Re: Hello Acme

On 26.09.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]: 
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>> On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>>> news:[email protected]: 
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>>>> 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...
>>
> 
> *eye roll*
> Writing is just typing out what you would say if you were having a 
> conversation.
> I assumed you did other things --reply to a couple of posts and then 
> have some coffee and a smoke and another coffee and then reply to more 
> posts and then you have to pee from drinking all that coffee. You hear a 
> show come on that you want to watch and then the mailman comes by with 
> the shoes you ordered last week and you chat with him about something 
> banal like the weather which reminds you about usenet because I'm always 
> complaining about the weather, so you come back and post some more.

I'm perfectly capable of drinking coffee and smoking while replying to
usenet post. (Not peeing, though. I have to get up for that).
I don't have any other media running - it would ruin my concentration.
Your expectation regarding the Danish Postal Service are wildly at odd
with reality - packages don't normally get further than designated
pick-up spots (usually a shop of some kind). Also it's been more than 10
years since the last (and only) time I bought shoes on line.
> 
> People are weird. I used to have coffee sometimes with the IT guy that 
> sat beside me. If it was just the 2 of us he would talk a lot, usually 
> about stuff like the rabbits in his yard or Nikola Tesla. He was totally 
> gay for Tesla.But if someone else joined us, the IT guy wouldn't say a 
> word. People would say to me  'He's so quiet' but not so much.

That could be me...

-- 
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr