On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:24:36 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:11 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> > >> >> But 1 Corinthians 13:11 >> > >> > You are grown up now, I surmise. >> >> :) Born in 1984, so that'll give you some idea where I was in the 1990s. >> > > A puppy to be taught by greymuzzles (unfortunately, /this/ > greymuzzle [1958] has reached the point of being an old dog that only > learns new tricks with extreme difficulty <G>)
Yep, taught by my Dad, who has often told the story of how he once held a whole kilobyte of memory in his hands (something like a cubic meter in size). He introduced me to programming, to fiddling with the system configs (actually he forbade that, for ages - because he had to clean up the mess if the system wouldn't boot), and to the joys of networking. So in a large way he's why I'm a geek... and actually he started that even earlier, when I was given the name Chris at birth. That on its own probably is the biggest cause of my geekery, I think! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list