Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Merlyne Newsgroups: alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup Subject: Re: Hello Acme Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:14:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:14:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d7e815aef63d0309f4ff4c0fde0cc2c5"; logging-data="1017642"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+PE7pHUTpM1I+tnlgC3MzQ" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Cancel-Lock: sha1:j+HZFNi1Acq7RxieQszSXL5L4lk= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 230923-4, 23/9/2023), Outbound message X-No-Archive: yes Xref: csiph.com alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup:6448 BeH wrote in news:uekc39$a4ot$3@dont-email.me: > On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote: >> BeH wrote in >> news:ue4cak$3raqk$6@dont-email.me: >> >>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote: >>>> BeH wrote in >>>> news:udfta0$3l84n$1@dont-email.me: >>>> >>>>> 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.