Re: Hello Acme

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> 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.

That is surprising since you always have a lot to say here.