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azurelunatic) wrote2001-11-04 03:50 am
azurelunatic) wrote2001-11-04 03:50 am
Argh.
MSN conversation with a semirandom person I met online, or my roommate met online, some months ago.
I leave MSN on pretty much as much as I have my computer online, so that my friends from back home can leave me messages if I don't happen to be near the computer. Turns out that this semirandom person left me a message while I was crashed out asleep, then thought I was ignoring them when I didn't respond within a few minutes.
We had a conversation of the type most likely to burst out into flame, all about how I'd offended him by not responding because I'd fallen asleep in front of the computer.
Most of the people I talk to on MSN (my friends from home, my friends from college, the online friends I've met and built up a friendship with rather than a casual exchange of words) know my hyperactive computer habits and the fact that emergencies necessitating my immediate attention (with no time to set MSN to away -- that is a low priority compared with a cat and crashing glass, or a yowling five year old) are common around my house. That's just the way the Lunatic is. The Lunatic has DSL, the Lunatic has work, the Lunatic has school, the Lunatic never turns her computer off for the night because it's almost a 24-hour household ... the Lunatic gets up in the middle of the night and checks to see if Dave-in-Germany is online.... the Lunatic has a very short and very odd attention span.
Let me go look at my MSN friends list now.
Let's start with those online.
There's the guy I'm talking to now. He doesn't know me personally. We've never met, and we've never had any real personal conversation. He now knows my computer habits, because I just spent far too long explaining them to him.
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godai has known me for a long time online. He knows the way I do things.
Adam. We actually know each other IRL, and he's seen the way my computer is.
BJ is blocked. I don't talk to BJ anymore. He does know about my hyper thing though.
If Dot were ever online, she'd leave me a message. I'd e-mail her back. She knows my attention span.
Aunt Jane is family. MSN does not have a thingy for Macs, I think.
Votania's Dave knows how I am with computers.
Rosie is an old friend and knows me.
Another alias of the guy who got all pissy.
BJ's ex-girlfriend both before me and after me. She knows my attention span.
iroshi is getting to know my attention span, and my computer habits.
River is almost family. He knows my attention span.
John is a schoolmate. We don't chat much. He knows my attention span.
pyrogenic prompted the fragmentization and multitask-enabling of my attention span in the first place. Thank you, btw, 'Shua, for all your help with everything through the years.
Votania's never on MSN at the same time I am, for the simple reason that we share an internet connection. She perhaps knows my computer habits best of all.
Maria doesn't use MSN much --- I've never seen her online. She's a schoolmate, and knows me and my scattered (yet somehow effective) ways well from our business project together.
Mike knows me from home, and knows my attention span.
Hannah knows me from home, and I would be delighted if she ever came online. She knows my attention span far too well.
Dave-in-Germany is perhaps the reason I keep MSN on in the first place, in case he should come online. He doesn't e-mail me hardly at all (no time I suppose) so I keep MSN on so it'll be easy for him to leave messages. I wouldn't leave MSN on half as much if it were like ICQ and able to take offline messages.... He knows my attention span.
I've got Maya the Papaya from the SA on my MSN list, simply because she's got a MSN address and I like talking to her. If she should come online (I've never seen her on) I'd like to chat. She does not know my computer habits.
My old friend from high school Shawn. He knows my hyperactivity, perhaps a lesser version. He was the hyper one, in the old days...
...oh dear. My friend the pretty lesbian from home seems to have changed her nickname to Sparky. Um.... ....oh yes. She knows my hyperactivity.
My baby sister. She lived with me for eighteen years. She knows my hyperactivity.
Another alias of BJ's ex.
My beloved ex-fiancee, perhaps a future president of the USA when she gets old enough. She knows my hyperactivity.
Out of twenty-five names on my list, three of them are not familiar with my hyperactive ways on the computer. Let's make that 23 people, since the guy who got pissy is listed twice, and so's BJ's other ex. That means 2 not familiar with me, since the guy who took issue with me is two of those 3 that didn't know. What percentage of my friends list is aware of my hyperactive and onagainoffagain DSL computer habits?
The calculator says: approximately 91.3% (rounding the long decimal down) of my friends list is aware of my hyper computer habits, which is more people than know me IRL. I'd guessed 90%.
