My church's secretary is limping along with lousy ...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T10:38:00
My church's secretary is limping along with lousy IT practices, because we can't afford proprietary church management software and I haven't yet come through on my promise to her to evaluate, select, install. and train her in an open-source church management software package. If I knew of a good organization for Christian programmers, I'd join to get advice on that. Presumably they wouldn't mind if I popped over to ask.
The discussion threads do seem pretty this 'n that, but without somebody volunteering to crack the whip and shout "stay on topic!" (what a pain), that's what you get.
Pythonista conversations span the gamut from on-topic to huh?, too...
;-)+1
Paddy3118 · 2008-12-02T10:49:00
;-)
+1
I have no interest at all in worshipping anybody e...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T14:16:00
I have no interest at all in worshipping anybody else's imaginary friend, though I try (with varying degrees of success) not to make too much fun of other people's delusional belief systems.
Wow. You make a condescending, demeaning statement, and then say you're not attempting to ridicule someone's delusional belief system.
I salute both sides of your mouth sir. Well played.
BTW - I'm not particularly religious, but even I understand the equivocation between a child's imaginary friend and a religious person...
Politics and religion - two things I don't care to discuss but somehow they always crop up on "techincal" blogs. But yeah, it's your blog so if you wanna talk about Bigfoot, it's your business - I should just not read it :)
Steve,You'll probably be furious with me or just s...
Carl Trachte · 2008-12-02T15:33:00
Steve, You'll probably be furious with me or just shake your head. After reading your post, my only thought was, "Oh, cool, there's a computer programming group for fellow Catholics . . ." Once an Irish Catholic boy, always an Irish Catholic boy . . .
I have no meaningful contribution. I only wanted t...
Jeremy Cantrell · 2008-12-02T15:42:00
I have no meaningful contribution. I only wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this post!
Might it not be a tad bit harsh to actually link t...
Brandon Rhodes · 2008-12-02T17:03:00
Might it not be a tad bit harsh to actually link to someone's blogger profile when calling them delusional and shallow, and their organization schizoid? :-) I would have made readers go hunt down the comment, and its author, for themselves.
But, I suppose I have some sympathy for the fellow, since the word "Catholic" is clearly capitalized in your music preferences, and it goes against all standards of usage for you to have capitalized the word when not referring to the Church of Rome. Lower case is traditionally used when "catholic" is an adjective and not a proper noun.
If Blogger capitalizes all Favorite Music entries without allowing exceptions, then perhaps you could reword that entry to "Fairly catholic tastes" (or "Completely catholic tastes" if you really mean it), so that Catholics do not misunderstand that you are merely asserting catholicity without actually asserting Catholicity? :-)
Well... in point of fact, you capitalized "Catholi...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T18:28:00
Well... in point of fact, you capitalized "Catholic" in your profile while it was not a part of a complete sentence and therefore not clearly subject to the requirement that it be capitalized as the first word of a sentence, thereby introducing some possible measure of confusion about whether you meant "catholic" the wide-ranging or inclusive attitude vs. "Catholic" the proper noun name of the church.
So, perhaps the commenter out thought himself and you as well?
Maybe not -- but it was worth a shot.
@catherine: You're right about the topic variabili...
Steve · 2008-12-02T19:32:00
@catherine: You're right about the topic variability on c.l.py, but that's pretty much coincidental: nobody calls c.l.py "the place where Python programmers can discuss English grammar" (to mention one frequent OT subject). Catholicism and software engineering just seem so disconnected somehow (to me, at least).
@anonymous: "I salute both sides of your mouth sir. Well played." Thank you from both sides of my mouth. I am sorry you were forced to read my blog at gunpoint. And congratulations on summoning the courage to identify yourself; oh sorry, you didn't.
@infixum: Not at all furious: it's a free country. Happy you found out about it from my blog when you might not otherwise have discovered something of value. Enjoy.
@Brandon Craig Rhodes, @Anonymous: "Catholic" is capitalized in my profile for the same reason that "Consulting" is under "Interests": it's the first word of an entry. I was amused at Jon's presumption this referred to the religion, that's all. I doubted that the phrase "Catholic tastes", with or without an initial capital, was ever used to refer to anything expept the "general" meaning. Then Google led me to this. Now there's a guy who's risking hell fire and damnation ...
@Everyone: it's obvious from the post that I am not explicitly religious, and I do like to poke fun at people from time to time. I'm not going to discriminate against Christians by not poking fun at them too ...
Who should be next?
I'm an atheist but I'm considering converting to C...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T21:32:00
I'm an atheist but I'm considering converting to Catholicism in order to improve my coding. I've taken courses in C#, Python, Java, even Rails but I feel like something is missing from my code. Can Jesus help me? Do you have any advice?
@anonymous: this is way too important for a flip r...
Steve · 2008-12-03T01:41:00
@anonymous: this is way too important for a flip reply from a geek; I have passed your inquiry to my spiritual consultants, and will respond further if they have anything helpful to say. Otherwise, may the source be with you.
