[ale] young linuxer becomes an old fart.. sort of

[Geoffrey]

Chuck Payne wrote:
> I am happy that openSUSE didn't make the list of things to complain
> about. To me, 40's is the new 20's. Anyway, you are only old as you
> think are, that why I am still 17 every year.

Yet you apparently have alzheimers as I received this message 3 times. ;)

> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please ignore the off gassing of the ALE really old farts. And don't stand
>> downwind of them.
>>
>> EVER!
>>
>> As I approach 50 and look back on thirty, I realize now that real adult life
>> begins about that time. My wife will be happy when I finally grow up. I'm
>> figuring 80 is a good age to grow up. :-)
>>
>> Pick a distro and post some issues so everyone can rag you about how you
>> picked the wrong distro !  You need something with the slow updates like
>> Debian, the user-friendly but brokenness of Ubuntu and Fedora, the slow,
>> stability and ancient desktop like RedHat, the package management of
>> Slackware and the build times of Gentoo, all wrapped up in a Windows only
>> installer! BWAHAHAHAHA!
>>
>> And Scott, Jeff, Jerald and Pete used to do binary math scratching in the
>> dirt with dull stick because _pointed_ sticks hadn't been invented yet!
>>
>> Actually, I think they were just telling dirty jokes and since it was
>> pre-writing times the stick was there just for show.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Joshua <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey everyone.
>>>
>>> I know that I am new to ALE and new to Linux, but I am not new to the
>>> world.  Well not new by my standards.
>>>
>>> On Friday August 20, 2010  I become 30 years old.  My girlfriend, who is
>>> a bit younger, considers me an old fart, so I would continue the joke
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Hope you all are having a good one and I will try to as well.
>>>
>>> TTFN
>>>
>>> Joshua.
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S.  Old fart my ass, my life is just getting started.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
>> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
>>
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Until later, Geoffrey

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