Rock Life
Anecdotes of Rich Franzen
Real-life experience #1:
Real-life experience #2:
Fourteen years old.
Junior High Wood Shop.
Rack with about 16 different kinds of handsaws.
Learn their names.
Can't learn their names; they're all saws.
Learn Their Names.
Study; memorize hard. F.
Learn Their Names.
Study rack; look at saws and names.
Hard; they're still all saws. C-.
Good boy.
Conclusion: saws are still saws.
(I do remember keyhole saw, though.)
Real-life experience #3:
24 years old.
First computer; Exidy Sorcerer II.
David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games.
Customize Hangman using Exidy graphic characters.
Store graphic image in 2-dimensional array.
Don't work -- spacing messed up.
But it's right!
Days go by. Try this; try that.
Still don't work.
Still right!
Try replacing empty elements with ASCII 32's vice ASCII 0's.
Works!
Conclusions:
1) there is a nothing you can see and is there
2) there is a nothing you cannot see and is there
3) there is a nothing that is not there at all
4) nothings are different
Real-life experience #4:
Early thirties.
Try writing magazine articles.
Forth_Dimensions accepts article for publication. Never published.
Run accepts article for publication. Pays me! Never published.
Compute rejects proposed series of articles.
Sends me plane tickets to interview for technical editor or some-such.
Conclusion: ??? (If you can figure
it out, please let me know.)
Currently:
I work for DBA Systems,
Inc. as a "Staff Scientist". I program, analyze algorithms,
process images, document, and answer technical questions.
My interests include Forth, image processing, the Amiga
computer, science fiction/fantasy, and, still, writing.
Bix
resumé resurrected by Joanne Dow,
Amiga Exchange Editor and Wizardress