Nerds flock together 
1971 was VERY early to be teaching kids computers. It was a undergraduate term project for UC Berkeley students to teach disadvantaged inner city kids. A very fast selection process. They asked the Jr. High Principal for 4 students who could learn programming. He offered it to the top ranked members in the chess club.
p.s. One of the (text only) games on their PDP-10 computer, asked the Honarable Hamurabi how much grain to plant and how much grain to store. The other was Adventure - "officially" written as Collosal Cave and Zork in the late 70s. I was offered a programmer job at Bank of America upon high school graduation. Although, I wrote 2 graphics games in the 1980s (for fun,) I avoided writting programs for a living until sometime in the 90s. I hate writing user interfaces. Most of my career was writing programs to monitor machines
My sister's husband is a ranked player in the State of Oregon. I lost most of my patience for chess once I had sex in High School. If we had played with time clocks, I might have kept playing. The strategy in my High School Chess club was to move real slowly when you felt you were losing - basically run out the clock until time to go home. At Chess club meeting #3, I was playing cards with other players while waiting for the losers as they pretended to contemplate their moves. To my way of thinking, that was disgraceful and I quit.
I don't really have the killer instinct needed to win individual competitions anyway. As a younger man, I would dive deep playing volleyball but lose my focus at one-on-one basketball. My wife and I do a few games where we leave the chess board out and make 1-3 moves a day as we are walking past.
I'll look out for some ☺I have a couple of those too, they're great. I use them for all kinds of stuff, even measuring 2-cycle oil to mix with gas for the outdoor toys. I never mix enough to use the entire container so these are a must-have!
I need to hook up with my 420 friendly electrician and make a grow space plan. Don't want to be burning my house down.Planting Day
Last night I finished up the electricals. This morning I half-cleared the room and planted.
The master outlet (ceiling) has the gfci that protects 3 outlets
For now, I plugged in the temperature controller that runs the exhaust fan.
The wiring for the other outlets are simpler
The other ceiling outlet is running the veg light and the air circulating fan.
I installed a third outlet for the shelves at the end of the room. I imagine this will power the cloner, stereo, tea bubbler, etc.
I also imagine I will clean off the shelves some day
On to the planting ...
First step: Wash two previously used 7-gallon and two previously used 10-gallon pots.
Second step: Realize I am planting in 1 gallon pots today. So I loaded soil in the large pots around the small pots.
4 pots ready to go. Both 7-gallon and 10-gallon pots are loaded with 6 gallons of soil packed around a 1 gallon pot shape.
At the last minute I remembered I needed to stealth screen the windows. (Window screen and panda film stapled on the inside)
Back to planting ...
Soaking the pots from the bottom in 1/4 transplant.
Photos while soaking the final pot. (note exhaust fan in brick wall.)
Photos while soaking the final pot. (note unused wood window screens and doors behind the circulation fan.)
Planted pots ready to grow. (note bucket with RO water feed - the valve leaks)
The first 4 plants in the new grow location, all feminized. Sprinkled with ROOTS!. planted direct into the soil.
AMS Borderliner XTRM Borderliner XTRM Feminized Marijuana seeds
AMS AK47 XTRM AK47 XTRM Feminized Marijuana seeds - the ultimate AK47
HSO Bubba's gift (from Herbies) Herbies Mobile
HSO Amherst Sour Diesel (from Herbie's) Herbies Mobile
It's great to have seeds back in the ground.
I strongly support not burning your house down
I added a second circuit much later in the grow (after I started adding space heaters.)
My rule of thumb is up to 90% of maximum wattage. This is a maximum 1500 watts for a standard 15 AMP circuit and a maximum of 2000 watts for the 20 AMP circuits I installed. If everything is turned on at once, my maximums are 1350 Watts for flower lights plus exhaust fan on one 20 amp circuit and 1800 W for everything else on the other 20 AMP circuit. Actual usage patterns (based on timers) for the 'everything else circuit' are 350 W, 1100W, and 1600W.
There is a piece of mind in using dedicated circuits that you won't find if you share a circuit with a toaster or blow drier.
) which are the first computer terminals that I worked with. I loved the feel. Catle Wolfenstein was the favorite party game because everyone could watch over your shoulder Bridge, poker, dancing, etc were inside. Most parties observed CASBA (Clean Air Smoke Break Agreement,) where all the games stopped about once an hour so folks could go outside and light up. For the dancers, yelling CASBAH! generally meant forming a conga line and heading outside through the game rooms 
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