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ALUMNI: MCALUMDB appears to be down
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ALUMNI: Fixed up the jasper jottings front lot
Saturday, November 4, 2006Have to nuke the stuff left hanging around.
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ALUMNI: Another week; another issue of Jasper Jottings
Saturday, November 4, 2006Shipped! Time to start next week’s.
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ALUMNI: Move sports to a beta blog
Saturday, October 28, 2006http://jasperjottings.blogspot.com
Switching the blog that I use for the Jasper Jottings sports stories over to the new google offering. I’m always up for some bleeding edge when it really doesn’t matter.
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ALUMNI: Weekly issue pushed
Saturday, October 28, 2006And, I was delayed by a young guy dying. Argh! Class of 1990. That ain’t supposed to happen.
Joe Neikro age 61.
very morose!
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ALUMNI: Reconnecting with an old acquaintance
Tuesday, October 24, 2006Last night, when I went to my “computer governance” meeting at my alma mater, the Intelligent Designed sent me a present.
I was in a real funk with life in general, and the death of a fellow I knew in high school and college. He was number 5 of the 91 guys I graduated high school with in 1964. Seems like ages ago!
So, I guess The Intelligent Designer sent me a “pick up your spirits”!
My best friend in high school died in a 1974 traffic accident. (I think he was #1 of those 91, I talked about earlier! Hell of a time for him to get out and lead the group.) I think about him from time to time. When I want to go back to simpler times, when I was smart, and “rich” (I felt like I was rolling dough), and thin. (Ok I have never been thin! But, I was only chubby then.) But, I had a job, money, a car, friends, places to go and things to do! It was a “better time”; remembered times ARE always better?
So, last night, at this meeting, I reconnected with HIS old girl friend. She had to remind me who she was. I was blind sided, shell shocked, and tickled all at once.
We had a ton of laughs. Remembering the crazy things we did, the weddings, the parties, the formal dances, and my old truck that everyone piled into.
I guess the laffs were pretty loud. When people asked me how I knew her, I explained that “She’s one of the few people that I know longer than my wife.” ;-) She, of course, told lies about me when we were both a lot younger and crazier. I don’t think I did half of those things she remembered. Her memory wasn’t so good … she forgot the group’s many outings to the Red Garter for a lot of singing and drinking. Or visa versa.
Baring any mishaps, I’ll see her at these meetings twice a year. She promised to dredge up forgotten memories for out next meeting. I promised to pick Frau Reinke’s brain ’cause she’s better at this stuff than I am.
It was a hoot!
When I got home, I played “You’ll never guess who I met?” with Frau. After the litany of names, she didn’t want to play any more. Frustrated by my “not even close” responses, she asked for a hint. I said “wrong sex”. And, guessed it right away. How DID she do that? I can think of a half dozen other women that she might have answered.
Was this an example of synchronicity? Or perhaps “empathic marital telepathy”? Or a good old fashioned lucky guess.
It was an interesting evening.
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ALUMNI: One of the fellows I went to … obitted!!! My age!
Saturday, October 21, 2006Another one of the fellows I went to high school and college with just “obitted”.
He didn’t die. I wasn’t there. I just read his obit. Makes it a little less unbearable.
He and I were always in different “sections”.
In my small Catholic high school, the sections were sorted by “smart” and “dumb”. It didn’t take us too long to figure that out! Might as well have put stickers on our foreheads. That established an unhealthy tension between the sections. With testy laden guys! But, he was one of the people I liked. From what I remember. I hated high school. All I can say is I survived it!
In college, it was alphabetic by last name. Equally dumb! But, not as demeaning.
He and I interacted mostly around the computer lab. Even in those days, I was a nerd’s nerd. I took to the computer as duck to water, … or a pig to s….!!! He used to joke that he had special influence with the College data center operators, cause he knew me, and always dropped my name to get of the front of the next input tray of keypunched cards going into the computer room. Sometimes, especially at crunch time, there’d be up to 40 trays waiting. After 40 the good Brother would “close” the window. That was fun! But, getting into the next tray in, meant he’d get his results quicker. And, in those days, I had “stature”, I was the Number TWO student systems programmer. AND, I had a real job in industry; even #1 didn’t have that. Would you believe that in those days, I was “somebody”. Any way, he and I used to laugh about that. I had the power to make operators miserable since I had input, or made all sorts of decisions. That was in the day when people !decided! things, not held a meeting to form a consensus about what to have for lunch. Any way, he’d drop my name — put fear into the heart of the input clerk (the lowest job in the computer center, short of the janitor and he was a real College employee!) — and get fast turn around. In those days, fast turn around meant leaving a reasonable hour, or not getting your class work done. It was a giant game! And, we laughed about it.
I didn’t even know he was in my geography.
I notified anyone in those circles of interest. Updated my high school alumni page and “his” page on the site. Messaged our college’s alumni office.
I am saddened by this.
Bummed out!
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ALUMNI: Alum from my defunct high school suggests a tontine
Thursday, October 19, 2006http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
I first heard of the concept on MASH. When the fellow proposed it it seemed a suitable ending of an era in Catholic education.
Sadly.
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ALUMNI: Finding Jaspers on a site without their help
Tuesday, October 17, 2006Ahhh, never underestimate the power of an annoying alumni.
As you probably know I collect alumni for my Jasper Jottings ezine. It’s a thankless task but someone has to do it. I guess?
Anyway, the above site has Jaspers in it. But finding them, is next to impossible, because the site doesn’t offer to search by undergrad school.
So for the longest time, (I can be very dense when I am focused), I kept “shaking that particular tree” trying to get them Jaspers to fall out. I knew they were in there. Eventually, I gave up. I’d come back to it from time to time. Sort of like a dog with its favorite spot.
Finally the Intelligent Designer or the Universe decided I suffered enough and I had an insight.
Google!
Lawyers want to be findable. So Martindale probably encourages the Google spyder to visit. If that’s the case, then my search is possible. FROM GOOGLE!
Off to the Google search site, I craft a very complex query:
“manhattan college” site:www.martindale.com
Bang it into the web browser, and poof! Out rolls 153 Jaspers ripe for the recruiting and reporting cycle.
Wasn’t that easy!
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ALUMNI: Repub the jasper Jottings Front Lot to restore format
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/index.html
Republishing the Jasper Jottings Front Lot to fix format koed by isp.
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