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**Snowhog** · Jun 14, 2015, 02:46 PM

Oh my! Is that Radar 'LifeORiley'?

**Qqmike** · Jun 14, 2015, 03:29 PM

SnowHog & Steve:

Riley, I think you should have put your your hand/fist over your eyes and looked down. Your avatar and selfie would look eeriely alike!

Except I don't have quite the quantity of hair up top to win a Cloud Strife look-a-like contest anymore... sigh.

Oh, boy, reality, such as it is. I actually, honestly, thought, Steve, that your avatar was you! Musician, the blond hair, the touch of creative craziness: I thought you'd made the photo for your avatar. Should I admit this?

DYK: What year is that postcard from? I love all things Disney!

I don't know. Around 1980, a crazy (something he bragged about) Jungian/Ericksonian psychotherapist I met at the U. (where we taught) gave it to me, he kept it in his desk drawer, said it served its purpose, was done with it, would like me to have it, and it 'looked' a little old then, Walt Disney Studios, printed in England.

lifOriley ... did you pay that stack of credit card receipts piled up in the background?

**SteveRiley** · Jun 14, 2015, 03:37 PM

Originally posted by Qqmike View Post

Oh, boy, reality, such as it is. I actually, honestly, thought, Steve, that your avatar was you! Musician, the blond hair, the touch of creative craziness: I thought you'd made the photo for your avatar. Should I admit this?

Once upon a time I could totally pull off an imitation of that dude from FF 7. But as my interest in gaming waned, so did my ability to impersonate their characters

**claydoh** · Jun 14, 2015, 04:49 PM

Originally posted by MoonRise View Post

You all are making it hard on me!!

That may be the point

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**Qqmike** · Jun 14, 2015, 05:43 PM

@MoonRise ... look at it this way: you should feel honored to be asked!

(To others: And ya don't have to be a "regular" to jump in here!)

**jlittle** · Jun 14, 2015, 06:41 PM

Originally posted by DoYouKubuntu View Post

You know, when I STARTED using *nix back in the mid-'80s, it was unusual for women to be in computing at all.

I started back then and I have always worked with women. Perhaps fewer than men, but far from unusual, maybe 2 to 1. Some were, like me, what would be called geeky now, delighting in elegant code. Some were more practical, get the job done types. On the whole more dependable than men, way fewer jerks and incompetents, but fewer out of the square thinkers too.
I've worked in New Zealand and England, perhaps different culturally, but I doubt it. Maybe you were unlucky.

Regards, John Little

**life0riley** · Jun 14, 2015, 07:05 PM

Originally posted by Qqmike View Post

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lifOriley ... did you pay that stack of credit card receipts piled up in the background?

LOL That is a stack of receipts to be shredded. I woke up at O'dark thirty something to catch up in some paperwork and my wife woke up, saw me and decided to take my picture. If I put a white mustache on I would look like a "Got milk?" commercial.

**Qqmike** · Jun 14, 2015, 07:30 PM

lifeOriley: LOL That is a stack of receipts to be shredded.

Ha! It looks like the stack of MasterCard receipts I pay every month. I used to be 98% cash only. Then I learned by watching 'young' people to charge (almost) everything and pay it off each month. And that way not only rack up good credit but importantly rack up Reward Points, points that I then spend at Amazon (got the two accounts linked). That stack of receipts sometimes overflows the drawer they are in.

**DoYouKubuntu** · Jun 14, 2015, 09:44 PM

Originally posted by jlittle View Post

You know, when I STARTED using *nix back in the mid-'80s, it was unusual for women to be in computing at all.

I started back then and I have always worked with women. Perhaps fewer than men, but far from unusual, maybe 2 to 1. Some were, like me, what would be called geeky now, delighting in elegant code. Some were more practical, get the job done types. On the whole more dependable than men, way fewer jerks and incompetents, but fewer out of the square thinkers too.
I've worked in New Zealand and England, perhaps different culturally, but I doubt it. Maybe you were unlucky.

Hmmmm...I don't think I ever thought I was unlucky! Actually, I kind of liked the fact that I was almost always the only female in a sea of guys, like at classes or meetings or just sitting around shooting the breeze with fellow programmers. Plus, I was the ONLY person in the "IT" department at the two companies where I worked as a programmer and sysadmin, one was a furniture store chain and the next was a data processing company. So it's not like I had equal coworkers, male or female; at both companies I was the highest paid, and the only salaried, employee (only the owners made more than me). Now that I think about it, I considered myself extremely LUCKY, especially at the second job. My "little boy" (my beautiful Freddie Mercury, a Great Dane, weight 182 pounds) came to work with me all the time. That was the owner's idea--she wanted to keep me happy.

**GreyGeek** · Jun 16, 2015, 02:15 PM

I took a pic from below to avoid the glare of the chrome dome!

(I don't know why KFN rotated it 90 degrees to the left

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**InsideJob** · Jun 16, 2015, 03:31 PM

As far as I'm concerned, the corporate propaganda even extends to computing history. I had a 150/300 baud half/full duplex acoustic coupler modem hooked up to a Tandy CoCo accessing CompuServe in 1980. Zilog-80 was the CPU for business computing. Apple was just a hobby/toy computer to teach kids Turtle Graphics. Or how about the first Compaq portable computer.. DEC Alpha CPU.... Wang Laboratories... all gone and forgotten, like they contributed nothing. It was Bill Gates and that dead guy with the turtle neck shirt who were the real geniuses behind modern computing. There's no way the captains of America's computing industry stole all their ideas from Xerox in Palo Alto. I would of heard about it on the news.

**SteveRiley** · Jun 16, 2015, 04:15 PM