From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move etc/future-bug into etc/JOKES ?? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:25:09 +0100 Message-ID: <854pp5q94a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85mz2xqmvh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172762821 11915 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 15:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 16:26:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMnA1-0008Tv-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:25:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMnA2-0003Ij-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMn9e-00032q-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMn9d-00030v-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMn9d-00030i-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMn9b-0005yl-P4; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.29]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E26302836; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:25:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D4E279465; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:25:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-096-134.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.96.134]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8B3292B67; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:25:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A83EB1C4D3B2; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:25:09 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Thu\, 01 Mar 2007 13\:37\:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67139 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> >>> "Juanma Barranquero" writes: >>> >>>> On 3/1/07, Kim F. Storm wrote: >>>> >>>>> Come on ... it's a joke - and it belongs in JOKES. >>>> >>>> I agree with Glenn. It's funnier *because* it is not in JOKES. >>>> >>>> Juanma >>> >>> Still, it's been there since 1999, and I just noticed it yesterday. >>> How funny is that :-) >> >> It hasn't been there since 1999 until you noticed. > > Right! It's only been there since 2199, which probably explains > why I didn't notice it before. > > But the timestamp in the CVS log confused me. I guess the version > of CVS used to install the file has a --time-travel option too. You may find that fit for joking, but it just happens that I am a really hard case for reality, since my surroundings have a very high level of entropy and thus don't compress well. To add insult to injury, I have a very good memory. So I frequently know just what pile to pick apart right from the start, just to find that what I was looking for is _not_ there. Then I start looking in much less likely places (after all, Sherlock Holmes stated that after ruling out all plausible cases, one needs to turn to the implausible ones). Spending some time there gives reality the slack it needs to catch up, and of course the stuff had been where I looked first all the time, but not before I started looking elsewhere. I think that the reality bandwidth in my flat does not cut it, but then I don't know where to apply for an upgrade of the flat rate. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum