On fighting fire with fire...

[Robert Kern]

Asad Habib wrote:
> What, do you not consider yourself a professional?

Not really, no.

> Just because you are in
> academia does not justify attacking people on a mailing list and then
> justifying your attack with Harter's quote!

Uh, it was a joke. A self-denigrating joke. I was calling *myself* a 
"vagabond." I even had a smiley!

And the .sig quote has nothing to do with anything.

> Life is more than a quote -
> look outside your academic cocoon and you will realize what I mean.

Thank G-d my irony meter is under warranty.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter