2009-01-21

kengr: (Default)
2009-01-21 07:35 pm

email silliness.

We'd gotten to telling tales of people's encounters with criminals (mostly theives) who immediately regreted said encounters which led to the followin exchange:

A.C wrote:
Massad Ayoob callsĀ it 'a failure in the victim selection process' when a predatory criminal threatens someone who immediately shoots, stabs, stomps or otherwise inflicts serious damage on the predator's person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massad_Ayoob

dG replied to A.C.:
LOL, this is what my youngest brother would call a 'self critiquing activity'. There is immediate feedback that your technique requires improvement without the need for an instructor's evaluation of your performance.


N.D. replied to A.C.
Maybe "self-correcting"???
There's an old Unix fortune cookie that reads:

"People learn from their mistakes.

You're going to learn a lot today."