cyaiplexys wrote: ... > That's the one cool thing about this group and groups like it is the > conversations where you learn a little bit about those folks in the > group in between learning other useful things. Reminds me of the old > FidoNet days (and later newsgroup days - do they still even have either > anymore??)
how do you think i'm reading/writing here? via usenet and gmane. :) i'm more often on the gardening group these days. my history with computers starts about 1978 and then 15yrs of nothing but computers at the university. my degree was computer science and i also worked as a programmer, then i was project lead and then systems programmer and did all sorts of things during a conversion from the mainframe to the mini-computer system. also worked on a MS degree but never finished it. i semi-retired about when the internet was just taking off (in the mid-90s). haven't worked much since then, but did some months of being a computer operator for a local business until i realized that working two jobs was crazy, so i went back to the part-time library job only until i quit that too. some years later i still like tinkering at times but it hasn't been until this spring i finally got a new enough machine to be interesting in working on a project of my own. so i can learn python bits at a time. after learning so many computer languages picking up another one is just not that interesting any longer so i have to have some project which is also interesting enough to keep me poking along. with the gardening season being here i only have time once in a while when it rains or i'm taking a break from the heat. songbird
