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Quote or Commentary of the month:

On firearms sales... (Feb '09)

Each year, there is usually some highly desirable gift that becomes darned near impossible to find because every child wants one. Wether it was a certain Beanie Baby, a Transformer toy, a "Tickle Me" Elmo doll, or Hannah Montanna merchandise, kids wanted them and parents fought to get them, sometimes quite litterally. Even at this early time of the year, the retailers and distributors are trying to guess what it will be so they can get a leg up and make sure that their shelves are not the first to be emptied.

You as a parent have a different challenge... You have to find someone who has it and get there in time to buy one. But seemingly no matter how many stores you go into, the shelves have already been stripped clean. Not wanting to disappoint your beloved child, you persevere. You drive all over, even to adjoining towns trying to find that special item for your child to make their Christmas as memorable for you as it will be for them. For hours and hours you search over the course of weeks. Finaly, finaly you find it...

So what could the hot item be this year? Always difficult to see but there are a few possibilities. But based on what I've seen recently, I have an idea of what it might be.

Picture, if you will, a child racing down the stairs on Christmas morning with his or her eyes just filled with excitement. The sort of joy that comes with the hope for some truely outstanding gift that makes any parent smile. This child gets down to the tree and begins combing over the pile of packages looking for those with their name on it. Once found, the paper is furiously ripped from the given item and the child's eyes get even brighter. But whats the gift that has this child so excited?

"Oh wow, Daddy! A box of 9mm hollow points! Thank you, Thank you! This is the best Christmas EVER!"

[Editor: "Yeah, yeah, kids and bullets. Get a grip. Its satire. :-)" ]

A note to all those in the vicinity of Chandler, AZ:

I have, of late, developed a penchant for Shakespear and am seeking opportunities to get together with a small group of similarly inclined individuals for the purpose of reading, discussing, evaluating, and acting out various scenes in order to try to develope a better understanding of the conception within the author's mind.

If you have an interest in participating, please contact me by email.

[picture here] The bum himself, busily posing for the camera. (With the sun in his eyes.)

Description
5'11 inches tall, has straight brown hair (no, really! there's hair there), greenish eyes, and weighs approximately 230 lbs.
He can usually be found to be wearing tennis shoes, a T-shirt, and blue-jeans.

Personal Interests
Hiking, Camping, Blacksmithing, Metal Working, Gun Collecting, Westerns, Music

Occupation
Wayne is a network engineer. Currently employed by Limelight Networks.
He lives and breathes IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, etc). In addition to the other hats he wears, he serves as a facilities manager for Limelight's datacenter space and 3rd party facilities.

Since he has no life, he can usually be found logged into one or perhaps several machines often doing nothing in particular but if you watch long enough, you just might actually see him doing something somewhat useful but chances are it won't be updating this web page. (One of these days, I'll get around to it...)

Among other interests, Wayne plays the trombone (and is familiar with several other instruments, including trumpet, baritone, clarinet, recorder, and some members of the percussion family) and frequently appears with the Mesa Community College Community Band or at times, the Orchestra. (He also sings pretty well.) Although at this time, he is taking time off from music to attend courses at GCC as noted below.

He also will occasionally be found spending his Saturdays down at MCC in the blacksmith's shop working out a little frustration. Wayne spent time learning to weld and does a fair job at TIG with aluminum and MIG on steel. (Never quite mastered stick welding.)

A more recent interest is in refrigeration. Currently enrolled in the commercial HVAC certification program at Gateway Community College, Wayne is studying this in relation to managing larger datacenters such as he does for Limelight Networks. (Plus it's just darned fascinating.)

Though not as fit as he used to be, Wayne likes camping and will try to spent at least two weekends each year shivering in a tent at one of his currently favored locations. (Mt Graham, Flagstaff, the Mogollon (pronounced "mog-ee-on) rim country, or the White Mountains.) Occassionally, he will also pretend he can fish and drown a few flies while immagining that people actually believe he's going to catch something.

Another of his obsessions are firearms. Largely interested in historical arms and replicas, he has managed to obtain a collection large enough to make a few people nervous. (But Wayne's totally harmless and just paranoid enough about safety to stay that way.) Check out his gun collection here.

History
Before taking his current position, with about a 2 year interlude during the tech decline during which he was forced to take other work, he spent 5 years working for GlobalCrossing as a senior network engineer. Before that, was a member of the University of Arizona Hardware and Computing Knowledge Society (HACKS) for the prior 3 years (1991-1994) and a member of HACKS management for the last year and a half of that time.

Quotes from previous months
As you may have noted at the top of this page, each month there is a different quote. Some have gotten some interesting comments, so I have decided to begin saving them on another page.

Articles from the science pages
Every once in a while while browsing the newspaper, I'll find an article I find to be unusually interesting. Usually from the science section since science has always interested me, although I was never a very good student.

Wayne's online resume
Why you should beg him to work for you. (Well, hopefully)

Technical tidbits
Bits of technical knowledge collected over the years.

Read Wayne's ideas on using solar energy
Ideas I've been trying to put forward to reduce oil and other non-renewable energy usage as well as help out the overall energy crunch.

Other items of interest

My PGP key

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