Re: Hello Acme

From	BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup
Subject	Re: Hello Acme
Date	2023-09-25 21:40 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<uesno3$22oon$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(6 earlier) <XnsB07AAB9D3B7CKamilot@135.181.20.170> <ue4cak$3raqk$6@dont-email.me> <XnsB0828CC35A5B3Kamilot@135.181.20.170> <uekc39$a4ot$3@dont-email.me> <XnsB088AF6A142AFKamilot@135.181.20.170>

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On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in news:uekc39$a4ot$3@dont-email.me:
> 
>> On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:ue4cak$3raqk$6@dont-email.me: 
>>>
>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> 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.

Write. And it takes a long time...

-- 
BeH

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

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Hello Acme SpudTater <spud@flocci.org> - 2023-09-04 20:44 +0100
  Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-05 09:20 +0200
    Re: Hello Acme SpudTater <spud@flocci.org> - 2023-09-05 08:53 +0100
      Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-06 10:31 +0200
        Re: Hello Acme SpudTater <spud@flocci.org> - 2023-09-06 19:14 +0100
          Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-08 21:39 +0200
            Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-09 20:51 +0000
              Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 15:58 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-17 17:50 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-22 17:32 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-23 21:14 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 21:40 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-26 12:11 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-10-03 01:13 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-04 14:13 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-10-12 17:00 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-18 11:55 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-10-21 23:45 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-25 14:26 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 22:10 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-08 13:11 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-20 01:27 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-22 13:33 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-26 04:43 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-29 14:56 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-12-08 01:40 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-12-18 19:45 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 15:52 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-01-07 22:21 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 14:48 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-01-14 15:02 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-02-01 14:51 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-02-11 14:49 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-02-23 00:12 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-02-24 20:56 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-03-12 00:24 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-03-12 13:30 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-03-26 20:13 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-03-31 20:39 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-04-07 15:31 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-04-07 15:29 +0000
      Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-06 12:22 +0000
    Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-06 12:22 +0000
      Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-08 21:43 +0200
        Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-09 20:51 +0000

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