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Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:39:03 -0000

Well Rune we'll never know the back story. Dad died on October 3 and took
his side of the story with him to the grave.

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

Rune — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:05 -0000

No offense, Dave, but there has to be some back story to this. I can't believe your father thought it was ok for an underage kid to be drinking on school grounds BEFORE Home Room, or at all at that age, for that matter! But then, I'm guessing you thought it was cool while you were a kid at time, even though you now understand that is WAS wrong. Keep up the fun blogging though.

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:12:13 -0000

You realize this is the entire epitaph for Joseph V Cotter on teh WWW?

This incident with the wine is the only record that he ever existed.

Somehow I knew it would come to this, but of course at the time I didn't
know about the web.

Heh. :-)

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

hardaway — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:06:44 -0000

I think I had Cotter for something like Mechanical Drawing:-)

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

peter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:00:32 -0000

great post

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:35:22 -0000

Yes. I was drinking wine before school.

I was an idiot -- or put it another way -- I was 15 years old. :-)

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

Duncan Riley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:32:00 -0000

I should ask the obvious question: why were you drinking wine before school? :-)

Surely you could have waited for a special event, like Gen X did before athletics or swimming carnivals.....not that I know anything about that :-)

Good story BTW.

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

Kcecelia — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:21:38 -0000

Love this story and the ways people express their love by their actions rather than the words "I love you." Loving acts are a rich, sweet vein of love

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:15:47 -0000

Pretty good chance I was also doing acid and smoking reefer too. But those aren't quite as obvious as drinking wine. And as I reported -- I stole the wine from my dad, he wasn't a beer drinker, and I thought, even then (for other reasons) that hard liquor was pretty unclassy.

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

optionshiftk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:13:48 -0000

Now I'm just imagining what Dave Winer the teenager was like. It is sort of interesting that you chose to be drinking wine, I would think that some hard liquor, or just plain old beer, would be more "cool". Nonetheless, I think it is fantastic that you are putting all of your dad's photos and content online, a great thing to do so we can all appreciate what he did.