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Bill Mischke turned 50 on Friday and I volunteered to help setup, this was run by his erudite field commander-like wife and AnnaMarie Pepper.  The 10 minute discussion of which table covering to use was fine, but the three rearrangements of the cake table taught me something:   Until today, I thought world’s most powerful microscope (that I knew of) was a scanning tunneling microscope that has a resolving power of about 0.1 nanometers.  This is sharp enough to see individual atoms and to resolve material imperfections that can not be directly seen but only inferred due to butting up against the limitations of Heisenberg uncertainty.  This may sound sharp, but I have no doubt that under the right circumstances the descriminating power of a middle-aged Jewish woman planning a celebration for a life milestone is at least twice this.

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Bill Mischke turned 50 on Friday and I volunteered to help setup, this was run by his erudite field commander-like wife and AnnaMarie Pepper.  The 10 minute discussion of which table covering to use was fine, but the three rearrangements of the cake table taught me something:   Until today, I thought world’s most powerful microscope (that I knew of) was a scanning tunneling microscope that has a resolving power of about 0.1 nanometers.  This is sharp enough to see individual atoms and to resolve material imperfections that can not be directly seen but only inferred due to butting up against the limitations of Heisenberg uncertainty.  This may sound sharp, but I have no doubt that under the right circumstances the descriminating power of a middle-aged Jewish woman planning a celebration for a life milestone is at least twice this.

General Pictures

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Portraiture

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While campmastering this weekend, I did the cooking while the rest of the crew did campsite inspections, check-in/out and garbage detail.  Apparently, this was suboptimal.

Bill (Camp Director): So, why no atlatls this weekend?
Me: Because I was doing the cooking.
Bill: So because your crew wants to eat my program has to suffer?

Fiddler On the Roof:

In one scene, the town beggar goes to Tevya and asks for a handout. Tevya gives him one kopec. The beggar protests, “Only one kopec? Last year, you gave me two kopecs!”

Tevya explains, “I had a bad year this year.”

The beggar responds, “So? You had a bad year so I should suffer?”

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Bill Mischke is the current director of Ockanickon Scout Reservation and is both my boss and eye-blindingly bald.  During OSHA inspections we’ve been knocked for not providing office staff with eye protection.  Anyway, this baldness set in early such that in the 1975 staff picture Bill is seen with quite an afro.  But sadly, the afro received another offer and left staff and Bill’s head by 1976.