[GTALUG] HTML-only email messages on the mailing list (was Python 2 vs python 3 debate)

[Thomas Milne]

On Dec 17, 2014 5:50 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes at waltdnes.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:18:19AM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote
>
> > I've been using Inbox, the hip new thing from Google. I assumed since
> > Lennart was not scolding me I was okay :-)
>
>   Reminds me of a post on Slashdot about Google's development process,
> that was so good, I saved it locally...
>
> ========================================================================
>
> Guy with piercings: Hey, look, I made it so when you, like, compose a
> new email this itty bitty box pops up!
>
> Girl with shaved head: Neato! But it's, like, taking up the whole page.
> That's so last decade.
>
> [clickety-clicketty-click]
>
> Person of transient gender with dreadlocks: Yay, now you can only see
> three words at a time. Minimalismo!
>
> GWSH: Better hide those scrollbars. They're so Windows XP! [1]
>
> POTGWD: But we'll need some way to scroll, with the window being so
> petite.
>
> GWSH: If you, like, move the mouse to the right quickly, that could mean
> "up" or something.
>
> GWP: Inside the box, or anywhere on the screen?
>
> GWSH & POTGWD: Anywhere on the screen, of course!
>
> All: Awesome!
>
> Chief UX Creative: That's what I like to hear. Let's all hop on our
> fixies, the whoppachoccacacamochos are on me!
>
> All: Totally awesome!
>
> [1] This is the earliest version any of them have heard of, let alone
> used.
>

Is this meant to be funny? It seems like a pretty good effort at offending
anyone who isn't an old conformist middle class douchebag.
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