Re: Gravity is increasing

flood of sins wrote:

On 2025-03-23, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:
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He's already clarified not wanting to use capital letters.  Seems silly
to me to find it difficult to use the Shift key to type correctly.
Blames it on old Usenet from the 1990's.  Odd, I never had any problem
with Usenet accepting caps.

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  and here comes the bee up the bonnet folk.

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  really, like, i don't take usenet that seriously.  it is
light entertainment and something i do when i have time in
between other things.

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  sometimes when writing poetry you take different paths to
see where they lead.

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  creative writing in general can poosh some boundaries.

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  i'm also fairly literate but i don't care to be formal.
i prefer play, especially when i'm not being paid.

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are a few reasons i do it. i've mentioned one or two before.
herding is another. if i were a sheep in a herd i'd be the one
wandering around outside the herd pushing the boundaries so the
sheepdog has to keep chasing me back to it. there's always at
least one. hi. nice to meet you. :)

  ha!  if you have a program that needs testing for
bugs i'm the person who will find them.  i've worked
with computers since i was 18 and almost always get
in there and do strange things with them.  at the uni
i was one of the few people who learned how to run
a remote batch station for the mainframe computer setup
so i could check out a small remote site they had in
another building.  that meant that i could also use a
terminal instead of punched cards.  immediately i was
digging into OS manuals and assembler and we got a
project going where i was connecting the Pascal code
to some assembler code for doing more direct disk io.
i was learning things before the classes i was taking
got to them so when stuff did come along in the class
material i had hooks in my brain already.  this was
before the age of the internet at first.  that came
along later.

  the stuff being taught in classes were things like
how to write an OS, compiler for language of your choice,
editor, database gunk, multicpucomputer simulations
(at the microcode level), etc.  all very fun to me.  the
mundane programs like how to do a web-site just didn't
have much appeal to me after the more complicated things
when the internet started out and i happened to mostly
retire from computer anything other than for projects
of my own, but nothing big really any more.  i did get
into grad school, but that's a whole different story
line...

applies to more than posting Usenet articles. last job i was at
i parked in the farthest corner of the parking lot from the
building entrance. had i been driving a newer vehicle it would
have been to help avoid getting door dings. that new vehicle has
been a work beater for many years now, i couldn't care less
about dents. i was asked once why i parked in the most distant
spot when everyone else was jockeying for the spots closest to the
door. my response was i don't subscribe to herd mentality. his
mouth opened like he was going to say something but then sneered
at me and walked away. mission accomplished. :)

  i park further away because i need the walk.  :)

  the last job i had was librarian in a nearby small town.
new managment came along and eventually i quit in disgust.
the pay wasn't worth the headaches.

  as for creative writing and poetry i did get some credits
and writing done at college which of all that a few of my
best poems were written as usenet replies, but those sometimes
came years after the classes were over.  i was trying to find
one of them but no luck.  i'd still like a copy of it.


  songbird