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Passion comes from a Latin root meaning "to suffer". If you work in technology long enough, you will become passionate about it.


So, a small supply combined with a large demand creates higher prices? This new finding could revolutionize our understand of economics... we should study this further.


Clearly, I need to stop eating wheat.


The CEO at a very small company I worked for not too long ago made me do this when assigning phone extensions because "Having 4 digit extensions makes us look like a big company." The only people this would fool would probably need supervision to use a phone.


I also worked for a megalomaniac CEO who would go through a sales rep every two months and insist on leaving their voicemail and extension enabled in the company directory for the very same reason.


The HP-28S


I bought a 28S in 1989 or 1990 and it's still working. Last year I saw the HP 35s and bought one. I'm still using the 28S even though my battery door is broken as is some of the plastic around the battery door.

The 35s is soooo close to being a great device, but a few things drive me nuts.



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