Haiku

[Here and there]

For those coming in late, who might not know the context:

I wrote an on point rebuttal to the claim that attractive architecture was impossible in a harsh desert environment, in which I embedded photos found on Flickr, using the code available on each of the photo pages there, created expressly for that purpose. Somebody then tried to make the historically laughable assertion that oil money had made possible architecture that went up centuries before the commercial extraction of petroleum. In my reply, I pointed out the anachronistic nature of such an idea. A third party (or maybe somebody's sock puppet) then threw this temper tantrum in response, and accused me of "stealing" photos, apparently hoping that people would fail to notice that I had given proper attribution in my comments, and had used Flickr's own linking code, each photo linking back to the page on which I had found it.

I wrote the preceding series of haikus in mockery of that last user's attempt to blow a little smoke (and maybe get the moderators to hastily act on a meritless complaint).

[Roberto Dobbisano]

paranoid weasel
not freed from the keyboard yet
rants with his fingers.