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Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Mehl)
Thu May 23 15:09:55 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:04:03 -0400
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: vixie@vix.com
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In the immortal words of Paul Vixie (vixie@vix.com):
>
> The trouble is, often times I'd rather hire the world's smartest garbage
> man. I never forget that when I got done interviewing for my first full
> time programming job I went back to my job fixing cars and pumping gas, and
> my fallback plan in case programming didn't work out was driving a tow
> truck (which paid better than either.)
*blink*
You are the second person to tell me this story, almost word-for-word
verbatim, including the detail about the tow trucks.
The first person was Eugene Kashpureff. (Indeed, Alternic, Inc. was
actually a d/b/a identify of his towing company.)
It's a small, and very strange world.
-n
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Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she
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