How to know when you have lived your life right

You know you’ve been living your life right when you’re in IRC conversations that go like this…HedgeMage is a semi-regular on this blog who I’ve never met face to face, a ferociously bright twenty-something from a Midewestern rural working-class background utterly unlike mine; squidly is an ex-boyfriend of hers. They’re both hackers.

[18:03]	<esr>  squidly: Considering the age and sex and background differences, HedqeMage and I do a weirdly effective job of anticipating 
                each others' thought processes.
[18:04]	<esr>  We have both noticed this :-)
[18:04]	<hedgemage>	Yes, it can be amusing at times :)
[18:08]	<squidly>  yea it's kind of scary at times too.
[18:08]	* HedgeMage  pokes squidly to make sure he's squidly
[18:09]	<squidly> One HedgeMage in the world is scary enough.. but HedgeMage & esr double scary.. I forbid you two from dating :P
[18:09]	<hedgemage> rofl
[18:09]	<squidly>	HedgeMage: that enough proof to show it's me :P
[18:09]	<hedgemage> squidly: You didn't have the power to forbid me from dating people when we were dating, what makes you think 
                you have it now? :P
[18:10]	<hedgemage> No, everybody thinks I'm scary :P
[18:10]	<squidly> rofl.
[18:10]	<squidly> HedgeMage: umm.. umm.. I will think of a reason give me a couple of years :P
[18:11]	* esr	is ROFLMAOing
[18:11]	<squidly> and what saving the world from an esr/Hedgemage combo is enough.. we dont need you two taking over the software
                world/real world :P
[18:11]	<hedgemage> squidly: World domination is too much work. We have better things/people to do.
[18:12]	<esr> HedgeMage: Oh, crap. Do we *have* to sleep together now that someone has tried to forbid it? Asking the hard questions...
[18:12]	<squidly> I said date not sleep!
[18:12]	<esr> We knew what you meant.
[18:12]	<hedgemage> esr: That would be in our nature ;)
[18:12]	<esr> Yes. Yes, it would.
[18:13]	<squidly> yes.. you 2 go off have a sexual relationship just to punish me for trying to save the world..
[18:13]	<hedgemage> squidly: You also said dating when a certain C++ professor wanted to know how your alarm clock made both of us 
                late to an exam.
[18:13]	<esr> My sides are hurting.
[18:14]	<squidly> HedgeMage: yea but we both aced that final in about 10-15 minutes!
[18:14]	<hedgemage> squidly: I think before that he wondered why we were dating and yet insisted on sitting on opposite sides of the
                room... I did *not* want one of us accused of cheating.
[18:15]	<squidly> yea that would have been bad..
[18:15]	* esr	thinks the section from 18:03 to 18:13 needs to be framed and preserved for posterity.
[18:15]	<squidly> lmao esr
[18:16]	<hedgemage> lol... yes!

My sides started to hurt at Squidly’s 18:13 line. Internet comedy gold.

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