[Phoenix-pm] bye Tony / Re: Doug Miles Strikes Back

Scott Walters scott at slowass.net
Fri May 28 13:25:26 PDT 2010


billn is right about the calculated tactics to just barely stay out 
of really deep hot water.

Tony has a history of harassing women at Phoenix.PM meetings to the
point that people had to intervene and steer him away with a *slight*
threat of force.  Because of this, he was nearly banished from 
meetings.  Instead, he did apologize.

There's more to the story that extra bit makes it improper for me
to just outright demonize him.  Still, he's perpetually on thin ice,
and after a while, it becomes apparent that it's by design.

Darrin has no such excuse.  While a long way away from being
blacklisted, I did unfriend him on FaceBook =P  But that's 
another story.  I am rash at times.

-scott



On  0, Bill Nash <billn at billn.net> wrote:
> I wouldn't say Scott's alone in his viewpoint. I can't stand you
> either, and you're the sole reason I don't show up at meetings or do
> more than lurk in the local community. Your pattern is well
> established, recognizable, and without fail, culminates in the same
> excuses. Now that someone has said something about you, next will come
> the part where you play the victim. This will likely continue until
> someone else catches on, and then the 'I'm sorry's will start. It will
> then die down for a bit, until enough time has passed that you've, and
> maybe everyone else, has forgotten about the last episode and then it
> will all begin anew.
> 
> - billn
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:56 PM, intertwingled <intertwingled at qwest.net> wrote:
> > Scottie is just having one of his episodes.  I am fine. =)
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > Darrin Chandler wrote:
> >>
> >> Would you blacklist me, too? You know how bad I can be!
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:46:16PM -0400, Scott Walters wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hey all,
> >>>
> >>> Insipid chatter that, as it draws you in, becomes more and more
> >>> confrontational and inappropriate has been a long standing pattern for
> >>> Tony.
> >>> He's slightly better in real life -- sometimes (and sometimes
> >>> worse).  He's far worse on IRC.  I've had him blocked in IRC
> >>> for quite some time now and don't miss him.  I write this so
> >>> you don't think me harsh, but if you start to feel uncomfortable
> >>> engaging him, please consider just blacklisting his email
> >>> address.  I'm doing this right now.
> >>> Feel free to contact me off the list if you'd like more
> >>> some background on this.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for the disruption.
> >>>
> >>> -scott
> >>>
> >>> On  0, intertwingled <intertwingled at qwest.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Would you please translate that to English?  Thanks in advance.
> >>>>
> >>>> Tony
> >>>>
> >>>> Scott Walters wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm going to be pretty damn busy (missing sleep, in all likelihood)
> >>>>> leading up to YAPC.  Afterwards, if I survive, I'll certainly
> >>>>> report on it.  I also have a Lightning Talk from FrozenPerl that
> >>>>> mashes up Markov Chains, PPI, a genetic algorithm, and a patchset
> >>>>> to Test::Harness that adds support for floating point test results
> >>>>> so tests can return shades of grey rather than "ok"/"not ok".
> >>>>> Markov Chains are trained from PPI and diddled by the genetic
> >>>>> algorithm which uses the floating point test scores as a genetic
> >>>>> fitness test and you can go to the beach and sip pina coladas
> >>>>> while Perl writes your code for you.  That could easily fill
> >>>>> 30 minutes ;)  But that would probably be after YAPC in
> >>>>> about four weeks here.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -scott
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On  0, "Douglas E. Miles" <doug at veritablesoftware.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi all!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It's true. There has been a successful coup, I mean peaceful transfer
> >>>>>> of power. :)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Watch this list over the coming weeks for updates. I have some things
> >>>>>> I need to get worked out on my end before I can get regular meetings started
> >>>>>> again, but hopefuly they will be resolved soon. In the mean time, we can
> >>>>>> start discussing presentation topics. Do you know something you'd like to
> >>>>>> present? Is there a topic you don't know about that you'd like to see
> >>>>>> someone else present?  Post to the list and I'll start compiling. Here's to
> >>>>>> an active Phoenix.pm!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 05/27/2010 12:19 PM, Scott Walters wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hello peasants.  Please allow me to introduce your new King, the same
> >>>>>>> as your old King:  Doug Miles.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Doug Miles has expressed interest to Brock and myself in coordinating
> >>>>>>> meetings once again and we were happy to oblige (least we be
> >>>>>>> assisinated in his power grab).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This announcement is premature and unauthorized.  Meeting hosting
> >>>>>>> arrangements are still being sorted out, but I hope you all will
> >>>>>>> join me in eager awaiting what Doug has for us.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>> -scott
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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