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Article: Nature's way: translucent menace vs. the overlords.(LAB DATA MANAGEMENT)(Column)
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- Scientific Computing
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO END BADLY -- VERY BADLY. I'VE BEEN IN A NUMBER of dust-ups in my life; I've had guns pointed at me, a few have been fired; I have been at the center of attention of an edgy mob of 100 that was looking for some satisfaction. The list goes on. You often don't know what is going to happen, so you hope for the best and plan for the worst. Never sit with your back to the door (see story of Wild Bill Hickok), never call someone out who has a great deal less to lose than yourself.
But there was no doubt this night.
I was sitting with Oliver in a burger joint in Kalamazoo, and ragging on him about how I had pounded him mercilessly on the ...