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.
Your correct email is esr@thyrsus.com is it not? I pulled it up from a quick google search, but I know emails tend to change over time. If it is, I have a relevant email you may want to check.