Steve Isakson
 Product Manager at Maxum Development and car racing enthusiast. |
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | I didn't really get to use one until I was in college. The Macs were much cooler, and I got better grades on papers because I could laser print them. | |
| Status: | User, geek, hacker, aficionado, part-time evangelist. | |
First Mac:
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Mac IIsi and a StyleWriter. I still have them both! | |
Current Mac:
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G3/266 Desktop- bought about five minutes after they came out. | |
| When did you get your first modem? | 1991, a Supra 14.4. | |
| Who did you call first? | A local BBS, now long defunct. | |
| Present Occupation: | Product manager, Maxum Development. | |
| Claim to Fame: | Self-proclaimed "King of Spin" at the race track in my MR2 turbo for most total degrees of rotation two seasons in a row. | |
| Dream Job: | Working with smart people doing cool things. |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| Was there ever a time in your life that you had to "Think Different?" What was the situation and what did you do? | |||
| Back in high school I got 12 out of 10 points (yes, 12) on a quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird. I answered an essay question with something completely different from the teacher's "right" answer, but equally (maybe more) correct.
I don't remember the question, but the answer was something like this... When Scout's father shot the rabid dog, he shot it because the dog was acting weird, doing something different. Everyone was afraid and so he killed it. Just like the black man accused of rape at the end of the story- he did something unexpected, something different and suffered greatly for it. |
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| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| In school I had plans to work with transistors and circuit boards, and that's what my first job actually was. Somehow I ended up doing Internet software for Macs! | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| Gumby and Pokey (the position they're in, actually). | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Fire. Money. Going fast. Being right. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| No Response. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| Played the violin for eight years; have gold medals from orchestra competitions. I quit when I started high school and haven't touched it since. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| Old enough to do something I wanted but couldn't do before - like this year I am old enough to have a motorcycle. Yeee ha! | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| *ANSWER |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | Been to the end of nine interstate highways. Summer camp nickname: Professor. Always lived near big water. | Education: | BSEE, Northwestern University 1991 | |
| Location at Birth: | St. Paul, MN. | Current Location: | Chicago, IL. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
Buffalo, NY; the vast suburban wasteland surrounding Chicago. | Astrological Sign: | Aries | |
| Available? | Yes. | Chat Nick: | Don't chat much. | |
| Favorite Books: | Richard Feynman, Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! Frank Herbert, Dune (and all of the sequels). Isaac Asimov, Foundation trilogy and Robot stories. |
Favorite Music or Band: | Previously Pearl Jam, until Eddie ran out of angst and their music just got weird. | |
| Favorite Food: | Sushi, be-bim bap (sp?), Chineese noodles, cheeseburgers, lasagne, Chicago stuffed pizza, anything with fungus or capers. | Cat or Dog Person: | Fish - ya feed 'em, change the water sometimes and they always look great. They don't smell, don't have to be walked and never pee on the rug. | |
| Steve's Personal Web Site -I've been trying to find time for one of those... | |
| Steve's Professional Web Site - Maxum | |
| Favorite Web Site: | Amazon, Internet Movie Database, Purdue WXP - All because they actually do something useful- these are what the Internet is all about! |
| "You are only young once, but you're old for a long time." | |
Created Saturday, February 20, 1999; Edited: 2/27/99