Ray Saintonge wrote:
When I first encountered you you showed a great capacity to be a pain in the ass. You shared that ability with a few others who were already well passed their teen years. Your tenacity through all this has been commendable, and your continuing presence has had a mellowing effect on you. At Wikimania-Frankfurt you were one of the two people that I most regretted not having the chance to meet.
With the most abject apologies to the general counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, but this very vividly brings to mind my own recollections of Mike Godwin of Usenet of late 1980's to early 1990's. Conversing with him now, some 20 or so years later, was a revelation on how we each progress.
In a more philosophical vein, this to me indicates that no man is immune to the mellowing affects of years, but the pathologically unageable who have fixated onto a certain phase of development.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen