Just out of curosity  :)

I have an MS degree in marine biology and am a junior college teacher and course director.

I am also researching the feeding habits of the harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) near my home town.


Hmmm....  How can I find time playing MM and building MM mansions?

That's great, brell! I have a BS in Zoology, but I never really used it. I still have a great love of all wildlife, with a special love for marine animals. I did a summer of sea turtle research during my 1 year of grad school. That was 20 years ago.  ::)

I actually ended up doing graphic design, mostly. Right now I'm an administrative assistant at our church, but I get to use graphic design and some web design. I like it, it's part-time and the people I work with are really great.

8-)

I've said before elsewhere, but I'm an undergrad studying Chemical Engineering. I hope to work on alternative energy technologies, and fear I may need more than a BS to do it.

I pay the bills as a webmaster for the University's English Language Center (for ESL students).

Wow, all these educated people. I don't have a degree but I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Wells Fargo Bank. I coach youth basketball ages 5-15. I am a 4th degree Black Belt and teach Iai (the art of drawing the katana sword), Kendo and Ken-Jitsu. For fun I race an 11 second Dodge SRT-4 (Neon with 40% of a Viper motor) and today my bowling team took first place. For frustration I teach my almost 8 year old son Matthew programming (Logo and RoboLab) and digital art. In the winter months I am the Assistant Chairman for the Fiesta Bowl Parade.

Joe B

joeb wrote on 30.04.2007 at 11:34:34:

Wow, all these educated people. I don't have a degree but I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Wells Fargo Bank. I coach youth basketball ages 5-15. I am a 4th degree Black Belt and teach Iai (the art of drawing the katana sword), Kendo and Ken-Jitsu. For fun I race an 11 second Dodge SRT-4 (Neon with 40% of a Viper motor) and today my bowling team took first place. For frustration I teach my almost 8 year old son Matthew programming (Logo and RoboLab) and digital art. In the winter months I am the Assistant Chairman for the Fiesta Bowl Parade. Joe B

Wow, Joe, do you ever sleep?
:o

Wow, Joe you have a busy sedule! I have school M-F from 9:00 to about 1:00 or 2:00, and at 2:00 I go to work for awhile, (About an hour or two) and then I come home and work on MM! On saturdays I work on MM alot, and play games on GR,* too. Sundays is the day for church, obviously, and after that I have the rest of the day free!  :) I think I have the most time to play MM! :P (Unless some of you are retired)

*GR=GameRanger

Joe glad to hear that you can defend us all from the monsters and sipders :D

Wingy don't you have any friend apart from us?

I? I am a large animal vet since 23 years. Mostly cows and horses gets treated by me. Sitting to much infront of the "puter" playing MM.

Hi Rose -
My husband also is a veterinarian - just hit 40 years - Cornell '66. I've worked with him for the last 30. We used to have a mixed practice until his back and the economy began hurting! Now exclusively SA. We're starting to think of retiring - though I doubt he will really ever do so! Where is your practice?

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Wow, Joe, do you ever sleep?

Not much. Residual wiredness from my 12 years on the road as a lighting designer. Yes I WAS a roadie and taught myself electronics between chugs of Heineken. Before you ask:
Roberta Flack, Southside Johnny, Robert Hazard, Clarence Clemmons, Dixie Dregs, Outlaws, Todd Rundgren, Beatlemania, SuperTramp, Edgar Winters, Sha-Na-Na, Tower of Power, Graham Parker, short stints with Judas Priest, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Jackson Brown, Steppenwolf..... lots of others.
I was at Woodstock, saw JimiHendrix change a B string while he was playing Message of Love with Buddy Miles at the Filmore East, New Years Eve 1969. Met Carlos Santana, Stevie Nicks and Rick James backstage at a John Mayall and the Blues Breakers concert. Partied with David Johannsen when he was with the New York Dolls before he cleaned up his look and became Buster Poindexter. ran into Dee Snyder (Twisted Sister) on the NJ bar band circuit, split some pizzas with Joey Ramone and company at Club Bene in Spotswood NJ. AND used to listen to Bon Jovi while he was sweeping bar floors before he won the contest that got him a recording contract and the rest is history.
My favorite T-Shirt is the one that says "Life is a trip that shouldn't be ended with all your body parts pristine and intact but by sliding in on your backside beer in one hand saying WHOA what a ride!" I'm there......

