From pppm at timchambersusa.com Mon Jun 9 06:50:46 2014 From: pppm at timchambersusa.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 07:50:46 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly In-Reply-To: <1402268455.26127.0.857990@post.oreilly.com> References: <1402268455.26127.0.857990@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: Greetings from Boston, fellow Perl Mongers. I addition to the enclosed newsletter, I thought you might enjoy this link to a pic of my son's quadcopter mortar board. [1] ? Tim [1] http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/06/07/recap-and-photos-of-2014-mit-commencement-creative-graduation-caps/#s_only-at-mit-16_s ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Marsee Henon and Jon Johns* > Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014 Subject: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly To: pppm at timchambersusa.com View in browser . 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