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85778 Martin Harriman martinh@a... 2000‑11‑03 Bio: Martin Harriman
The funny noise you heard from under the porch was just me, planing my way
to freedom with a 4C (that's a smoother with a sole that Will Never Lap
Flat, Jeff).  A slow, laborious, and basically wrong-headed approach (Norm
would'a done it with a S*wz*ll, and more sensible people just clamber
through the existing holes), but I liked it.  And gosh but you can collect
a lot of gunk in them corrugations.  Must be what they're for.

I've been writing software (only back then it was called
programming) since General Electric made mainframe computers.  But my
father did teach me the difference between rip and crosscut saws (and how
to use the planter as a sawhorse) before he taught me Fortran.

My other more or less lucrative careers include classical philology and
epigraphy (Greek and Latin literature and inscriptions, i.e., the folks
who came Before Bailey) and el*ctric*l engineering (no rotating machinery,
just them itty bitty field-effect transistor thingies).  I answer
questions about Latin and Greek for free, and sometimes correctly.

And now the computer has vomited forth something Misshapen and Ugly on my
desktop, and I must go back to belaboring it about the (virtual) ears with
(equally virtual) blunt objects.  And they call this computer science...

  --Martin Harriman




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