1. What is your fondest memory?
2. You are relatively new to Hubski, what do you like and what don't you like?
3. What is your message?
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Thanks man! I started off at NASA - just before the web was invented - as a Sys Admin for their Mac computers, and then became a Multimedia Developer for them. That was when I set up one of the first web sites on the internet! Woo! Al Gore came through my office one day, and I showed him the web, how it worked, etc. They also had oodles of old supercomputers. An old Cray sat in the hallway with a built-in bench around the outside of it. Nice place to sit. Sad place to compute. :-) Fun place. Good memories.
Al Gore came through my office one day, and I showed him the web, how it worked, etc.
you're kidding, right?
Nope. Not kidding. Ames Research Center is the only Federally owned airstrip in Silicon Valley, so any time a President or VP needs to come to town, they fly into Ames. You can walk out on the apron, meet them, shake hands, etc. (At least you could then, because the facility was secure. I don't think it is any more.) The building I was in was known as the IT building, and Al Gore took a tour of it. "Multimedia" was a big deal at the time - laser discs, Macromedia Director, etc - and my group was one of the ones that they either decided to show to Gore, or he wanted to see. So we got about 10 minutes of warning, and two big dudes in suits in our office. Al Gore comes in, shakes my hand (my officemate was in the final stages of MS, and didn't really have use of his hands at that point) and asks what I am working on. I show him a Mac SE with possibly a beta distro of NCSA httpd running on it, and showed him some web pages that we were publishing for some of our scientists. He asked some questions that showed he actually understood computers, thanked me for my time, and left. It was probably not even 5 minutes. But yeah... I showed Al Gore the web.
I'm glad we get to know goobster a little bit. And I hope tng will keep on questioning new members of the community. But, but, dude, dont brag too much about the mute button... It's so harsh to be muted: You come to a post, you want to participate and it says: "You cannot comment here because this user muted you". So harsh! But I must admit I like it a lot too.
Sorry about that. I've just seen spammers come on the site and post stupid shit. So I mute them. And poof! they're gone. Never have to listen to them again. I don't think I've been muted. Yet. So maybe I'll feel differently about it then. But, more likely, I'll go for some deep introspection about what I posted, rather than blaming someone else.
It is an extremely rare occurrence, from my experience, when the mute function is used in a casual way. With almost 100% certainty, most people know exactly why they were muted and for the most part, where I've seen it employed, I've found it justified. Why would I want to converse with someone that actively doesn't want to converse with me? Also, we will most definitely continue these. goobster -thanks again. I really enjoyed this one and I hope you feel good about the final audio. Cheers!