Monthly Archives: February 2020

How the IGMFUPAC Destroyed the World

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Fec

Greensboro’s $100M downtown performing arts center, which is to open in a few weeks, has sold naming rights at $7.5M for ten years, to Steven Tanger, scion of Tanger Outlets, a commercial real estate investment trust. While coming up with … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Todd

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Fec

Sometime, in the early seventies, my Dad got permission to ditch the ancient Addressograph for a Burroughs computer to prepare bills at Randolph Telephone. Mr. Fitzgerald agreed, but only to pay for hardware and not software. My dad spent the … Continue reading →

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The Storm

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Fec

I was awakened yesterday before dawn to the sound of straight line winds, as the front which dropped inches of rain moved quickly off to the east. By 7:30, as is my custom, I was out the door and in … Continue reading →

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