> On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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>> I owe Matthias an apology for the tone of my response (first couple of
>>> lines) below. I think I misread his first line, in which he is (I now
>>> think)
>>> calling his point an "irrelevant nitpick", which I somehow read as his
>>> description of my message. As my son says, I made a mistake, not do it
>>> again.
>>>
>>
>> Whoah, blast from the past! I don't remember being particularly offended.
>> Given the medium these sorts of misunderstandings are inevitable.
>>
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> It takes me about two weeks to admit a mistake ;-). Not really -- its
> usually 20 years, but in this case, I was cleaning up my mailbox and came
> across my response and figured I may not be around 20 years from now. ;-)
Well, as any science reporter could tell you, that's just evolution in action. Do you know how long women on the ancient veldt went between checking their email?