I don't think my Dad used to wear a pocket protector. The slide rule was from when he took night classes at Northeastern in the 1960's. I don't think he ever used it after that, it was always in his top dresser drawer.
Here he is in the Medford Vocational School wood shop in 1975, when he was 44. Looks like safety glasses and a pen in his shop coat pocket. He always had a measuring tape and at least one nail set in his pants pocket. Always.
I'm taking a breath from a monumental project for a new client. Got a call on Thursday afternoon from a large financial firm in the Metroplex. I had met their marketing guy six months ago but today they were in crisis mode. They needed a video, scripted, captured and edited, for a major presentation Monday morning.......... So, because I have never perfected that thing Steve Zimmerman chided me about years ago, you know "No is a complete sentence.", I said "Sure!" Rain, ice and snow was moving in starting that evening so I rearranged everything and blasted out with my video gear to get, not sure what, but some metroplex stock footage that might come in handy. Friday morning early the capturing began at multiple locations involving a half dozen people. The day ended mid evening Friday and I scrambled home to upload and back up the day's work, then began strategizing the editing process. All day Friday was controlled panic, part of which was in anticipation of the editing process and not having a clear picture of what the final product was supposed to look like. Saturday morning, Saturday evening and today following church I've been immersed in new editing techniques and a whole bunch of, for me, unplowed ground. Edit 2.0 is rendering as we speak.
One thing for certain, I believe a new MacPro Tower is in my 2020 future. The way the video end of my work is growing it would be dumb not to invest in more speed and capability, at least that's the story I'm going to tell "accounting".....
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I'm taking a breath from a monumental project for a new client. Got a call on Thursday afternoon from a large financial firm in the Metroplex. I had met their marketing guy six months ago but today they were in crisis mode. They needed a video, scripted, captured and edited, for a major presentation Monday morning.......... So, because I have never perfected that thing Steve Zimmerman chided me about years ago, you know "No is a complete sentence.", I said "Sure!" Rain, ice and snow was moving in starting that evening so I rearranged everything and blasted out with my video gear to get, not sure what, but some metroplex stock footage that might come in handy. Friday morning early the capturing began at multiple locations involving a half dozen people. The day ended mid evening Friday and I scrambled home to upload and back up the day's work, then began strategizing the editing process. All day Friday was controlled panic, part of which was in anticipation of the editing process and not having a clear picture of what the final product was supposed to look like. Saturday morning, Saturday evening and today following church I've been immersed in new editing techniques and a whole bunch of, for me, unplowed ground. Edit 2.0 is rendering as we speak.
One thing for certain, I believe a new MacPro Tower is in my 2020 future. The way the video end of my work is growing it would be dumb not to invest in more speed and capability, at least that's the story I'm going to tell "accounting"........Show more →
So ….. “Take one pack of New Improved Instant Hollywood. Add a generous serving of Hot Wilson. Then sit back and enjoy your new Monday morning presentation”. Sorry to reduce your herculean efforts to the level of commodity marketing – but seriously – I hope that the invoice for that work will help offset some of the fixed costs that your business has to stand.
On my specialist subject – spending another persons hard earned – I notice that your buddies at OWC have recently announced some eGPU products. I wonder if your ever increasing need for speed might find help in that direction. I know nothing of the specifics – just wondering if parallel overall process with more than one machine might be better than one rocket ship. On the other hand you could do both ……
New Year down here on the UK south coast has been a bit strange. Endless days of wet grey miserable clag…. Ugh! Although it feels cold – actually just very damp – in reality it’s been very mild for the time of year. No frost for us this winter …. yet. In our garden we have summer annuals that are still flowering! Nights are getting shorter so it’s time to look out for harbingers of spring.
Mark, now that face I recognized. I was the first to take advantage of the new rules back then, and take two shop classes, Electrical, with Gary Comeau in the Voke, and Small Gas Engine Repair over in A building. You can imagine the shock on the faces when "a girl" came strolling into the classes!
My dad was an engineer, never had a degree either, but definitely as quirky as your typical engineer. Always wore white dress shirts with short sleeves, pocket protector. My step mom finally got him to finally start wearing something other than white. At my husband's wake, he finally wore a shirt with a print (one of my husband's Hawaiian shirts!)
msalvetti wrote:
I don't think my Dad used to wear a pocket protector. The slide rule was from when he took night classes at Northeastern in the 1960's. I don't think he ever used it after that, it was always in his top dresser drawer.
