Re: Yer Ugly Mug is open for business!

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 06:46 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Clark scripsit:
> >         Please don't use your Strange Powers on me! I'll be good, I
> > promise!
>
> Relax.  I'm not in the mood for murder today.  :-)
        Phew.

> >         BTW, I hope you are no longer uploading the membership list to
> > free.fr. I'm going to be deleting that directory (no point in having it
> > now), but thought I should give you warning first.
>
> I was too sick to go to work today, so no uploads have happened today
> (they only happen when my mail is redirected to the work computer).
> I don't understand why it's pointless, though.  People will continue
> to join Conlang and then will want to join YUM as well, no?
        Ah. You misunderstood me. The membership list should still be generated for
kemenel.org, but not for enamyn.free.fr, since anyone who tries to join there
will fail miserably.

> We could cut down the uploads to once a day or even once a week, if
> the traffic is excessive.
        This is now Iain's department. Actually, he might be able to set up a simple
script that would automagically grab the membership list; the only reason I
couldn't was because free.fr disabled the mail routine in PHP to prevent spam
relays.

> >         Also, John, I noticed that you haven't uploaded a picture of
> > yourself yet.
>
> AFAIK none exist (certainly I've never taken any pictures, nor has anyone
> else AFAIK).
        I once read a (distrurbing) story in which a boy discovers that he can become
invisible at will. The only down side was that his image would never appear
in a photograph. Or are you concerned that it might steal your soul? :)
Surely you must have a photo lying around somewhere that you can scan--or do
what I did and ask your wife to take lots of pictures of you. Helps to have a
digital camera for this one, though. :)

> It's at www.snomed.org, but I don't have the URL and I can't find it
> by browsing the site.  And R said it could just as well have been a
> picture of him (for that matter, it could have been Andrew Smith of NZ,
> too).
        Evil twin? Or triplets? ;>
        Actually, I've started noticing a new trend: all of the female conlangers
(the ones with pics at least) have dark hair. Not a blonde in the bunch. And
Jan? If you're reading this, you look *nothing* like how I imagined you. I
really can't say how I imagined you, but that I know that it wasn't how you
looked. :) I'm still waiting for Teoh and Hanuman to post their pics...
        :Peter


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