One of my colleagues told me that my name came up in conversation, and somebody said that they thought I had a reputation for being bitter.
My colleague defended me. “Nah, Raymond isn’t bitter. He’s, I dunno, acerbic.”
“Acerbic? What does that mean?”
My colleague looked it up.
“It means, um… bitter.”
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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