From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 12 22:30:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02787 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02704 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA18426; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:29:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35820E51.A82EFEF1@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:29:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization References: <199806121619.JAA08857@usr02.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Terry, how do you manage to keep all this in your head, or are you a > > more advanced version of the JKH Tcl script with AltaVista plug in? > > No one can rival Jordan... he's a much better humorist than I will > probably ever be. When he's trying to be. Unintentionally, you rival the best -- Mark Twain, etc. > Some people watch television; I read. A lot. At one point in time, I > actually ran out of science fiction books to read at my local Carnegie > Free Library (the Weber County Library at the time), and had to start > on the history and biography sections. Thankfully, more science fiction > arrived before I ran out of biographies. For scale, I personally own > around 3500 books which I have read, and very few of them overlap with > what was in the library at the time. > > I think people should read more; if you're going to be antisocial, do > it with a book instead of a television. 8-). Hear hear! Terry and I were fortunate to end up involved in a small but close group of people who were unafraid to be bright and outspoken, and unashamed of being quite a few clicks brighter than anyone around us. Surprisingly enough, only a couple really fit the classical "nerd" mold. I even managed to drag the lot of them to a foreign-language film once, though I paid dearly for it for several months afterward. Of course, we did meet to go to the movies on Friday night at the computer lab in the basement of the Tech Ed building, but that was mostly because it was a convenient place to meet and several in the group had keys in case the place was locked up. These Friday night gatherings were a 90-mile drive from work for me, but I usually got to ride half of it with my brother who was the leader of the group by virtue of being the oldest and biggest, and people just naturally fall in step behind Johnnie. Even Terry! ;^) Terry, we gotta have a labrat reunion one of these days. YOU get to talk Johnnie into flying up for it, though. He's converted over to the darkside, and is hacking on Linux for PowerPC these days. Seems somebody gave him an entire ROOM of PowerStack servers to play with... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message