From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: Computer Dating
Article-I.D.: floyd.742
Posted: Thu Oct 28 10:26:48 1982
Received: Fri Oct 29 01:30:31 1982
References: uwvax.648

Glenn Reid suggest that he finds it nicer to date women who aren't
involved with computers; that he finds it nicer if they have different
interests.  I am a hacker, so that disqualifies women in the computer
field for me.  I am a ballet dancer, that disqualifies them (ouch!).  I
contra dance, I play frisbee, I like far-eastern food, movies, skiing,
chess and submitting netnews.  I also like computers, in much the same
way as I like these other persuits.

Why should the woman who is interested in computers be any more
disqualified than women who are interested in my other favorite
endeavors?  Have you guys ever heard of sharing?  My life is enhanced by
sharing my joys with my friends.  In computer science, that might mean
showing my sweetie a particularly disgusting hack.  In chess, it might
mean showing her a startling endgame combination.  It might be sharing
a walk down a road in autumn and so on.

I don't understand why it's imperative to have a sweetheart who hasn't
the same vocation as I do.  Other attributes are so much MORE
important.  My sweetie happens to hack.  It's not her fault.  I met her
folk dancing.  What difference would it make if I'd met her over
electronic mail?  Would that change her one bit?  If she didn't hack
I'd think highly of her, nonetheless.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491