Loneliness is such a drag by James Pate Williams, BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

The title of this missive is from “Burning of the Midnight Lamp” by Jimi Hendrix. For the first time since the auspicious year of 2014 for me, I have had to spend my birthday, Christmas, and probably New Years Eve alone. The year 2014 was phenomenal for me since I beat hepatitis-C with the assistance of about $100,000 USD of Harvoni which I assume was provided free of charge (actually $9.00 for three months copay out of pocket for me) by the pharmaceutical manufacturer in exchange for my personal data. I seem to recall I contracted hep-C by needle sharing heroin with a recovering drug addict prostitute I met at Renewal House in 1975 and we shared a makeshift rig in February 1976 when the House was about to close for good. As you can tell I was still interested in illicit drugs after my treatment at Renewal House under Professor Joan Read’s (Chairperson Psychology Department Georgia State University) psychological warfare on me. Coincidentally, I continued some illegal drug usage until sometime in the early to mid-1980s. I also relearned how to drive in either late 2014 or 2015 after approximately a year of not driving my old gasohol guzzling 2003 Mercury Mountaineer V8 2-wheel drive vehicle.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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