The Well 69: ImmortalSix

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In as much detail as you can disclose, describe your job/worklife.
 
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In as much detail as you can disclose, describe your job/worklife.

Up front, I'll tell you guys, I went to school for Geospatial Analysis --- GIS, mapping, etc. Right now, what I'm doing is mostly "comms" focused --- everything from mapping (as in, showing the geospatial extent of) commercial telecommunication infrastructure dependecies to telecom analysis all the way down to circuit level and equipment level as in "What port on an ESS 5 switch will be used for this circuit?"

It's not perfect for my brain, but it keeps my wife well taken care of.

I spend a lot of hours figuring out what homes to what (parent-child analysis) and figuring out what telecom facilities will serve a given asset --- e.g. a DHS facility on 123 Main St. gets it's voice and data service from what end office (EO)? What signalling transfer protocal equipment (STP's) does that EO rely on for signalling service? What access tandem (AT) does that EO use for inter-LATA trunking? Stuff like that.

I'm a consultant, though, so I move around to different tasks.

I used to work at FEMA Headquarters, making maps of wildfires, incoming hurricanes, flooding. That was a cool job but I quit it to become a consultant where there's more room to grow.

I used to work at The Pentagon, where I did just exactly whatever the hell I was told. Loved that work environment --- nobody's afraid to hurt your feelings in a military setting, and it's very efficient as a result.

I know I'm not fulfilling my total potential, but I yam where I yam.

One day I'd like to get into localized energy production, but I'll need to tuck some more education under my hat before I can go charging off in that direction.

-Hunter
 
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What's your greatest fear? Do you consider it an irrational fear?

I never think about what my "fears" are. I certainly have a list of things I 'd never like to experience (death by getting dragged under a bus, for example) but there's no single thing that, if it happened, I'd say "There it is, my worst fear, realized!"

I don't have a capstone "fear" but here is a list of things I don't want to do / experience:

Death of a child
Untimely death of my wife
Getting dragged under a bus until I die
Death by fire
Getting tortured
Involuntary eyeball removal

Pretty localized stuff, most of which is, ahem, avoidable.

I am not one of those people that fear they may lose all their money, or lose the love of their family --- my life will happen as I influence it's course with my decisions, and I'll be glad to take everything I get.

-Hunter
 
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^ Does your head hurt often?!?

Apart from music, what do you do to relax?

Yeah, the job is pretty techy / nerd stuff, and yes, there are many days where I come home and grab a guitar and a beer and just sit there and do "nothing" for about 15 minutes to let my brain defrost a little bit :laughing:

To relax, and this may sound totally crazy to some of you, I really like to just be by myself, with no hurry or vectors of need pulling me in any direction.

I feel like I always have to be some place at a certain time or I have to do something tough, or I have to go to the **** grocery store, and I really, really just like to have a few hours (minimum!) to just do anything or nothing or just whatever the hell I decide.

My wife was out of town this weekend and I got home after the musical I'm playing in on Friday night, and I put in a concert DVD, turned the A/C down to refrigerator temperatures (she hates that!), got a beer and just sat there and enjoyed the solitude. Some guys want to go crazy when nobody's watching, but not me, I just want a little R&R.

So much of my life, as a husband, an active musician, a consultant, is dictated by what other people want. It's truly relaxing to be the only one controlling my actions for a spell.

-Hunter
 
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(assuming you watch television)

What is your favorite TV show to watch with your wife?

What TV show do you love but your wife doesn't like?

Why does Firefox think all my contractions are misspellings?
 
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(assuming you watch television)

What is your favorite TV show to watch with your wife?

What TV show do you love but your wife doesn't like?

Why does Firefox think all my contractions are misspellings?

To watch with her: Arrested Development on DVD --- she's got the brains to enjoy it, and I appreciate that. How I Met Your Mother --- it's a well written and funny show that she enjoys as much as I do. 30 Rock, The Office.

Love but she hates: the usual guy shows: King of the Hill, Family Guy, The Simpsons. I love to put on King of the Hill because it reminds me so much of my dad (=Hank Hill), but she just doesn't "get" the humor.

We are strictly internet tv watchers --- no cable in our house, and we get terrible, terrible, terrible over-the-air reception at our place. We get all our TV from hulu.com and the stations' websites.

I'd don't know'st. I hate that too, I'm glad somebody else in the universe has "the didn't problem" too!
 
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Fun Fact: I hold a Class B CDL (Commercial Driver's License), and I used to be a bus driver.

I could thread a needle with that thing man, I loved driving the bus!