So no, I don't sleep much.......

Joe B

Oh and for the vets out there I once had a team of three huskies that I used to race on frozen rivers in upstate PA and considered running up to Alaska for the Iditarod...... Ah, the dreams of youth....

8-) 8-) 8-)

Hi Sherryl - I am working at the most southern part of Sweden. If you look it up, I live 20 km north of Ystad.

Joe - I am a sound sleeper, need about 8 hours each night. Wouldn't have time to do and experience so many things as you do.

Wow Joe,
you've really been to Woodstock ???
But you can have only been a toddler then ?!

You GOTTA tell me about that.....  I'm absolutely convinced the best time for music was ca. 1958 to 1973...plus the short new wave period of 1978-1982.  (Probably everybody loves that kind of music most he grew up with....and my first record was The Beatles HELP.)  Although today I'm a huge jazz fan (in my vast record + CD collection, jazz is about 44 % )....

I don't care for Hard Rock / Metal at all....must be very unpleasant to be a roadie on a metal tour...   :D
Roberta Flack....now that was a great singer.

rose wrote on 01.05.2007 at 15:46:59:

Hi Sherryl - I am working at the most southern part of Sweden. If you look it up, I live 20 km north of Ystad.

Ystad, isn't that the village of that Wallander cop character ??  (He's big in Germany)

Although I always found it a bit strange: how many perverted serial killers can a small city like Ystad have   ;D ;)  (every week they are hunting another maniac) ???

That is right. Wallander is the cop solving serial murders in Ystad. If you get the DVDs you'll see what it looks like in this part of Sweden.

Beatles was my first passion in music!

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But you can have only been a toddler then ?!

Nope, I'm actually 58. Yes I had my little boy when I was 50. (Actually my wife gave birth, I just sat around smiling).


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1958 to 1973...plus the short new wave period of 1978-1982.

Absolutely, but believe it or not my favorites are John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin and anything Classical. Comes from my early days, starting at 5, playing cornet. But I really just like music, you know REAL music with people playing instruments and SINGING. I have a hard time with RAP although I can respect the genre. But that's neither here nor there. We all know about opinions and body parts. We all have them. But yes I was VERY fortunate to be around during a lot of history, not just music. But the music made the times enjoyable. 50's blues and early rockand the birth of the cold war. The experimental 60's with Vietnam. The disco 70's with Nixon and the begginings of TRUE political awareness. The musical landscape was painted with whole new ideas and techniques thanks to Vietnam. HUH????? Vietnam was the proving grounds for early electronics and why the American people got calculators. And of course from electronics were born all the new types of musical instruments and methods of expression.


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Roberta Flack....now that was a great singer.

Ah yes, what a voice. Edgar Winter and Roberta had the 2 of the best (IMNSHO) voices I ever heard and great range. I believe Edgar was 4-5 octaves and Roberta was close. She had the best natural pitch of any singer I ever worked with. 30 minutes before each show a piano tuner had to tune her piano and then again during the intermission because she had a tendancy to get very cranky if everything was perfectly in tune. I was not on the tour thru Japan but I heard from one of the sound guys that she came off stage and threw a mike stand at him before an encore because she didn't like his monitor levels. He wound up carrying a sheet of Lexan around that he would setup in front of him to protect him from flying metal objects. Kind of strange considering he did the monitors for Robert Plant (Led Zepplin and another great voice) and was considered one of the best.
As far as heavy metal there were HUGE talents there as well. Robert Halford (Judas Priest) actually studied opera and had the voice to go with it, but just couldn't get an opera job so he wound up in a heavy metal band. Same with Freddy Mercury (Queen), another awesome voice now gone.
I could talk for hours about the music giants I had a chance to either hear live or actually work with but those are for wine on the terrace or Friday nights at the pub conversations.

Joe B

WHOOPS.....

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if everything WASN'T perfectly in tune

jb

joeb wrote on 01.05.2007 at 21:45:10:

[quote] those are for wine on the terrace or Friday nights at the pub conversations.

Give me an address and I'll come ;D