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NPR's "This American Life" does the story of the Graphing Calculator!
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Mar 16, 2005, 11:45 PM
 
I realize that the story of the Graphing Calculator is now old news, but I thought this TAM episode about it was funny and insightful.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

A software writer's job contract ends, but he refuses to go away. He continues to show up at work, sneaking in the door each day and putting in long hours on a project the company cancelled. A student from Pakistan finishes four years of college in Philadelphia and has to decide whether to move back home. He takes a trip to Karachi, where his family tries to convince him how much Pakistan has modernized, and introduces him to a marriageable woman, who shows up in a head-to-foot burqua. And other stories.



Pictured: The badge that Greg Robbins used to get into Apple after his job ended � when he still kept coming to work.

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http://www.thislife.org/
     
   
 
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