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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> It would be a nice to have, in my view. I do try to usually be supportive • of
> ideas, because nothing kills forward progress as much as premature cold
water.
Again, pardon my ignorance on the phrase 'cold water.' What does it mean?
> I'd say that it was a very ambitious and expensive project given your • level of
> internal resources to commit to it, and if there wasn't a groundswell of
> support for the project itself, or for your way of trying to get things • done,
> (there is a distinction there) letting it drop for now might be the right
> approach. If it is really a good thing to do an organization may • recoalesce at
> some future point when the time is right.
As far as organization goes, I have pretty much all the emails saved, a CD
copy of a lot of software, and a Zip disk with my work on it (organizational
and HTML/images from scratch). I was getting prepared to make another CD
and send it off to the next person, probably for cross-platform support.
> After you said you were dropping it, I thought of replying, but what would • I
> say? "Sorry to hear it?" Yes, I was, but that's null semantic content, • really.
> I can't take anything else on so I doubt that any other comment would be • all
> that useful.
Yeah.
> That explains why I didn't say anything anyway, can't speak for anyone • else.
> Not that I didn't care at all, just that there wasn't anything really to • say.
> Hope that helps.
Of course it helps. It was a bit of discouragement to me that 1) I had to
drop it, and 2) it seemed that no one cared that I had to drop it.
I might be able to pick it up sometime down the road, but then again, I
might not. With other things I've said I'm doing, plus trying to balance
current LCAD stuff into that (which I intend on working on soon, again, been
busy), and my habit of playing pool [1] :-) ...the CD is one of the things
that has to go. Unfortunately, for more than a year, my own personal site
has suffered a hit from busy-ness, and lack of motivation on my part. And I
won't deny that there has been a bit of overcommitment involved either -
yall know I'm enthusiastic :-)
Anyways, the CD is a Good Thing to have for LCAD and the AFOL community,
but, I can't do it right now. If someone else wants to, I'd like to have
some sort of a hand in it - probably along the lines of continuity with the
official site, and graphic layout (because I like that kinda thing).
[1] And more often than not kicking butt at it :D
Thanks Lar...
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| (...) Shorthand for "throwing cold water on X" where X could be any number of things... such as "ideas", "dogs in lust", etc. You often hear it as "I don't want to throw cold water on your idea, but..." followed by some reason why the speaker thinks (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) ROM, (...) in (...) It would be a nice to have, in my view. I do try to usually be supportive of ideas, because nothing kills forward progress as much as premature cold water. I'd say that it was a very ambitious and expensive project given (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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