Here he is in the Medford Vocational School wood shop in 1975, when he was 44. Looks like safety glasses and a pen in his shop coat pocket. He always had a measuring tape and at least one nail set in his pants pocket. Always.
Thanks Nick! I needed a laugh this morning. Worked til 3 am on this video project and am back at it as we speak. You know, "just a few minor tweaks........." Ugh! "accounting" says Happy New Year to you and Thea as well.
Been pretty busy with some work travel and this home storage project. Came to realize that "awesome" storage closet under the stairs they built in our home was anything but "awesome". About the second time you have to remove all to of the closet's contents to get that box in the back you realize how inconvenient this storage area is.
So we tore out the wall and built in a storage system with 16" wide, 40" deep drawers, and put a 20" deep closet on the door side for paints and such.
Below are some pictures of progress. Warning, photo quality isn't up to FM standards as I usually capture photo's with whatever is at hand,,,,,,,,, cell phone is often the tool of choice.
Will eventually face the drawers with some drawer fronts that are painted white and trim the whole opening out to match the door trim, etc.
After all that work I realized the item that causes much of the clutter we are trying to store is kids and pups. So I thought, why not store the kid and pup!!!!!
Ya, we put good slides and material in the construction; you never know what is going to be stored in this thing.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
My dad had a circular one that fit in his shirt pocket, behind his pocket protector.
Laura,
That is exactly what I had too! A small circular one. In High School our math teachers didn't allow the then emerging calculator. The science teacher didn't allow calculators either, but she did allow slide rules. She paid special attention to significant digits, counting zeros, and all that stuff. Weird but the lesson's she taught still live in me nearly 40 years later and it helps me every day as an engineer. It allows me to scale, estimate, and keep in perspective so much that the younger generation can't comprehend unless the computer gives them some answer with about 12 significant digits, but with bad input to the computer model it's all useless...................
Dan, my high school chemistry teacher was the same way about those emerging calculators. Of course, then they were running about $150 in the stores, so they were pretty cost prohibitive, too. I sold the refurbished ones when I worked for Sears in the Surplus store near Fenway (was down in the basement of their catalog distribution center)
The last time I was through that area, they had turned the building into some sort of condos and retail space
Dan, that is NOW an awesome storage space. Murphy's Storage Corollary is that the item you want is ALWAYS at the back, no matter what it is or where it was to begin with.
DanNehmer wrote:
Still Lurking!
Been pretty busy with some work travel and this home storage project. Came to realize that "awesome" storage closet under the stairs they built in our home was anything but "awesome". About the second time you have to remove all to of the closet's contents to get that box in the back you realize how inconvenient this storage area is.
So we tore out the wall and built in a storage system with 16" wide, 40" deep drawers, and put a 20" deep closet on the door side for paints and such.
Below are some pictures of progress. Warning, photo quality isn't up to FM standards as I usually capture photo's with whatever is at hand,,,,,,,,, cell phone is often the tool of choice.
Will eventually face the drawers with some drawer fronts that are painted white and trim the whole opening out to match the door trim, etc.
And the other night we had high winds, but just to the north of us there were two tornadoes that gave no warning. I used to work in Fletcher, when Midwest Micro was still around.
I was thinking that this morning at 1 am! I shot 13 hours on Friday, edited all weekend until 3 am Monday morning, was getting sporadic changes via text from the client who was out of town dealing with another crisis. The piece I had created was so hacked to death with changes that I no longer liked it at all by mid day yesterday, the flow was all cobbled up, the message wasn't delivered properly the whole feel of it was not what I had envisioned. Soooooo, at 6 last evening I took a deep breath, chucked it all and began anew. When I viewed the new piece at 1 this morning I knew that I had nailed it and feed back from around the country this morning confirmed that it is a success. Very frustrating, four days + in frantic production, but the client knows that we performed a miracle and this piece will play today before etc board of one of the largest financial institutions in the country so that's nice Oh, and the invoice.............well "accounting" will be very happy with that little love letter.
So, "No!" is complete sentence if you happen to be independently wealthy like the guy giving the advice, but if you're just a worker bee, "No!" is rarely, occasionally but rarely, a productive response.
Off to a business lunch in McKinney, no cameras involved
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Dan, my high school chemistry teacher was the same way about those emerging calculators. Of course, then they were running about $150 in the stores, so they were pretty cost prohibitive, too. I sold the refurbished ones when I worked for Sears in the Surplus store near Fenway (was down in the basement of their catalog distribution center)
The last time I was through that area, they had turned the building into some sort of condos and retail space
