From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T06:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census


On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Devin Mullins wrote:

> Pit Capitain wrote:
>> Ryan Davis schrieb:
>>> ... Without hoe as a dependency, the software packaged in a hoe- 
>>> based
>>> gem doesn't work 100%.  But... you're a smart guy. You knew that.
>> Seems I'm not. I'm still not knowing it.
>
> He was applying that cleverist of humor devices known as sarcasm.  
> He was insulting you. See, by typing "you're a smart guy" after  
> typing an explanation he considered to be unnecessary, that's his  
> was of saying that you're not a smart guy. Oh, Ryan, you scoundrel!

I'm pretty much going to ignore the rest of this bikeshed DIALOG, but  
I thought I should respond to this.

For the record:

"On Jan 9, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Ben Bleything wrote:"

was the attribution in my email with the "you're a smart guy"  
comment. I know, like, and respect Ben and can say "you're a smart  
guy" about/to him without sarcasm. I couldn't possibly say that about  
Pit Capitain (since I don't know him).

You might want to actually read the email before you go making  
assumptions about me, my intentions, or my thought process.