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Miscelleny


Odd items for the curious or perhaps I should say curious items for the odd. ...Well one or the other, or maybe both?

Anyway some sort of pseudo-literary jumble with the accent on the second syllable of 'MisCELLany'. And not necessarily because I need to be locked up in a padded one.

Curriculum Vitæ

Work Experience
2009-Sept 2020 JCPenney: System Senior Specialist, Creative Marketing Technology with responsibility for internal app and database development, graphic design automation etc.
2000-2009 Project Manager under contract to JCPenney with responsibility for Coop Management Database Development and support, Graphic Design Automation (for Print advertising, Business Card System etc.) and programming mainly in C++ (Acrobat plugins etc.), AppleScript (especially dynamic creation of scripts from databases), JavaScript, php etc.

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A HISTORY OF ROCHESTER

BEING THE TRUE AND ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE CITY OF
HROFÆSCÆSTRA, NOVVM EBORACVM

by RHB
Back in the dim and distant, and just before I started writing these damned essays, the city of Rochester, NY was suffering from a severe case of sesquicentenniitis, and to celebrate (if that's the right interpretation of what they were doing) their one hundred and fiftieth year, amongst all the other innumerable murmurings of civic pride, they had a competition for a Rochester song.
From The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, NY. Thursday, April 13, 1989

This article is so old that the writer has gone from being the Jimmy Olsen1 character to being Perry White.
However it is a really good one and much funnier than me! So here it is:

Me

BATTLING BRITONS

The jousting takes place each Wednesday morning
when WXXI radio host Simon Pontin introduces essay
writer Richard Howland-Bolton

By KEVIN FRISCH
Messenger Staff Reporter

 


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The Cuckoo and the Child
A recent discovery of a new broadside ballad fragment

The cuckoo and the child


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