[PD] Re: Sarcasm

[Kyle Klipowicz]

Yes, the reason that I thought IOhannes was funny wasn't because of
insult, but becaust he actually had a good point about how difficult
it can be to find the right object.  Some kind of keyword/tag-based
system would be nice for searching for those vague tools that you
can't quite recall the names of.

~Kyle

On 5/4/06, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> geiger wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Charles Henry wrote:
> >
> >> yes, that was pretty sarcastic... I think a sarcastic tutorial is a great idea.
> >> wait a minute...no one knows what I'm saying...what is this some kind of
> >> text based forum that can't encode inflections?
> >
> > The problem is that such a message has several interpretations, it might
> > be
> > - insulting (to the one who asked the question)
> > - funny
> > - express shortcomings in how pd works
> > - explain how to look for objects
> > - ...
> >
> > The list should be a place where questions can be asked without fearing
> > that someone makes fun of you in public, which was my interpretation of
> > the message.
>
> i definitely did not want to make fun of peter or anyone else. if he
> felt insulted, i feel sorry and apologize.
>
> what i did try was to encourage people (in general) to look out for
> built-in objects.
> ...
>
> and obviously i forgot puredatabase (most likely because this option for
> finding option lies somewhat within my responsibility):
> hmm, let's think: which object could do that? grabbing the
> keyboard...let's search the pdb..
> http://pd.iem.at/pdb/query.html?all=y&alb=y&qry=keyboard ... hmm, no
> object found;
>
> note to myself: put a HUGE error message on the pdb-website that it is
> out of order and doesn't find _any_ object.
>
>
>
> mfg.adr.
> IOhannes
>
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