123bob
Xtreme Refugee
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2009
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- Location
- Pacific Northwest, USA
EDIT: Updated this post since I moved back over to XS. My best to all of you here. You have a great team.. : END EDIT
I realized, by posting up in a recent thread on my home team at XS, that I have not shared with most of you who I am, what I'm about, and what motivates me to do what I do. Sharing is what builds a strong team. I will try to tell you who I am by sharing some of my XS threads that got me into this thing we call crunching.... Feel free to tell us who you are in this thread. Let's get to really know each other....This provides the base for a strong team. We can help each other out by this....
The ground rules for posting in this thread....No pretenses, no pretending, tell us who you really are, good or bad....
For my recent TPU history, I came here with the outage of the XS forum.
W1zz gave us the "Xtreme Refugee" title without the normal 5k post criteria. (So that all of you know, W1zz has been an "XIP" for some time at Xtreme. He has historical latitude there. I would hope folks here realize that the most "Xtreme" of us over at XS, have been welcomed, in his house, here....Thanks again W1zz for hosting us, and putting up with us. :up: (XS, for thumbs up....)
For me in particular, I am a 47 year old Principal Staff Electrical Engineer for Motorola. I have been with the company for 20 years. Before that, I was a USAF member involved in many interesting things.
OK, that's what I do for a living, who else am I? More importantly, like Loonym, who was a pinch hitter here for the team, I am a single parent of a now 13 year old Daughter. She is my light, my delight, my reason for living, and the source of my greatest angst sometimes.....
I will post a snapshot from my XS posts of this. There's great nuggets of info here on technical details, but what I want this team to catch is the PASSION the XS folks bring to what we do.
Here's when I decided to commit to the team and crunch a farm. HERE.
Here's what happened when the cooling problem came into place. A pic of me is in here too..... HERE.
Everyone looks for success. Here's one of that, and why we do this....HERE.
My Sister has cancer, need I say more? HERE?
We also have fun at XS, as you should here....This was a contest to see who had the UGLIEST cruncher....SparkyJJO has won this two years in a row. He folds here, I just ran him over yesterday on that......Sorry Sparky!! I didn't realize you were folding here....I just started folding with 6 260-216s on the "exchange program"....... "Franky" thread HERE.
I would hope that you folks know me from these. I would ask you, why do you do this? It is an important question, and if you're dedicated, an important answer and commitment.
For me Crunching and now folding is something I will do until I am finally dead. I crunch/fold for my daughter and her kids....and for a few others I will name later...
to those of you who are serious about this....
Respect and Regards,
Bob
I realized, by posting up in a recent thread on my home team at XS, that I have not shared with most of you who I am, what I'm about, and what motivates me to do what I do. Sharing is what builds a strong team. I will try to tell you who I am by sharing some of my XS threads that got me into this thing we call crunching.... Feel free to tell us who you are in this thread. Let's get to really know each other....This provides the base for a strong team. We can help each other out by this....
The ground rules for posting in this thread....No pretenses, no pretending, tell us who you really are, good or bad....
For my recent TPU history, I came here with the outage of the XS forum.
W1zz gave us the "Xtreme Refugee" title without the normal 5k post criteria. (So that all of you know, W1zz has been an "XIP" for some time at Xtreme. He has historical latitude there. I would hope folks here realize that the most "Xtreme" of us over at XS, have been welcomed, in his house, here....Thanks again W1zz for hosting us, and putting up with us. :up: (XS, for thumbs up....)
For me in particular, I am a 47 year old Principal Staff Electrical Engineer for Motorola. I have been with the company for 20 years. Before that, I was a USAF member involved in many interesting things.
OK, that's what I do for a living, who else am I? More importantly, like Loonym, who was a pinch hitter here for the team, I am a single parent of a now 13 year old Daughter. She is my light, my delight, my reason for living, and the source of my greatest angst sometimes.....
I will post a snapshot from my XS posts of this. There's great nuggets of info here on technical details, but what I want this team to catch is the PASSION the XS folks bring to what we do.
Here's when I decided to commit to the team and crunch a farm. HERE.
Here's what happened when the cooling problem came into place. A pic of me is in here too..... HERE.
Everyone looks for success. Here's one of that, and why we do this....HERE.
My Sister has cancer, need I say more? HERE?
We also have fun at XS, as you should here....This was a contest to see who had the UGLIEST cruncher....SparkyJJO has won this two years in a row. He folds here, I just ran him over yesterday on that......Sorry Sparky!! I didn't realize you were folding here....I just started folding with 6 260-216s on the "exchange program"....... "Franky" thread HERE.
I would hope that you folks know me from these. I would ask you, why do you do this? It is an important question, and if you're dedicated, an important answer and commitment.
For me Crunching and now folding is something I will do until I am finally dead. I crunch/fold for my daughter and her kids....and for a few others I will name later...
to those of you who are serious about this....
Respect and Regards,
Bob
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