Hi, folks! I’m Jim Dawson, and this is my story. Or partially mine, anyway.
It all began over a year ago. At the time, the easiest description of me and the most accurate, my lover insists is that I was a world-class nerd. Now why a nerd? Well, for openers, I was a Sigma Xi math major from Yale with a Ph. D. in computer science from MIT. Oh, yeah... and I was 31 years old and still a virgin.
I think that last statement requires a little explanation. It all goes back to high school, I suppose. You see, although I’m now six feet four, when I graduated from high school I was only five feet two! In fact, I guess I really didn’t stop growing until I was almost 24 and in graduate school. At any rate, in high school I was a pip-squeak; the girls in my class almost without exception looked down on me both figuratively and literally. Suffice it to say not only did I not date, I hadn’t even had my first date by the time I graduated from high school and that includes graduation itself.
In college I did find my way out to the Yale Bowl from time to time, but that was about it. When the game was over, while virtually everyone else was going to a party, I returned to the library, the lab, or some such. And so it went, right through graduate school. Although to be honest, I did actually have a date or two. There could have been as many as four.
However, I did accomplish one thing: I developed the ability and the reputation to be able to get a computer to do virtually anything. Moreover, if I do say so myself, my programs are things of beauty. In the trade they are termed elegant. What does that mean exactly? It means that it gets the job done with the fewest possible lines of code in the most straightforward manner. The result is that it never crashes itself let alone takes down its host computer. At any rate, after receiving my Ph. D., I was asked to join the faculty at MIT, which I immediately did. This lasted for a couple of years at which time from out of the blue I received an offer to join a truly remarkable company, Callaway Industries of Northbrook, Illinois, as senior vice president and Chief Information Officer.
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