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Re: Swing Eighths Marking
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Rick Hansen (aka RickH) |
Subject: |
Re: Swing Eighths Marking |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:36:28 -0700 (PDT) |
If you give a man a fish he will only eat for a day...
But if you teach a man to fish...
He will sit in a hot boat drinking beer, getting sunburned, and drowning
worms all his life.
Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>
> Hello, all --
>
> Since you're all talking about me, I thought I'd jump in here... ;-)
>
> Ian wrote:
>> it isn't the "quickest" solution.
>
> Firstly, my goal wasn't to give David "the answer", because I don't
> think there *is* just a single one; my goal was to point him to the
> threads that deal with the issue he asked about, so that he could
> follow the leads/links and make up his own mind on the answer that
> best fits his specific situation, etc.
>
> Secondly, I'm pretty sure I typed that list of instructions in less
> time than it would have taken me to go through multiple web pages,
> waiting out the load time in each case, copying and pasting the
> (multiple) potentially useful URLs, etc.
>
> In other words, I thought at the time -- and, for the record, still
> believe now -- that my response *was* the quickest solution to the
> problem I was trying to solve. And since I was the one who actually
> responded to David's post, that's really the only relevant yardstick
> for that particular determination, regardless of how much anybody
> else debates it.
>
>> we didn't give him a URL did we.
>
> Nope -- and I would (will) do the same thing again, all other things
> being equal!
> If someone asks a question that I think has a single answer, I'll
> give them that answer; otherwise, I'll give them the tools they can
> use to find the multiple answers, and then determine the one THEY
> think is best.
>
>> Do you understand the meaning of the word "condescending"?
>
> D'uh, gee, I think so...
> This whole response of yours... that was condescending, right?
> _______________________
>
> Stewart responded with:
>> I think this whole discussion is becoming increasingly ridiculous
>
> Agreed.
>
>> I'm sure that Kieren had no intention of being condescending
>
> True. That being said, I *did* have that exact intention with my
> "D'uh, gee, I think so..." comment in *this* email! ;-)
>
>> Give a man food, and he can live for a week. Teach him to farm, and
>> he can feed himself for a lifetime.
>
> Couldn't have said it better myself.
>
> Best regards,
> Kieren.
>
>
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- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, (continued)
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Kieren MacMillan, 2006/09/04
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, David A. Greene, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Markus Schneider, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, David Greene, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Graham Percival, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, David Greene, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Graham Percival, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Ian Hawthorn, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Kieren MacMillan, 2006/09/05
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking,
Rick Hansen (aka RickH) <=
- Re: Swing Eighths Marking, Stewart Holmes, 2006/09/06
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