An Introduction - Moving to KC

[DAVID KUCHARSKI]

I remember Stanley as the place where you could go out to eat at JOE'S
BARN! Great food at friendly prices!

JARiley at dstsystems.com wrote:

>>>I remember Stanley as a sub shop and a gas.
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>Don't forget about the video store in one of those old buildings on the
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>James Riley
>Staff Systems Programmer
>DST Systems, Inc.
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>                    Bryan Richard
>                    <bryan at pyzine.com>           To:     Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com>
>                    Sent by:                     cc:     kclug <kclug at kclug.org>
>                    owner-kclug at marauder.i       Subject:     Re: An Introduction - Moving to KC
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>On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 10:41, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bryan Richard" <bryan at pyzine.com>
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>>>The sad result of my stay on the West Coast is that I don't really
>>>know what the tech climate of the Kansas City area is. I realize it is
>>>probably a bit slow, but I'm more interested in what companies are
>>>using, how Linux is doing, what the general feeling on Open  Source is,
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>>Slow.  Um, yeah.  Geologically slow.  Dead doesn't begin to describe it.
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>>If they need anybody with an  IT
>>title to deal with the outsourcing or third-party service, they can
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>>send a secretary to a certification program.  She will become the CIO and
>>make all technology decisions, usually based on the color of the case and
>>how cool is the logo.
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>Fantastic. Sounds a bit like LA, only the secretaries have Pepperdine
>MBAs or sitcoms on their resume.
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>>Open source is that radical communist stuff they do out on the coasts, we
>>don't have anything to do with such things, and anybody attempting to
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>>This is a great place to move to if you want to get out of IT and become
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>Well, that's just grand. Jonathan, you've certainly painted less than a
>rosy picture, but I appreciate your direct approach. It's been some time
>since I've been back -- I remember Stanley as a sub shop and a gas
>station and now it's apparently a part of Overland Park ;) -- but it
>seems some things never change.
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>I'm sure Linux and OS are out there, I'm just going to have to dig for
>it a bit. And shout about it when I find it.
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>Did I mention I know ASP? ;^)
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>Bryan
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>bryan at pyzine.com    (    www.pyzine.com
>bryan at php-con.com    )   www.php-con.com
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