FinalBoy1975

vi has always been my bane because I'm a sloppy typist. I can't count the number of files i had to fix because they ended with :q i like nano because the commands are ctrl + whatever. i don't make a mess.

I really think it would be a great movie plot. Could even be a slasher film.

Yeah, that's part of the joke. I probably didn't press ESC first. LOL

I actually learned how to use vi like 30 years ago and I had all the commands memorized. Then, nano came along. All the commands are at the bottom of the screen to remind you. It was just too tempting to pass up. However, I can't help but suspect that somewhere out there I might have left a vi session open because maybe I mistyped. I might have accidentally typed ;q! instead of :q! or something.

Yeah, it's very similar, but at home in the US I can think of a few situations where it might be ok to say it looks bad from my personal life.

It's not really transactional. It's just a situation where you got left out of the birthday and happened to go out to the same place where the birthday is being celebrated. However, it's interesting to note that there is no such thing as a surprise birthday party. The birthday boy or girl is the one that throws the party because of the reciprocity aspect. You wouldn't be caught dead attending a birthday without a present for the person whose birthday it is. You also wouldn't be caught dead letting people bring you birthday presents AND buying you dinner. It's more like "tit for tat" than "transactional."

Don't worry! As soon as I knew I had to move to there to have a job, I was looking for another job. I really didn't want to live there. I just kind of put up with it and found a way to go back to my east coast, where I could speak freely with my trashy accent and be in good company. No offense to you and where you live, which I dislike. Just not a place I wanted to live in. I worked there and found my escape. If you ever wish to secede from the United States, by the way, feel free. I'll vote in favor.

In the USA, the birthday thing is the best thing about the USA. It's all about being selfless (I'm American btw, been living in Spain for so long I'm a citizen) and it's actually something that creates conflict in interpersonal relationships between natives of Spain and the friends they make that are not from here. It is a huge drama that somebody needs to make a documentary film about now. This birthday thing has no age. It could be a 20th birthday or a 100th birthday. You ain't invited, you didn't know, you didn't bring the presents, you just keep to yourself in the public venue. It's harsh. It's harsh because you were excluded and you don't care, because you're American, you just want to be nice and wish them a happy birthday. Spanish people are all nope on that shit. It's all about the presents and who bought you the drinks and food.

You should have lived my life as an employee at the University of Iowa living in the center of Iowa City. It was a huge nightmare. The whole mid-western world is a place I had to live in, as a foreign languages and literature professor, for a few years. I just tried to survive avoiding using English. Stuck around with my Spanish-speaking pals. Until I escaped. Disguised as a Spanish speaker, I was actually better off. Otherwise, I spoke English, to be humiliated by higher-ranking administrators with their smooth, mid-western neutrality. So many times I had to hear about how my accent was just a matter of the forgetting of the letter R. Thankfully, I found a job back East, in Boston, in fact.

I actually speak like that naturally. Being the lower-class Bostonian that I am. I promise I've tried really hard all my life to try to speak neutrally. I enter the room and open my mouth, I just sound like trash.

This means something that has been true since before OS X was invented (circa 1990-ish) that hasn't changed. Wanna game on the puter? Mac ain't it. Mac never been it. Apple actually provides hardware that is gaming able. They don't want to cater to gamers. They could do this easily and sell so many heavy duty desktop towers now. Why won't they? They'd have to UN-propriatary themselves.