Beta 8.10 released

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 11 October 2008, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>On Saturday 11 October 2008 18:30:23 Willy Hamra wrote:
>> bah, internet! people always assume that they are talking with people
>> in their age criteria. young people think they are talking with young
>> people. old people thnk they're talking with old people. i turn 21 in
>> 2 months, and seeing your ages makes me feel like i'm somewhere i
>> don't belong to
>
>No - I hestitate to contradict you, but this mention of actual ages arose
>because Gene assumed that he was talking to someone who was not his age.  He
>said in fact that he was 3 times my age.  So his assumption is that everyone
>else is young - not that everyone else is his age!!  You are almost exactly
>on the age he clearly wants the rest of us to be. ;-)  (One third of 74 is
>just under 25.)
>
>You have knowledge, we have experience.  The one complements the other
> nicely. Please don't let's turn this into an ageist war. :-)
>
>Incidently, my local LUG currently has a membership ranging in age from 14
> to 76.  (So far as we know.  There may, of course, be the odd closet 9 year
> old or 85 year old. ;-)  )  Why do groups of people need to be all the same
> age for people to "belong"??
>
>Lisi

They don't Lisi, and that's the point.  And had there been a linux that far 
back, I would have been your closet 9 year old.  At that age I was gobbling 
up everything I could on the physical properties level.  Got in over my head 
a few times too, but we've all done that.  Quit school & went to work fixing 
tv's for a living when I was 14.  By the time I was 16, I was fixing all the 
zeniths the dealers couldn't fix in Iowa and the north half of Missouri.  
I've had a scope probe in one hand, and a hot soldering iron in the other 
most of my life.  Got a 1st Phone ticket in '62, and a C.E.T. in '72, never 
cracked a book specifically for either.  I could go on, but most of the lists 
have heard it already.  It has been one hell of an interesting ride so 
far. :)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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