Anecdote
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March 11, 2011
East encompassed kindergarten through senior high school. The elementary, East Elementary School, had the right half of the building while the high schools, junior and senior collectively referred to as East High School, had the left. I started there with kindergarten and attended for twelve years but at the end of my eleventh grade it was clear that something had to change. My grades were dismal and only with summer school was I advanced to the twelfth.
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March 4, 2011
The near-wealthy lived in Chickasaw Gardens just a few blocks from Picardy.
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February 26, 2011
"Attention! Attention on the line! Your three minute preparation time begins ... NOW!"
And so begins another relay.
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April 30, 2010
My first programming job was for the American Express Space Bank at the end of the 1960s. “Space Bank” was a relatively short-lived hotel and motel reservation system run by the credit card people.
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March 24, 2010
Once upon a time, there were three RTOSes named VRTX, pSOS and VxWorks.
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December 2, 2008
Thanksgiving is over and I’m back on the road but not to teach. Instead, I get to update the master images of the computers we use in the classroom with new licenses for next year.
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July 21, 2008
Rented Space
Our classes – some would call them seminars – run two to four days and are presented in company conference rooms, ours and theirs, and meeting rooms in hotels.
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October 23, 2005
A Bullseye-L email list member wrote:
"It is an absolutely perfect sunny Saturday here in Northern California. Unfortunately, my wife has the flu....so I stay home doing my best imitation of Klinger.
Would a kind soul among the BE Listers please shoot 10 rounds for me on the short line and let me know how I did by the end of the day?"
I was happy to oblige as follows.
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September 20, 2005
(Posted in http://forum.m1911.org/ by “edski”)
I often practice at an indoor range in Scottsdale AZ. It’s a very nice place and draws a wide range of clients including many LEOs as well as airline pilots practicing for their qualifications. And while I enjoy observing and talking with these shooters, I must confess there is another moment I enjoy even more.
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August 17, 2005
My brass catcher consists of a three-legged folding, all metal music stand as the base and its telescoping tube for height adjustment (discarding the music holding top part), a wire frame made from VERY heavy gauge construction wire (from Lowes because Home Depot didn’t have anything stiff enough) that is stuffed into the top of the telescoping tube, and a laundry bag with drawstring and two five pound barbell exercise weights from Walmart.