Who Deleted My Pointer?

I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. I acquired an NCR PC Model 4 when I was 8, and was writing fairly complex GW-BASIC programs by the time I was ten. Educated formally at Wright State University, I now work for an undisclosed company doing platform level work with Linux, Windows, and, sadly still, DOS (Why the &%^& won't [name withheld] %^&%$%# upgrade already?!).