Re: Hello Acme

On 04.10.2023 16.13, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> On 26.09.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>> 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!

Not quite. Merely frugal...

>>> 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?

How does me (or the IT guy) talking to you make *you* appear crazy? Also
why are you so concerned about what other people think of you. You
should have more self confidence.

-- 
BeH

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