Nastiness and an apology

Yes, it was quite nasty of me to blurt out a remark like that. I wish to
apologize to Carl for misinterpreting his intentions in the heat of the
moment and occupying everyone's precious time in my futile obsession. Recent
sorrowful events have wrecked my nerves to the extent that my
manic-depressive moods recurred.

(However, I inwardly insist that 0.00000001 should not be rounded to 1)

Again, my apologies to all those people whose feelings got hurt in the
process.

Cordially,
Oz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Targett" <jeremy.targett@gmail.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 03 Mart 2006 Cuma 5:52
Subject: [tuning]

> Delurking to beg: for crying out loud. It's hard enough to keep up with
> this list for a casual reader with a life, even without the current
trolling. I
> think we've found the equivalent of the interminable troll threads on
> sci.math about whether 0.99999... = 1 or not. For the record, calling
> someone a "snivelling despot" is one of the nastiest things I've read
> here, however many "goodness graciouses" and "doth protesteths" you dress
> it up with.
>
> Listen, imagine you had a machine that displays the interval, in cents,
> between 2 instruments. As one stays put and the other gets closer, the
> machine should read 10..9..8..7..6.. cents, 5..4..3..2..1... and then
> what? It should explode?? It should turn off?? No, it should display "0",
> of course. When the two instruments are at exactly the same pitch there's
> an interval of zero cents between them, BY DEFINITION. If you have $23.74
> in your bank account and you take out $23.74, you have a balance of $0.00.
> You might *also* choose to phrase that as "I have no balance", and that
> sounds a little odd to me, but ok, you can say it - still, so what?
> Doesn't change that you don't phone up your bank and call them crazy when
> they send you a statement showing a balance of $0.00.
>
> And while I'm complaining: can everyone please SNIP the parts of
> emails you're quoting, especially signature lines and advertisements,
> that aren't necessary to your reply.
>

> Yes, it was quite nasty of me to blurt out a remark like that.
> I wish to apologize to Carl for misinterpreting his intentions
> in the heat of the moment and occupying everyone's precious time
> in my futile obsession. Recent sorrowful events have wrecked my
> nerves to the extent that my manic-depressive moods recurred.

Hope you're feeling better, Ozan.

-Carl

I have hyper-tension, hypoglycaemia, recurrent gastritis, mellow sinusitis,
and am coming down with a flu while feelin' blue, but other than that, I'm
fine.

Oz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lumma" <clumma@yahoo.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 07 Mart 2006 Sal� 6:30
Subject: [tuning] Re: Nastiness and an apology

> > Yes, it was quite nasty of me to blurt out a remark like that.
> > I wish to apologize to Carl for misinterpreting his intentions
> > in the heat of the moment and occupying everyone's precious time
> > in my futile obsession. Recent sorrowful events have wrecked my
> > nerves to the extent that my manic-depressive moods recurred.
>
> Hope you're feeling better, Ozan.
>
> -Carl
>
>