Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:27:01 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Message-ID: <19990705093023.YIXL282564.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <19990705113309.11732@ns.int.ftf.net> References: <xzpr9mnv4pj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:14:16AM %2B0200
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On 5 Jul 99, at 11:33, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> writes: > > > Yes. I remember in my early teens fantasizing about marrying Gagarin's > > > youngest daughter. :-) [For the sake of the younger generation here: > > > Gagarin was the first man in space.] > > > > Come on, give the younger generation *some* credit. > > I agree with G. Adam's cautiousness -- when I first moved > to the US in 1983, the teacher (this was 4th grade :-) introduced > me to the class, and asked if anybody wanted to point out > France (where I'm from) on the globe. > > A kid volunteered, and put his finger on Russia. > > That _was_ before they asked me if we had electricity > and refrigerators "over there". I get that question often when travelling. And strangely enough, it doesn't matter if they first learn I'm Canadian first or I live in New Zealand. They wonder the same thing. Mind you, both countries have come a long way since they installed electricity a few months ago. Next year we should get telephones. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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