From: sjack@dontemail.me   
      
   Ivan Shmakov  wrote:   
   >         Ultimately, though, the question is: what are you trying to   
   >         achieve, and for /whom/?   
   >   
   When I entered the Web Eden, I was old enough to care for myself.   
   I could reach the low hanging fruit and enjoy. I was also old   
   enough to know that Eden is transitory and the good fruit would   
   pass with "progress" as spiders enhance their domain and become   
   fat on the juice of the fly.   
   C'est la vie. Standards are not the problem.   
      
   Hearken to Omar who found solace at Wastland's edge   
   (or stay and dangle among spiders if you so choose).   
      
   "But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot.   
     ...   
   With me along some Strip of Herbage strown   
   That just divides the desert from the sown,   
     ...   
   Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,   
   A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse and Thou   
   Beside me singing in the Wilderness   
   And Wilderness is Paradise enow."   
      
   --   
   me   
      
   (Spent summer off grid; floods and triple digit heat, no computing.   
   Wasn't paradise but lost 10 pounds and got a tan.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)