Thanks, and likewise!

Thanks, and likewise!

Hi, Denise,  Thank you for your explanation.  As you know, you’re still one of my favorite webiverse denizens.

Hi, Denise,  Thank you for your explanation.  As you know, you’re still one of my favorite webiverse denizens.

Greetings David,

No insult (veiled or otherwise) intended, just my reaction to something I see as inversely proportionate in importance to the volume of attention it receives. The post was meant as humorous. (If I’d wanted to be both humorous and insulting, I might have gone for something more like the wrap-up of this: http://www.wordlab.com/2006/01/dont-panic.cfm.) Re linking, the benefit of pointing to the searches I did was that anyone interested can find a better collection of on-topic posts there than anything I was willing to put together. All I know is you, Kevin, and Ed. have each done several posts; I would have had to track them all down, and still exclude others who have commented if I wasn’t willing to do yet more work. (Technorati’s tools offer an exceptionally welcome alternative to this kind of mindnumbing and time-gobbliing effort.) I also knew readers would be sent your way from the LL posts to which I linked.

Greetings David,

No insult (veiled or otherwise) intended, just my reaction to something I see as inversely proportionate in importance to the volume of attention it receives. The post was meant as humorous. (If I’d wanted to be both humorous and insulting, I might have gone for something more like the wrap-up of this: http://www.wordlab.com/2006/01/dont-panic.cfm.) Re linking, the benefit of pointing to the searches I did was that anyone interested can find a better collection of on-topic posts there than anything I was willing to put together. All I know is you, Kevin, and Ed. have each done several posts; I would have had to track them all down, and still exclude others who have commented if I wasn’t willing to do yet more work. (Technorati’s tools offer an exceptionally welcome alternative to this kind of mindnumbing and time-gobbliing effort.) I also knew readers would be sent your way from the LL posts to which I linked.