When I recently went through at PVD, I didn’t even think about it until Stephen and I had already gone through (in separate lanes). I saw that there was an opt out, but I was not yet familiar with the possible dangers of the low power scanner. Will probably opt for the grope next time, because at least that’s over when it’s over. But if they’re trying to make it intentionally unpleasant, they’ll probably not be in a hurry to get you through the procedure. Often when I fly, I’m with others, and that means slowing everyone down.

The whole thing stinks.

For reals.

I explained that I didn’t list every language I knew, and in fact I had first learned programming in BASIC and was familiar with a number of types of BASIC. It was not convincing. She’d been told not to accept any resumes that didn’t have the word “BASIC” on them.

I don’t have a lot of faith in the folks who screen applicants.

I know Jim became integral to their efforts; he cut his teeth supporting scriptability in MathWorlds (it was one of the few recordable AppleScript applications early on, thanks to Jeremy’s influence). Jim C. applied what he’d learned, and BBEdit became scriptable beyond just responding to a few menu commands.

It’s too bad that we never tried to bring scripting to the Java version. There were always other priorities.

To complete the story, he’s recently left BareBones, and is somewhere near Seattle.

See. I can’t help myself.

And I think I just officially became the guy who tells stories nobody is interested in. Well, maybe not *just.* Blerg.