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

[o1bigtenor]

If you don't get the humor please use your delete button!

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> 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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