I didn't waste any votes downvoting any of your comments on this thread .. the point's been made.

I didn't have an epiphany or 'sudden realization' when I was starting my university degree, but as a Math student taking an Engineering draffting class, I did have some smart-ass first year Engineering student tell me I was wasting my time trying to make up courses to get into Engineering. Sometimes all it takes is someone to tell you it can't be done -- then you make it happen.

If you teach someone something, or even encourage them, and they come back months or years later to thank you, that has to rank high on anyone's list of Life Achievements. And I think that was the spirit of the original post.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re^2: Thank you, Bob Geitz by talexb
in thread Thank you, Bob Geitz by Whitehawke

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