Glad you guys enjoyed it. 
Precisely the problem, you see!
I think I may have read the novel Katherine alluded to… If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great, either. Although maybe we’re not talking about the same novel?
I’d like to be a fly on the wall of a room in which ten people, the L&L team, are sat round a table, upon which are ten MacBook Airs, loaded with OS X, Win 7 and Linux. Internet access is a given.
The L&L team have been set a non Scriv/Scap task, of considerable complexity. There is no deadline, and no penalty for failure. The object of the exercise is for the fly to able to observe how the ten disparate personality types, bond, and interact in accomplishing the task they have been set.
A fascinating idea, methinks.
Vic
Or maybe you are, but your taste differs from Katherine’s.
Vic
There was some politics, but I don’t know if I read that far into a book I got for $2 on Amazon. 
If you do, I would encourage you NOT to send over the instructions for the task in a .DOCX file.
Boy, did that not go down well.
Afraid y’ll have to help me out on that,[size=150][1] Rog, baby.
I’m not suggesting that I would set the challenge…that would require an IQ higher that my 7.8 ± The task/challenge, would be put together, by an outside agency.
With a modicum of additional info, augmenting the wealth of data, more than ably garnered through your perspicacious questioning, at their disposal, and the factoring into the equation, of the L&L team member’s individual biases, prejudices and idiosyncratic behavioural tendencies, a challenge befitting their capabilities could be created without to much hassle. However, the overwhelming, stipulation, would be that, all ten members, work together, and socialise, around that table, or thereabouts.
Observation of their interaction would be the purpose of the exercise.
Vic
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No joke I was on the gamelan-L mailing list for awhile (back in the days of mailing lists and usenet), and RMS (yes, the RMS) was also on it. (Guess he likes Indonesian music? Who knew?) Every time someone would upload a doc file there would come a screed about FOSS. Completely, totally off-topic for the mailing list, even though I agree with some of his ideas. Was more than a bit annoying.
Still none the wiser, folks
Vic
FOSS. Free and Open-Source Software
RMS. Richard Matthew Stallman, noted software freedom activist and leading dude in the GNU Project.
Gamelan. The Javanese word for music
Screed. An informal piece of writing, typically ranting.
Off-topic. The practice of abandoning the subject or question originally posted on an online forum, commonly done to inject humour. Particularly prevalent on the LitnLat boards.
All of which goes some way toward making sense of the content of garpu’s post, in repsose to
Now all I need is for some one to explain your response to the statement: “The L&L team have been set a non Scriv/Scap task, of considerable complexity”
What am I missing. I’m an addled brained old welder, not a thirty/forty something IT/ Coding warrior.
Vic
.DOCX - A proprietary MS Word document format not supported by Scrivener
.RTF - A rich text document format supported, nay championed, by Scrivener
Sorry. I thought I’d made it clear that the hypothetical exercise had no connection to Scriv&Scap, but has more to do with the fascinating individuals your interview revealed.
I’ll take it from your response, that the exercise as described, holds no interest for you. Sorry to have been a nuisance.
Cheers
Vic.
Elder K,
I do not think that piggy is uninterested, but is instead, distracted. He may be pondering your described scenario, stumbling on the “how” and the “where” to make it happen. Do you not agree that ponder such things might make one’s responses… vague? unhelpful? even terse?
Vic, I agree that they are all fascinating people and it would no doubt make for much better viewing than the stuff Mrs Pigfender watches on the tv.
I wasn’t intending to be vague, unhelpful or terse. I was just saying that when I sent the interview questions over to them for the 8Qs thing I did it in a Word document and I got told off. I was advising the hypothetical organiser of any future hypothetical exercises to avoid this mistake.
My head hurts. Where is my medicine?
Hugs,
Rog
PS Just to be clear. No one is expecting me to put all ten of them on a plane, or buy ten Mac Book Airs are they?
Young Master Jaysen,
Don’t concern yourself with, His Obtuseness’ misinterpretive take on immediate and not so immediate facets of everyday existence. The axis of his world enters through cranial and exits anally.
Good luck with locating your missing stump.
Fluff
Sorry! Forgot you forum people don’t all live inside my brain.
Only send things to L&L as .docx, noted. 
We have now identified the Imp among the L&L crew.