A guy worked as "IT person" in a small-to-medium company. Never talked to anyone. Fixed printers, servers and so on.
One day, he came to accountants to fix a printer. Barely said hello as usual. But one accountant girl decided to strike up a conversation and asked him: "By the way, how old a re you?"
The guy stopped to stare into infinity for a few seconds, then answered: "Far too old" Got up, went to HR, and resigned.
@Moon@coolboymew Reminds me that I worked on two OS, which had no CLI at all. Their main user shells were based on fundamentally different concepts. They were MISS and MacOS 6. And both of them ended creating a surrogate CLI eventually (MISS got it in its UNIX emulator and MacOS added it as a part of PDB).
@lain@jeremiah@Moon And nobody has ever done a suspended flanged system since. The other pictured train appears to be a SAFEGE enclosed beam system (or maybe a SIEPEM version of it).
@Moon@bot Better get moving. My greatest regret in life is having only one child. BTW, two life stories:
1. A girl from my cohort had her first (and last) kids when she was 52. She's struggling. Her husband is was 56 at the time. Obviously, parents were no help at all.
2. A friend lost his wife to cancer when they were in their early 60s somewhere. Then he married his high school girlfriend. She was waiting all that time. No kids anymore obviously.
@Moon@bot What are you saying? With your money you should be beating off the gold diggers with a baseball bat. Miami? Who cares! The world is your onion.
And it does not need to end in a divorce on the day after she obtains U.S. citizenship. My sister hunted herself an American who visited Russia on business. They are happily together with 2 boys (in a $3 million house, which might help).