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For me:
Name: Ben Steigerwald
Location:Cupertino, CA
Age:16
Occupation:Student
Hobbies:Lasers, biking, Robotics, Software hacking, high voltage
Other:I run a forum, SpectraForum, and a reviews site, SpectraReviews. I am a sophomore in high school, I am studying Chinese and AP physics.
Name: do a search... It's like Prego. :rolleyes:
Biography: No longer in my 20s...
Location: Central Florida
Interests: Reading SciFi/Fantasy, building/overclocking computers, and building/watching laser shows (best Forest Gump voice) I like Pink floyd... A lot...
Occupation: TSR in telcom
Other: I enjoy sleeping. :cool:
Name: DZ
Location: Jags!onville, FL
Age:30
Occupation: CE
Hobbies: Astronomy, Lasers, Electronics
Other: Married, father of a very stubborn 2 year old girl!
Name: Adam Burns
Location: Charleston, SC
Age: 41
Occupation: Industrial Wastewater Treatment / Emergency Medical Technician
Hobbies: Lasers (Duh), boating, computers, electronics, paintball, music.
Other: Married, 2 grown kids.
Name: Ray
Location: Rotorua New Zealand (sulphur City & steam)
Age: old enough not to remember, now what's this thread about again ??
Occupation: Electronics engineering technician
Hobbies: Now lasers, Aerobatics, Side Drummer Pipe band
Other: Married, there can be no "other", be grateful for what one receives !!
Name: Gary
Location: Austin, TX
Age: 41
Occupation: Software Engineer
Hobbies: this - used to be restoring a Karmann Ghia.. this takes much less garage space
Other: Married w/ 2 kids and a dog. Enjoying family life.
Name: Dan Hawkins
Location: Devon, England
Age: 30 ish
Occupation: Have a security comms and IT company
Hobbies: the obvious, plus restoring my old car, hifi, pinball machines
Other: living with partner and two very young kids.
Name: Andrew Connolly
Location: UK
Age: 24
Occupation: Highways Engineer - Highway Authority (County Council)
Hobbies: lasers cars plants
Other: ???
Name: Rob Stanley - or is it stanley wax or stan robley......
Location: Runcorn near Liverpool (my home town - yes im a scouser - someone has to be!) UK
Age: 41 approaching the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything...
Occupation: Self Employed in IT providing hardware and desktop support for small businesses occasionally get paid for electronics jobs.
Hobbies:Lasers, Cars, Photography, Lasers, Motorsport, Astronomy (casual), Lasers, Electronics, Music and erm .....Lasers. Passing interest (harking back to childhood) in railways - jeeeez im an anorak too!
Other: Single but live with long time partner Sue & 2 kids (ok they are not really kids but cats) wont be getting married wont be having real kids. Love my Alfa Romeo & my Triumph TR7 - yes im a glutton for punishment :). Can't play a musical instrument to save my life though I wish I could. Oh and I'm a freaky Vegetarian. I know, a scouse train spotting vegetarian - dont hold it against me! ;)
Rob
Name: Mike North
Location: Omaha, NE
Age: 37
Occupation: Software Engineer, Data Transmission Network, Omaha
Hobbies: Whatever I am infatuated with at the moment- currently this laser show stuff. Previously: Homemade CNC Mill running Mach3, AR-15, '68 Firebird, Techno-Isel CNC gantry table, Guinness Draught :D
Other: Single, looking for a nice girl who won't get jealous of the time spent on my projects (do they exist?). I was an Avition Electronics Tech in the US Navy F-14 squadron VF211, went to the Gulf twice fixing radar, nav, comm & weapons systems on tired old jets 1990-1996
Name: Pit is the nickname, Simon is the real name - but I have always hated it :p
Location: Hertfordshire, UK (but seriously contemplating Australia)
Age: Old enough to know better... 40
Occupation: IT contractor (often referred to as scumbag) currently helping to make servers, well... serve at a large investment bank
Hobbies: Lasers, music (mainly trance) gadgets, squash, the Nurburgring, engineering, food, wine and good times
Other: Married, no kids
Name:Myron
Location:Massachusetts, USA
Age:26
Occupation:IT Manager
Hobbies:Lasers! Model Aeronautics, My Sport Bike, Electronics in general, Love Music, I Dj
Other: Oh I'm also vegetarian. I think my GF loves my lasers as much as I do. So she's a keeper :)
Introduce yourself! .... Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls .... here is ...
