I went on a date with a girl who said she was going to school for communication.
We were at a bar and grill, so I misheard her and started deep diving into networks, fiber, PTP and OTA, my favorite switches and routers, why I hate and love Cisco, but why I prefer Brocade and Ruckus, was even starting to get into AM and FM when she finally stopped me:
not communications, communication. Like, you know, talking.
Oooooh. That’s cool.
And somehow I saved the date and we were together for a good five years.
Didn’t even get to satellites. She did really appreciate that she didn’t have to pay to have her macbook repaired, or any other IT shit.
I went on a date with a girl who said she was going to school for communication.
We were at a bar and grill, so I misheard her and started deep diving into networks, fiber, PTP and OTA, my favorite switches and routers, why I hate and love Cisco, but why I prefer Brocade and Ruckus, was even starting to get into AM and FM when she finally stopped me:
not communications, communication. Like, you know, talking.
Oooooh. That’s cool.
And somehow I saved the date and we were together for a good five years.
Didn’t even get to satellites. She did really appreciate that she didn’t have to pay to have her macbook repaired, or any other IT shit.
propaganda
message shaping
What?
The common term for “Public Relations.”
I am not asking what your definition of propaganda is. I am saying I am missing your frame of reference.
She doesn’t do propaganda. We would have never, ever dated. She ended up working at a hospital.
So I guess raising awareness for women to check themselves and how to for breast cancer (literally what she did) is somehow now propaganda.
You don’t like boobs and human lives? Are you one of those anti-breast-checkers? Breast cancer denier?
Well, I am drinking the kool-aid, Alex Jones. /simply being facetious, not mocking you, so please take no offense.
So I do computers/networks/programming, and I have a big white board in my living room.
She was finishing her bachelors and I came home one day to find she wrote “I am so sick of talking about talking!”
I didn’t erase it. Just worked around it. And I would point at it anytime I had to repeat myself. I am obviously a charmer.
But we aren’t together now, actually, because she didn’t want children and I did. So it goes.
Do tell me your opinions on Cisco. My work is somewhat adjacent and sometimes there’s an overlap but I know very little about it.
Proprietary network protocols
e.g. VLAN trunking.
If you use Cisco anywhere in your infrastructure, then you kind of need to use it elsewhere.