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Home and Ed.

I am from a suburb of Boston, MA. and Went to Northeastern University for a 5 yr. Accounting program.

Recently changed Mac head started loving Apple in '97
 
Re: Location and School.

Originally posted by mrtrumbe
I live in Chicago working for a firm trading options, commodities and futures.

I went to school at Michigan Technological University and studied pure computer science (not that I'm being an 'pure' elitest here, I just mean not management information systems or the likes--just pure CS) with a focus in mathematics.

Matthew
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i love it...that is life

i studied business (personnel management field to be precise...like catbert) and now i work in the IT field...exactly the opposite as you...too funny

many CS people go to business and many business people go to CS, it's all where the need is at the time...but i live just south of the silicon valley region so people who studied french medieval history are running hp and people who dropped out of high school are sometimes making 200,000 per year (no million a year salaries since the dot.com bust, though...people actually have to work for their money...a new concept in the valley ;-)

btw - were you a software CS major as in the programming languages or a computer engineering major as in networking, circuitboards, and electronics?

i plan to take the elctronics and networking route in my graduate school studies and right now i am studying cisco stuff and all that wiring and talk of electrons is really a drag, but i need it in preparation to be a network techie on the hardware side of things in grad school and in the working world (where i hope to honestly offer my services as a network administrator)
 
Sandy Eggo Too

Native San Diegan here...

Hiya GyroFX! Hiya Rower_CPU!

Network Systems and Media Support for the Educational Technology Department of San Diego City Schools.

This is fun!

(gee, these posts lately have gotten so personal! "What's your religion, Where do you live?" What's next...what's your Sign?):p



(Aries)
 
SD

hey voice,

my brother was born in northern california but i think he wishes he was a "native" of san diego...why do i think so?

1) he spent 8 years at san diego state purposely not finishing a degree so he could stay down there

2) he took up volleyball so he can get entrenched in the san diego culture...he took it so far as to be "double a" and befriended most of the world's best players so he can have another reason to live in san diego...his collection of volleyball jerseys actually has the sweat of the players on it

3) he moved to santa cruz up here in northern california and handily beat all the players there and came back to san diego because he says "there are no good players in northern california"...well, there would be if it didn't rain so much, you know

4) now he just bought a condo so now he has to stay in san diego

do you think san diego is that cool? i have only visited there for a few days as a little kid in the 70s to visit all the old ships
 
Originally posted by eyelikeart
my girlfriend has a double minor....one part being in Spanish....she got to spend some time in Salemanca in the summer of 2000 which she really enjoyed....

educational technology sounds like it can be quite a bit interesting...

my next question is....what are u going to do with it? :cool:
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Another good question. Right now I prefer the hands on design and development rather than analysis and evaluation. As time goes on, that might change, but for now nothing makes me happier than web design and digital video production.

'Sup to voicegy and GyroFX!
 
haha...

this is pretty funny...as if we're in a chat room...

also wuts up to my people of SD...voicegy and Rower_CPU

I'm actually from los Angeles, just down here for college...for the last 3 years...

i'm into graphic desgin, video editing, web based design, and stuff like that.
 
Bay Area: Nice
San Diego: Nice
In between there's this big chunk of urban dystopia that just needs to be scoured from the earth. I think you SD folks should do it. You're closer.
 
Houston, TX - South Padre, TX - Austin, TX - Corpus Christi, TX

I primarily reside in Houston, but I have homes-away-from-home in South Padre Island, Austin, and Corpus Christi.

NOT DALLAS!! :mad: :p

I desperately hope that Apple opens up some more store here in Texas!

Steve, we need you here!

Take Care,
Quark
 
Re: Re: Location and School.

Originally posted by jefhatfield


i love it...that is life

i studied business (personnel management field to be precise...like catbert) and now i work in the IT field...exactly the opposite as you...too funny
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Hehe. There is a lot of crossover. Though I still do a lot of programming. I do research and development and trading tool design...stuff like that. Though since working at a couple of firms in this field I have started thinking about trading. Ever play the trading game? Fun stuff.

I was a software-type CS major. I have an affinity towards mathematics and was able to do a lot of math while getting my degree. I could learn math and program at the same time. I was never very into the hardware design, electrical engineering part of computers. Though I did enjoy designing a RISK chip in the computer architecture class I took...

There are just too many fun things to do in the technology arena! I could have stayed in school forever!

Matthew
 
I live in Seattle and am one of many Mac users here. This can be seen daily from the many people that take their Mac into one of the many Cafe Ladro's around town.
 
I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)

Right now, I am being educated at Pascack Hills in Montvale and I plan to take Math and Science courses at the University of Southern Maine, eventually, to teach there.
 
