 08, 2014 2:03 PM EDT |
Well, their common name really is "coral fungi".....but only because they resemble the branched structures of coral. They normally grow in association/partnership with the roots of trees and help the tree absorb soil nutrients. What you are looking at is the "fruit" of the fungus. All of which has nothing to do with Linux, unless you are typing it all up on a Linux OS and OpenOffice.......which I am. |
| gus3 Apr 08, 2014 3:30 PM EDT |
Sigh, you young people have it so easy. In my day I had to use "vi." Good on ya, mate. |
| skelband Apr 08, 2014 3:41 PM EDT |
Good to have another outspoken commentator on the payroll so-to-speak. Congrats! |
| Francy Apr 08, 2014 8:16 PM EDT |
>>>Sigh, you young people have it so easy. In my day I had to use "vi." In my day, I had to use a type writer :;-) |
| Ridcully Apr 08, 2014 9:03 PM EDT |
Funny you should say that Francy, my Bachelor of Letters thesis had to be done on an electronic typewriter because it had the formatting I needed.........and I had to pay to get it done........Modern wordprocessors are sheer bliss compared to those old tick, tick, tick.......end of line, return carriage -rattle shoooosh thump.........tick, tick, tick........and I left the blasted carbon paper out......start all over again !!! :-) And the Pressure you had to use on the keys.......RSI candidates here we came. |
| Francy Apr 09, 2014 1:24 AM EDT |
comment removed :-) |
| Ridcully Apr 09, 2014 6:31 AM EDT |
I looked at the above and thought of one more thing.......today, we just photocopy, but in yesteryear we got multiple copies a very different way.........Can anyone here remember the sheer "joy?" of cutting a stencil with an old fashioned typewriter......and the red correction fluid and the duplicator and the black ink that went ALL over everything.........gimme a word processor, a scanner and a modern printer any day.......... |
| patrokov Apr 09, 2014 7:57 AM EDT |
Or the denatured alcohol smell of a barely readable mimeograph? |
| CFWhitman Apr 09, 2014 9:14 AM EDT |
Purple ink? |
| mbaehrlxer Apr 10, 2014 7:51 PM EDT |
gus3: for typing i'd choose vi over libreoffice or any other office product any day. greetings, eMBee. |
| gus3 Apr 11, 2014 3:34 PM EDT |
@mbaehrlxer: The right tool for the job. vi (or NEdit) for code, LibreOffice for letters via post, and MPlayer/RaspBMC for the background noise. ;-) |
| Koriel Apr 12, 2014 3:57 PM EDT |
Im late to the show as usual, been busy, but my belated congrats to the old Wizard. |
| Ridcully Apr 12, 2014 5:08 PM EDT |
Thanks Koriel.......the true owner of my pen-name looks after Unseen University of Magic. He's obstinate, difficult, and cultivates a "clean desk" office by using all his paperwork as fuel for his study fire. Oh, and when he finally latches onto a concept, he's as single minded as a direction locked steam roller. He was irresistible as a pseudonym, because I'm never obstinate, difficult, stubborn.......oh nooooo. Hmm. I'll check with my better half. :-) |
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