Plus Equals I mean, it looks awesome. Anything that’s been refined this many times should. but seriously. He didn’t even thank Wess until Shawn pointed out where the rest of the design came from. I mean, i did give him permission to use the header a year ago. With attribution. Oh well, at Least Natalie [...]
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I mean, it looks awesome. Anything that's been refined this many times should. but seriously. He didn't even thank Wess until Shawn pointed out where the rest of the design came from. I mean, i did give him permission to use the header a year ago. With attribution.
Oh well, at Least Natalie likes it. 
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I did talk to and thank Wess in an email BEFORE I used the theme. I should have posted it in my original post but didn’t because I was in a rush on my way out the door. Yeah, I’m shit for not posting it in the original post. I’ll admit that but it’s not like I was trying to pass it off as my own work or anything. Geez. Do you feel like I’m ripping off your grass image? Cause if so I’ll gladly take it down and use another one from someone else.
Man, I’m your friend, why are you ripping me in public? Why not come to me in private FIRST and then if I’m beligerant you can rip me publicly? Shit.
did you ask wess if you could use it without attribution?
makes it sound like you’re doing the work yourself. it does look nice, so it would pain me to tell you to take it down. i can’t find the original email, but i’d be very surprised if i didn’t tell you to give attibution. the only reason i might not have would have been because you already had attribution for a different header.
I did attribute him in that post. Besides, WESS didn’t design it.
the irony of that is brilliant.
take 5 minutes, cool off, and look at it again.
you redesigned, gave attribution only to the original theme author.
someone mentions that your site looks identical to GiL.
you give attribution to GiL
given that pattern, posting public commentary seems to be the way to get attribution.
Fine, you know what. Forget it.
Granted. I see your thinking. Still, you and I have more of a friendship than Shawn or CWD. I feel like with all you and I have talked, and the level of friendship we had, that you could have felt comfortable with coming to me personally.
true. but i get annoyed, and shoot first, and then ask questions.
or, wait a day and a half 2, posts, and update, and 40 comments before shooting.
attribution is not difficult. or unreasonable.
Nope, it’s not. But between friends there are different and more tactful ways of going about pointing out someone’s asshattery. You really hurt me with not coming to me first but instead you just put it up on your billboard. I’m not disputing your rightness, I should have given you attribution. But you don’t have to worry about that anymore.
If your goal was to push me even further away you’ve accomplished that.
Ok, crappy guilt trip. Sorry about that last comment.
Overall, I know you’re right. You are. And I was wrong to use that image without attributing you. I’m very very sorry.
[big bear hug time]
look, i’m sorry i posted it in public. i saw it yesterday, and i was excited as hell. it looks gorgeous. i’m glad i have a screenshot of it.
it just looks nasty when you get called out on attribution for one thing, and only mention that one thing, and keep sweeping the rest under the rug. i just thought that as friends, we might do each other better than that.
You’re absolutely right. But I didn’t delete the theme
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Look. I was an asshat. If I put the theme back up, and gave you attiribution for the header image, would you be OK? Or, like, would you still be pissed?
all i ever wanted was a footnote
i’m not pissed.
OK.
Adam, I know you and I don’t talk as much as we used to. But I want you to know that I miss your frienship and more than anything I was really mad at myself that I might have completely pushed you away with my idiocy. You don’t realize how much weight your opinion holds for me. You really don’t. Thanks for being understanding though.
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03 Aug 2006 at 11:11 am
I find myself apologizing a lot these days at Open Switch
[...] Besides the fact that Subtle is too complex for me to use/modify by my own stupid self I find myself missing several features of unsleepable like the bottom block and the delicious links. Oh, I shouldn’t neglect to say that I was in fact a major *#!@-head for not attributing Adam (as he pointed out) for that sweet grassy-looking header image I used on that previous theme you saw up yesterday. Yeah, even us Christians can be *#!@-heads sometimes. I’ve apologized to Adam because I was wrong. And I’ve taken down that theme because even though C. Wess said he was alright with me using it…I wasn’t alright with it. [...]
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