5 Questions from Stef
5Q
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me," "I'm game," "I'm not wearing pants," etc.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them 5 questions.
1) What's the best and worst about living in NoVA?
Best: Probably the fact that for a foodie like me I can go out and have just about any nationality of cuisine within a 1 hour drive of my house.
Worst: The traffic, the fact that to get peace and quiet I would have to drive at least 2 hours west into the mountains.
2) What's your best poker story?
Ummm, I have poker stories? The only real poker I've played was with Michael, Wayland & co over lunch. Quarter poker with odd games like "Linsay Lohan". Ummm best, I think was the time I ran wayland out of like $50 on a single hand when I was holidng a straight flush.
3) What's the first thing that comes to mind when you want comfort food?
Shepherd's Pie or typical casserole. Barring that usually something like what I eat when sick, like tapioca pudding with raisens and a scoop of ice cream.
4) When you were 18, how did see yourself at your current age? How do you now see yourself at 50?
At 18: I saw myself doing something similar to the job I have now at PFCU. Maybe with a bit more programming than I do now, but that was before I figured out I really don't have the right mindset for most programming languages. I can mangle code with the best of them, but writing from scratch eludes me.
At 50: I'll probably be management of IT or a related field. Who knows where the market will go in the next 20 years. The computer industry is only about 30 years old right now. (I'm counting from when the first publicly available desktops became available.) In the next 20 years I speculate we will start to see a lot more wearable systems, AI personal assistants, and the like. Flexible screen technology is available now, but not mas produced yet (the first flexible lcd laptop hits the market this year from fujitsu), solid state tech is getting larger, faster and price is dropping like a rock. The era of magnetic storage is rapidly approaching, I'd say within the next 5 years easily. Moore's law hasn't been broken yet.....so lets ride the coaster and se where it takes us.
5) What personal project have you taken the longest on but have not yet finished?
Other than trying to get myself back to the health and weight I was in College? I think it might be the apple/fruit press I have in peices stored in my basement. I bought the parts about 2 months after we bought the house in Blackburg.....so roughly 9 years.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me," "I'm game," "I'm not wearing pants," etc.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them 5 questions.
1) What's the best and worst about living in NoVA?
Best: Probably the fact that for a foodie like me I can go out and have just about any nationality of cuisine within a 1 hour drive of my house.
Worst: The traffic, the fact that to get peace and quiet I would have to drive at least 2 hours west into the mountains.
2) What's your best poker story?
Ummm, I have poker stories? The only real poker I've played was with Michael, Wayland & co over lunch. Quarter poker with odd games like "Linsay Lohan". Ummm best, I think was the time I ran wayland out of like $50 on a single hand when I was holidng a straight flush.
3) What's the first thing that comes to mind when you want comfort food?
Shepherd's Pie or typical casserole. Barring that usually something like what I eat when sick, like tapioca pudding with raisens and a scoop of ice cream.
4) When you were 18, how did see yourself at your current age? How do you now see yourself at 50?
At 18: I saw myself doing something similar to the job I have now at PFCU. Maybe with a bit more programming than I do now, but that was before I figured out I really don't have the right mindset for most programming languages. I can mangle code with the best of them, but writing from scratch eludes me.
At 50: I'll probably be management of IT or a related field. Who knows where the market will go in the next 20 years. The computer industry is only about 30 years old right now. (I'm counting from when the first publicly available desktops became available.) In the next 20 years I speculate we will start to see a lot more wearable systems, AI personal assistants, and the like. Flexible screen technology is available now, but not mas produced yet (the first flexible lcd laptop hits the market this year from fujitsu), solid state tech is getting larger, faster and price is dropping like a rock. The era of magnetic storage is rapidly approaching, I'd say within the next 5 years easily. Moore's law hasn't been broken yet.....so lets ride the coaster and se where it takes us.
5) What personal project have you taken the longest on but have not yet finished?
Other than trying to get myself back to the health and weight I was in College? I think it might be the apple/fruit press I have in peices stored in my basement. I bought the parts about 2 months after we bought the house in Blackburg.....so roughly 9 years.