My church's secretary is limping along with lousy ...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T10:38:00
My church's secretary is limping along with lousy IT practices, because we can't afford proprietary church management software and I haven't yet come through on my promise to her to evaluate, select, install. and train her in an open-source church management software package. If I knew of a good organization for Christian programmers, I'd join to get advice on that. Presumably they wouldn't mind if I popped over to ask.The discussion threads do seem pretty this 'n that, but without somebody volunteering to crack the whip and shout "stay on topic!" (what a pain), that's what you get.
Pythonista conversations span the gamut from on-topic to huh?, too...
;-)+1
Paddy3118 · 2008-12-02T10:49:00
;-)+1
I have no interest at all in worshipping anybody e...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T14:16:00
I have no interest at all in worshipping anybody else's imaginary friend, though I try (with varying degrees of success) not to make too much fun of other people's delusional belief systems.Wow. You make a condescending, demeaning statement, and then say you're not attempting to ridicule someone's delusional belief system.
I salute both sides of your mouth sir. Well played.
BTW - I'm not particularly religious, but even I understand the equivocation between a child's imaginary friend and a religious person...
Politics and religion - two things I don't care to discuss but somehow they always crop up on "techincal" blogs. But yeah, it's your blog so if you wanna talk about Bigfoot, it's your business - I should just not read it :)
Steve,You'll probably be furious with me or just s...
Carl Trachte · 2008-12-02T15:33:00
Steve,You'll probably be furious with me or just shake your head. After reading your post, my only thought was, "Oh, cool, there's a computer programming group for fellow Catholics . . ." Once an Irish Catholic boy, always an Irish Catholic boy . . .
I have no meaningful contribution. I only wanted t...
Jeremy Cantrell · 2008-12-02T15:42:00
I have no meaningful contribution. I only wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this post!Might it not be a tad bit harsh to actually link t...
Brandon Rhodes · 2008-12-02T17:03:00
Might it not be a tad bit harsh to actually link to someone's blogger profile when calling them delusional and shallow, and their organization schizoid? :-) I would have made readers go hunt down the comment, and its author, for themselves.But, I suppose I have some sympathy for the fellow, since the word "Catholic" is clearly capitalized in your music preferences, and it goes against all standards of usage for you to have capitalized the word when not referring to the Church of Rome. Lower case is traditionally used when "catholic" is an adjective and not a proper noun.
If Blogger capitalizes all Favorite Music entries without allowing exceptions, then perhaps you could reword that entry to "Fairly catholic tastes" (or "Completely catholic tastes" if you really mean it), so that Catholics do not misunderstand that you are merely asserting catholicity without actually asserting Catholicity? :-)
Well... in point of fact, you capitalized "Catholi...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T18:28:00
Well... in point of fact, you capitalized "Catholic" in your profile while it was not a part of a complete sentence and therefore not clearly subject to the requirement that it be capitalized as the first word of a sentence, thereby introducing some possible measure of confusion about whether you meant "catholic" the wide-ranging or inclusive attitude vs. "Catholic" the proper noun name of the church.So, perhaps the commenter out thought himself and you as well?
Maybe not -- but it was worth a shot.
@catherine: You're right about the topic variabili...
Steve · 2008-12-02T19:32:00
@catherine: You're right about the topic variability on c.l.py, but that's pretty much coincidental: nobody calls c.l.py "the place where Python programmers can discuss English grammar" (to mention one frequent OT subject). Catholicism and software engineering just seem so disconnected somehow (to me, at least).@anonymous: "I salute both sides of your mouth sir. Well played." Thank you from both sides of my mouth. I am sorry you were forced to read my blog at gunpoint. And congratulations on summoning the courage to identify yourself; oh sorry, you didn't.
@infixum: Not at all furious: it's a free country. Happy you found out about it from my blog when you might not otherwise have discovered something of value. Enjoy.
@Brandon Craig Rhodes, @Anonymous: "Catholic" is capitalized in my profile for the same reason that "Consulting" is under "Interests": it's the first word of an entry. I was amused at Jon's presumption this referred to the religion, that's all. I doubted that the phrase "Catholic tastes", with or without an initial capital, was ever used to refer to anything expept the "general" meaning. Then Google led me to this. Now there's a guy who's risking hell fire and damnation ...
@Everyone: it's obvious from the post that I am not explicitly religious, and I do like to poke fun at people from time to time. I'm not going to discriminate against Christians by not poking fun at them too ...
Who should be next?
I'm an atheist but I'm considering converting to C...
Anonymous · 2008-12-02T21:32:00
I'm an atheist but I'm considering converting to Catholicism in order to improve my coding. I've taken courses in C#, Python, Java, even Rails but I feel like something is missing from my code. Can Jesus help me? Do you have any advice?@anonymous: this is way too important for a flip r...
Steve · 2008-12-03T01:41:00
@anonymous: this is way too important for a flip reply from a geek; I have passed your inquiry to my spiritual consultants, and will respond further if they have anything helpful to say. Otherwise, may the source be with you.Page 1 of 2 · Newer comments
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