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Results of 2 Nov 2004 General Election (winners in bold; click on office for more detail)

PA State House of Representatives—152nd District
- Ross Schriftman (D)
- Sue Cornell (R-incumbent)
State Attorney General
- Jim Eisenhower (D)
- Marakay Rogers (Green)
- John Ewbank (Libertarian)
- Tom Corbett (R)
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- Jack Wagner (D)
- Ben Price (Green)
- Berlie Etzel (Libertarian)
- Joe Peters (R)
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- Max Lampenfeld (Constitution)
- Robert Casey (D)
- Paul Teese (Green)
- Darryl Perry (Libertarian)
- J. Craige Pepper (R)
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A true-life skunkworks story

This is an interesting and short story about the development of the Macintosh Graphing Calculator software, by it's principal developer [via Dave Farber's IP list].

People around the Apple campus saw us all the time and assumed we belonged. Few asked who we were or what we were doing.When someone did ask me, I never lied, but relied on the power of corporate apathy. The conversations usually went like this:
        Q: Do you work here?

        A: No.

        Q: You mean you're a contractor?

        A: Actually, no

        Q: But then who's paying you?

        A: No one.

        Q: How do you live?

        A: I live simply.

        Q: (Incredulously) What are you doing here?!
At that point I'd give a demo and explain that the project had been canceled but that I was staying to finish it anyway. Since I had neither a mortgage nor a family, I could afford to live off savings. Most engineers at Apple had been through many canceled projects and completely understood my motivation.

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