LNH: Burst Beetle Tweseveny #2: "1997: Factor Analysis and the Variable M!"

[Drew Perron]

On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 11:57:21 PM UTC-4, Tom Russell wrote:
> The biggest problem with my execution - besides me being bad at writing back
> then (I'm a little better now?)

You are much better now. X3

> is that everything I wrote in 1997 was composed in a "Compose Message" window
> that would close completely if my modem connection was interrupted.
> 
> So essentially anything I posted was a first draft, and sometimes the hurried
> second or third attempt at a first draft.
> 
> Once I discovered what a word processor was, and that you could save files and
> then copy-paste them into a "Compose Message" window - oh man! :-)
> 
> I'm not saying that that old stuff would have been readable - it wouldn't have
> been - but it might have been slightly more comprehensible. :-)

That's reasonable. X3 And it's better than having everything be a first draft because you get caught up in perfectionism and can't stand to dwell on its potential faults.

...not that I'd know anything about that <#< >#>

Drew "nothing at aaaaaaaaaaaaall" Perron