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Subject:RE: A Day in Technical Documentation History From:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 27 May 2016 20:38:13 +0000
I was on a bus in Jerusalem on a weekend off from basic training. The guy next to me apparently knew on sight that I was an American immigrant, despite my Israeli army uniform. He said, "Your spaceship exploded." I had no idea what he meant; from the plural "you," I thought he was joking about my infantry unit (which barely had a jeep, let alone a spaceship).
Being an American immigrant in Israel was an easy entry into tech writing, so there's your tie-in.
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From: Ken Poshedly
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 4:06 PM
To: Janoff, Steven; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com; Rick Lippincott; Bee Hanson
Subject: Re: A Day in Technical Documentation History
... So where were all of you the day it happened? I was at my desk when a coworker told me about it. I was almost two years into my first tech-writing job for a computer accessories company here in Atlanta. This was after 10 years as a newspaper/publications writer/editor up north.
-- Ken in Atlanta
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