Foul Ball: into the stands
Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 @ 9:33 am
Filed Under Baseball, Baseball Pix
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Fans, chasing a foul ball at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek. Summer of 1998.
(mis)Measures: a Vietnam story
Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 @ 1:42 am
Filed Under Army Career, Bureaucrats, Stories, Vietnam, Work
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Truth told, neither the CWO nor my TC cared a lot about the errors, except they looked bad in our reports. Both superiors knew I'd made one error and repeated it fourteen times (the double-count was a reporting artifact). They also knew that it would show as 28 errors on the computerized reports, and (near as any of us could tell) those reports were the main method Saigon used to evaluate CommCenter operations. They issued performance rankings based on those counts....
Camera: Olympus Camedia C-50
Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 @ 1:26 pm
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I got some cash for Christmas in 2001, and earmarked it for a digital camera. What I wanted--a small, smart, high-resolution camera--wasn't yet on the market for a price I was willing to pay, but it was clear that I'd find one within a year. About a year ago, I went shopping, and found this.
Twenty Six Years
Posted on Friday, October 24, 2003 @ 1:21 am
Filed Under Bureaucrats, Joel, Stories
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I'm still here....
BC Yanks to Dubuque: a Quad Cities perspective
Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2003 @ 12:02 pm
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John Petrakis left delightful memories, but his teams were weak on the business side. I'd certainly hesitate before citing them as precedents in this discussion.
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