Every so often, we would have a "Roadeo" and run a challenging course with our 42 footers --- you'd have to back up around corners, do slalom, diminishing clearance at speed (hold a speed within 2 mph and the cones get closer and closer together), drive your rear duals over a tennis ball without knocking it over (there was enough space between the 2 tires to not knock it off if you did it perfectly) and all sorts of other fun tests of skill.
 
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what are the specs of yor current "classic" car?(engine specs especially;))

Haha, well, I have the title to exactly 0 antique cars at present, but my dad has a pretty fun collection that I helped build.

The Blue Bronco: 1976 Ford Bronco
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302 V8, 3 on the tree, D44 front, Ford 9" rear --- this is our most reliable "fun car," dad uses it for turkey hunting in the spring and we all use it for running around all year round. Runs and drives just as nice as any modern car. Tons of little functional upgrades. I daily-drove this car the winter that I was doing an engine swap on my Jeep

The Red Bronco: 1966 Ford Bronco
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170 ci I6, 3 on the tree, D30 front, Ford 9" rear --- this car is FAR more archaic than the '76; more like a tractor than a car - honestly. That big shifter is not for the transmission, it's for the transfer case. The lever needs to be as tall as the Statue of Liberty because it's got a tougher-than-nails gear drive transfer case and you need all the leverage you can get to shift it. It used to be a snowplow truck, so it's got a lot of extra reinforcement in the frame, etc. The powertrain is great, very much like a tractor; lots down low, nothin' up high. Put it in low range and you could drive it right through your house. I don't drive this one very often because the brakes are terrible. Currently for sale.

The Willys: 1952 CJ3A
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"Go Devil" 4 cylinder, one of the most out-of-square engines in history. All original powertrain, though --- amazing that a machine can undergo extreme duty for 57 years on original parts.

My dad and I did a good job with this one --- we ordered NOS parts, did a lot of body work and paint prep (harder than, and more important than painting), official U.S. Government supply paint, period correct for the year of manufacture.

It started as a "behind someone's barn" car, got it for $500, engine seized. Got the engine running and took it from there. Here's the timeline:

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-Hunter
 
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Are you honored to be part of the Grumpy fan club?

Being frequently grumpy myself, and understanding the frustration and "facepalm"ing that comes with lots of things we see in this day and age; yes, yes I am.

I can't fault you for being grumpy, but make sure you never let it consume you, there's so much to be happy about in this world!

If you ever feel too grumpy, hit up the Diamond Dave Soundboard for a lift!

-Hunter
 
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to touch on a few subjects here;

my yoga teacher is deathly afraid of sharks, easily avoidable you'd think, until you pass out at the movies...

your thoughts on sharks? (they do not all have to be the swimmy kind, could be the card kind, or lawyers)

nice trucks! i dig em all actually, can't go wrong with the old bronco's...

if you decided to restore something, what would it be?
 
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omg the diamond dave soundboard wins.

+1000000, but we digress:

#1 Ace, Gene, Peter, or Paul - and WHY?

#2 If you found yourself thrown back in time, what band would you go and help make what album? (To improve junk, or make a bajillion dollars just because you can already play it!)

#3 One moment you would like to relive? One moment you would like to forget?

#4 As no one else has touched this, and it is Well #69 - top three positions in the sack!

#5 Greatest guitsr poser of all time? Most unnappreciated guitarist of all time?

#6 Guilty pleasure snack food that you could eat until you expoded, if necessary?
 
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Haha, well, I have the title to exactly 0 antique cars at present, but my dad has a pretty fun collection that I helped build.

The Blue Bronco: 1976 Ford Bronco
the76bronco.JPG

302 V8, 3 on the tree, D44 front, Ford 9" rear --- this is our most reliable "fun car," dad uses it for turkey hunting in the spring and we all use it for running around all year round. Runs and drives just as nice as any modern car. Tons of little functional upgrades. I daily-drove this car the winter that I was doing an engine swap on my Jeep

-Hunter

this is my favorite out of the bunch you posted. 5.0 and a 9"rear?:naughty:

do you watch metalocalypse on adult swim? if so, what do you like/dislike about it?
 
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to touch on a few subjects here;

my yoga teacher is deathly afraid of sharks, easily avoidable you'd think, until you pass out at the movies...

your thoughts on sharks? (they do not all have to be the swimmy kind, could be the card kind, or lawyers)

nice trucks! i dig em all actually, can't go wrong with the old bronco's...

if you decided to restore something, what would it be?

Sharks are "nature's perfect predators" --- as a proper capitalist, I have to give props to anything whose strength and biological endowment exceeds that of all others in it's ecosystem.

I'm at the top of my food chain, and sharks are at the top of theirs. So we have something in common with sharks.

It's funny when humans interact with sharks, because we're both top dog in our food chains, so we're confused as to our relationship with each other.

