Subj : Re: Only artists need apply? (was: How much should I charge for fix...)
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 10:36 pm

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t writes:

>> It's been "fun" watching the artists and marketers take over the
>> original concept, which was to provide marked up *content*. ...
>> while I appreciate the whole content-based approach, the artist in me
>> likes the idea of giving you MY vision of a webpage.  Frankly, I
>> think style sheets are way cool.
> 
> [snip raving]

You clearly didn't grasp a single word of what I wrote.

> (But still I cringe at cheap cartoonists such as in The Simpson's who
> draw a crescent moon, in an otherwise dark starry sky, in an
> orientation which is impossible except when the Sun is high in the sky.

Cartoons are *symbolic*, not literal.  In a sense, they are a form of
visual poetry.  (And try to remember that poetry != pretty, necessarily.)

> Is Homer not a fiction, but an accurate representation of his artist,
> with an intelligence level somewhere between Dan Quayle and GWBush?)

THE SIMPSONS is a brilliance beyond your understanding.

> Why should my Web pages be constantly maligned just because they don't
> show professional artistic qualities, and I don't have the money to
> hire an artistic expert to make my WebPages "pretty"??

*Anyone* with a clue can look at other web pages and learn from them.
Why don't you?

>> The older I get, the pickier I get about which battles are worth
>> getting my dander up about.
> 
> What do you think about discriminating against people with good
> computer programming and math and science skills, just because they
> aren't super-equipped in athletics and art,...

I'm opposed to that.  But I'm in favor of never in a million years
hiring obnoxious a-holes without a clue.

> ...while at the same time glorifying complete idiots and paying them
> millions of dollars per year just to play a game such as football or
> baseball? Would that be worth fighting over?

No, because this is just one more aspect of life you don't get.


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