Re: Hello Acme
Merlyne <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup |
|---|---|
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[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. > I find that hard to believe. Aren't ignored middle children usually garrulous?