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songbird wrote:
> flood of sins wrote:
>> On 2025-03-23, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
>>> Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>
>>>    and here comes the bee up the bonnet folk.
>>
>>>    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.
>>
>>>    sometimes when writing poetry you take different paths to
>>> see where they lead.
>>
>>>    creative writing in general can poosh some boundaries.
>>
>>>    i'm also fairly literate but i don't care to be formal.
>>> i prefer play, especially when i'm not being paid.
>>
>> 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
> 


That is a VERY impressive resume!  I'm sure the company was saddened 
when you resigned. Oh well, their loss.