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From: mink@cfa.UUCP (Doug Mink)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The Silicon Syndrome
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 14:50:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 14:50:16 1986
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I was married to another computer person for a number of years (we met
at MIT), though she went off into wildlife ecology for awhile.  Over the
years since our divorce (she later married a HARDWARE person), I've gone out
with women who were employed as carpenters, secretaries, futon-makers,
investment bankers, and even an astronomer.  Though I still call my
ex-wife now and then to talk about technical stuff--we both do a lot of
computer graphics--I've found that all I need is a moderate interest in
what I do for a living on the part of my SO, with a reciprocal interest
in their work on my part.  My work is not my life.  It is nice to have
someone close who understands the details of what I do, but it's even
better to have someone with whom I can share the other things I enjoy in
life, such as folk music, bicycling, politics, canoeing, skiing, etc.
I guess I don't want to be the kind of person, too many of whom I have
met, whose work is so important that they just don't have time to think
about anything else.  An SO with a different line of work and a
non-computerist or non-scientist outlook on life helps keep things in
perspective for me (and, hopefully, I can do the same for them).

			-Doug Mink, aging hippy astronomer
			 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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