Herve's Bar & Grill

**tismey** · April 25th, 2002, 10:04 AM

Originally posted by voice-
oh my god, I just realized something, you 2(tismey and symfonix) have just about the same post-count as me...I see you as legends here, I really thought you'd have "Congratulations to"-topics around here...

Legend? L'il ol' me? I just keep you lot refreshed.

Actually, I realised the other day that it's ages since I posted anything that's actually USEFUL on this site. I usually only get an opportunity to appear clever if I get to a post started by a newbie before anyone else does. My professional expertise is all in Oracle PL-SQL, which doesn't get queried very often around here (due to there being no OSX client, I guess). I'm the first point of contact for all my Mac-owning friends when they get in a bit of a pickle in the real world, but here I'm just yet another person who knows a fair bit about Macs! I quite like that.

As for post counts, I tend to lurk. The number of times I've hit 'reply to', then changed my mind cos I can't think of anything constructive to say....

Symphonix - I know what you mean about interesting people. When I worked behind a bar, I used to meet people who were either amazingly interesting people, or very practised liars and to be honest I don't care which they were cos they were entertaining. Since I've been working at a 'proper' job, the people here are cool, but I've still not met anyone who claims he was drummed out of the foreign office by Margaret Thatcher as a scapegoat for a shooting at Checkpoint Charlie 9 days before the Wall came down....

**voice-** · April 25th, 2002, 11:15 AM

Originally posted by tismey

I'm the first point of contact for all my Mac-owning friends when they get in a bit of a pickle in the real world, but here I'm just yet another person who knows a fair bit about Macs! I quite like that.

Exactly how I am. In real life and other forums I'm the first guy to ask. I had 2 people asking "Which Mac should I buy?" in as many days. One is a guy who has $3000 to spend(getting the dual 1Ghz, he wouldn't wait till MWNY) and the other is a girl in my class who got a PC which was pap, returned it and thought "the Mac at school never does this".
There is one guy, however, who I have a great respect for. He's my source of info and has a dual 1Ghz. It was not long ago I actually talked him out of using IE, the Tabbed browsing of Mozilla did the trick...

But alas, here I'm only another guy with a Mac or two...I like that

**ulrik** · April 25th, 2002, 11:22 AM

NKuvu, today while I was working, the TV sitcom "Roseanne" ran in the background, and I watched to the TV from time to time, and then I saw that on the fridge hangs a drawing from DJ which is nearly 100% your avatar...I'd even say it IS your Avatar...

anybody care to explain???

**Klink** · April 25th, 2002, 11:41 AM

*strolls in, hands in pocket, finding an empty stool. Plops down.*

Hi yall.

tismey I understand what you mean about posting habits. I will ponder at times how this changes as our memberships age.

Hehe, we should have therapy group for members that have gone through the aging stages of macosx.com. We can have questions floating around like... "It's been 2 weeks, and I can't seem to get motivated in posting replies for members having internet connection problems. Am I bad?"

**edX** · April 25th, 2002, 12:16 PM

tismey - maybe if you abbreviated to "Off bartender/Ass mananger", you could get your entire title in your descriptor

klink - i have been thinking about creating my own FAQ database so that i can just cut and paste answers that seem to get asked anew about every 2-3 weeks. I was suggesting people do a site search but lots of newbies seem to not understand the concept. it does become a toiling task to answer the same set of problems over and over and maintain a sense of mental stimulation and satisfaction. you can count me in for your group sessions

now i tend to meet lots of interesting characters. i am also a moron magnet. Being able to attract others into your life who are 'different' brings in all sorts. The problem is that if you start getting too irritated with the morons, then you shut down the energy that is attracting unusual people into your life. so learning to deal with the truly 'odd' is a necessity if you want to continue to interact with the entertaining. actually taken with a smidgon of humor, odd people can be quite entertaining as well.

**voice-** · April 25th, 2002, 12:41 PM

Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
tismey - maybe if you abbreviated to "Off bartender/Ass mananger", you could get your entire title in your descriptor

It's my fault he won't put it there, I'm bullying him, calling him "Ass manager of bartender"

**nkuvu** · April 25th, 2002, 12:44 PM

NKuvu, today while I was working, the TV sitcom "Roseanne" ran in the background, and I watched to the TV from time to time, and then I saw that on the fridge hangs a drawing from DJ which is nearly 100% your avatar...I'd even say it IS your Avatar...

I got my avatar off the net -- years ago, I am not sure where. But I don't have any connections to Roseanne. Heck, I don't even have television. I watch movies, but not regular TV.