enorbet2 Posted February 8, 2009 Report Posted February 8, 2009 Greetz This is my introduction and background as required... My association with Science came early. I loved "big questions" books and "how to's" and read through 2 major encyclopedias by 7th grade. I started flight clubs for building and flying both U-Control gas engined planes and amateur rockets. Although later I did end up trying out a few Estes motors, I started and stayed with all metal rockets up to 6 feet tall and 2.5 inches diameter employing machined nozzles and burst diaphrams. Majoring in Engineering for 2 years while keeping a full time job I still carried a 3.8 GPA. I switched majors to English Lit from hating statics and general lack of direction (should've gone into research) and through music fell head over heels in love with electronics. I was self-employed in the music business most of my life in repair, mods, PA rental, and touring in a band, and even got a paragraph in "Guitar Player" thanks to Nils Lofgren's respect for my vacuum tube design skills. I patented a geodesic based speaker cab designed for onstage dispersion and clarity. Now I play with PCs and overclocking (Slackware Linux RulZ!) and recording/tweaking and still read real sci-fi (not fantasy) and hard science. This winter I read all 3 of Lee Smolin's books and read "Three Roads to Quantum Loop Gravity" twice. Anyway this forum looks wide and interesting and that always reflects the quality and concerns of the poster/members as well as administration. Science needs such a forum IMHO after it has suffered so despite so many fundamental breakthroughs during the same 8-10 year period. Quote
pamela Posted February 8, 2009 Report Posted February 8, 2009 hello enorbet2nice intro:)welcome!!! Quote
enorbet2 Posted February 13, 2009 Author Report Posted February 13, 2009 Hello Pamela I apologize for taking so long to respond to your warm welcome. It just took me awhile to figure out how. I tried responding directly but being a newb policy wouldn't let me. I tried AIM but don't think I can get through when you're offline. So here I am responding here, belatedly. I'm not at all sure what your position is here even though I got the impression you are somehow involved in administration or at least a valued and long time member. In whatever case, I thank you for your friendliness and I'm pleased to have stumbled on such a lively group.AlohaJimmy Quote
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