My guess is that this conversation happened entirely in his head. His wife was in the room nodding and mumbling "uh huh" while he rattled off hacker-speak for way too long. He left off his wife's last line of: "Sorry, did you say something?"
That's his fault, not hers. You should see her version.
When I write conversations down it's hard to capture the spirit of the give and take. My straight-line write-down-the-meat approach always ends up devaluing the questions and ideas raised by others. My goal is to record what I learned from them, and I often come off sounding self-obsessed. I think it's an occupational hazard: all of us emphasize what we say in our own minds. Writing down conversations just uncomfortably highlights that fact.
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Feels like this guy has married ELIZA
My guess is that this conversation happened entirely in his head. His wife was in the room nodding and mumbling "uh huh" while he rattled off hacker-speak for way too long. He left off his wife's last line of: "Sorry, did you say something?"
Are you kidding? I'm sure his wife knows all about polymorphic verbs.
That's his fault, not hers. You should see her version.
When I write conversations down it's hard to capture the spirit of the give and take. My straight-line write-down-the-meat approach always ends up devaluing the questions and ideas raised by others. My goal is to record what I learned from them, and I often come off sounding self-obsessed. I think it's an occupational hazard: all of us emphasize what we say in our own minds. Writing down conversations just uncomfortably highlights that fact.
Please go on.