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Thanks to everyone who helped me with this site in one way or another.
How this site came about, particularly the PaulCO site.
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PaulCO is my fictitious company that manufactures Pauls
- a human male
alternative. You can choose your favorite model from stock or have him
custom designed to your specifications. Visit your local PaulCO Paul
dealership to pick up a new Paul and some great PaulCO accessories today!
Please help me make a sale and get my fictitious Sales
manger and CEO off my back.
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These pages will probably get the most attention after the overall site is
complete. Model-building has allowed me to develop a great number of
skills, not the least of which are problem-solving and abstract thinking.
I have built models since I was a young child and doubt I will stop until I am
physically incapable.
Modeler's Tools - added
August 2002. A comprehensive list of tools for building a variety of
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I was in the Armed Services for nearly ten
years. The path that led me to enlisting is long and twisted, so I won't even
attempt to explain that here. However, while in the Army I had the
opportunity to see several places around the world. These pages tell the
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Cameras mystified me for many years. I thought that taking a
photograph with a manual SLR was some kind of black art and that belief was a
serious learning block. My first camera had a broken meter which
contributed a lot to my discouragement. When I purchased my first new SLR, I learned that it wasn't that difficult to use. My friends Linda
and Barney gave me a good photography book for Christmas the same year and
ever since then I've been working to perfect my technique.
Each of the
images on this site was resized from previously resized photos, so the
quality has suffered. Unfortunately, the original images are not
available to me at this time. When I get them, I will replace all the
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After joining the Army I could no longer build models
at the level I
was accustomed to due to lack of a shop. I couldn't even use my
airbrush in a barracks room due to the fumes. So I stopped
building altogether. This didn't do good things for my mental
health. Consequently I discovered computers. Within a month
of purchasing my first computer my creative outlet became writing really
bad software.
Over the years I purchased several programming books, visited various
web sites for programmers, wrote tens of thousands of lines of code and my
expertise expanded greatly. My projects became more ambitious and I
am now
a fairly competent programmer. The hardest part
is keeping up with the changes in technology that inevitably come along
just when I thought I knew what I was doing.
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Share my nightmare!
Since nobody really cares about anyone else's opinions, I thought
posting mine in cyber space would be a good way to voice them without
seeing people walk out while I'm in the middle of a sentence. If you
want to read what nobody else cares about, this would be a good place to
visit.
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Disclaimer
sort of thing:
There are various places within these pages that I take shots at people
or groups that I have issues with. If you're one of those people and
you want to shoot back, send me an
e-mail and say what's on your
mind. You don't have to hold back - I'm durable.
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