[Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

[David Gerard]

On 21 September 2011 18:58, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:42:18PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 21 September 2011 18:41, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>
>> wrote:

>> > David's Magical Flying unicorn ponies work very well thank you in
>> > the frame of fairytale fiction.

>> Originally from discussion of an actually impossible project at
>> work.  I'm sure you can picture precisely how spectacularly well the
>> projects specified in this manner turn out.

> Presumably your occupation has nothing to do with fairytale fiction?
> ;-)


Unfortunately not - it deals with things that might actually affect
people's well-being.

This makes projects based on ill-conceived premises that fundamentally
require a magical category (or two, or three) to work more than a
little ... problematic.

It turns out that thinking you can get a magical result by demanding
it and passing resolutions doesn't work, no matter how politically
expedient it may be to demand it.

The magical demand presently under discussion isn't on the same level,
but is equally magical and is just as unlikely to actually work, no
matter how politically expedient it was to demand it.

Dear WMF Board: you have passed a resolution demanding magic. If you
don't realise this, there's no hope for any of you.


- d.