Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 69 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. a., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

Sikorsky MH-60R SEAHAWK Helicopter © Friday, May 17, 2024, by James Pate Williams, Jr.

My USS New Jersey, BB-62 (1982 version), Revell plastic model has two Sikorsky (now Lockheed Martin) MH-60R SEAHAWK miniature model helicopters. Each of the helicopters consists of two fuselage parts, a tail, a tail rotor, and main rotor. Also, you have six very small decals to attach. I did not have much luck with the decals. The real helicopter is an anti-submarine, maritime spotting, and search and rescue vehicle. I have clumsy fingers.

MH-60R SEAHAWK® Helicopters | Lockheed Martin

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Plastic Models I Have Built Spanning the Late 1950s to Today Blog Entry (c) Tuesday May 14, 2024, James Pate Williams, Jr.

Most of the models are either Aurora, Monogram, and/or Revell and are listed in no particular order. First list consists of aircraft.

  • NASA North American X-15 experimental rocket
  • North American XB-70 Valkyrie experimental high velocity heavy bomber
  • Lockheed YF-12A Blackbird (Blackbird family A-12, SR-71, and YF-12A)
  • Lockheed SR-71 the pride of Clarence “Kelly” Johnson USAF-CIA spyplane
  • Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady high-altitude reconnaissance
  • Lockheed P-38 Lightening
  • Republic P-47D bubble canopy Thunderbolt
  • North American P-51D bubble canopy Mustang fast long-range fighter
  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber
  • Douglas A-1 Sky Raider attack close air support
  • Grumman F4F Wildcat Marine/Navy fighter
  • Grumman F6F Hellcat Marine/Navy fighter
  • Vought F4U Corsair Marine/Navy fighter
  • Vought OS2U Kingfisher sometimes a battleship spotting aircraft
  • Mishibishu Zero agile, very maneuverer fighter without self-sealing fuel tanks
  • Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber deceased ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush flew this type of aircraft
  • Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber
  • Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber
  • Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber
  • Messerschmidt Bf 109 many, many of these fighters were built and deployed
  • Messerschmitt Bf 110 night fighter fitted with advanced radar
  • Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet high-speed very short-ranged rocket plane
  • Messerschmitt Me 262 Swallow first ever jet fighter
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Shrike high-speed fighter
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range maritime heavy bomber
  • Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic jet fighter
  • Republic F-105 Thunderchief high-speed jet fighter
  • General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark swing-wind high-speed jet fighter
  • Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic medium bomber nuclear bomb delivery system
  • Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet all weather fighter-bomber
  • Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support and tank killer
  • Northrop P-61 Black Widow exceptional night-fighter with advanced radar (radio detection and ranging)

Next comes the ships:

  • CSS Alabama Confederate commerce raider whose captain was Raphael Semmes
  • HMS Hood heavy battlecruiser that was sunk by the Kriegsmarine battleship Bismarck on May 24, 1941, in the Battle of the Denmark Strait
  • USS Arizona BB-39 sunk at Pearl in the early morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, a day Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan”
  • Kriegsmarine Bismarck victorious in the Battle of the Denmark Strait then sunk by Royal Navy in the morning of May 27, 1941
  • Kriegsmarine Tirpitz Bismarck class heavy battleship sunk by the British while she was hiding out in a Norwegian fjord
  • U-boat model
  • USS Nautilus nuclear powered submarine
  • Other ships that I can’t recall
  • USS New Jersey BB-62 Iowa class fast battleship a work in progress today

Tanks:

  • Panzerkampfwagen V Panther medium tank 75 mm main gun
  • Tiger I heavy tank 88 mm main artillery
  • Other US and Japanese tanks and personnel carriers

I have built other miscellaneous models including a number of automobiles. I used to utilize cans of spray paint on some models. The spray painting was usually done on the rock patio of 601 Hill Street, LaGrange, GA, 30241, my former abode from the early 1960s to 2013.

Strange Pictorial Instructions Blog Entry May 13, 2024, (c) James Pate Williams, Jr.

Revell has some strange hieroglyphics in the instruction manual for their USS New Jersey (Platinum Edition) model. Pictures show the modeler clipping part of a plastic frame and heating the clipped part over a candle and drawing the plastic to a new length of 32 mm (1.26 inches) in a few cases. This reminds me of glass blowing where molten glass is drawn to a new length. I am making some progress on painting and assembling parts of my Revell New Jersey model.

United States or United States of America not Just America Blurb Dated Sunday May 12, 2024, Mother’s Day in the USA

It irks me that educated people refer to the United States of America as just America. In geography we learn that the supercontinent of America is comprised of North America, Central America, and South America. Both North and South America are termed as continents. Remember there are seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. In the absence of the Panama Canal, the three Americas could be grouped into one large continent named America.

Bad “Rate My Professor” Review for Adjunct Instructor James Pate Williams, Jr. While Teaching on Two West Georgia Technical College Campuses

I received a much less than stellar review in my short teaching career at the West Georgia Technical College campuses in Carrolton, Georgia, and LaGrange, Georgia. I seem to recall that I was commuting 41.8 miles one way to Carrolton two or three days a week. I also was giving my roommate a ride to her medical clinic (as a patient) five or six times a week to Newnan, Georgia, a one-way distance of 30.9 miles. I was expected to teach Information Technology rather than software engineering and/or computer science. I believe I received a negative teaching review from a Carrolton student in my “Maintenace and Repair of Personal Computers” in the 2012 Winter Semester. I did later earn a TestOut.com certification in the area of PC Pro. We used the simulators offered online from TestOut.com. I earned the PC Pro certificate credential ID C8FR in August 2013. In my defense, I was a competent instructor of Windows 2007 Office and “Maintenace and Repair of Personal Computers” before I resigned due to negative ethics on my part. Also, I did much better instructing when I was teaching only on the LaGrange, Georgia campus.

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“Odious Olfaction” by James Pate Williams, Jr. (c) Friday, May 10, 2024

“Odious Olfaction” is a MP3 that used Universal Audio Effect Minimoog Emulator recorded by SONAR Platinum. The guitar effects utilized were TH3 Noise Reduction, Chorus, Overdrive, Digital Delay, Spring Reverb, Fender Twin Reverb Emulator. The MIDI audio effect was the Cakewalk Arpeggiator. The Minimoog patch was 2 Classic Oscillators.