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Heard a bloke introduce himself at the onboarding as a "Sematic Ontologist".

His sobriety was only exceeded by his earnestness.

I prayed he'd not become attached to my project, as he looked like the sort who could love a problem for weeks without ever reaching a conclusion.

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Oh wow, having interacted with the SemWeb community quite a lot in the past couple of years,

> the sort who could love a problem for weeks without ever reaching a conclusion.

is such an accurate description of a number of people part of it. Possibly the root cause of all the problems that led to it never taking off at the scale they'd envisioned.

The semantic web is a non-solution in eternal search of non-problems.

Sounds like the eternal student, they just don't work in business, although seemingly I keep getting lumped with the useless persist question askers, sometimes I feel like I discussing shit with David Attenborough, just get on with job ends rant

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