Re: Hello Acme

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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> On 26.09.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]: 
>> 
>>> On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>> On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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.

My gawd!

>> 
>> 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...
> 

So you want to talk incessantly to me so that I appear crazy to other 
people?