While Mr. Forsberg never bothered to finish getting his degree at ASU he did get a job as a technician at then Sperry Flight Systems and had worked his way up to a junior computer programmer when I worked with him.

While Jim worked a real job in the day at night he would play cop for free and drive a Phoenix Cop car around and as I would say go around violating people's civil rights.

Jim seemed to consider him self a hero because of his non-paid night time job as a cop and at Sperry and Honeywell it seemed that more often then not he would bullshit about his great and wonderful deeds as a cop instead of work. Whenever he dropped in to my cube I always wanted to tell him I didn't want to hear his stupid cop stories and kick him out. But I was too polite to do that and would wait for our boss John Nunley to yell at Jim to shut up and go back to work.

While Jim was good at telling cop stories he was also good at borrowing money. Just about every day it was hey Mike can you loan me 50 cents for the coke machine? After loaning Jim money several times and not being paid back I told Jim that I couldn't loan him money unless he paid me back. Oddly Mr. Forsberg paid me back. Then I was always his last resort for borrowing money from, mainly because if he borrowed it from me he had to pay it back.

But others were not so lucky! Ken Huff I understand had loaned Mr. Forsberg several hundred dollars with out being paid back (this was back before I left in 1989). Now this is honest MR. COP, MR POLICEMAN, SERGENT FORSBERG as Jim liked to call himself who was a little dishonest when it came to paying back his loans.

Another guy who loaned that HONEST POLICEMAN Mr. Forsberg money and never got paid back was Don Smith a consultant from Utah. Don told me it was part of the business side loaning money to leaches like Jim Forsberg and not being paid back, an item needed to be done to keep the job.

As far around as a buddy and drinking partner Don Smith was a pretty good guy. I meet him a few times outside of work and liked him. He even seems to have a brain on his head. But Don was hired as a programmer at Honeywell and well Don can't program worth shit. When management asked me before Don was hired I told them not to hire him because he didn't seem to be able to program, they didn't listen to me. I don't think John Nunley wanted to hire him either but Wayne Sewell our section head did and that's why he got hired. But maybe that's why Don didn't mind loaning Jim money every day which would not be paid pack if Jim liked him he kept his job despite the fact that he could not write computer programs.

In addition to being a leach and borrowing money with no intention of every paying it back Mr. Forsberg is also a flim flam artist, con man, scam artist or crook in general. Yes that's Sergent Jim Forsberg the guy who considers him self a hero for being a part time Phoenix Police Officer is also a criminal flim flam con artist.

Jim has ripped me off for $100 with his scam. Jim cheated Chuck Howie a former Honeywell employee for over $1,000. And I have heard he has cheated a number of other Honeywell employees out of money with his con man scheme, which I will explain next.

When you work around Jim Forsberg at Honeywell and in the old days at Sperry Flight Systems most people see that he is a guy who lives from pay check to pay check and never has enough money to make ends meet. Jim was asking everyone he meets to loan him money, which usually doesn't get paid back. When I was their I think Jim said his creditors were trying to take his home.

But Jim uses this image as part of his con. He says he buys, fixes up and sells cars on the side to make extra money. I did this when I went to college and it's easy to make extra money, but Jim not only uses it to make profits from fixing up the cars and selling them. Jim steals his investor's money and never pays them back.

Mr. Phoenix Policeman Jim Forsberg asked me to invest $100 to buy a car and promised me a good return on my investment. While I never trusted Jim I knew money could be made and I figured the worst that could happen is that I would lose my $100. Jim faired fairly well. He bought a used car with my $100 and sold it at a profit and made some money. I don't remember the numbers because that was back in the early 1990's but we made at least a 50% return on my money. Even better for Jim after selling the car at a profit he never bothered to pay me back my $100.

Chuck Howie who I knew when I worked at Honeywell and Sperry Flight systems tells me the Mr. Forsberg cheated him out of over $1,000 with his scam. That's Mr. Phoenix Policeman Jim Forsberg criminal con man. While I don't know any other people Jim has stolen money from using this scam Mr. Howie tells me Jim has use the same con on a number of other people he works with at Honeywell.

While two faced Mr. Forsberg who considers him self a honest person if not a hero but in reality is just a low life criminal I must admit that I did learn a few things from Jim about how the police department, and criminal justice system operates. One of those was that the police don't have to obey traffic laws, or any other minor laws that the rest of us people have to be annoyed by and obey. Thanks for teaching me that Jim. But I'm still pissed off at you for stealing my $100. If you ever get a bit of honesty in your act as hero policeman please repay the money you stole from me.

