Re: Hello Acme

On 18.10.2023 13.55, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> 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...
> 
> Running shoes need to be replaced often. I usually get good deals 
> online.

I don't do a lot of running. The latest shoes I bought was a pair of
heavy walking shoes. Serves me well enough, though I had to replace the
laces this year.

>>>>> 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?
> 
> I already explained that above.
> 
>> Also why are you so concerned about what other people think of you.
> 
> I don't so much.
>> You should have more self confidence.
>>
> You should talk...

I would need somewhere to keep it...

-- 
BeH

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