Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 4
May 6, 2015
25 years? Like the blink of an eye…
To try and give this context I thought about this Blackham School 9 years Fairfield Prep 4 years RIT 5 years Altar Boy 5 years Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts 6 years Bentley 5 years Current house 21 years Bridgeport 18 years Fatherhood 23 years DEC 11 years Teradyne 11 years Intuit 3.5 years Taught Sunday School […]
April 25, 2015
The Story of Armenian Genocide survivors rebuilding their lives in the Middle East
Below the dotted line you will find the story of my father from birth to 1956 when he came to the US. ��My father, Joseph, died of lung cancer in 2000. While his health was declining, I sat with him over several occasions and typed out his recollections of his life as he dictated them […]
April 20, 2015
Do you know why there is an Armenian Diaspora?
At the end of a documentary on Armenians a few years ago on PBS, Elie Wiesel told a brief anecdote about how he had asked Turkish leadership about the Armenian question. He ended this 5 or 6 sentence recollection with his opinion on their reaction. It was something to the effect of ���Their reaction was […]
April 18, 2015
Reports of the Armenian Exodus from Harpoot in 1915
I found a 4th page and added it to the original blog post. Reports of the Armenian Exodus from Harpoot in 1915.Filed under: Random
Reports of the Armenian Exodus from Harpoot in 1915
I came across this document. I have little commentary to add; what is written here is so horrific it needs little qualification. Filed under: Random
April 16, 2015
1.5 Million
Originally posted on Today, April 24, 2014, Armenians all over the world remember a tragedy that befell our Ottoman Armenian ancestors 99 years ago. ?That tragedy was so horrific to the world that a new word, genocide, was created to describe what the Young Turk regime perpetrated. ?The Ottoman Armenian population was…
March 20, 2015
A book review
So I found a recent review of my book Urtaru. ��I was quite pleased that it was mostly positive. ��I did chuckle with part of it: “…Good character development which made up for the strange combination of what seemed like advanced technology but then resulting in sword fights…” Ok ok…I’ll see what I can do […]
January 31, 2015
One day on the T…
So I was reading an update from a new friend on Facebook about something that they witnessed on the London tube, and it reminded me of something that happened to me many years ago. I was working at Teradyne in Boston, and at this point I would weave my way back out of town by […]
January 2, 2015
How to get a headache when something isn’t turnkey…
Received a new router from Verizon today so I plugged it in per the instructions and no dice. The Internet connection light was orange. Poked around on the Internet to figure out what I had to do. Need to do a DHCP release. That meant logging into the old router. New router has the admin […]
January 1, 2015
my blog: 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 37 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
