Re: Hello Acme
BeH <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote: > BeH <[email protected]> wrote in > news:[email protected]: > >> On 06.09.2023 20.14, SpudTater wrote: >>> On 06/09/2023 09:31, BeH wrote: >>>> On 05.09.2023 09.53, SpudTater wrote: >>>>> On 05/09/2023 08:20, BeH wrote: >>>>>> On 04.09.2023 21.44, SpudTater wrote: >>>>>>> Hi all, it's certainly been a while. >>>>>> >>>>>> Well hello there Mr. Tater. How is life...? >>>>> >>>>> Haha, well, got an update for you right there, as it's no longer >>>>> Mr. Tater, but Mx. Tattie. And very much happier for it. Still >>>>> Acme's very own potato, though! >>>> >>>> All righty then... So I use 'they' when I talk about you behind your >>>> back now? Not that I'll ever do that... talking behind someone's >>>> back, I mean. >>> >>> You got it! I's a they. 8^) >>> >>>>> I stuck around in Edinburgh after university, have a wife, a >>>>> programming job, and two cats. The years have kinda flown by tbh. >>>>> After leaving Usenet behind, have pinged from LiveJournal to >>>>> Dreamwidth to Facebook to Reddit to Mastodon. Maybe I should have >>>>> stuck right here! 8^D >>>> >>>> You would have been pretty much on your own here most of the time. I >>>> never had a facebook account and I feel utterly vindicated and >>>> rather smug about it now. >>>> >>>> So two cats? Merlyne has a cat. I have no cats. Also no wife. Or >>>> job... I spend a couple of years as self-employed consultant after >>>> rage-quitting and then retired and moved to the countryside. >>>> >>>> Can I ask what kind of work you do? >>> >>> I'm just a common-or-garden Java programmer, nothing too exciting. >>> Getting into front-end stuff more now, though. >> Careful with that. You may have to interact co-operatively with actual >> end-users... (Mostly kidding - talking with real people can be >> enlightening. > > Ok. I'll call you soon. You are not a customer of mine... I wouldn't know what to say. -- BeH " We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr