Hunter Biden's wife Melissa is fluent in five languages

[Skittles]

hear that, Melania?

I just finished reading Hunter's new book and highly recommend!

[JI7]

1. I usually wouldn't read this but people who have read it

say it's very worth it.

[Skittles]

3. well

I didn't think about it until I saw his interview with Jimmy Kimmel - the book sounded like it would include extraordinary honesty and soul-baring and hoo boy, it does indeed. Very impressive.

The one thing that worries me it he discusses his marriage and sobriety at the very end, and they do seem very dependent on each other and by that, I literally mean his marriage and his sobriety. I finished the book thinking, jeez, I hope nothing goes wrong with his marriage because I could easily see him falling off the wagon.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I'm fluent in only one.

Sucks that Trump and I share this language limitation.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I'm fluent in six...

English, Spanish, C++, PHP, BASIC, and HTML

[Skittles]

5. HEH

can you believe I did FORTRAN and COBOL

[USALiberal]

8. How about RPG!!! My 2nd language! Nt

[Skittles]

10. I vaguely remember

OMG I am so old I remember typing up those damn cards.

[USALiberal]

11. Punch cards sucked! But only option in 1974. Nt

[Skittles]

14. I was running a 1969 Honeywell mainframe (don't ask)

I had a stack of cards about five inches high on the card reader........it shook quite a bit and it shook the whole pile onto the floor...well I just freaked, I was an operator, not programmer.....but I knew a couple of programmers were in a bar nearby so I ran with the pile of cards to them and they put them back in the right order under strobe lights......hahaha OMG those were the days my friend

[USALiberal]

16. That is great.....

I remember marking the top with a big “x” that helped get then back in order.

My first computer for coding was an IBM 1620.

[MLAA]

21. I worked for IBM for over 30 years.

First year we used punch cards for some things. Have you ever seen this comedy bit? It cracks me up!

[USALiberal]

22. LOL, thank you for that, I had never seen it! Nt

[MLAA]

17. Omg! I can feel the panic!

ThNk goodness the programmers liked to drink!

[Skittles]

25. check out THIS classic moment.....

I was running a deck of cards through the card reader when it faltered - the job name was ENT40 but for some reason the card had EMT40 - I was already running late and had to stop and go punch up a card with the correct job name....it delayed me to the point where in the morning I made the window by five minutes (this was bank processing, multiple banks).

I was so angry about it I waited around until the day shift folk came in, then stomped over to the programmers with that bad card and waved it around yelling WHICH ONE YOU ASSHOLES MESSED WITH ENT40 LAST NIGHT? They all looked at me like, HUH? I said OH NONE OF YOU DID, THE FAIRY FUCKING GODMOTHER DID IT! (I got that from the movie Full Metal Jacket, which I had just seen).....and I stomped out.

Several weeks later there was an internal investigation regarding missing funds of sixteen thousand dollars........Charlie the systems analyst told me later that when they couldn't find an accounting error they had to consider fraud. There weren't nearly as many checks for programming changes back then than there are now. He said the conversation went like this:

Sr. Programmer: the job that would need to be altered is ENT40

Charlie: ......do you remember when the operator came in screaming about that job?

Sr. Programmer: and none of us knew what she was talking about?

Charlie:......I bet one of us did.

Sure enough, it was a programmer that did it. That guy must have been shitting bricks when I was over there screaming about that card. Charlie said he never understood why the guy went for 16,000 bucks - that he could have gotten 16 million just as easy.

[MLAA]

26. Now that's a story!

[Ilsa]

12. Punch cards for me, too.

Fortran was the only computer language they tried to teach me.

[MLAA]

13. Me as well...

3 am in the computer building trying to finish a project and I dropped the damn cards! This was 1982 and only Computer science majors could use the few terminals.

[Skittles]

15. see post 14

yes INDEED

[MLAA]

20. Check out this comedy bit

[MLAA]

27. I bet you will get a kick out of this

[Binkie The Clown]

23. FORTRAN was my first language back in 1963. My first paid job was in COBOL.

Actually, my first language was "Autocoder", the native assembler for the IBM 1440.

[madinmaryland]

24. FORTRAN 77 and assembly language. Of course everyone know BASIC!

[Beaverhausen]

6. Heard an interview with him on the "New Abnormal" podcast

When he said the title of his book, Beautiful Things, was something that Beau had said often in his last months really touched me.

I lost a friend from the same brain cancer that Beau had and I know how hard it is to see someone die from that terrible and cruel illness.

What both Joe and Hunter have gone through is almost unimaginable to me.

[Skittles]

9. in the book, it his heartbreaking to read about Hunter's relationship with Beau

they were soooo close, and only 1 year and 1 day apart

[malaise]

7. You made me laugh out loud

[MOMFUDSKI]

18. Does

Igpay Atinlay count?

[Skittles]

28. HAHAHA

[demtenjeep]

19. it is great. I read it in a day

and passed it to a neighbor who passed it on

[Carlitos Brigante]

29. Yeah, when someone who claims to speak Italian can't even say

"How are you?", correctly to children, in said language. You know they're full of "merda".