[ale] Just another reason to purchase a mac

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tim Watts<timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Content-Type: text/obtuse :-)

I'm often orthogonal with a few acute tendencies. Obtuseness is a
matter of age and taste. I have one but lack the other. They are not
mutually exclusive and currently are a matter of debate as to the
ordering and origins.
:-)

>
> What I notice is that your wrapping messages include an HTML part; the ones
> from you that do not are fine.

And all of my systems are set to use text only as far as I can tell.
>
> On Tuesday 30 June 2009 12:23:56 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
>> OK. For unknown reasons my email posts have become unclear for reasons
>> NOT due to my usual rambling form of prose that causes English majors
>> to cringe at my extended ability to produce overly verbose, yet
>> usually grammatically correct sentence structure while still conveying
>> a sense of syntactic freedom not found outside of dimly lit, smoky bar
>> where people snap their fingers instead of clap. Admittedly, I used to
>> relish in the ability to write in this form as a test of my English
>> teachers patience and the ability of the grammar checking software to
>> inform me I should be writing insurance policies for the Federal
>> Government.
>>
>> Clearly, I am testing both my abilities to wring hideously long prose
>> while simultaneously boring ALE readers and testing this unusual line
>> wrapping problem that appeared in a Firefox email session on Gmail
>> this morning.
>>
>> It appears visually correct before I hit the "send" button.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
>> > Jim Kinney wrote:
>> >> I dunno 'bout you but I want my laptop to stay where I put it. Wonder
>> >> how much a kensington lock for that one will cost.... very well done!
>> >
>> > yeah, I liked it.  By the way, your posts are coming (to me, at least)
>> > one continuously wrapped line.  Are you using a new email client?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Until later, Geoffrey
>> >
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>> > temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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