[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:05:46 -0700
"N. Miller" <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> 
> > Bill Bradford wrote:
> >> The more I work with computers, the more something like that sounds
> >> like a SOOTHING VACATION.
> >>
> > This is why some local geeks that i know take their vacation hiking in
> > the mountains, or canoing.  I think that going the Walden route  
> > would be
> > better than going the Amish route.  I'll take the simplicity  
> > without the
> > religion, personally.
> 
> Aside from the fine cooking you'll get in an Amish household, I'd  
> have to agree--camp food is ok for a bit, but nothing is quite as  
> tasty as my grandma's recipe for caramel dumplings.

For one horrifying moment, I read that as "camel dumplings".

> My father left his family at that age and went out on his own (he  
> wanted to attend school).  He ended up joining the Army and is an old  
> school electronics geek.  I haven't been able to convince him to  
> learn *NIX, though he still has functional C= computers.  He never  
> would pony up for the Amiga, oddly enough.  I still don't think he  
> understands just how much I know about computers, because I dismiss  
> his interest in Windows. ;-)  I only do it because it irks him.

Interesting.

For some reason, most of the old-school electronics/HAM geeks I know are
Windows people, and nothing will make them change.

Never have quite figured that out.

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