May Likes TorontoYeah yeah, everyone on the fedi's heard about your ✨special interests✨.
But what about your fleeting interests?
roland@mayintoronto lol I have so many of those too :-)
Richard Eriksson@roland I met a guy recently who called himself a dilettante, and that reminded me of your Mastodon handle, and I thought “I served with a dilettante, a dilettante is a friend of mine, and you, sir, are no dilettante.”
@sillygwailo omg rofl
@sillygwailo "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy"
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@sillygwailo from a search for "dilettante":
"a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Similar:
dabbler
putterer
tinkerer
trifler
dallier
amateur
nonprofessional
nonspecialist
Opposite:
professional
archaic: a person with an amateur interest in the arts.
^^^--- this is about right?!? I have always been a computer dabbler / amateur / non professional even when I wrote software for a living :-) Perhaps its my attention issues :-) as well
"a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Similar:
dabbler
putterer
tinkerer
trifler
dallier
amateur
nonprofessional
nonspecialist
Opposite:
professional
archaic: a person with an amateur interest in the arts.
^^^--- this is about right?!? I have always been a computer dabbler / amateur / non professional even when I wrote software for a living :-) Perhaps its my attention issues :-) as well
@sillygwailo embrace the "dallier" within :-) ROFL
@sillygwailo new personal slogan for me: "A computer software dallier since 1977" :-) or something