ASCII

So I was pleasantly impressed by the Canadian border officer’s breadth of knowledge. Maybe it’s just because I’m in Michigan and not many people know much about computers, but this guy did.

During our brief interrogation at the Canadian border, the dude asked me what I did for a living. Hmm, a perfectly valid question from him to try to make me crack, I thought. “I’m in medical school,” I said. “At wayne.” Then he comes right out from left field and asks if anyone does computer programming. What the? I go, “Uh, oh yeah, I used to do that,” wondering how he came up with that one. “Is that why your license plate says that?” he said seeing the expression of wonderment on my face. And it all became clear. I told him how impressed I was because he was the first person in Michigan to know what it was. :happy: