[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 12:00 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > Ah, Slackware. I almost get misty thinking about it. Then I look at my
> > collection of DVD's with installation and think, "the youngsters have NO
> > idea what it USED to be like!".
> 
> Isn't that the truth. :)  I can remember my first foray into Linux.  It 
> took me a week to finally get it to generate "login:".  I was ecstatic. 
>   It was about 4 am, I gave out this huge "Yes!".  My wife came running 
> into my little office all bewildered.  I pointed to the screen and said, 
> 'look! login!'  She simply said, "it's after 4 am, you're an idiot", 
> turned and went back to bed. :)
> 
> Two weeks later a similar scenario around 2:30 am when I got X running. 
>   This time she simply screamed from the bedroom, "You're still and 
> idiot!"  The next morning she asked me why didn't I go back to rock 
> climbing and cross country skiing like a normal person. :) :)

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Did you tell her the rock climbing is a lot harder
with a laptop and the cross country skiing is more fun with a gps
receiver driving a mapping application on a laptop?!

The wife units really don't understand the OVERWHELMING NEED to make
this stuff work as we want it to.

As my office is in my basement, my wife will call me on the business
line to remind me to come to bed and stop geeking. 

> 
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