One thing I will always remember about Jim Forsberg the guy who worked as a Phoenix Policeman for free is his statement that if he ever got cancer or a terminal illness he would go around killing drug dealers. I ask are all cops this honest and ethical?

Don Smith was another interesting character I learned a little from him at Honeywell. Don at one time was a cop just like Mr. Forsberg. Don worked for several Orange County Police Departments, I think he said the city of Tustin pigs, and the city of Garden Grove pigs.

Don told me while he was a police officer he never had to worry about his marijuana supply. The only thing you had to worry about was who was going to be the bad guy. Well one officer would be the bad guy when you made a drug stop and threaten to arrest and jail the drug user, and the other officer would be the good guy and and say "this is a bad mistake were just going to take your pot and let you off with a warning". The only winners in this game were Don Smith and his fellow cop who got to steal the pot for their personal use. Don Smith at one time told me that sex is great when you smoke pot. Hey any pot smoker knows that.

While I have been picking locks since I was in 5th grade as a hobby I must admit Don Smith also taught me a few things about locks too. Thanks Don. Don before his career as a government thug at the police department was a locksmith. Don got a degree in electrical engineering and quit his job as a government thug with the police to be come an engineer.

Don Smith was also the first atheist I met. While I was raised a Catholic I became an atheist when I realized that god is make believe like Santa Claus.

While I won't say John Nunley was the best boss I ever had he was certainly one of the better ones. John let me do my work and treated me well, even stuck up for me when some people in management though I was too much of a hippie contractor with my long hair, and a few other incidents that happened at Honeywell and Sperry Flight Systems. And John even let you have fun at work. Good work John. And John was even a good engineer too (we won't say anything about Mr. Forsberg).

John got shafted by the IS management at Honeywell. John made one minor mistake of writting some stupid letters to on company time and the asshole manager of the IS department got him fired for it. I was in Japan at the time this happened. When I came back John had been fired.

If an asshole had not been in charge a normal person would have say "John don't write letters like these on company time and use the computer to mail them", put him on probation for 30, 60, 90 days and that would have been the end of it. But John was fired for writting the letters and sending them on the computer. Now (the year 2000 after the Y2K day) in the internet age no one would have even cared about the letters.

Of course there were a few other cool people at Honeywell and Sperry Flight Systems. Manual Zamora, Archie Epperson the manufactoring engineer, and Sharon S with a last name too long for me to begin to remember how to spell. Hey and I even got to meet Manual's brother down in Tucson when I did some work for IBM on the Rita Road & I-10 plant. And a lot of other good people who I have forgot their names after 10 years away. And of course Karl Lunt. Carl Lunt was a pretty sharp dude. Did a lot of work with microprocessors and electrical hardware. Later Karl moved up to Seattle (he always said Phoenix was too hot) and wrote a column on robotics for Nuts & Volts mag. Bruce Boyle and his brother Lee Boyle where two other names.

What the hell did I do at Sperry/Honeywell. I wrote a lot of software to control their factory which makes flight computers for airplanes, mostly the big kind like 747's, MD-11's. My software was used to control UNIVERSAL wire wrap machines which build the flight computers, and automatic test equipment which tests the hardware after its built.

We were writting a new version of SQUID (Sperry Quick Update Interconnect Design program) which was a collection of old FORTRAN IV, FORTRAN V and Univac 1100 assembly languages programs. The new version was called SHRIMP (Sperry High Realibility Interconnect Management Program) which was a collection of ASCII FORTRAN programs and a few Univac 1100 assembler programs. Also I wrote a lot of C code to run on PC's and control machines in the factory via RS-232 communications.

Toy bugs don't forget about the TOY-BUGS. Me and John shared a phone and our phone number spelled TOY-BUGS. Easiest phone number to remember that I ever had. Even caused me to write a C program which I use to see if any phone numbers I run across spell anything. Since then I have phone numbers that spelled HOT-FEAT, RUG-HUNT, 440-HEAT. In my career as a software engineer all of my bosses with the execption of two were good decent people. Of the two that were real jerks one of them was Rick Wahl at Motorola his phone number was fitting and spelled 440-LOST. The other mentioned for useless information was Randy Lyon a systems programmer at the Arizona Department of Revenue. But I should admit that Randy is a good engineer, despite being an im-mature boss.

While I have had other jobs where the software we wrote was more fun, the most fun people I ever ever worked with up to this date (Jan, 2000) were at Sperry Flight Systems and Honeywell out on Deer Valley Road and 19th Avenue in Phoenix.