I can tell you this, as an avid surf-fisherman, more sharks are killed by humans each year than humans killed by sharks. Ask anyone who's done some continental shelf saltwater fishing.

We're still on top!

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If I decided to restore something, well time-out --- I would never restore a car. Those guys make me sick, they are bat-**** crazy --- finding vinyl for their door panels from the correct factory location from the correct month, stuff like that. I like for cars to function well, and most of the cars from the 50s, 60s, and 70s were less functional than I'll accept. We've upgraded lots of little stuff on our '76 --- shoulder harness seatbelts, modified the transmission shifter for better function, larger tires for a higher highway speed with lower RPM, stuff like that. Restoration, true restoration is just not for me. A lot of people think that what Dad and I do with cars is restoration, and it really, truly couldn't be farther from it. [/rant]

If I "built" a classic car, with 2wd, I would do a 427 Cobra.

If I built a classic car with 4WD, I would do a '76 Bronco body with a fuel-injected Explorer 302 (GT40 heads, believe it or not, don't let the secret out!), a proper modern automatic transmission (auto is better for crawling) (I'm not up on automatics right now, knowledge wise), TruHi9 rear, D60 front, coilover and 4 link suspension.

The style of the classic but with the reliability, performance, and capability that 40 years of technology's progression have afforded us.

-Hunter
 
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I can tell you this, as an avid surf-fisherman, more sharks are killed by humans each year than humans killed by sharks. Ask anyone who's done some continental shelf saltwater fishing.

Whaddya say we give sharks some frickin' laser beams attached to their heads to even up the score and make things a little more interesting? :D
 
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#1 Ace, Gene, Peter, or Paul - and WHY?

Peter Criss, fo sho --- listen all the way 'til the end of this song to find out why, starts at about 5:15.

#2 If you found yourself thrown back in time, what band would you go and help make what album? (To improve junk, or make a bajillion dollars just because you can already play it!)

I would make He Is Legend follow up "I Am Hollywood" with a proper "He Is Legend" album --- as soon as I heard their follow-up "Suck Out the Poison," my buddy and I looked at each other and said "They either had 1) a lineup change or 2) a label change." Sure as the sunrise, they had a label change. Their "I Am Hollywood" album was so incredible, and they really fell flat after that. I wouldn't play, I would just do the production. Not everyone knows this, but I have 3 years' university education in audio technology and music production. I was close to a double major, but didn't have the money to stay in school one more semester.

#3 One moment you would like to relive? One moment you would like to forget?

Relive: my sophomore year of college --- I know it's not a moment, but man --- it was such a hard year, but the most fun year of my whole life. I was having such a good time and working so hard, I was like superman. That was the year my Jeep exploded, I lost my job, I was on academic probation, and I partied hard and hung out with crazy babes, and was really just a highly functioning college ass-kicking machine.

Forget: The moment that I ran from my classroom on April 16, 2007 --- we were 2 buildings away from the mass-murder and we were told to run faster than fast outta there by a SWAT team --- I was scared. Truly scared. We had been watching on CNN, it was so surreal, seeing the building we were in on live TV, it was awful. We were watching the death tally rise and rise, up to the 30s before SWAT got in and sprung us. There was a moment there, where I thought about my family, my girl, my life, and thought, if I'm ever going to get a bullet in the brain, it's going to be in the next 60 seconds. We didn't know it was just one killer --- we all assumed it was dozens because the death toll was so high. We figured they were on rooftops, in windows everywhere.

SWAT got into our building and ordered us to run to the commuter parking lot as fast as we could.

I fully accepted there was a chance of getting shot.

I had this black Hurley hat that I had had since my freshman year, and I was a senior at the time, 3 weeks away from graduation, and no-****, I ran so fast my hat blew off my head --- I paused to turn around, just out of habit or reflex, and felt this pulse of, I don't know, not emotion, not fear, just a pulse of "Oh ****," like I was a moving target and I had stopped and now I was going to get shot and die.

I made it home, here I am.

I could have gone my whole life without that moment.

#4 As no one else has touched this, and it is Well #69 - top three positions in the sack!

You wish!

#5 Greatest guitsr poser of all time? Most unnappreciated guitarist of all time?

Greatest poser: THE ENTIRE 80'S

Most underappreciated: Trey Anastasio. People see him as a hippie icon, but really he is just a kick-ass-and-take-names guitar player, from the floor up. I recognized this when I heard Phish do covers --- he is better than the original guitar player on every single cover!

#6 Guilty pleasure snack food that you could eat until you expoded, if necessary?

Pork ribs, pork ribs, pork ribs. No sweet sauce for me, give me that dry rub!
 
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