I was afraid of that

[bryonhu]

@peepeep

does electrician porn

Watch it, I could pop my breaker

[peepeep]

Yeesh.

[Crease]

@peepeep

postings are way way down

When I sort by reverse creation date, it looks like a lot of the recent topics would be better categorized elsewhere.

[peepeep]

Indeed. That is borne out statistically, believe me.

I almost posted my latest there but it was insufficiently tricky. And just barely tippy. So I chose my personal category

Painfully Obvious

instead.

[peepeep]

@Crease

That whole self-deprecating-humor thing is just a lifelong habit.

 

[peepeep]

@peepeep

@ssummerlin do you remember what your professional field was? Or is it too long ago.

@ssummerlin

Actually I was raised Baptist and reside somewhat in that realm.

I do like methodology…

Not to be confused with Methodism.

 

[ssummerlin]

@Crease

but 's screenshot shows 25, and that’s also what I see.

Is this a Star Trek trick? I see 24.

[peepeep]

@ssummerlin

Is this a Star Trek trick? I see 24.

@Loki 's a trickster, by my reckoning.

[ssummerlin]

@peepeep

@ssummerlin do you remember what your professional field was? Or is it too long ago.

Something like Microsoft Exchange Systems Engineer. I managed and designed email systems for 30+ cruise ships and three corporate offices over satellite. It was never boring.

[peepeep]

This is one of my favorite questions:

Wyze is a Big Brother? The Company Failed Us

Did you imagine as a small child that you would be doing something like you’re doing right now?

Did you imagine you’d be a Systems Engineer when you were young?

@Antonius boilermaker?

@TomG mechanic?

@Crease ?

[ssummerlin]

@peepeep

Did you imagine you’d be a Systems Engineer when you were young?

No. My Dad was a fire fighter. I wanted to become an elevator operator when very young. Electronics and electricty always fascinated me. Thought I would be an electrical engineer. Went into avionics and then computer hardware and then software. In 1994, I got into Lotus cc:Mail and stayed within email systems till retirement. It used to be that you could do all IT, but it became a specialized field and I found my comfort zone.

Life is full of choices, but luck and chance has input. I was very lucky, but I did work hard. Life continues to be good.

[peepeep]

Who leads this board in 'assists?'

Thanks for leading me down that path! What an interesting guy, with some twists I wouldn’t have imagined: Due to his family’s poor financial situation, Nilsson worked from an early age, including a job at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles. When the theatre closed in 1960, he applied for a job at a bank, falsely claiming he was a high school graduate on his application (he completed only ninth grade). He had an aptitude for computers, which were starting to be used at banks at the …

[TomG]

The man next door worked at a Ford dealership, and I used to hang around his garage after he got home. He always had side work.
There is a test in high school that everyone takes. Was a while ago. Maybe the SAT? Anyway, one of the questions had multiple answers, one was camshaft, another was crankshaft. The other two I can’t remember. I had no idea what a camshaft and crankshaft did in high school. Three years later I am graduating from one of the premier auto repair programs in Missouri. (Ranken)

Tracing my ancestors, there was a man on my side who owned a garage in the ‘20s. That is the only person who may have been mechanically inclined.

If my home network goes kablooey, I am lost but eventually get it working. I tried coding in BASIC about 40 years ago and got frustrated.

Having mechanical aptitude has helped a lot over the years, saving countless service calls for appliance repair.

[ssummerlin]

Darn. I replied to the original thread.

[ssummerlin]

@TomG

Having mechanical aptitude has helped a lot over the years, saving countless service calls for appliance repair.

True. My troubleshooting skills are still helpful.

[peepeep]

I wonder if anyone suspects they’ll be an ad man as a kid. Like Don Draper in Mad Men. Who didn’t.

A POTUS origin story. A self-marketer from early on.

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I wonder if he imagined as a kid that a Kennedy would designate him a pivotal historical figure and an answer to his prayers.

[ssummerlin]

I guess Darin Stephens was the first ad man I saw. I didn’t like his mother-in-law.

[peepeep]

That’s right! Forgot about that!

Grandma was a good actress though, part of Citizen Kane’s repertory company in the 30s-40s.

[ssummerlin]

@peepeep

I wonder if he imagined as a kid that a Kennedy would designate him a pivotal historical figure and an answer to his prayers.

Life is unpredictable and often stranger than fiction.

[peepeep]

I remember seeing a guy on a roller seat rebuilding VW bug long blocks unconsciously at high speed while he was carrying on a wide ranging conversation. In my memory he was happy as a clam, hardly looking at what his hands were doing, pretty neat (it was his business.) *

Customer service on multiple platforms

imagine what the network/digital version of this “transaxle dream” might look like: [F2TransaxelDream_0] Or this “tear-down.” [F3ExplodedVW] (Go buy something from this family. Or not. But you should do it. If you want. Ah, heck, go checkit out…)

* I didn’t buy an engine from him so I can’t vouch for his work. Fun to watch, anyway!