A Blast from the Distant Past

I am a non-paying member of a website called Reputation.com. They search for occurrences of your name online and alert you when they find anything, and you can say 'No, this is not me' if, indeed, it is not you.

I was going through a recent batch and ran across my name in association with the word 'Eutaw,' which is my hometown (Eutaw, Alabama) . . .

But none of this is going to make any sense unless I give a bit of background.

( Teh Background. Cue flashback effect. )

So when I saw the reference to me, Eutaw, and something in 1983, I was intrigued, so I clicked on the link. It's a write-up in the Tuscaloosa News from April 10, 1983 (the day after my 18th birthday) detailing the results from that regional science fair.

Michael Dudgeon is in there. He's the kid whose dad was a professor. He took first place. Ekandrea Delaine is also in there. She's the girl who built her own freakin' computer. She took second place. And I'm listed . . . as having come in third in the senior division of Mathematics and Computers.

I totally didn't remember coming in third! Geez! What else have I forgotten?

If you want to get some of your own blasts from the distant past, search for your own name in that database. Assuming you're from (near) a city with a paper that's been scanned, you might turn up some stuff you forgot. :)