Nico Hailey wrote:
>
> I donno. Kinda had a point about geek-on-geek relationships.
> When one of your first questions to a prospective mate is
> "You're not, an, um, erm, /emacs/ user, are?"
> it is sort of worrisome. And long nights of MUTT vs MH as MUA
> is good fun. Also the fights if someone walks off to work with
> the only copy of the camel book in the house. ("But, de--ar, I
> /left/ the llama book!"). Not to mention the, "why the fsck did
> you recompile the kernel on isis? now the sound card doesn't
> work."
Oh MY yes.
"DEEEEAAAAARRRRR! Where's the C++ book?!"
"I took it to work."
"I NEED it NOW. *You* are buying a second one, and it is NEVER leaving the
house!"
"Uh... ok."
<paraphrase of an actual discussion - only that one took about an hour. I
wound up buying the second one, btw. But it's never left the house.>
And piles of clean laundry in the bedroom because we forget to put it away
properly. The dishes left in the sink for several days. The lawn needs mowing.
Hm. Maybe I'll get off the email and do a quick cleanup! <laughs>
Long evening discussions spent developing code and doing design. An employer
gets a bargain with both of us - two brains working on each piece of code
either of us develops.
Jenn V.
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Humans are the only species to feed and house entirely separate species
for no reason other than the pleasure of their company. Why?
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