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  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) I've enjoyed this conversation. I'm in Missouri, where real sutheners think of us as Yankees, and Yankees think of us as hillbilly Southerners. You know, I just don't like most people whether they live in Maine or Alabama. What I really hate (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) Yup. Sure hope I'm not sounding like I defend racism of any kind, but something in me would rather be able to point out the danger zones easily than to bump up against them without some kind of warning. (...) Heh, dunno. I've met a handful of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
 
Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote: I'll have to respond to more of this later, especially the situation-specific stuff. Maybe privately since I would assume it might bore others. (...) No, dial-up service is not free, although (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) But somehow, it seems more organized in the South. Take for instance: the KKK, the John Bircher Society, the state of Alabama, etc. (...) :-D How about an openly biased Yankee? I don't know if I can call myself a Yankee, though. I've lived (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: What happened?
 
(...) For the record none of the ~350 images I've cleaned have been uploaded yet. Anyways, what I do is take a scan of a chart and remove extranious pixels and lines from them. It is by far one of the most boring jobs in the world, but the pay is (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: What happened?
 
Oops ... forgot to mention that the new place is about 3 blocks away from my current place. AND, he didn't know my current salary. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What happened?
 
(...) I got a job proposal (which I'm starting on Monday), and that had a 50% jump. But I agree that a 100% jump is pretty steep. There are several reasons that I feel that I got: 1) Current programmers are focused on other things, and need somebody (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
 
(...) We have roughly 30K students and 10K faculty and staff since we're the home of the state university system. We run the public computing sites 800+ workstations in 15 locations. Mostly we help with the equipment in the room, but we also do (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
I think there is a K-mart somewhere in there, but most of the stores are in the commercial districts, on the West and East of downtown. Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) I'm not surprised. My wife Rachael lived in CT for 10 years after living in TN for a few years. She's told me loads of stories about basically ignorant northerners who seem to have this vision of the South as being something out of Andy (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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