Name: Karl Dawson
Location: Lancashire UK ( up north, or down south if paul reads this ) but soon to be Thailand .... the land of smiles and also the land of no regulations for Lasers and smoke machines
Age: fortyumfp .... i mean... fortywoompf .... God.. i cant even say it
Occupation:
1, Hasbeen Rock Star
2, Restaurant owner
3, Packaging Engineer, servo based motion control
4, Electronics engineer
5, Laser show company ( part time :D )
6, Customer service and support manager
7, Tester for Guinness Brewery ( at my cost )
pick any one of the above
Hobbies: Lazurs, playing guitar, looking at naked women on the internet
Other: great family, 3 kids, lovely wife who puts up with me being
here there and everywhere, and great friends here on PL
all the best .... Karl
I forgot to mention this hobby too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Banthai
Rob
That's not a hobby...
That's your duty as a citizen with broadband access to the Internet! At least, that's what I tell everyone...
After all, if we don't look at the naked women, the terrorists have won!
Adam
:D I just started "So Long and Thanks..." a day or two ago. Must be my 5th or 6th time reading the whole "trilogy". :D Arthur just felt what it feels like to be sheep... :rolleyes: Let us know if you find the "?" next year. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by stanwax
Name: Todd Moyer
Location: Downtown Los Angeles
Age: 33
Occupation: Software Designer, NextEngine Inc.
Hobbies: Muscle cars, Electro (a genre of music, for all you old-timers), Parties, Iterative Mathematical Simulations, 3D Scanning
Other: http://www.ultraluxx.com
Name: Jonathan Rehm
Location: Portland, OR (across the river in Vancouver, WA for now)
Age: 26
Occupation: Lasers/Visuals, HVAC Balancer
Hobbies: Lasers, Electronics, Computers, Autos, Outdoors
Other: Gotta say this is my new favorite site. It seems every time I read the threads on here I learn something useful.
Name: Aaron (you can guess my last name)
Location: Riverside, CA
Age: 43
Occupation: Offically - Network Manager. Unoffically - programmer, comp. operator, and "the guy that the techs come to when they can't figure out whatever problem they're confronted with" :p
Hobbies: Lasers (duh), Micro RTF Helicoptors, Computer gaming (vanguard & occasional small LAN party)
Other: erm, Married, wife doesn't understand the 1st two hobbies above :)
Name: Graham Vincent
Location: Greenwich, London, UK
Age: 11/01/1979 (28)
Occupation: Web Programmer : ... that's it :0(
Futre Occupation: Laser show designer and sex god
Hobbies: Power Kiting, Computers, websites, knitting??? and now lasers.
Other: This site kicks arse/ass/arss so glad I found it.
Name: Mark
Location: Newark, DE
Age:41
Occupation: Shop Manager and CO2 Laserist for a Sign Company
Money Pit Hobbies: Lasers, Ham Radio
Other: Married w/two four legged kids
Hey Imagelight, mikkojay, aka KB0TOI here-
Been off air for a while, but might be back, as I hear they just opened up some expanded frequencies to the technician class...
~Mikkojay
Wow, a lot of us sure are similar in our ages and interests!
25 to 50 year old geeks. ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by carmangary
Name: William (they call me Bill) Benner
Location: Orlando Florida, USA, Earth
Age: 42 I think...
Occupation: President and CTO
Hobbies: No time for hobbies unfortunately...
Other: To be continued...
So... do you know the question? You have "attained" the answer... :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pangolin
The question would be, "What is 6 times 8?"
Answer: 42. There's something fundamentally wrong with the universe. (At least that's what deep thought tells us.)
Adam
Ho Hum...
I'm not really one for giving information out to all and sundry, but seeing as its only a few of you guys who will see it ;) here goes...
Name: Jeremy
Location: The West Riding of Yorkshire, UK
Age: Err... Do I have to ???, Oh go on then... 49 (but much younger at heart)
Occupation: Work in Ophthalmic Optics
Hobbies: Gadgets of any kind, Holography, My iPod, Playing 'the Didg', The Outdoors, Oh, and I almost forgot... LASERS!!!! - Did I mention the Gadgets :D:D:D
Other: Used to be a mobile DJ in the seventies up to the mid eighties - 3 roadshows and lots of really noisy gear! How I wish they had Laptops and MP3 back then. I used to carry 8500 7" singles around, I guess that's why my back's knackered now!
I Love all the old Prog Rock stuff, particularly ELP, Rick Wakeman, Tangerine Dream etc. More recently I really like all the Trance stuff :eek: My kids can't believe that someone of my age likes Trance!!
Pangolin..." Hobbies: No time for hobbies unfortunately..."
