[clue] [OT] Comment about contentious subjects

[Maxwell Spangler]

I should have remembered that when standing in the middle of two people
fighting: don't tell jokes, nobody laughs.

I promise that the Santa-Wars story referenced in my last message is
actually constructive.  It shows that even in the community of jolly
Santas conflict can develop and when handled poorly communities can be
destroyed, small issues grow larger, friendships are destroyed and I'd
like to think it could be avoided.  Seriously, listen to the story and
learn from it.

My Obligatory Linux comment:

top - 13:04:58 up 17:48,  3 users,  load average: 4462.22, 4448.31, 4438.27
Tasks: 12453 total, 4483 running, 6883 sleeping,   0 stopped, 1087 zombie
Cpu(s): 91.3%us,  8.6%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  2117878760k total, 1720099140k used, 397779620k free, 270146276k buffers
Swap: 955588600k total,   190780k used, 955397820k free, 11579492k cached

Please change the subject when you reply :)

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 22:04 -0700, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> I think it will be better for the people involved in the leadership of
> CLUE to take management discussions to a private list.  By all means let

> For those interested in more of this kind of drama, consider this
> episode of This American Life.  I bet you'll find parallels with whats
> going on just with less red suits.

> A tale of two Santas. There's Tim Conaghan, a full-time professional
> Santa with a big belly and a real flowing white beard. And there's Santa
> Nick—he too has a belly and real white beard. But the story of Santa Tim
> and Santa Nick is not like most uplifting Christmas parables. Instead,
> it's about two men, very much alike, who came to lead rival factions in
> a bitter Santa civil war, and came themselves to be arch enemies. Josh
> Bearman reports on the political schism that's overtaken the Amalgamated
> Order of Real Bearded Santas. (27 minutes)"
> 
> http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/371/scenes-from-a-mall
> 

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