Rick Pepper
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| How did you personally
get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | My job at TEAM Electronics in Mankato included not only selling high-power car audio, which is the main reason they hired me, but also selling Apple computers (and Epson, but that's not important right now.) Up to that point I wouldn't touch a computer with a ten foot pole. The Mac grew on me because I could get something done with it! | |
| *Status: | Power user, nigh unto guru (which is a relative rank). | |
First Mac:
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LC3 | |
Current Mac: |
Quadra 950 - loaded to the gills! | |
| When did you get your first modem? | 1992 | |
| Who did you call first? | A friends' ARA network. | |
| Present Occupation: | AppleScript Programmer, Pre-Press tech guru. | |
| Claim to Fame: | I dreamed up the idea of a multi-channel (low power) home amp for distributed sound - using VCA's instead of resistors or transformers Ð right down to the RJ-45 connectors on the in-wall controls; only to see that exact product - RJ-45 connectors and all in a Parts Express catalog about a year later. I also designed an AppleScript driven MPEG jukebox. | |
| Dream Job: | Freelance AppleScript programmer. |
| 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? | |||
| About 4 years ago, I realized that even though I wasn't a programmer by trade, learning AppleScript was the only way to get on the edge of Pre-Press productivity. | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| In a word, AppleScript! The appropriately easy-to-use language for the easy- to-use computer. I have gained position in my job, and have made light work of projects at home all because of AppleScript. I don't know what else I could have turned to when I quit my last audio-related job in 1992. The Mac gave me something creative to vent myself with - and make a decent living. The fact that I wouldn't touch a computer until I made friends with the Mac tells me that it's not the famed "Reality Distortion Field" at work, it's the Super-computer for the rest of us! It is also the tool that allows me to produce CD's on a daily basis for a number of small artists, which includes my own material spanning 6 years. | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| The aluminum castings from a half-dozen dead hard drives. | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Large collections of hard drives and well designed audio systems - car, home or professional. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| Adam. What was it like to walk in the Garden with the Living God? | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| Yes I do, no I'm not. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| Project Recording Studio owner/Engineer. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | Born Nov 3, 1965. Adopted into a family of 6 children, I was maternally the last of 13 - my mother died when I was 6 mos. | Education: | Grades 1-12 @ Mankato Catholic Schools. 2 Years at Hutchinson AVTI (now Ridgewater Collge, Hutchinson Campus) - Audio Production Technology. | |
| Location at Birth: | Mankato, MN. | Current Location: | Mankato, MN. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
St. Cloud, MN., Phoenix, AZ. | Astrological Sign: | Scorpio | |
| Available? | Happily married. | Chat Nick: | Not applicable. | |
| Favorite Books: | The Bible, The Cross and the Switchblade. | Favorite Music or Band: | AD, now disbanded group formed by former Kansas members' Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope. | |
| Favorite Food: | Mexican. | Cat or Dog Person: | Cat. | |
| Don's Personal Web Site | Working on it. |
| Favorite Web Site: | Bill Cheeseman's AppleScript Sourcebook |
| Favorite Color imac: | No answer yet. |
| "Wherever you go, there you are." | |
Created Saturday, May 1, 1999; Edited:
