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The I, Y and S are variables in the program. I is initials, Y is year and S is semester. Since it was ‘87 it was either my Freshman year in high school or 8th grade. Wait, 4 semesters? Maybe I’m wrong about that one. No idea what FML means. I have no idea why I would want to track my grades with the computer, though. Maybe I was just looking for an easier project to tackle after my database of the entire phone book was such a failure. (I didn’t understand that 64k of memory wouldn’t hold the entire phone book, even if I had unlimited storage on my cassette drive.) For a couple of years, this walk-in closet was my computer headquarters. I think I moved my stuff in there to get away from my brother who shared the attic room with me. HQ included the TRS-80, a car stereo with cassette deck, a CB radio, phone and television. I fit a lot into a closet. Best of all, it was located over the kitchen which meant I could stay up late harassing people on the CB and my parents couldn’t hear me.
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Last year when I visited my parents I was getting something out of the attic’s walk-in closet and I noticed some writing on the wall. I cleared a few things out of the way and snapped that picture. It appears to be notes from a database program I was writing on my TRS-80 Color Computer to track my grades. Or maybe someone else’s grades. Apparently it was way too much effort for me to go to the other room and get a piece of paper, so I just wrote on the wall with permanent marker.
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Yesterday I twittered about 0wning tr0n and jenn asked me to elaborate. So here it is, proof that I 0wned tr0n:  This happened in the arcade around the corner from the 2600 meeting. What, what’d you think I meant? I know, not an impressive score but it’s still the high score. I failed to 0wn Galaga last night. I also failed to attend 2600 since there was a $10 cover charge to get in and I wasn’t willing to pay it. Would have sucked if nobody showed up and I was stuck in there watching a crappy band play all night.
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