[ale] Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone endlessly

[Mike Harrison]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:
> This is the main reason I don't try and convert people.

It's why, dispite my personal interest levels,
I usually don't talk much about:

   - Linux
   - FOSS
   - Burning Man
   - Alchemy (the Atlanta based "Regional Burn")
   - Raves / Social Experiments
   - Caving and Caving Events (see Raves)
   - Alternative Music Festivals (LEAF is awesome!)
   - Drum Circles (the kind people dance naked around the fire)
   - Contra Dancing (see Rave/Gestalt/Group Euphoria)
   - Welding / Machining
   - Metal Sculture Art
   - Fire Art / Poi (Fire Dancing)
   - Religion
   - Theology
   - Really good Sex

To anyone not already of the interest group mentioned
or that I think is a viable candidate for being a major
part of that interest group.

The big issue is a establishing that common interest,
setting the vocabulary and values, and then supporting it.
It's hard.

I'll throw something out, and if they catch it, I'll continue.

For example:

Them:  "My $!@! computer just got infected again!"

Me:    "Stop using Winders".

Them, Option 1:

        "What are you using?"

Them, Option 2:

        "Them Apples are expensive"

Them, Option 3:

        "What else can you use?"

I will toss some bait at Option 1. Might at option 2, and at Option 3 my 
answer might as well be: "The Aliens provided me a computer that runs on 
water..."  So I usually stop there.

Experience has taught me to evaluate the person on sight, with only a few 
misses, so I often don't even toss out the bait.