Don't rub it in :rolleyes:
Graham ;)
Like you said mate - young at heart :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jem
Rob
Name: Alex
Location: Great "Toronto" Area Canada (hey!)
Age: 29
Occupation: Physical security consultant. Light and Laser shows. Theatrical Shows. Lights consultant. (decided not to do anymore IT. Even doe I have Net. Eng and Elect. Eng diplomas.)
Hobbies: Lasers, Electronics, Music composition, Urban Exploration, Mountain climbing, Extreme sports and many more.
Other: Used to be a DJ in early-mid 90s. Dropped that after 1998. Composed music since 95. Can draw and do 3d animations. Love all aspects of Electronic music. Actually I like all kinds of music as long as they are not depressing ones. Not married. no kids.
Name: Inge
Location: Up north in Norway
Age: last time i checked I was 23 10 years ago, so that make me hmm...yeah
Occupation: Computer tech/consultant
Hobbies: Laser, RC helli and computers
Other: living with my beautyfull lady and have 2 kids. Another one due soon ;)
Name: Ihor Ralko
Location: Lviv, Ukraine (ExUSSR)
Age: 44
Occupation: President and CTO (three people company :) )
Hobbies: Mountains... Photo... Car
Other: RIYA controller developer and manufacturer: architecture, search and purchase of components, schematic, PCB routing, assembling, testing, selling... All, except firmware and drivers :)
Name: Terrence ( Terry ) Green
Location: Bali Indonesia
Age: 49
Occupation: Semi Retired
Hobbies: Golf, Max3D, Writing lasershows,
Other: www.exbali.com
Name: David
Location: Australia
Age: the younger side of 30
Occupation: Electronics tech, pro audio, large format printing, e-commerce
Hobbies: lasers, friends, electronics design, electronic music, metal work, and lately - getting fit again :)
I thought that was your occupation not an hobby :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Banthai
Name: Jim
Location: Bolton, Lancashire, UK
Age: 44 and counting
Occupation: ex- electronic engineer, retired due to health :(
Hobbies: lasers, music, discos, women, women, oh did I mention women
JimBo!!!
Heh, the site that has the smilie I thought to use is down, so I have to use another one. I was going for a wave...
http://www.technfun.com/smilies/ratz.gif (it's all I got:o )
Name: Randy, RR, Hey You, Chief, A**H*L*
Location: Knoxville, TN (Finally!)
Age: 47 (well, maybe not mentally...)
Occupation: Military helicopter test pilot & instructor; computer systems administrator
Hobbies: RC model aircraft, beer, electronic music, computers, lasers, beer, pistol & skeet shooting, personal watercraft, O-gauge model railroading, beer
Did I mention beer?
Other: Married (she's worried!), no kids. Share a home with two cats (And now a 70-pund Black Labrador "puppy") that allow us to live in the house we bought them.:)
Name: Anthony hamond
Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands/holland - Europe
Age:28 (born in 1980)
Occupation: Work for an IT company, first as Field service engeneer...now i'm a Box shover (logistics)
Hobbies: Cars (mostly Jap cars), Photograpy, laser(show), Pyrotechnics and ocasionaly some RC models.
Other: Not marryed (i don't think its ever going to happen)
Owner of www.hondaperformance.nl the biggest tech based honda based community in the benelux. (i'ts something like hondatech but in DUTCH)
Used to be co"founder" teammember of www.freakpyromaniacs.com
That was a great time with some serious dedicated people like here on PL.
Designed the 1st and 2nd website and the main logo (years ago)
My photography website www.hamond.nl i'm passionate about photography ..
I hope after 15+ years of laser silence to pick up the laserhobby where i left it.
I surely know photolexicon will help me do that.
Name: Niels
Location: Menen, Belgium
Age:20 ( youngest one so far ! )
Occupation: Student ( electro-mechanical engineering )
Hobbies: Lasers, electronics in general, ... anything technical really
Other: Hope to end up with a job related to lasers :)
Sorry Niels, I have beaten you: my age is 16Quote:
Originally Posted by FourDee
Others~
Name: Florian Bonte
Location: under a bridge in Anzegem, Belgium
Occupation: student
Hobbies: light-jockey for small parties, piano, sleeping
Other: still dreaming of a better world... as my hobby is sleeping
Name: Wisenheimer Smarty-pants Know-it-all Hyperemotional Drama Queen (Now you see why I go by my handle :rolleyes:)
Location: Akron, Ohio, USA, Earth, Heliosphere, Milky Way...
Age: 43
Occupation: PITA, I do "IT"! What else is there? Co-owner of Extra Stimulus Inc.
