Subj : Re: Computers
To   : Bob Worm
From : tenser
Date : Mon Aug 05 2024 00:28:15

On 03 Aug 2024 at 04:42p, Bob Worm pondered and said...
 
 BW> Whenever I feel like I'm "seriously into" something, a few minutes
 BW> online shows me that, relatively speaking, my interest is pretty casual.
 BW> In most cases there are vehemently opposed factions treating some
 BW> arbitrary matter of principle like it's of life-or-death importance.

Heh, that's true.  "And now, I'd like to discuss amateur
radio...."

 BW> I think people just have this in-built desire to be the king of some
 BW> kind of castle, even if it's a crappy one, and that part just goes out
 BW> of control on the Internet :)

Yeah.  People are strange.  Some of the straight razor people
were _very_ strange.  I remember one guy posting that he'd sit
in his car sharpening his razors while his wife was grocery
shopping.  I can't imagine what the people walking by in the
parking lot thought about that....

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