Once again I thank the computer deity who gave me, in my earliest word-processing days, WordPerfect -- and kept me ignorant of the fact that everyone else was using Word.
On the post-production side, I was able to go straight into setting up my own darkroom in London, processing my films and functioning as an editorial photographer, which was quite useful.
She'd struck a nerve, and I was pissed at her for having the gumption to write (beautifully, yes) about something I was still processing in my own life.
Building on my knowledge in applied signal processing, my Ph.D. research would also intersect with a seemingly distant field, but one that had also been a passion of mine: music!
I still remember the amount of processing power (in my brain, you understand) involved in leading off a crossbow shot according to your ping in original Half-Life multiplayer, or how much precision it took to nail a flying light armor with the lazer in Tribes at 20x zoom.
(The word-processing demon in my computer keeps trying to change that to embitterment. A preferred form of reportorial inclusion in a military unit would be embedderment).
In December, the Obama administration established the Central American Minors/Refugee Parole program, an in-country processing program in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
