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let me guess, you're not in Texas... I used to get shit ALL THE DAMNED TIME as a manager of a technical support call center, and none of my piercings were visible, and I was the youngest with the next youngest being a good 7 years older than I. Joshua ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 1:56 PM Subject: Re: good-natured knifetwisting > At 11:04 AM -0700 10/3/00, rich wrote: > >>most of the real musicians on this group are old hippies anyway . . . check > >>the archives > > > > There go the baby boomers again, trying to claim all sorts of glory for > themselves.... :-) real musicians, sheesh... > > > > >What this has to do with looping, ya got me. > > > >Saw 'Hi Fidelity' this last weekend. Enjoyed the two punk rock kids > >that John Cusack tries to pidgeonhole their music tastes based on > >their looks, and they totally do a 180 on him. > > I saw it this weekend too. I loved it that he caught them stealing >Ryuichi > Sakamoto albums..... That was sweet :) > > >Seems like a nice > >side effect of this music/technology/genre splitting/fashion > >explosion that we're having is that you REALLY can't judge the book > >by it's cover anymore... > that's for sure. Portions of my hair are very purple (this week....), and > the haircut style is definitly not a common one. Yet I work in a very > conventional corporate office managing a team of hardware engineers. (if > you don't know engineering culture, HW engineers are not ever freaks the > way software engineers sometimes are...:-) Its quite a discontinuity, > really, and I think it throws people off in both directions. (which is > great fun.) But it amazes me how little my appearance seems to matter. I > notice when I'm in meetings with other professional types, my hair might > catch their attention for a moment, and then it's like they completely > filter it out and don't notice anymore once the meeting is going. It > certainly didn't affect my career in any way. In fact, some of my boring > coworkers seem to live vicariously through me wishing they had the guts >to > dye their hair funny colors too. I haven't talked any of them into it yet > though. :-) > > kim > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > > >