What Does Everyone Do?
Burning Brakes
Joined: May 2002
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From: Escondido CA
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 6,158
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From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada NS
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 6,158
Likes: 395
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada NS
ok. grew up playing hockey in metro detroit, went to northern ont. hockey schools, was eyed by closely by jim gregory and other scouts, turned down offer to play in finland at 15yr old, stayed home played juniors, went undrafted [ohl] 
still get out and play for an 18 0ver senior team [they dont mess with me] , family owned a furniture bussiness, worked with them until the late 80's until I could no longer read the writting on the boxes -chinese imports. enough of that, started buying antique furniture, and became a dealer\restorer, annual sales around 120000.00 I have diesel E350 and phantom 8.5x 18 hauler [pretty slick blk/stainless/treadplate].
I go to brimfield mass 3 times a year, I got a 69 camaro in 77 high school gradutaion thing, drove it crashed it, rebuilt it..... got 68 rs conv, tore it apart and back together... still have it, in 2005 I sold my 69 to a 'freind' who kinda restored it, but was way out of line on the resell
, my brothers were viet vets, who before they enlisted had a 62 hond. maroon 327 365, my dad and I used to cruise it, brothers used to bruise it, dad stopped fixing it and sold it when I was in 9 th grd...... so Im getting ready to join the ranks of vette owners very soon. sorry for being so long.
still get out and play for an 18 0ver senior team [they dont mess with me] , family owned a furniture bussiness, worked with them until the late 80's until I could no longer read the writting on the boxes -chinese imports. enough of that, started buying antique furniture, and became a dealer\restorer, annual sales around 120000.00 I have diesel E350 and phantom 8.5x 18 hauler [pretty slick blk/stainless/treadplate]. I go to brimfield mass 3 times a year, I got a 69 camaro in 77 high school gradutaion thing, drove it crashed it, rebuilt it..... got 68 rs conv, tore it apart and back together... still have it, in 2005 I sold my 69 to a 'freind' who kinda restored it, but was way out of line on the resell
, my brothers were viet vets, who before they enlisted had a 62 hond. maroon 327 365, my dad and I used to cruise it, brothers used to bruise it, dad stopped fixing it and sold it when I was in 9 th grd...... so Im getting ready to join the ranks of vette owners very soon. sorry for being so long.Corvette Stories
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Army
No offense but I kinda feel sorry for you guys in the computer field nowadays. When I started into it in the mid-70s building computers and writing assembly language we had near hero-worship from the Department of Defense as the guys that could innovate, solve problems and 'git 'er done'. Now, my last years in the industry were right up there with the guy plunging out the toilets. 'My email stopped working', 'I can't download 100MB videos', 'I want a Blackberry'...is all I hear from customers. And the desktop workstation is locked down to the point of an '80s dumb terminal and 'virtualization' is another word for 'mainframe'. Back to the future I guess.... There, I got that off my chest !
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 9,016
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From: Southeast Missouri
No offense but I kinda feel sorry for you guys in the computer field nowadays. When I started into it in the mid-70s building computers and writing assembly language we had near hero-worship from the Department of Defense as the guys that could innovate, solve problems and 'git 'er done'. Now, my last years in the industry were right up there with the guy plunging out the toilets. 'My email stopped working', 'I can't download 100MB videos', 'I want a Blackberry'...is all I hear from customers. And the desktop workstation is locked down to the point of an '80s dumb terminal and 'virtualization' is another word for 'mainframe'. Back to the future I guess.... There, I got that off my chest !
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 945
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From: Miami FL
Racer
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 406
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From: Miami FL
Ok, one more computer guy here.... I'm a Senior Unix Administrator and SAN (Storage Area Network) Architect for a Cruise company... Love my Job from a technical point of view, but the politics, change control and all other bull s@#t, makes it difficult some days....On does days I usually
leave early to an off site meting in my garage under the vette.....
leave early to an off site meting in my garage under the vette.....
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 945
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From: Miami FL
Ok, one more computer guy here.... I'm a Senior Unix Administrator and SAN (Storage Area Network) Architect for a Cruise company... Love my Job from a technical point of view, but the politics, change control and all other bull s@#t, makes it difficult some days....On does days I usually
leave early to an off site meting in my garage under the vette.....
leave early to an off site meting in my garage under the vette.....
with my fellow Miami IT dude !!! Why do I get the feeling both of us are at work but on the Forum
Pro
Joined: Feb 1999
Posts: 735
Likes: 174
From: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
Electrical Engineer working in the the food industry. I work for a small engineering firm specializing in building large automated food production facilities. I do instrumentation and controls for the food process side of things. Never a dull moment.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 949
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From: Williamsburg Virginia
No offense but I kinda feel sorry for you guys in the computer field nowadays. When I started into it in the mid-70s building computers and writing assembly language we had near hero-worship from the Department of Defense as the guys that could innovate, solve problems and 'git 'er done'. Now, my last years in the industry were right up there with the guy plunging out the toilets. 'My email stopped working', 'I can't download 100MB videos', 'I want a Blackberry'...is all I hear from customers. And the desktop workstation is locked down to the point of an '80s dumb terminal and 'virtualization' is another word for 'mainframe'. Back to the future I guess.... There, I got that off my chest !
Instructor
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 224
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From: Lawrence Massachusetts
I was a news photographer for almost 30 yrs, and had to make the transition from the darkroom where we 'souped' a roll of film for the amount of time it took to smoke a cigarette, to now being in the pre-press, desktop publishing part of the business.
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,404
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From: Arlington Tx
St. Jude Donor '08
No... i bring my own. Fedex doesn't care to provide us with tunes. I use a few electrical converters to use the truck's electricity for the radio. heh heh.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 5,404
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From: Arlington Tx
St. Jude Donor '08
'61 Caddy Limo, '61 Vette going rotten in a back yard, '68 Camaro Vert, '67 Camaro, '40ish caddy, late 30s chevy PU, Morris Minors, all kinds of stuff just recently.
Drifting
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,255
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From: Coralville Iowa
Anyone remember the old Texas Instrument Cassette Units and a 300 baud modem cradle? I remember downloading a 1 meg file which took 5 hours to download and thought that was light speed! I paid $640 in the early 80's for 16 meg of memory and couldn't believe how fast my PS2 ran. ( Not Playstation 2) It is amazing how far we have come. I worked as a Unix / Informix database administrator a while back. Bought a restaurant and now just program Point of Sale / Access and SQL. (For fun)
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