30 Jul
2013
30 Jul
'13
2 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:38:42 -0700, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
I'd say I've been pretty fair to Tony, but
I'm not about to patronise
him. There are plenty of people on the list who do that. It's
tiresome watching people such as yourself make excuses for him and
"cut him slack" and then proceed to beat up on the individual who was
trying to be reasonable about it and was actually the 'aggrieved
party'. Knowing the list, I predicted that would happen, although not
from you.
And as I also said (it gets tiresome having to repeat oneself) near
the beginning of this mess, it's all been a nuisance. I'd like to get
back to useful work.
This whole thing started when Tony asked why you REd whatever
machine it
was, when he had already done so, and there is a lot of other equipment
that needs reverse engineering. That set you off on a rant about
mistakes Tony had made, how many machines you had REd etc etc. If you
had just counted to 10 before replying, and instead asked Tony what he
meant, the whole thing could have been kept to a civil level. Instead it
all degenerated into some kind of pissing contest. You did actually come
across as feeling threatened, not as being reasonable. You made yourself
the aggrieved party by your knee-jerk reaction.
Unless Tony writes one thing and means something completely different,
if you read his responses, it does rather look as if you have
misunderstood him and gone off the deep end. I'm sorry, but you started
this fight yourself.
/Jonas