I knew Mark through my ex–Stacy Cannady. They used to spar together and play GO competitively. Mark collected people who were brilliant, like him. Mark worked in the same area of Texas Instruments as Kurt and they struck up a friendship and started doing a lot together. Since Mark and Stacy were close, I started to hear about this guy Kurt (while I was married). Kurt this, Kurt that. Of course I wouldn’t meet him until October 1985 as part of a set up –going out with Mark, his girlfriend and other friends to Kalachanjis. Several of us were vegetarians.
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- Looks like a shared space at Texas Instruments
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- Texas Instruments
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- DId NOT realize that coffee mug was this old!
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- At Mark Sutton’s
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- Debbie Smith, Mark’s girlfriend
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- Also Mark’s apartment, FOOD!!!
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- While we were dating-He’s wearing the tiger’s eye ring
Oh boy, Kurt at Texas Instruments brings back more memories! As I have previously told, in July of 1984 Kurt invited me to the Dallas Grand Prix, another story. The Saturday before the race he took me to his office at TI and showed me around. Then we went into this computer room that was colder than the rest of the other offices we had been in. Kurt waits until no one else is around and start showing me videos on the computer screen. I had no idea of what I was looking at but the graphics were really cool! Kurt wouldn’t, or couldn’t, tell me what I was looking at, at that time, which didn’t surprise me, knowing Kurt, but it was still very interesting. I kind of forgot about this until 1991 comes around with the Desert Storm war. I’m watching cruise missiles flying down city streets on the way to their targets and it suddenly dawns on me, this is what Kurt was working on! so I call him up and he goes, Yup, that’s what he had been working on! The fact that he trusted me to not say anything said a lot about him, and our trust in each other.