On 28 August 2008 16:40, tedd advised:

>
> I'm really not that old, I wrote my first line of code in college in
> 1965 -- I even remember the problem. It was how long a swimming pool
> would take to drain to a trickle with the drain open and a garden
> hose filling it. Of course, we were given all the data to solve it,
> but it was more an adventure in keypunching than programming.
>
> Considering that I never took a deferment for college, I was drafted
> in 1966. I didn't even know what Vietnam was -- at the time.

Ha! You beat me by about 10 years, then -- in 1966, I was a "strange
English kid" attending 4th grade at a School in Santa Monica, CA. (My
dad was in a group of engineers seconded to his company's Los Angeles
parent for a year, and the company paid for families to go too, lucky us
Lots of memories and odd stories -- I think my favourite is one my
dad told for many years afterwards about his first few days in the
drawing office where they worked mainly in pencil, and the shock on the
face of the prim elderly secretary when he raised his head and asked, in
all innocence, if anybody had "a rubber"!!! And one complete non-memory
-- as I was in the US for the summer of 1966, I had no idea the England
football team had won the world cup until long after we returned to the
UK in 1967.

And I'm convinced that a year's acclimatization to California climate,
conflicting with native British reflexes, accounts for my body's strange
reaction to exactly 68 degrees Fahrenheit!!!!

Cheers!

Mike

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Robert Cummings wrote:
> Good thing he didn't ask to "bum a fag" I guess he wasn't a smoker. I
> did ages 4 to 13 in Scotland so I'm familiar with some of the language
> differences

Ahh now you're speaking my language. Ignore my Irish domain name, it's
just cos it fits... my home is Edinburgh

And yes the language differences are always a great source of amusement:
I know lots of people who go over to the states to do the summer camp
thing and end up trying not to laugh when little girls come up to them
crying their poor little eyes out and saying "Miss, I hurt my fanny". :p

Col

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperling@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:15 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [php] Re: concatenating with "." or ","
>
> At 5:44 PM +0100 8/28/08, Ford, Mike wrote:
> >Santa Monica, CA.
>
> I moved from Missouri to California when I was 12 just after the Feds
> paid my father a visit and my father took-off for parts unknown --
> apparently they frown on embezzling. I didn't see my father again
> until I turned 30.
>
> I lived in the San Fernando Valley until after graduating from CSUN
> in 1975. Then I went to Michigan where I met my wife and received my
> MSc from MSU.
>
> Michigan is like big minnow trap -- once you swim in, you're caught.
> But, I don't miss California -- nice weather, but too much crime and
> too many people. At least Michigan is green and if you stay away from
> Detroit, there's not much crime either.

I hail from Missouri, myself. Glad to see another native in the list
(even if you deserted us for greener pastures).


Todd Boyd
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