I'm an "Extreme Geek". If you ever need to know anything about something you will never need to know anything about, I'm your man. Or you can ask wolf. She's like 3 points geekier than me.

I am a scale tech , i work on truck, rail , and process scales , coin counters in casinos ( you don't get to see them , but they are behind the scenes ) In-motion truck , box , and rail scales ( i can weigh a truck at 80 mph , a loco at 3-5 mph and a box at 360fps). Hell if it wieghs i can generly work on it . I work for one of the Larger scale distrubiters for MANY brands of scales , Mechanacal Hydrolic and electronic . I am a jack of Many trades Master of a few . I am a guy that you can drop a box of parts on his desk and i can sort thru them and make all kinds of stuff .

That right there sounds like a fun job. :)

El sicómoro has a bachelors degree in psychology, management skills (3 years of that shit), could be a customer service consultant (over a decade in the field)...in general, just a think-outside-the-box kinda guy. In addition, he can provide fine insults, smart-ass quips and bizarre humor upon request or provocation.

It can be , I have gotten to mess with all kinds of wierd stuff , AEI equip , spread spectrum wireless modems , bar codes , PLCs , etc...
Then again it can suck HORRIBLY !!! like working to fix a rail scale after a de-railment in the snow rain and mud , or trying to figuer out why a casinos count is off just for one type of coin (some times i get comp meals in the steak and lobster tail restraunts in the casinos ) , or the all time worst going to a renedring plant ( for you folks that don't know what that is where the critters that are to sick to be slautered and all the parts of said critters gets cooked down to raw proten and bone meal ) . But hell some body HAS to do it and it HAS to be done correctly .

Oh you were serious... so was I. :) I've got book learnin' in electronics, history, education, and a Special Ed degree in the pipeline... but if you ever need to talk timber framing/ construction or bicycle maintenance [monty]man[/python], I'm your guy. peace out

Oh, and I know my music...name the mood, I've got the music for ya.

I used to work in social services, but I don't want to go into it again, as much as I admire people who do. I recently had a short (1 1/2 yr) stint as an IT technician. Now I'm trying to get a start in graphics (getting my 2 yr degree in December).

I do web design, but I still have a lot to learn there. I want to go into video and motion graphics. After I showed my video projects recently (especially "Malaika"), I had people tell me I should try making family slideshows for people.

But, what I want to know is, is there a plumber around here? Because I really need one. :D

I program in COBOL (seriously).

I also know VB (more VBA), but I get paid for mostly COBOL.

hi! i'm new....i am presently a stay at home mom, but i was in the navy and i ran a couple of pizza joints...ever have any questions related to those three things and i might could help you. incidently, i am musically addicted and there is a green tinge to my thumb...in the right light at least :D

...where do I start?


I do all sorts of things. .I've worked on : optical systems, circuits (both A & D), controls, software development (varying from tax assessor's software to business systems to embedded systems to HMI to web stuff ), DBA stuff (Oracle. SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL), writing technical documents, and data analysis.

My workload now is mostly software, some HMI, some controls, and pre 802.11 ISM wireless ....but I'm moving ever so slowly back to engineering.

(Programming Laguages: Basic , Assembly (6502, Z80,68XXX,X86), Pascal, FORTH, Fortran, C/C++, PHP, Python )

I'm a computer programmer. Java at the moment, but C in the past. I don't do VB, I don't do .NET. And I don't do COBOL (but for different reasons), so Rich's job is safe from me.

computer programmer, how much do u make?

Heh... my mom passed me a system administration job opening at a local college (local to her that is) half-jokingly suggesting I could get the job and relocate where she could see the grandkids more often. She was a little taken aback when I told her I wasn't qualified because they were insisting on lots of experience with Exchange and other M$ products that I've never had the pleasure of using.

bmgb, I just watched "Malaika". It was obvious from your DoDads post, you have a great deal of respect and admiration for this woman. However in "Malaika" the love just flows. It is a fantastic piece, you should be very proud of.:beer: