Old News (from eNews)

Sunday, March 07, 1999, at 12:12PM

By Eric Richardson

I crashed my machine twice today. I feel special. :) I think my uptime was like 19 days before that, and then it freezes twice in the same day. I know what caused the second one, but the first one it just froze up out of the blue. Oh well.

If you're ever stuck in a situation where you have to communicate via Latin (happens to me every day, if not more), be sure to memorize these phrases. If you get email from me, you might notice that this is the source of my always inspirational sig files.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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