Yet another reminder that being circumspect is often a good thing.
Him: have you seen http://www.theregister.co.uk/?
Ovid: yes.
Him: what did you think of it?
Ovid: I like the stories but the interface is really ugly.
Him: Really? I designed that interface.
Sigh.
The Reg's banner itself is kind of classy, but the headline layout is odd and quirky at best. I'm sure their advertisers like the brassy-ness of the ad borders, but it just makes it easier for me to ignore them. Althought the flow-around the central display add on stories is annoying. And to headlines DE-emphasized on a roll-over is just WRONG.
I wrote "The One with the Fountainhead" which is a Friends' episode that parodies the book "The fountainhead by Ayn Rand". Now, one day I came to an Israeli Group of Linux Users meeting, and met there a girl whom I only knew from the Internet until then.
We started talking and then she mentioned that she encountered a parody of the Fountainhead in her web-crawling. I asked her "Oh! Modelled around a Friends episode?" and she said "Yes! It was one of the most horrid things I read recently.".
So I told her without a lot of thinking "Well, I wrote it.". As it turns out she has neither read the Fountainhead nor watched any Friends episode. Most of the people who have read it afterwards liked what I wrote, and someone even liked it without having watched Friends first.
Just so the girl in question won't be in an entirely bad light, she's really a smart person, we've become good friends, and she's also a Linux chixor, which is also cool. She did like other stories I wrote better, and she also ended up reading a lot of stuff by Ayn Rand.
In any case, these things happen. A person should be honest and sincere, and not always try not to say things that may offend the other person. BTW, how do you like the UK so far?
Re:Turnabout..
Ovid on 2006-07-18T08:05:07
Oh, yes. I got an earful. Of course, it also makes perfect sense how they shot themselves in the foot over that, but it's possible I heard a bit more about their internal working than I should. Let's just say that if you're going to use Bricolage, you will not save money with the cheapest bidder.
Re:Turnabout..
jesse on 2006-07-18T14:46:35
You rarely do.
