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> > How did I do? Do I get the job. ;-)
>
> You did well. You still don't get the job, because <snip>
Not looking for one. Just played the game for entertainment and enlightenment. Can't believe I missed the order-of-magnitude error on the metric conversion of 0.10 inch (which should be 2.54 mm).
Never documented machinery. Rarely worked on machinery -- not since letting go of the '67 VW camper 20-odd years ago. (Relied on John Muir's awesome manual for many years to keep that bus running.)
Do read a lot, though. And tend to know a little about lots of things ("encyclopedic generalist," Asimov called it). Also tend to write sentences with implied first-person subject.
Do it even more than you start sentences with "and."
Do believe it's Friday. :-)
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-903-6372
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