Re: What do you do in real life?

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>]

On 1/7/09 7:32 PM, in article jQb9l.8421$hc1.8056@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com,
"David Schmenk" <dschmenk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Boot Zero wrote:
>> 
>> Eight bit computing is a nice escape from modern computing.  So I ask
>> readers of c.s.apple2 -- what do you do in the real  life?  What do you
>> do for a living?
>> 
>> -BZ
> 
> I read c.s.a2 all day, of course!  In previous lives I remember
> receiving an Apple II+ in 1980 as a present from my folks.  $1210 in
> 1980 dollars was a big expenditure for a 14 year old.  Luckily it paid
> off.  Bill Budge's 3D toolkit got me hooked on computer graphics and
> became my focus through college and into work.  Which led (through a
> convoluted path) to lucky employee #13 at NVIDIA as Director of SW in
> '93.  One of the interesting twists of fate was working with Bill Budge
> on a joint AMD/NVIDIA project.  I decided to move on in 2000 and became
> Mr. Mom in '03.  While waiting for my son to be born (taking breaks from
> putting the nursery together), I found an Apple II emulator for the Palm
> that was in dire need of a rewrite.  That returned me to the computer of
> my youth.
> 
> BTW, I still haven't decided what to be when I grow up.
> 

Wow, so much like my story (except that I didn't decide to leave).

And I still am undecided on what I want to be when I grow up. But I better
hurry, I'm over half-way to the expected life-span of a man in the U.S., and
that needs to be reduced by diabetes, high-blood pressure, and stress...