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10 December 2005

PDF techie help, please? Edited and crossposted from my LJ.[More:]
After learning last year that a guy I used to date was murdered, I'm somewhat leery of what I'll find when I decide to go Google-hunting for people from my past or high school.

There's one person whom I will always seek out, however, and that's my first boyfriend. I know that he's alive and okay because when I was in California for my friend's wake, my mom said that she had run into him at the local Target. I know from a conversation my sister had with two of his friends from high school that he went into the Navy after moving north to the Seattle-area with his family (wife, kid, stepkid) and helped out with the tsunami relief.

But God help me, I still search for him online to see if there's any other information I can find out. And here's where I need the techie help.

There's a PDF file that I want to get to (www.cvn72.navy.mil/pao/penny/07feb05.pdf). In it is an article about him doing art for the sides of air flasks for the forward catapults on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. Every time I click on the Google link, it times out, but the "View as HTML" option works okay (that's how I got the details out so I could write the summary of the article). The problem with the HTML version of the PDF is that the last two pages of the article are formatted in a weird way and I can't read the last few paragraphs or so. Also, there are lots of pictures and I want to see if his art has changed since we broke up.

Can anyone here help me get a copy of this PDF?
in the vernacular of today, this is creepy.

that said, the trouble has nothing to do with .pdfs. the navy.mil server is either down, refusing connections or firewalled.
posted by quonsar 10 December | 10:59
Quonsar: Why is it creepy?
posted by TrishaLynn 10 December | 14:43
yup--the link is broken i think.
posted by amberglow 10 December | 15:42
Everything changed after 9/11. That said, have you tried ZabaSearch?
posted by warbaby 11 December | 10:42
Here it is.

https://www.cvn72.navy.mil/pao/penny/07feb05.pdf
posted by warbaby 11 December | 12:07
Warbaby: Thank you! He looks so much meaner in that pic than when I was dating him. Compare that pic to the one here. I mean, boot camp and being out to sea for so long is definitely going to change you but he just looks MEAN. Art's just as good as I remember, though.
posted by TrishaLynn 11 December | 23:20
Merry Xmas All. || Betty, our beloved yellow lab, is 14 today!

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