Re: Hello Acme

On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
> 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?

Don't know about that. I'm certainly not. At my first real job I was at
first nicknamed[1] Nilfisk (a venerable danish manufacturer of
vacuum-cleaners) because they motto was "The quiet dane".

[1] By an annoyingly garrulous graphics designer/sales rep.
-- 
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
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