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matthew

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Jun 16, 2005 11:56

A message I received on AIM:

r u there?????

The sad part? This is my dad typing this. *sigh*

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piryas June 16 2005, 19:06:12 UTC

I like that. I've been trying to teach my dad 1337 skilz.
Um, because it would be cool? DON'T JUDGE ME!
You look just like my friend Eric, it's scarey because the only thing he knows how to do on a computer is download porn. I wouldn't trust him with your job....

matthew June 17 2005, 04:45:08 UTC

he's not being l33t, that's just the way he types :P Sometimes the sentences take some figuring out when he drops too much punctuation.

Why it's sad to you? poige June 17 2005, 03:52:30 UTC

Re: Why it's sad to you? matthew June 17 2005, 04:44:08 UTC

Because my dad is typing like a 13 year old. He always shortens 'you' and 'are' and doesn't seem to be able to find the shift key. He also generally misses punctuation. Though there is a reason. He used to be in the army and ran teletype there and I guess this is the shorthand they used. The up side of all this is that I can tell if it's my mom or my dad on the computer ;)

> and ran teletype there and I guess this is the shorthand they used. poige June 17 2005, 04:55:15 UTC

So, that's rather cool! :-) And I'm sure that thinking in a way like "he/she's doing something like teenager' is your limitation. "Is (that he's doing) it really bad?" should be the right question instead (to my mind).

P. S. Anyway, even if that wasn't due to his skills gained in army, try to think over -- why you're against of your dad being a child?... That's normal. As soon as you get older, you find, that you self-feeling is like being a quite young person. At least a lot of people older than me told and tell me that.

Re: > and ran teletype there and I guess this is the shorthand they used. matthew June 17 2005, 05:10:14 UTC

yes, I guess that it is my limitation. Mostly I think that I find it amusing, so it's only a small limitation :)

Maybe I should find an old teletype machine and hook it up to AIM for my dad... that would be rather cool actually.

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johng92888 June 27 2005, 06:13:58 UTC

just out of curiousity, do you get some kind of money from running this website? you sure do put a lot of time into it...and is everything run from home offices? ...........just wondering,

matthew June 27 2005, 06:36:06 UTC

We're a bit bigger than that :)

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