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   Message 164,281 of 164,974   
   DFS to Chris Ahlstrom   
   Re: Get to know your files and folders!   
   31 Jan 26 13:16:42   
   
   From: nospam@dfs.com   
      
   On 1/31/2026 7:37 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>> [1] Heh, I was taking a course in quantum mechanics, and feeling   
   >>>       like I wasn't getting it. Talking to the professor, he said   
   >>>       that, unlike some others, I seemed to be understanding it.   
   >>>       Wha?   
   >>   
   >> After all that schooling you became a lowly programmer like the   
   >> rest of us.   
   >   
   > Heh heh. As a "lowly" programmer I used knowledge from my   
   > schooling: hearing science and speech production, electrical   
   > engineering, physics, and mathematics.   
      
   So you programmed a smart fart generator.  Submit it to the alumni   
   newsletter.   
      
      
   > Not to mention writing skills and tenacity from all that schoolwork.   
   >   
   > As an aside, I don't consider *any* job to be *lowly*. Not even   
   > "SQL jockey" :-).   
   >   
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