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[Method of Madness]

Be nice to people is the general rule.

[Patrick]

Hi Will! I don't remember if I changed my name from KimJongSick before you left or not, but that's me. I've hopefully grown up a bit.

[Sousaphone]

Well, well, well, what have we here?

It's been a while, to say the least, but I've never really had the time to dedicate myself to forums - or indeed the attention span. Nevertheless, here I am again, though probably not for long.

I started lurking here in 2006 after a few years or so(?) on ye olde irc channel, and boy do I ever not recognize most of you. Very pleased to see Bain, Est, Hannah, Edith, Gareth, Patrick, and not least Squiddy are still around. As my huuuge post count (3 including this one) seems to indicate, I won't be particularly seen or heard from here, but I thought I'd say hi.

For those of you that haven't kept up elsewhere, loads of things has happened over the past eight years. I'm still married to the same lovely lady, but we have a son now, and we've bought an apartment in a wonderfully-non-posh-yet-horribly-expensive part of greater Copenhagen. I've also sort of managed to end up working on very large scale linux deployments, currently with oversight of operations for a 1500+ server hosting setup and the associated operations team in India (which I have so far not had to visit). I've also managed to meet up with quite a few very lovely QC-related people over the years, not least Jmrz, Catfish_Man, pickle, and surya.

See you all again in eight years or less, I suppose?

[Method of Madness]

I love Copenhagen and would move there in a second if I could speak Danish.

[Sousaphone]

I love Copenhagen and would move there in a second if I could speak Danish.

You pretty much don't have to - I have a US colleague that spent a few years here without ever learning. Almost everyone here speaks a pretty ok English and are eager to do so given the chance.

[Method of Madness]

Yeah, that's fine for visiting but if I live somewhere I feel I should learn the language. Then again, I'd probably pick up enough after a while, so...who knows what the future will bring? If I'm there in eight years when you come back, I'll let you know

[Metope]

Moving somewhere is the best way to learn the language there! And you can get on perfectly without knowing Danish in Denmark, so you could easily move there and not know a word, and then spend your time learning.

[Method of Madness]

It wouldn't stop me from finding work?

[Metope]

Doubt it, although it might make it a little harder to find something. Depends on your field of work as well, but there are plenty of English speakers working full time in Norway at least, and I bet it's the same for Denmark. Tech work is usually very English-friendly, and lots of international companies in all kinds of fields do everything in English anyway, since that's the language most people in the west have in common.

[pwhodges]

When I worked for Norsk Data in the 1980s (at the time it was the second largest company in Norway), the official language in their head office was English.  Although the locals naturally spoke Norwegian among themselves, there was no sense that an English speaker was excluded in any way.  I've heard similar things more recently about Philips in Holland, so I suppose it's not that uncommon.

[Sousaphone]

The corporate language where I work is English, same goes for almost all the IT-related businesses of a similar size or larger that I know of, as well as quite a  lot of other companies. For Copenhagen alone this means at least two to three digit figure numbers of companies where not knowing Danish (yet) is not a problem at all.

[Patrick]

Oddly enough, despite your low postcount, I remember you. Congrats on the youngling, that's awesome news to hear! How old is he now?

Also, sad to say, Est and Hannah don't post here very much anymore. Our new admin, pwhodges, is a delightful guy though. I'm not entirely convinced he hasn't done everything ever.

[Sousaphone]

Oddly enough, despite your low postcount, I remember you. Congrats on the youngling, that's awesome news to hear! How old is he now?

I'm honored to be remembered!

My son will be three next week, which also means it's now almost four years since I last saw any of the old forum people in real life. Don't ask me where time went or how many diapers I've had to change...

As for Est and Hannah, damned people getting lives and abandoning the internets! 

[Pilchard123]

Where did the time go and how many diapers have you had to change?

[Patrick]

how many diapers have you had to change?

like anyone can ever keep track of how much poopin a kiddo actually does. they're like factories.

[pwhodges]

As for Est and Hannah, damned people getting lives and abandoning the internets! 

They haven't; they're at http://huagl.net/forums

[Method of Madness]

That hardly counts

[Metope]

For you, no. It does for a lot of us though so there's no point in rolling your eyes over it. The chat room is more active than the rest of it anyway.

