Summit at 208 Vernon Street Caveat Emptor Etc. by James Pate Williams, Jr. BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I stopped by a local to my apartment Summit Convenience Store and I was sold for I think $1.29 a very stale York Peppermint Patty. The prices are ridiculously high and of course caveat emptor let the buyer beware. The nice gentleman at the Summit counter did allow me to swap for a Zero candy bar of the same price.

I went to the Planet Fitness gym of LaGrange, Georgia at 11:35 PM last night.

https://www.planetfitness.com/gyms/lagrange-ga

I worked out until about 12:20 AM or 12:25 AM on Friday, December 27, 2019. As I was going home, I decided to park my car and walk downtown to get an orange juice at Main Street Pub, however, it was closed by the time I was able to arrive at that location. There was a young and neophyte male police officer doing community policing by talking to the former patrons and staff of the pub. He stated that LaGrange, Georgia, my beloved hometown, has a very high crime rate for its population size. I asked the officer what he was going to do about lowering the crime rate. I did not wait around for his answer.

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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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