Originally posted by King Cobra
I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)

Right now, I am being educated at Pascack Hills in Montvale and I plan to take Math and Science courses at the University of Southern Maine, eventually, to teach there.
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why do u feel the need to tell us the prices of your homes?

I'm not knocking u.....just curious as to why it's necessary....I'm sure they would prefer not knowing.....
 
In 1993 I moved from a Chicago Suburb to Champaign/Urbana to go to the University of Illinois. I was using Mosaic in 1993 at the library and had no idea I was using a piece of software that was going to change life as we know it. I graduated in 1998 with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering and have been stuck in this damn town since. Of course I decided against working in a steel mill and have been doing network admin stuff for the past four years.
 
im sitting over here cracking up on ....eyelikearts response to king cobras post of the prices of the houses. its just too funny man. i cant contain myself. haha! i mean im not laughing at king cobra im laughing at the post. im sure king cobra is a cool kid and all....all too often he has provided us with a break from the norm here on this posts. ... too funny man.


im cool with you king cobra. rock on!
 
Tuscaloosa Alabama, home of the Crimson Tide.

Hey eyes, I used to live in the quarter, man do I miss it. My wife is from Lafayette, so I still get the great cooking :p
 
Re: Home selling

Originally posted by eyelikeart


why do u feel the need to tell us the prices of your homes?

I'm not knocking u.....just curious as to why it's necessary....I'm sure they would prefer not knowing.....
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The chain was that in a year and a half we are going to sell our house and move to Maine.
 
Originally posted by King Cobra
I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)
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Bay Area interpretation: So you say your parents are trying to sell their shipping crate and get a cardboard refrigerator box?

No, I don't have any hope that I'll be able to buy a house anytime soon, even though what I pay in rent would almost cover mortgage payments on your $300K house. Yes, I'm bitter about this. Biggest downside to living in what's otherwise a great place. :(
 
Originally posted by Gelfin


Bay Area interpretation: So you say your parents are trying to sell their shipping crate and get a cardboard refrigerator box?

No, I don't have any hope that I'll be able to buy a house anytime soon, even though what I pay in rent would almost cover mortgage payments on your $300K house. Yes, I'm bitter about this. Biggest downside to living in what's otherwise a great place. :(
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I hear you, SD is almost as bad.
 
Re: Bay Area Interpretation

Originally posted by Gelfin


Bay Area interpretation: So you say your parents are trying to sell their shipping crate and get a cardboard refrigerator box?

No, I don't have any hope that I'll be able to buy a house anytime soon, even though what I pay in rent would almost cover mortgage payments on your $300K house. Yes, I'm bitter about this. Biggest downside to living in what's otherwise a great place. :(
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Actually, it's quite the opposite, if you must know. Our house in NJ is rather small and is in crowded areas, so its value goes up. The cheaper house in Maine is surprisingly much bigger, but it is in a less crowded area. So its value is rather cheap.
 
Just to irritate 'Art cause he put it out there and all.....

Median house price in Santa Cruz county is $650,000.00 if I leave off anything over 1.5 Million. Most of these are 3/2 crapola too BTW.:eek:

Spare a Mercedes for a down payment? Anyone?:confused: :rolleyes: ;) :D
 
Re: Re: Re: Location and School.

Originally posted by mrtrumbe


Hehe. There is a lot of crossover. Though I still do a lot of programming. I do research and development and trading tool design...stuff like that. Though since working at a couple of firms in this field I have started thinking about trading. Ever play the trading game? Fun stuff.

I was a software-type CS major. I have an affinity towards mathematics and was able to do a lot of math while getting my degree. I could learn math and program at the same time. I was never very into the hardware design, electrical engineering part of computers. Though I did enjoy designing a RISK chip in the computer architecture class I took...

There are just too many fun things to do in the technology arena! I could have stayed in school forever!

Matthew
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my cousin went directly to new york and was a commodities broker right after high school since his draft number was favorable and he didn't have to go to vietnam...he told me it was so stressful he vomited blood so i have been turned off at the idea of being in the market

...and i saw that movie "boiler room" with ben affleck, vin diesel, and giovanni ribisi about trading...my buddy from high school was that guy...when he was also right out of high school, he was selling oil futures (or something like that) and his firm were just a bunch of young stock broker hackers and the fbi shut them down and handcuffed everyone to scare them but instantly released them...i don't think those people were series 7 if you know what i mean...but huge money though...while it lasted...people who were practically illiterate (you should have seen these traders) were buying sports cars with cash and they were making $3600 a successful call which was once a day at least for most of the traders
 
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