Comments on: He told us that he is your Friend

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:50:06 +0000

Shucks. (Translation: an ancient and honorable word now more often replaced with those having but four letters.)

I say that anything that keeps the flow of posts coming from Dervala is worthwhile. :)

By: Dervala

Dervala — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:00:57 +0000

Frank! Now I feel like a big jerk. Of COURSE you’re my friend. I just question whether you’re my Friend. (This after a day at work writing emails to our local Organizers who take charge of their Groups.)

The menstruation idiom in Ireland, by the way, was “I have my Friend.” God knows why. Odd place.

So I was purely, only, making fun of the canned emails that I myself write (and this excerpt was cut from a longer, far more wicked piece I wrote last night after my ex accidentally sent one on our anniversary yesterday. “Keep in touch without the bother of email…yada yada.”)

Quite.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:06:27 +0000

Okay, okay… no need to rag on me about it.

:-)

I WILL get the interview edited and online. I do feel warmly toward you. I did translate that feeling into a stupid Multiply invitation just for grins and giggles about the same time we’d finished the work on the interview.

I’m feeling bad about not being able to condense the bits on my Olympus voice reording of our phone call. I’m sure there’s just a little bit of tweakage required to take those 124 MB of proprietary format and turn them into a wav file. And then I’d like to be able to excerpt, to edit that file into the interesting bits and leave a lot of the chit-chat on the cutting room floor. How hard could it be? Dave Winer does it.

Anyway, you could think of me as your friend even if you do have a healthy skepticism of social software. BTW, yours was the ONLY invitation I sent. Not being promiscuous should count for something.

There’s one thing I don’t understand. Why do you suppose your mom called your menstrual period “Frank?” I am a redhead (albeit gray these days) but never been compared to a tampon before…