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wrote:
> In article
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>,
> Kenneth <klshafer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> I use an Olde-Fa****onede Unix shell account (it used to be dial-up
but
> >> with modern technology I telnet into it) upon which I run trn; it is
> >> configured so that when I press 'F' to reply my editor is pico.
> >>
> >
> >Do you still do your web-surfing with Lynx? :-)
>
> More that I should, probably... it's just... *there*, you know, and so
> fast.
>
> >
> >Ahhh, yes, DocDwarf, your RealProgrammer[tm] credentials are
> >impeccable...
>
> Pish, tosh and piffle... that I use pico instead of vi places me Beyond
> the Pale in some folks' books. I am Olde Schoole enough so that I
prefer
> columns of numbers to graphs, charts and diagrams... but even during
Olde
> Schoole days there were folks who made better sense with and out of
lines
> and colors than I could.
>
> I recall, back when I was a student of chemistry, spending time with a
> lass who was studying art... at times we would sit together and do
> homework. She'd grab a piece of charcoal and a sheet of paper, move her
> hand... and there would appear something that actually... *looked* like
> something; I'd stare, in amazement, and say 'This is wonderful... how do
> you *do* that?'
>
> I'd be doing something like... balancing stochastic equations, looking
at
> charts, scribbling out lines combining capital and lower-case letters,
> subscripts, superscripts, parentheses and equal-signs... and she'd watch
> me flip through pages, look up at the ceiling, and generate a flow of
> these symbols...
>
> ... and she'd stare, in amazement, and say 'This is wonderful... how do
> you *do* that?'
>
> Apples are not oranges, bananas are not nectarines, grapes and
> pineapple-cubes are likewise disparate... and yet, at times, Life can be
a
> wonderful fruit-salad.
>
Dispite countless attemps by a bevy of Fortune 500 companies, I have
steadfastly managed to avoid anything that remotely resembles
management. I am a technician, to the very bones. These days, I wear
many hats, some say system programmer, some say DB2 DBA, some say
Endevor or Changeman admin, and my favorite one says Rexx Guru, but
not ONE of them says "Manager" :)
BTW, re-hi, doc :)
Mickey
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