Not chronological order .... Peer pressure. --- "What? You DONT know regular expressions?!?! I thought an ace like you would be all over those". Not enough

Not chronological order .... Peer pressure. --- "What? You DONT know regular expressions?!?! I thought an ace like you would be all over those". Not enough official work. --- "I think I'll try learning Java. Maybe use it to create a moving average stock buy/sell tool..." Need it for work. --- "Stop bothering the database guys. They can't be answering your WHERE clause questions all the time. Just go learn SQL yourself" Work (again). --- "Well, we don't have a Pascal compiler for CP/M. You're gonna have to learn C. Like or not." Work (again). --- "The 3060 uses an HP-9825. The HP-9825 runs HPL. Not BASIC. Here's the manuals for it. Now, get busy and stop complaining."