While both were at lunch I snuck onto their computers and sent an email saying "Got a question - meet me in the conference room at 2pm?" While they were in there, I switched the screen saver on both computers to the Text Scroll feature with "I will stop bothering John with stupid questions" as the scrolled text and "IMSORRY" as the password. Two guys in particular kept asking me for help setting up screen savers - so they could then go into the other's computer and set up random screen savers that they didn't know how to fix. The second thing I got asked to help with? Screen savers. Even though the standard background - white with black text - is what TYPED UPON PIECES OF PAPER looked like. Remember how it looked? Blue background with white text? They couldn't get over that change, so they wanted me to set up their software so the default presentation was blue background and white text. The biggest thing, believe it or not, is that people wanted to change their word processing software so it looked like it did in DOS. I'd say a good half of my time was spent as a de facto computer expert even though I was far from it - simply because I knew more than these folks. I was, at the time, in college and spent my summers working for the government. Back in the early to mid-1990s, the federal government was finally upgrading from DOS to Windows. Thought I'd share a couple fun stories about computer literacy re: the poll. The book DID deal at length with Burr's allegedly overly romantic relationship with his acknowledged daughter, Theodosia, oddly named after her mother. The book did not, as I recall, mention the African-American ancestry of Burr's unacknowledged daughter, which is nicely and pretty convincingly chronicled here. If you have a competitor please post it here. This is the best top to any book I have ever read. Reputedly she is the richest woman in New York City, having begun her days humbly but no doubt cheerfully in a brothel in Providence, Rhode Island. Aaron Burr is the widow of wine merchant Steven Jumel. A court presided over by chief justice John Marshall found Colonel Burr innocent of treason but guilty of a misdemeanor in proposing an invasion of Spanish territory in order to make himself emperor of Mexico. Three years after this lamentable affair colonel Burr was arrested by orders of president Thomas Jefferson and charged with treason for having wanted to break up the United States. In 1804 Colonel Burr, then vice president of the United States, shot and killed General Alexander Hamilton in a duel. This was the Colonel's second marriage a half century ago he married Theodosia Prevost. In attendance were Madame Jumel's niece (some say daughter) and her husband, Nelson Chase, a lawyer from Mr. "Shortly before midnight, July 1, 1833, Colonel Aaron Burr, aged 77, married Eliza Jumel, born 58 years ago (but more likely 67, but remember she is prone to litigation!) The ceremony took place at Madame Jumel's mansion on the Washington Heights and was performed by Dr. Regarding "Burr," it is a great, great historical novel. I disclosed my contempt for the silliness of the middle name "Otto," which I recently discovered belongs to a man I admire, but in that tweet I did not explain the full context, which is my middle name of "Norman," which has always been a secret shame of mine, a shame that is now diminished by the knowledge of an Otto. These observations are about recent tweets of mine.
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