LEARNING HUMILITY
I used to think I was brilliant at analyzing statistics. Then I started reading Bill James and discovered I was just a plodder.
posted by Walter Guest at 6:47 AM
Saturday, December 25, 2004
About Me
- Name: Walter Guest
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Kicked out of high school (Balboa, San Francisco) the day I turned 16 (they said I was undisciplined and incorrigable, which was true)leaving me to go thru life with a 9th grade education. Of course that led to a life of drugs, crime and total degradation...NOT! Joined the Air Force at 17. They made me a surveyor. I worked on airfields on Okinawa and Guam during the Korean war. After, sang in light opera while attending the S. F. Conservative of Music and surveying. Designed a railroad in the Andes in Peru. Built forward bases for the Iranian Army in northwest Iran on the Iraqi border. Worked on the Trinity River Dam in Northern California. In '64, was in the Johnson presidential campaign in California. Worked for seven years in Viet Nam on all kinds of things. Then I settled down to do high rises, sub-divisions and whatever in Southern California. In 2004, moved to Bangkok and married a beautiful Thai Jungle Princess. Then I started this thing.
Previous Posts
- VISITING THAILAND PART 2
- WHAT'S WITH THIS POLLUTION CRAP?
- HOW INDOLENT AM I?
- DON'T NEVER HITCHHIKE IN COLORADO
- IN MEMORY OF ME (MY EUOLOGY)
- IN MEMORY OF MY WOMAN
- HOW SCHOOL SHAPED MY LIFE
- HOW I BECAME A KIDDER
- MARLON BRANDO DIED
- BANGKOK TRAFFIC
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