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Border Patrol guards can be intersting people (Score:1)

by n1vux (1492)

Interesting that there still are interesting people doing INS now that they're part of DHS.
Many years ago, Dad was a part-time INS Border crossing-guard. Back before INS folks were issued firearms, teachers needed summer & weekend supplemental work. He was on such a small bridge (from Canada, other coast) that the one Customs guy and the one Immigration guy each did the other's basic screening questions on alternate lanes. So it was once fairly normal to find a History Major / English Lit instructor

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Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;
They don't state a preference at Minneapolis (Score:2)

by nicholas (3034)

On the way to OSCON last year [perl.org] the immigration person at Minneapolis knew about open source, but he didn't state a preference. How many airports have been infiltrated by open source users?
Mongers in strange places (Score:1)

by dha (24)

Well, that's probably a better experience than brian's story about how, in the early ny.pm days, he was on the subway heading home, working on some code, and a homeless guy came up on him and looked at what he was doing and said "Hey, is that perl?" :-)
- Re:Mongers in strange places (Score:1)
  
  by Qiang (5577)
  
  that's damn good story from you and Allison. somehow i am feeling warmer now :)