I leave MSN on pretty much as much as I have my computer online, so that my friends from back home can leave me messages if I don't happen to be near the computer. Turns out that this semirandom person left me a message while I was crashed out asleep, then thought I was ignoring them when I didn't respond within a few minutes.
We had a conversation of the type most likely to burst out into flame, all about how I'd offended him by not responding because I'd fallen asleep in front of the computer.
Most of the people I talk to on MSN (my friends from home, my friends from college, the online friends I've met and built up a friendship with rather than a casual exchange of words) know my hyperactive computer habits and the fact that emergencies necessitating my immediate attention (with no time to set MSN to away -- that is a low priority compared with a cat and crashing glass, or a yowling five year old) are common around my house. That's just the way the Lunatic is. The Lunatic has DSL, the Lunatic has work, the Lunatic has school, the Lunatic never turns her computer off for the night because it's almost a 24-hour household ... the Lunatic gets up in the middle of the night and checks to see if Dave-in-Germany is online.... the Lunatic has a very short and very odd attention span.
Let me go look at my MSN friends list now.
Let's start with those online.
There's the guy I'm talking to now. He doesn't know me personally. We've never met, and we've never had any real personal conversation. He now knows my computer habits, because I just spent far too long explaining them to him.
godai has known me for a long time online. He knows the way I do things. Adam. We actually know each other IRL, and he's seen the way my computer is.
BJ is blocked. I don't talk to BJ anymore. He does know about my hyper thing though.
If Dot were ever online, she'd leave me a message. I'd e-mail her back. She knows my attention span.
Aunt Jane is family. MSN does not have a thingy for Macs, I think.
Votania's Dave knows how I am with computers.
Rosie is an old friend and knows me.
Another alias of the guy who got all pissy.
BJ's ex-girlfriend both before me and after me. She knows my attention span.
iroshi is getting to know my attention span, and my computer habits.River is almost family. He knows my attention span.
John is a schoolmate. We don't chat much. He knows my attention span.
pyrogenic prompted the fragmentization and multitask-enabling of my attention span in the first place. Thank you, btw, 'Shua, for all your help with everything through the years. Votania's never on MSN at the same time I am, for the simple reason that we share an internet connection. She perhaps knows my computer habits best of all.
Maria doesn't use MSN much --- I've never seen her online. She's a schoolmate, and knows me and my scattered (yet somehow effective) ways well from our business project together.
Mike knows me from home, and knows my attention span.
Hannah knows me from home, and I would be delighted if she ever came online. She knows my attention span far too well.
Dave-in-Germany is perhaps the reason I keep MSN on in the first place, in case he should come online. He doesn't e-mail me hardly at all (no time I suppose) so I keep MSN on so it'll be easy for him to leave messages. I wouldn't leave MSN on half as much if it were like ICQ and able to take offline messages.... He knows my attention span.
I've got Maya the Papaya from the SA on my MSN list, simply because she's got a MSN address and I like talking to her. If she should come online (I've never seen her on) I'd like to chat. She does not know my computer habits.
My old friend from high school Shawn. He knows my hyperactivity, perhaps a lesser version. He was the hyper one, in the old days...
...oh dear. My friend the pretty lesbian from home seems to have changed her nickname to Sparky. Um.... ....oh yes. She knows my hyperactivity.
My baby sister. She lived with me for eighteen years. She knows my hyperactivity.
Another alias of BJ's ex.
My beloved ex-fiancee, perhaps a future president of the USA when she gets old enough. She knows my hyperactivity.
Out of twenty-five names on my list, three of them are not familiar with my hyperactive ways on the computer. Let's make that 23 people, since the guy who got pissy is listed twice, and so's BJ's other ex. That means 2 not familiar with me, since the guy who took issue with me is two of those 3 that didn't know. What percentage of my friends list is aware of my hyperactive and onagainoffagain DSL computer habits?
The calculator says: approximately 91.3% (rounding the long decimal down) of my friends list is aware of my hyper computer habits, which is more people than know me IRL. I'd guessed 90%.
Correction:
Hmm. Looks like we've got one smart cookie here, and ... one not-so-smart cookie.
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though i do sometimes pretend not to be there heh.
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and do I get pissed? No.