From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making sure I'm not checking email (or doing other things) too often
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:56:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si0tjwvq.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: diet5dFa75sU1@mid.individual.net
Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> writes:
>> But OTOH, engineers are cooler than pure
>> mathematicians in one respect: they (sometimes)
>> come up with solutions - sometimes ugly, sometimes
>> stupid - to /real world problems/. Hard to
>> beat that.
>
> Bah. Real world is overrated.
Dig a hole, remove all the reed, make a wall with
stones and clay, then raise a palisade and fill the
hole with water and watch the birds come.
After doing that two weeks, tell me if you feel
a pressing need to stare into a monitor and
push buttons!
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-14 21:05 Making sure I'm not checking email (or doing other things) too often Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-15 1:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-15 15:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-15 16:32 ` tomas
2016-02-16 0:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-16 7:38 ` tomas
2016-02-17 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-16 0:37 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.4745.1455549737.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-15 21:10 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-16 0:56 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-02-17 13:42 ` Rusi
2016-02-18 0:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-15 14:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-15 14:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-15 15:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-15 15:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 13:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 13:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 13:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-06 13:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-06 14:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 14:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
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