Re: Hello Acme

On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
> 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.

Write. And it takes a long time...

-- 
BeH

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