We're not nice

[Craig G. Bleakley]

I'm not terribly surprised by the sometimes pointedly cut-throat nature of
discusison here.  The technology itself does not lend itself to diplomacy,
for starters.  If we didn't expect occasional flames, we wouldn't have a
name for them.  The only other lists I'm on are academic-local, and things
can get a lot more vindictive there.

But consider the individuals who dominate this list, textually.  How would
their friends, associates, describe them?  Bright, articualte, engaging,
perhaps.  But "nice" might be a lot further down the list.  This probably
goes for a lot of us.  W're not nice, we're smart, and although the two are
quite symbiotic in theory, it doesn't always work that way in practice.

Sometimes I think we're all flawed masterpieces.

Sail on, 
Craig B.