Topic: Syntax
+Anonymous A — 13.6 years ago #18,216
Yeah so, how did you get to live such an exciting, adventurous, famous life?
·Anonymous A (OP) — 13.6 years ago, 41 minutes later[T] [B] #222,680
bump
+Anonymous B — 13.6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #222,682
inb4 mad+Anonymous C — 13.6 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #222,706
@OP
Newsflash: Syntax lies.
Newsflash: Syntax lies.
+Syntax — 13.6 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #222,707
@OP
> Yeah so, how did you get to live such an exciting, adventurous, famous life?
2B 100% Honest - The right hobby(s) @The right tyme. Found a thrown away radio at age 5 and tore in2 it. Take apart IF coil with miles of weird wire & fascinated.
Crystal radio project as boy scout led to Ham radio as 11 year old - Hated just hated learning morse code - Had to learn algebra & trig to pass the FCC test. Walked out of middle school to the local high school and found Math teach to teach me after hours. No money to buy radio stuff so found ways to make a slew of money real fast mowing extra bad back yards for big bucks and hired a crew of friends to franchise this venture.
Deal is as a kiddlet I learned all the basics for Engineering and could talk to Engineers on Ham radio but that also gave me a poor respect for what Engineers (don't know) took me forever to understand Y. Others hobbies like Chemistry so as to build BOMBS n Rockets and pull some fun dirty tricks in the hood -
Anyway that Ham Radio stuff had me buying parts n building my own receivers n transmitters and even bouncing signals off the Moon (poorly and the harder I worked at making it more better ended up with even more poor results) A great lesson in overachieving with bad results - Great future tyme management training.
So to end this tl;dr
Kiddlet Engineering background with the best of the best expensive Engineering books to read n understand means on entry to UCLA, I was sidetracked by Hughes Research Labs in Malibu to give up full tyme UCLA and let them pay me to play n they paid my way to do UCLA n USC n some Cal Tech n some serious UCSD where Irwin Jacobs was my Professor in advanced digital communications (He moved on to create Qualcomm along with two other Professors)
I moved on via Hughes to larn the Spy Biz with beyond Hi Tek and the basis for such was almost the same thing current CDMA tek stuff does cept instead of voice n video on cell phones WE Used the technology to take Photographs from U2's then Satellites so as to see Inside your Home and wots in the Basement as well as wot is buried under the basement and all though fog n rain and camouflage, nor could YOU tell the photos were not from film - Cannot see faces or tell the sex of a person from Space. No shadows to see. But one can C stuff no optical camera can see - Such as what might be hidden under the shirt as in strap ons n I don't mean as in dick.
Bottom line - Hobby led to pay for Play and I wood pinch myself for years when I looked at labs n Frankenstein equipment n I could treat it as all mine. At Qualcomm Engineers of my type could even take home anything they wanted to take home without paper work. University Campus enviro and operate as Grad Student. Hughes was not exactly so giving but close to. They wood sell brand new parts from any cancelled gov program - Buy one part? $1.00 but if you bought 10 the total cost was only 50cents.
Bet u b sorry u asked me. Ah one warning to anyone who read this far about ones future - out of School with law degree n passed the bar? Wot job you end up with for life depends only on wot kind of Laaaa er firm needs- You end up TYPE CAST. Engineers the same. First job is wot you retire on.
Me from Hobby who wanted hands on all kinds of technology - Wood not allow myself to end up like that. My only crash came when I set myself up as a Robotics Consultant - They thought I was the very best ever - I knew that was total BULLSHIT. I was so un-proud of Thee. Horrid 7 day a week grind but company had no clue I was putting in 20 hour days 7 days a week just to appear I was doing my job - Got Robots out of my System for sure. But did make one hell of an advanced Robot that actually did not do much but did it to impress a lot of people while it was doing its demo.
Oh n going to work for USA Gov super agencies DOES NOT PAY MUCH - Poor by comparison to any Aerospace firm - But the advanced stuff is such that no Aerospace or anyone else could pay throw away money just to attempt the next impossible task. Total FUN Total beyond Si Fi or at least we tried to do so.
> Yeah so, how did you get to live such an exciting, adventurous, famous life?
2B 100% Honest - The right hobby(s) @The right tyme. Found a thrown away radio at age 5 and tore in2 it. Take apart IF coil with miles of weird wire & fascinated.
Crystal radio project as boy scout led to Ham radio as 11 year old - Hated just hated learning morse code - Had to learn algebra & trig to pass the FCC test. Walked out of middle school to the local high school and found Math teach to teach me after hours. No money to buy radio stuff so found ways to make a slew of money real fast mowing extra bad back yards for big bucks and hired a crew of friends to franchise this venture.
Deal is as a kiddlet I learned all the basics for Engineering and could talk to Engineers on Ham radio but that also gave me a poor respect for what Engineers (don't know) took me forever to understand Y. Others hobbies like Chemistry so as to build BOMBS n Rockets and pull some fun dirty tricks in the hood -
Anyway that Ham Radio stuff had me buying parts n building my own receivers n transmitters and even bouncing signals off the Moon (poorly and the harder I worked at making it more better ended up with even more poor results) A great lesson in overachieving with bad results - Great future tyme management training.
So to end this tl;dr
Kiddlet Engineering background with the best of the best expensive Engineering books to read n understand means on entry to UCLA, I was sidetracked by Hughes Research Labs in Malibu to give up full tyme UCLA and let them pay me to play n they paid my way to do UCLA n USC n some Cal Tech n some serious UCSD where Irwin Jacobs was my Professor in advanced digital communications (He moved on to create Qualcomm along with two other Professors)
I moved on via Hughes to larn the Spy Biz with beyond Hi Tek and the basis for such was almost the same thing current CDMA tek stuff does cept instead of voice n video on cell phones WE Used the technology to take Photographs from U2's then Satellites so as to see Inside your Home and wots in the Basement as well as wot is buried under the basement and all though fog n rain and camouflage, nor could YOU tell the photos were not from film - Cannot see faces or tell the sex of a person from Space. No shadows to see. But one can C stuff no optical camera can see - Such as what might be hidden under the shirt as in strap ons n I don't mean as in dick.
Bottom line - Hobby led to pay for Play and I wood pinch myself for years when I looked at labs n Frankenstein equipment n I could treat it as all mine. At Qualcomm Engineers of my type could even take home anything they wanted to take home without paper work. University Campus enviro and operate as Grad Student. Hughes was not exactly so giving but close to. They wood sell brand new parts from any cancelled gov program - Buy one part? $1.00 but if you bought 10 the total cost was only 50cents.
Bet u b sorry u asked me. Ah one warning to anyone who read this far about ones future - out of School with law degree n passed the bar? Wot job you end up with for life depends only on wot kind of Laaaa er firm needs- You end up TYPE CAST. Engineers the same. First job is wot you retire on.
Me from Hobby who wanted hands on all kinds of technology - Wood not allow myself to end up like that. My only crash came when I set myself up as a Robotics Consultant - They thought I was the very best ever - I knew that was total BULLSHIT. I was so un-proud of Thee. Horrid 7 day a week grind but company had no clue I was putting in 20 hour days 7 days a week just to appear I was doing my job - Got Robots out of my System for sure. But did make one hell of an advanced Robot that actually did not do much but did it to impress a lot of people while it was doing its demo.
Oh n going to work for USA Gov super agencies DOES NOT PAY MUCH - Poor by comparison to any Aerospace firm - But the advanced stuff is such that no Aerospace or anyone else could pay throw away money just to attempt the next impossible task. Total FUN Total beyond Si Fi or at least we tried to do so.
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