A programmer from conception.
First off, what the heck. My google rank jumped up to 1.
Now to the real content... In 8th grade I wrote myself a letter that would be safely stored until I graduated high school, at which time it would be returned to me. I don't have a scanner, so I'll have to transcribe it to HTML. (Just imagine the following in nearly illegible, interleaved cursive and print.) Here goes.
May 26, 1995
Dear Chad Austin,
I have created a chart for you to look at.
- best memory of middle (Jr. High) school: When I got my Iowa Basic scores back. I feel they were good scores
- worst memory of Jr. High: when my books were thrown off the bleachers at Morgan
Friends
- Ryan Willis - My Best friend. He likes RPG's and is funny. He acts my age.
- Nathaniel Whitten - He acts like a young child but is fun to be with sometimes.
- Jered Jackson - He is funny. He an Natty are a pair as Ryan and I are.
Fads: Ryan and I add the suffixes "eth" to a lot of words. "Righteth." "Though art weirdeth." Many people like to wear baggy clothes. I do not.
In high school, I look forward to learning to draw art things on computers
I will dread in High School that the computer teachers teach me BASIC.
Goal for Freshman year: Learn C (a computer language)
By senior year I want to get a new computer by selling games
When I am 20 I want to be a Junior at Harvard. I like being smart but I wish I was dumber but stronger.
FFIII, FFII, FFMQ, FFIII ["fixed dice", written upside-down, above it]
This summer, I will make some games for the computer
I love computers right now. 120 mhtz
Castles ver. 1.2
I want to be remembered as one of the best programmers.
Nobody can change the past so I won't change anything in my middle school years.
- Brown Hair
- Blue/Green eyes
- 113 lbs
- 5'7"
- mile in 7:11
- 2 pull-ups
HAHA! !AHAH I am 13 years old
I feel the need for [scribbles]
Chad Anthony Austin
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Haha, I wish I woulda done that, that woulda been wierd. lol
That's cool.
hehe...RAWK!!
As my parents prepared to go back overseas in a more permenant position (they left Saturday), they spent a lot of time going through old papers from school, notes me and my sister had scribbled down, photos, etc. I must say that there were some freakin' hilarious notes I had written as a child. I don't remember writing most of them, but that makes it even funnier. One of my favorites went something like this:
"I love my mom because she cooks and she is very good and hosework and she tells me when I can have a popsicel and she shares verses with me."
Or:
"My sister is a stubborn donkey in the road"
Or:
"Dolls are dumb. Dolls are stupid and my sister loves them but the don't do anything and she gets mad and screams if I touch one. Dolls are DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBM"
Ahh, the things we write as children...
Hmm, you had me beat at 13. I think I'm at 0 pull-ups.
Hehe cool :] Well, I think this -> "I want to be remembered as one of the best programmers." will really come true or already did :]
That was awesome. :) I was going to list some of my favorites, but what the hell - they're all great! HAHA! !AHAH(fixed dice)
I wish I knew where my letter ended up. I wrote a letter(instead of a bizarrely disconnected list:D) to my 'future' self. The whole assignment was so weird.
...you're cooler than [HTML_REMOVED]Chad Austin[HTML_REMOVED].
Haha, those are great...
Thanks. :)
Oh yeah, since I felt so retarded looking at that letter, I almost asked you to link to that horrible picture of me. ;) Laura has a bunch of pictures like that too...
Do you remember the gist of anything you said?
I remember that assignment as well, but I think I destroyed my letter for it was so depressing. The only part of it I remember at all was I broke off a sentence and said something like "And now for a word from our sponsors: Eat food!" or something equally retarded.
I would say more, but I think that does the trick really.
I remember I found my old diary saying "I love my doggy!!!" or something lame like that for 10 pages or so. Every few pages, I would gossip about my classmates and family.
I immediately burned the book hahahahaa.
Haha, you should have kept it. Even bad memories are worth keeping. :)
Nonsense. All you have to do is erase your bad memories.
No suprise you're #1 for chad austin, [HTML_REMOVED]55[HTML_REMOVED] people link to you! And only 4 to chadaustin.com (sucks to be him)
I don't have letters, I have IRC logs which confirm my geekiness. My "diaries" and letters I chose to keep (written by others to me) confirm my obsession with women.
My "diaries" consist of Word documents that are password-protected. I then lose the password and delete the file, thus erasing all memory of whatever I wrote.