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Thomas G. Marshall said something like:

...[rip]...

> Read these two quick posts of mine, from the same thread.  You may learn
> something critical that will save you with girls.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/msg/85564143d0f3fbb8
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/msg/9bf00ee662c894fb

Well, google seems to be screwing up again from the links but not from the 
search, so I'll just post the parts here.

---------[1]----------

When you think about it, most engineers are probably girl-less.

As a software engineer, when I would go to parties I would NEVER EVER admit
to being an engineer.  The moment I did, the wall-flower geeks would all
show up (all guys) trying to start conversations like "what do you think
about the new pentium" and all the women would run from the room screaming
with their arms in the air.

I realized very young that I was part of a sad population who, taken as an
aggregate, related better to machines than people.  A seething world of
Dilberts.

---------[2]----------

(Responding to "Obviously the parties you go to are filled with losers.
software engineering is a respected profession.")

My response:
The respect for the profession does not matter in the least: why on earth
would it?

The medical professions are well respected, but doctors are even bigger
losers.


I have friends who are doctors and I refused to go to their parties anymore.
It's all this posturing and affected speech patterns.


My wife, myself, and one other were the only three non-doctors at an
enormous Chinese dinner table in Chinatown, Boston.  All the 12 others were.
We took turns ordering for food for all to share.  The doctors were all
trying to impress each other with the esoteric Chinese dishes they knew of
that wasn't on the menu.


For example, one was something called "boiled sliced chicken".  Fucking
gross: you take a chicken, sans feathers, boil it whole complete with all
internal organs, and then slice it.  Basically every slice is a chicken
anatomy lesson.  The head is served as well complete with smokey boiled
eyes.


Basically this how the nite ended: My moo shi was gone.  My wife's spicy
green beans were gone.  My non-doc friend's crispy orange beef, gone.  What
was left?  All the whack job esoteric non-menu shit that the doctors all
wanted to impress each other with.  The boiled sliced chicken was left
nearly untouched.



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reversed do not understand much about the design of the utilities.  "ln arg1
arg2" sets the arguments in the same order as "mv arg1 arg2".  Existing file
argument to non-existing argument.  And in fact, mv itself is implemented as 
a
link followed by an unlink.