In school, the prof teaching my “Intro to the C Language” course, Dr. H, really took the “Baptist” part of OBU to heart. The final project was that he would hand us a text file, a book from the New Testament, and we were to write a C program to generate a concordance (an index) …
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Teatime of the Sophisticate
We get better by using our tools in the pursuit of excellence.
End Credits
Sneak out the fire door of the theater under the screen. Piss behind the building instead of waiting for an open head out front. Walk around the block to your car. Remember it’s a global pandemic and that you’re not actually going to a theater to watch a movie. Realize you’re outside of time. Nothing …
If You Understand, or If You Don’t
Remembering the time in the dorm, late spring 95, on a 3-way call with Pam and Karen having a really good chat and smiling, when I loaded my CD player, put earbud to phone, and played part of Enigma’s “The Dream of the Dolphin”, and they loved it. That was a special moment in time. …
Icosiennial
Twenty years ago, I remember feeling hope. Was working a shit job doing overnight front desk at a hotel, night audit. Living in my mother’s rented house. Scratching my ankles every day because the carpets were still tainted from the flea bombs we set while moving in nine months prior. Glaring at the daylight streaming …