Don Oehlert
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| How did you personally
get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | I was hired at Apple in September of 1987.
My introduction to the Mac was in January of 1987. I spent about 45 rented-time minutes in a quick-print shop - on a Mac Plus. I was redoing my resume so I could get a job at Apple. I fell in absolute LOVE with the Mac on my fourth day at Apple - when it finally hit me that installing applications on a computer could indeed, be this easy! | |
| *Status: | Hopelessly evangelistic. I LOVE AppleScript. I LOVE the Mac. | |
First Mac:
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I had 2 - a Mac SE 20 at home, and a Mac II at work. ImageWriter II at home. | |
Current Mac:  |
PowerBook G3 233, 8600/300. | |
| When did you get your first modem? | 1987. 110 baud. WOW! Got a 300 baud shortly thereafter. | |
| Who did you call first? | AppleLink e-mail service. | |
| Present Occupation: | AppleScript Apostle. I try to help create excitement around the AppleScript technology. | |
| Claim to Fame: | I know Sal Soghoian's favorite fish dish. | |
| Dream Job: | Got it now. |
| 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? | |||
| Yes, I was laid off from my first "real job" two weeks before our wedding. THAT was stressful. My new wife and I went to Florida for our honeymoon... While I was laying on the beach, I was writing samples, looking through ads in newspapers for work, and updating my resume. First sun-burned resume in history, I believe. | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| I now HAVE a life. I used to work in support at a company that sold Unix-based products. No life. | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| The snootflute that I received from an AppleScripting partner, Chuck Weger. | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| My family (3 kids), woodworking, sociological perspectives on the Civil War. As Shelby Foote put it "the Civil War made it - the United States 'are' - to the United States 'is'." | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| I'd have dinner Abraham Lincoln in a heartbeat.
I'd ask him what he believes he would have accomplished had his life not been ended prematurely. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| No on both. Dangit. I play the CD player. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| I never want to grow up! | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Where will you be sitting during the first game the Cubs play in the World Series? |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | See above. | Education: | B.S. Degree in Communications from Illinois State University - a while ago. | |
| Location at Birth: | The hospital bed I shared with my mother in Sycamore, Illinois. | Current Location: | The Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. Many hotels across the U.S. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
Pretty much somewhere in Illinois. | Astrological Sign: | Taurus. - I know - that fits. | |
| Available? | Nope. Happily married for over 16 years. | Chat Nick: | I don't go there [to chat]. | |
| Favorite Books: | Anything on the Civil War era, Tom Clancy's stuff, Robin Cook's stuff. | Favorite Music or Band: | Love jazz/blues. 60's stuff. I never stopped listening to Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Beatles and the Stones. | |
| Favorite Food: | Anything Thai. Sushi. Chips and salsa. My wife's meatloaf is outstanding. | Cat or Dog Person: | Dog - Riley is our Shih Tzu's name. He's great! | |
| Don's Personal Web Site | Don't have one yet - working on it. |
| Don's Professional Web Site | Under construction at this time. (Ilene suggests you check out Applescript |
| Favorite Web Site: | MacDownload.com |
| Favorite Color imac: |  Strawberry. |
| "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt." -- Abraham Lincoln | |
Created Saturday, May 1, 1999; Edited: