[Bloat] esr and sugarland: trying to remember the times when cerowrt was fun

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Mar 5 21:28:16 EST 2015


Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>:
> Every time I got really really kicked down on this project, eric
> raymond would put me up in his basement for a couple days, or a week
> or a month, he and cathy and I would rap, and play games like "power
> grid", talk about everything outside of software, and do fun stuff.

Those were good times. Cathy and I both miss 'em.

> Excellent reading, throughout. I helped fix a plot flaw in "Sucker
> Punch", which is the most I ever did for him directly... aside from
> improve his uptime.

Huh?  You gave me keyboards and stuff.  But screw that; the real value
I got from you was your company, your friendship, your sense of humor,
and Dave Taht being Dave Taht.

> Eric and Cathy and Sugar were a great help - and there is some mystic
> quality to their basement for the development of good software! More
> people should try to cut final releases of software from down there,
> for sure.

Come back and do it some more yourself.  We've got the Power Grid set...
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



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