Jerry Pournelle was an OR guy

Sunday, September 17th, 2017

Borepatch was right. Jerry Pournelle was quite the raconteur, as this interview with Leo Laporte from a few years ago demonstrates:

When he started talking about how the old Encyclopedia Britannica taught you how to do just about anything, I began to wonder if he was going where I thought he was going — and he was. (I grew up hearing a similar story…)

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  1. Watcher says:

    Regarding prisoner workers in WW2: In Sheffield (UK) German PoWs worked in some (possibly insignificant) way in the steel works. I know because my grandmother had a shop opposite one such steel works and the Germans would come into her shop to buy cigarettes and sweets with some sort of small payment they were allowed each evening, before being taken back to the camp outside the city. One of the Germans carved my grandmother a small Scotty dog in wood, darkened with boot polish, as a present. I still have it.

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