Intel Corp (INTC)

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Anecdotically, there is a guy in a client's IT-department who is really a living specbook. He knows every single detail of any server installed there - so everybody aks him instead of looking it úp or opening a box. He also knows everything about the aircon, power-circuits, e.g. how and where which power-outlet ist fused, etc. etc. - because he is the janitor of the building. I frequently listened to him unintendedly in the cafeteria when he was educating colleagues. One of his talents is imitating the way engineers talk - so combined with his impressive memory i mentioned above he not only is able to recite what one of them said word by word but also in the style he said it. But then - as soon as he does not recite, he falls back to behavioral patterns of name-calling of scientists, engineers, management and consultants. As he has an organ like Steve Ballmer, most of the ones being name-called might have heard it as well on occasion - and let him go away with it. So do i.

K.