Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:43:34 -0500 From: "Mike Avery" <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Message-ID: <199907051345.IAA09946@hostigos.otherwhen.com> In-Reply-To: <19990705093023.YIXL282564.mta1-rme@wocker> References: <19990705113309.11732@ns.int.ftf.net>
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On 5 Jul 99, at 21:27, Dan Langille wrote:
> 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.
Of course, I still wonder how you can read the monitors, and how
appliances work, when they are upside down!
Mike
P.S. - It was just a joke... PLEASE don't explain it to me (unless your
explanation is amusing...) Mike
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