[TheForge] Re: The future is now

[Mike Spencer]

Schade <schade at acegroup.cc> wrote:

> Either way works for me. Some seem to have issues with yahoo.

I'm one of those.

> Don't really understand why.

Um, because it's not email.  You have to connect to Yahoo with a web
browser, enable cookies, enable javascript, use their cutesey graphic
interface to "navigate", look at their advertizing, follow their
rules, accept their way of organizing things.  In short, you have to
read what would otherwise be your email using their web designer's
concept of what the generic Consumer will like.

If you normally use gmail, manage your email with a webmail service or
use some similar interface, Yahoo will seem unremarkable. But if
you're a cranky old geezer who thinks that mail is mail and web is web
and never the twain shall meet, then using Yahoo lists is like trying
to live your life in Disney Village.  It's Potemkin Email.  It's like
living in a Winnebago, one that belongs to your mother-in-law.  With
your mother-in-law in residence.  It's like....

Jeez, Bob, don't get me started or I'll get into a rant and tell you
what *really* think. :-)

YADATROT [1]

Well, look at it like this: Nearly all blacksmiths are forever
modifying and customizing their tools and workstations. Fiddle with
anvil height, shape hammer handles, position vise just so, tool rack
2" further over that way, shape favorite hammer face just so, special
tool to make bends *my* way etc. etc.  This is isn't a matter of
Fredrick Taylor's kind of "efficiency", this is idiosyncrasy in
action, this is "cranky" with bells on.  When such a blacksmith turns
to the computer, why would (s)he willingly forfeit h{is,er}
determination to treat the computer the same way as the forging space?

My 12 cents worth. ( $0.02 after inflation, you know? A cup of coffee
was fifteen cents the year I bought my first anvil.)

- Mike


[1] Yet Another Desperate Attempt To Remain On Topic


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