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From: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The Silicon Syndrome
Message-ID: <392@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 11:39:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 11:39:36 1986
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In article <2c7dfefa.7005@apollo.uucp> nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>How many of you out there find that you can have a 
>long-term relationship with someone who is not involved in computers?

Good question.  I find that I can do so (I've done so in the past),
but it's difficult these days simply because I don't meet many
people who AREN'T involved with them!

>The catch is, that if I *am* with someone who is
>in the field (my SO comes to mind) I tend to expect too much from them.
>Suggestions?  Comments?  Personal experiences?

It usually happens that although he's "involved with computers,"
my SO has interests in a field different enough so that
we don't overlap by much.  I can tell him what I did during the day
and he understands, and vice versa, but we don't do the same things,
so I don't find myself "expecting too much from him."

It is nice, though, to have an SO who giggles when you take the
write ring off your arm. . .

>        Kee "i'm not a hacker, i've just programmed non-stop since i
>             got my ba in anthropology" Hinckley

Pooh  "I'm not a hacker, I just pound the keyboard all day
       and boot it when it crashes"

                topaz!unipress!pooh
                topaz!unirot!pooh

Did you ever get into bear-baiting?
I was into, for a while there, bear-HATING. . .