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When I wonder how some people land on their feet in the most difficult times. I will remember the mansion with the doors opening outward, and the permits already arranged. Wonder how it's used today.

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It is now the Field School in DC. Beautiful campus.

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Guess you mentioned that - Are the former bedrooms now apartments? Or offices?

BTW - loved your 'topless' story. You were right - a story to tell. (Especially when you needed to subtly remind someone that assumptions can be hazardous.)

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I can’t say. As I noted in my disclaimer, this is all second-hand info from a long time ago. I do plan to send it to the school and see whether they’re familiar with any of this. The “topless” story is also a reminder of the risks of voice recognition software and autocorrect. I’m convinced that if we have a nuclear war, it will be because autocorrect altered some diplomatic cable.

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You may find that the school has been puzzled by the architecture and will be grateful for an answer.

Autocorrect has probably screwed up a few relationships.

As I told the young ladies last week - never publish anything that ChatGPT composes without review and editing. But sooner or later they all will.

I've wondered how we avoided a nuclear weapon accident. You know we came within one microswitch of a H-Bomb detonating on the east coast?

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What was the H bomb incident. If I remember correctly, a plane dropped one in North Carolina in the 1960s.

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I don't remember if it was dropped from a plane or the entire plane crashed.

I read the details in Command and Control:

https://a.co/d/egAfGbZ

But that has been > 10 years ago. But I do remember that it was within a microswitch - just that one switch prevented the detonation.

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I loved the Tapas story

When my youngest, max was in preschool I read to him a children’s story by Bill Cosby called The Day I Saw My Father Cry about a friend of his father who dies of a heart attack

In sharing time, it came around to Max who announced that his father has a heart attack and died.

When the nanny picked him up from preschool the teacher asked how the family was doing but didn’t say why.

Eventually one of the parents called the house to offer condolences and the story was revealed

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As I said to someone in a comment or an email, it gives you pause about trusting voice recognition software and autocorrect. :)

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