Hobbies: I haven't had a hobby since I was 10.5. I have obsessions and addictions. Speaker design and construction, electronics, music, programming, art, making the coolest real stuff I can think of as well as I possibly can. And blogging on PL! :D Oh shit! I almost forgot lasers! :eek:
Other: I Live in a beautiful house in the coolest part of Akron with a man I've loved since the day I met him in February of 1993. Never went back to my house! When I met him I also met Leon, the coolest dog ever. He was a pug. He's gone now. Now, we have four adult pugs and at the moment we have a litter of 5 little ones.
James. :)
Name : Carl Bowden
Location : Preston, Lancashire, UK
Age : 35
Occupation : Printer for tissue & wrapping paper company.
Hobbys : Lasers, Playing keyboard and my laser harp and my life time hobby is Model Railways. Got my first train set aged 4 and Photography and video of the UK Railway scene, lasers and anything else worth capturing.
Some Photo's covering my hobby's.
My Model railway.
Attachment 3603
This is a Pro photo. Please don't copy.
And a couple of photo shots of my own.
A shot of the village Dunsop Bridge, Lancashire, UK.
Attachment 3601
And a shot of a firework display over Preston Docks.
Attachment 3602
Carl
hellfire rat there Carl :)
Rob
Name: Giovanni
Location: Mantova (North,North-East of Italy)
Age:19
Occupation: Student (will attend university courses about theoretical physics)
Hobbies: Almost everything related to technology. During my life I have always had a close relationship with anything electrical. When I was 5 I used to play with my grandfather's electronic equipment (and since then I have always kept a sort of "sexual commitment" with that sort of things...). He had attended a course about radio construction. I quickly ran into vacuum tube technology and build my first radio receiver when I was 10. Then I turned to computer programming. Till about 17 I made great progresses and built a 3D engine for a videogame but abandoned the project because of the lack of a gfx artist. Then I experimented OS development, which was quite interesting but soon I got fed up even with that. In parallel with these activities, in the last 6 years, I have been collecting a light system (controlled with DMX) and audio gear which I used in parties (they were very appreciated for disco etc.). I have put on a quite great amount of gear and spent a lot of money (always had expensive hobbies - my parents hate me for this!!! But expensive hobbies is a common problem here on this forum...). Eventually I met Lasers (one year ago) and what follows can be easily imagined (my story about lasers can be read in the topic "A new guy!" in the Lounge). To sum up about lasers: it became an addiction, like it did for most of us!!!
Other: Girls have always kept themselves away from me. Apart from being not much handsome, I have the fame of being a quite odd guy...guess they're right on this!!! Anyway, I'm happy with what I am and I feel fine with my lasers!!!
Name: Adam Bourassa
Location: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Age: 27
Occupation: Entrepreneur, currently nutraceuticals.
Hobbies: Lasers, Electronics, Mercedes Benz performance (Moderator at www.mercedesshop.com), Drag racing, Chemistry (Mostly energetic reactions..), Nutritional health, High Voltage experiments (Tesla coils and what not.), Real Barbecue (Made with wood and stuff, slow and low...) and Performance engine building.
Other: I've been taking stuff apart to see how they work since I was 2 years old. My mom says; "He was born with a screwdriver in his hand." Since then I've been learning to put stuff back together and even fix and build new things. :D I love science and anything technical as well as history. I hate math however. That's why god gave us calculators and computers. :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by 300EVIL
I completely agree with you and quite share your story! Exception made for math. I don't hate it at all, though I am not a genius at it. I know what I do but I am not a particularly intuitive one...
Don't spell God with a lower case G. And don't learn math. Let math explain what you already know. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 300EVIL
James. :)
Name: Troy
Location: Sydney, Australia
Age: 37
Occupation: IT - Network Engineer
Hobbies: Lasers, robotics, electronics, networking (security, IPTV, VoIP) Scuba Diving, Testing Alcohol (drinking that is, all types:D) plus so many other interests that detract from the others.
Other: Being playing with lasers for over fifteen years on and off, also used to be an Electrician.
good threads, just find it today, thanks.
Name : Bridge, Bridge in Chinese is " qiao", and my last name is "qiao", so that is why my ID is Bridge.
Location: Beijing, China. Beijing welcome you, :).
Age: 28,(1980)
Occupation: Laser
Hobbies: Laser, see laser show, football...........
others:
1). unmarried, want to take my girlfriends to Beijing soon.
2). this is the most wonderful forums I found in the world, want to be friends with all of you.
3). wish had chance meeting you in PALME Beijing, Frankfurt,Munich,Cal., .........