[BeoPuppy]

I love Copenhagen and would move there in a second if I could speak Danish.

Me too!

[Welu]

Since I've been away a couple months, which is a really tiny absence compared to some of the returns here, I figured I'd post here.

I'm Welu. Here are my bullet points:

• I make films and do some other artsy stuff.
• Gender questioning. Settled on non-binary as a label for now. They/their/them pronouns.
• Living in Norn Eire.
• I want to pet all the dogs.

[Eddie 88]

Since I've been away a couple months, which is a really tiny absence compared to some of the returns here, I figured I'd post here.

I'm Welu. Here are my bullet points:

• I make films and do some other artsy stuff.
• Gender questioning. Settled on non-binary as a label for now. They/their/them pronouns.
• Living in Norn Eire.
• I want to pet all the dogs.

Is that a Teen Girl Squad reference?

[Welu]

Not intentionally but I am going to rewatch that series now. I actually had Hyperbole and a Half in mind while writing it.

[syrupykeyboard]

Geez, it's been a long time since I've been on the QC forums. Not having a computer coupled with a general sense of lethargy and apathy hasn't helped. Gonna try to figure out how the territory's changed, try to start postin' again. I've missed you guys.
                     ~ Joe (syrupykeyboard)

[Method of Madness]

Welcome back!

[idontunderstand]

Hello you guys! 

[Pilchard123]

Hey! Nice to see you again!

[idontunderstand]

Thanks. 

[Hairy Joe Bob]

I bet no one remembers me.

[Method of Madness]

'fraid not. Do you remember me?

[Hairy Joe Bob]

Nope. I'm old and grey. My knees are nobbly.

[Lines]

I bet no one remembers me.

I remember you! Dunno if you remember me though.

[Patrick]

I remember you! iirc my registry/activity predates yours, you may remember me as KimJongSick.

[Thrillho]

Actually he predates us both by a couple years, bro. Although I have no memory of him at all.

[Patrick]

Ahh, that's what I get for not checking. Either way, I remember you, HJB, because I vaguely recall your username being part of the Quiki (RIP).

[pwhodges]

I bet no one remembers me.

Certainly I remember you!  But, of course, my memory has been kept fresh by seeing you with the same name on another forum

[Hairy Joe Bob]

Yeah...said forum is currently offline though.

I just had a quick scan through the topics here and recognised barely anyone. I recognise you Patrick. And you pwhodges.

I'm kind've surprised my username is still active. I kind've come back every year or two just to have a nosey. Still read the comic, mind. Ah, the Quiki! It was fun.

[pwhodges]

Said forum is not offline - you have a PM.

[bainidhe_dub]

I remember you!

[Hairy Joe Bob]

And I you!

[Method of Madness]

What's the other forum?

[pwhodges]

Pocket Jury; now renamed Huagl.

[Thrillho]

Yeah...said forum is currently offline though.

I just had a quick scan through the topics here and recognised barely anyone. I recognise you Patrick. And you pwhodges.

I'm kind've surprised my username is still active. I kind've come back every year or two just to have a nosey. Still read the comic, mind. Ah, the Quiki! It was fun.

I was DynamiteKid many years ago if that rings any bells.

[Patrick]

Ah, the Quiki! It was fun.

I'm almost curious enough to try and find it on the Wayback Machine but ehhhh lazy

[Hairy Joe Bob]

Ah names names names I recognise.

[Grognard]

way back in the day, when the Internet was young and AOL ruled cyberspace, I was known as LEGALEAGLE.
(long time before there was Twitter)

[pwhodges]

Ah, the Quiki! It was fun.

I'm almost curious enough to try and find it on the Wayback Machine but ehhhh lazy

There's not enough there to be worth it.

[jwhouk]

I've been jwhouk since day one.

And that day one was sometime back in, oh, about 1993.

[Kugai]

[Patrick]

Ah, the Quiki! It was fun.

I'm almost curious enough to try and find it on the Wayback Machine but ehhhh lazy

There's not enough there to be worth it.

Oh man, the page for my old moniker is delightfully horrifying. God I'm happy I'm not a shithead teenager anymore, and that I'm simply a shithead now.

[Thrillho]

Wait, how did you get to that, Pat?