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From: li@uw-vlsi.ARPA (Phyllis Li)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The Silicon Syndrome
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 16:52:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 16:52:16 1986
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Reply-To: li@uw-vlsi.UUCP (Phyllis Li)
Organization: UW/NW VLSI Consortium, Seattle
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Summary: Never had an SO that wasn't Science/Engineering inclined

I thought about it for a while after reading the original article, and
suddenly realized that I had never HAD an SO that couldn't talk to me about
computers and stuff... but I did have housemates that couldn't and they
became rather leary of me mumbling about bytes, deamons, and paths.
Eventually I had to leave because they simply couldn't relate.

Not that I always talk computers... in fact I think that is one of the
lesser of my interests; but it IS nice to be able to talk about them without
getting a glazed look from my conversational partner.  I think the beauty of
it is in the choice, but I will freely admit that I am much more prone to
going off in the mouth about my last fencing tournement, my 20+ pen pals, or
the state of my car or plants or my last knitting project than about my last
design for a co-processor or something.

I never had a problem with them not being able to keep up with me, either,
for some reason I seem to be able to gauge most abilities and levels, could
be that I have learned the right questions to ask along the way...

				Liralen

-- 
"The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward
so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there."

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