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From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
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Subject: Re: How to set my gui?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:19:09 -0400
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On Friday 19 April 2013 22:16:18 Chris Angelico did opine:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
> 
> <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:24:36 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
> > 
> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Walter Hurry 
<walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:11 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> >> But 1 Corinthians 13:11
> >> > 
> >> > You are grown up now, I surmise.
> >> :
> >> :) Born in 1984, so that'll give you some idea where I was in the
> >> :1990s.
> >> :
> >         A puppy to be taught by greymuzzles (unfortunately, /this/
> > 
> > greymuzzle [1958] has reached the point of being an old dog that only
> > learns new tricks with extreme difficulty <G>)
> 
> Yep, taught by my Dad, who has often told the story of how he once
> held a whole kilobyte of memory in his hands (something like a cubic
> meter in size). He introduced me to programming, to fiddling with the
> system configs (actually he forbade that, for ages - because he had to
> clean up the mess if the system wouldn't boot), and to the joys of
> networking. So in a large way he's why I'm a geek... and actually he
> started that even earlier, when I was given the name Chris at birth.
> That on its own probably is the biggest cause of my geekery, I think!
> 
> ChrisA

Buncha spring chickens, the whole lot of you.  Born in '34, I was a geek 
before the word was invented.  But like some of you claim, I am now that 
old dog that doesn't learn new tricks easily.

Cheers, Gene
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