Serious question here, folks. It's 5 AM, I haven't strolled over to the 7-11 for a cup of Volcano Roast coffee and a malasada yet. I'm working on WRPs 116, 117 and I realized that I haven't seen any articles from an IT expert Pollys. If there are any out there, pleae consider writing a 1 page, ascii text, article for the WRPs.

Here's what you should have:

15 years in IT, mainframe applications, systems design, or large applications support, preferably some years in an old line, IT intense business such as insurance, banking, reservations, service bureau.

Applicable undergraduate degree, BA/BS in CS, math, a physical science, or electronic engineering.

Significant programming experience, not just click-em ups but COBOL, S/390 Assembler, PL/I or similar. Large database work is also good. That's multi-gigabyte tables and multi-table applications.

Disaster recovery experience, in the IT sense, is also good.

I'd like someone with those quals who is also a Polly to please explain why they feel that way.

There used to be a fellow on c.s.y2k, Moshe, who was close but he's dropped out.

I'm not interested in Polly essays that are simply wishing really, really hard. I'm asking for IT expertise because I don't want another analogy article. To comment credibly on IT, you must have specific expertise.

If such a Polly will please speak up, I'll run your piece in a WRP. I realize that you can just upload it to c.s.y2k or this forum or your own webpage but I guarentee that more people will read it in a WRP than anywhere else.

...and within 30 days, Howard B. will be quoting you. (This is an inside joke from c.s.y2k.)

-- cory hamasaki (kiyoinc@IBM.net), April 07, 1999

The inimitable (and incorrect) Cory Hamasaki; idiot, dolt, doomer.

Quotably quoted. And as wrong as any other doomer. Mr. Hamasaki is one of the many lame-brained doomers who have of late retracted their formerly touted memtic credentials, claiming (apparently as part of the latest doomer meme) that they never believed Y2k would be catastrophic.

The retractions and revisionist history are simply delicious - please continue.

Vindicated Regards,
Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), May 25, 2000

Answers

Where did Cory retract anything? [Did I miss this?]

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), May 25, 2000.

Hey dick-wad, you misspelled your favorite word----"memetic". This is unacceptable for one who purports to be infallible.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), May 25, 2000.

Cory was a bit cocky as more than a few doomers were. Humble pie was something pollies were often promised - but coky doomers like Cory must eat this stuff now, and Andy serves it up quite well, lol.

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), May 25, 2000.

Yes, Factfinder, I agree with you. I only lurked around here towards the end, but I don't thing that recalling all of this now is at all inappropriate.

-- E.H. Porter (Just Wondering@About.it), May 25, 2000.

As mentioned in the thread about who has influenced you, I made the mistake of accepting the challange and then having to take care of personal business that was more important. I never heard the end of it I believe he harped on it up to the rollover.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.con), May 25, 2000.

Cherri,

Actually, it was Ray and Andy, the Ad Hominem brothers, who gave you the most grief about it, as I recall. :)

And he did eventually find a pseudo-polly to write the article ... Arnold Trembley, wasn't it?

-- Stephen M. Poole, CET (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), May 26, 2000.