From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 4 0:12:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51AF14D96 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 00:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10805; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:12:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <377F0969.B4BF6496@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:12:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Janie Dykes , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? References: <377EA69C.6729DB43@softweyr.com> <19990704012556.A220@whizkidtech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 06:11:08PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Trust me, greenie, those of us who a FAR from 16 wish we weren't. ;^) > > What, and miss the sixties??? Get back to your handbasket! :-) Our experiences of the sixties were probably different. I spent mine as a dirt-poor "GI brat", the son of an American military man, watching my father fly to far away lands to get maimed. He was wounded in Tripoli when Qaddafi took Libya from King Idris, and later in Thailand during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror, sending young pilots to die at Thud Ridge. We just wanted him home safe. We spent 1970 at Fort Benning, Ga. We went to the commissary every Thursday, and watched the fleet of chaplains cars coming and going, doing next of kin notification. That (and the space program) are what the sixties mean to me. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message