warrior geeks
Garry Hodgson
garry at sage.att.com
Mon Mar 26 14:37:21 EST 2001
Tim Churches wrote:
> I'll use our time zone advantage to jump in early on this thread and
> opine that it is way off-topic. Not that I am opposed to
> marital...whoops...martial arts (although they are not my cup of tea),
> but I am concerned that if this threads continues, sooner or later
> someone will mention the whole "Geeks with Guns" thing that Eric S.
> Raymond promotes (see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/geeks-with-guns/ or for
> even worse IMHO see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/ ), especially given
> ESR's apparent fondness for Python. That sort of thing gives me a fit of
> the shudders (playing with guns, not ESR's fondness for Python). I would
> have thought that if male hackers were looking for a hobby which
> involves phallic-shaped objects and chemically-propelled projectiles,
> then model rocketry would be just the ticket.
>
> There, that should put an immediate end to this very off-topic thread...
sounds to me like you just created one.
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