unfortunatly, most people, while they had some excess mental capabilities, always came with som e side effects
2006-09-11 25403, 2006
deadchip
probably 30-40% of people there had ADD anyway, or were different in some other strange way
2006-09-11 25406, 2006
deadchip
but it was paradise
2006-09-11 25425, 2006
deadchip
because there, people were all so weird, that we started to forget the outer selves and only see the person behind it
2006-09-11 25456, 2006
deadchip
how we looked, how we talked, what we said, all this stupid stuff that seems to matter so much to every-day people and who are ready to pick on you because of that if you're different from them in those points
2006-09-11 25458, 2006
deadchip
all that didn't matter
2006-09-11 25420, 2006
FauxFaux
Heh. :)
2006-09-11 25434, 2006
deadchip
:)
2006-09-11 25444, 2006
FauxFaux
Talking of torture, /me remembers the ipotato test IBM 'offer' new recruits
2006-09-11 25400, 2006
deadchip
it's your typical sci-fi "a camp full of weirdos with strange capabilities" scenario
2006-09-11 25403, 2006
deadchip
but we were a failed project
2006-09-11 25412, 2006
deadchip
it was terminated 2 years after i left the school
2006-09-11 25448, 2006
deadchip
approx. 40% of the people i know who were with me participating in it are now drug addicts or otherwise can't really get a grip on their life
2006-09-11 25401, 2006
deadchip
and the rest somehow managed, but they still have severe problems
2006-09-11 25414, 2006
deadchip
FauxFaux: hmm
2006-09-11 25420, 2006
deadchip
FauxFaux: i know a chick who worked at IBM
2006-09-11 25421, 2006
deadchip
Ellen
2006-09-11 25425, 2006
deadchip
she worked with me at relevantive
2006-09-11 25439, 2006
deadchip
it's a usability consulting company; they are making the new HIG for KDE 4 atm
2006-09-11 25453, 2006
deadchip
she can get all the Lenovo notebooks for half the price :|
2006-09-11 25455, 2006
deadchip
lol
2006-09-11 25457, 2006
FauxFaux
Heh, I thought that was the SUSE people. ;)
2006-09-11 25408, 2006
deadchip
FauxFaux: you mean who make the HIG?
2006-09-11 25421, 2006
deadchip
yeah well relevantive+BaSysKom+SuSE == more or less a family
2006-09-11 25423, 2006
FauxFaux
I was thinking of things like the kmenu.
2006-09-11 25427, 2006
deadchip
yeah
2006-09-11 25433, 2006
deadchip
that's all stuff that either Jan or Ellen come up with
2006-09-11 25442, 2006
deadchip
while i worked there, i actually came up with some stuff myself LOL
2006-09-11 25454, 2006
deadchip
so a small part of what everyone's using in KDE today comes from me
2006-09-11 25455, 2006
deadchip hides
2006-09-11 25407, 2006
FauxFaux
Or will be using, when it runs on Windows. ;)
2006-09-11 25422, 2006
deadchip
yeah well a.seigo is haard-set on getting it run on windows
2006-09-11 25435, 2006
deadchip
with Qt, it should be doable in the end somehow
2006-09-11 25458, 2006
FauxFaux
Heh, there's six people with the /surname/ Ellen here, let alone the first name. ;P
