Jeffrey Songster
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | My buddy Mark bought a 512k Mac and helped him set it up and have some fun with it. I then set my parents business up with Mac Pluses and IW printers. We're still using the printers. | |
| Status: | Visionary user geek. | |
First Mac:
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Mac Plus | |
Current Mac:
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PM G3 (work), 8500/120 (home). | |
| When did you get your first modem? | 1981, a modified 300 baud Volksmodem that worked through the joystick ports of my 48k Atari 800. "Who can read faster than 300 baud? " | |
| Who did you call first? | CompuServe or a local BBS... can't recall for sure. | |
| Present Occupation: | MIS Guy for my parents corporation. | |
| Claim to Fame: | BMUG Activism, Member ClarisWorks 1.0 - 4.0 and then ClarisWorks for Kids Product teams | |
| Dream Job: | Volunteering with worthy groups. BMUG (done that) , Habitat For Humanity (next). |
| 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? | |||
| When my grandmother was diagnosed with terminal intestinal cancer. She was hospitalized and told she would have a month to live. I arranged to have her taken out of the hospital and learned enough nursing techniques to maintain her heart catheter and bedsores so she could die at home with her family. She was given 1 month by the doctors, she survived 3 months, got to visit with all her relatives before she died. It was the best we could do for her. | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| Kept me interested in computers... after the Atari 800, I was completely unimpressed by PCs in 1982... held out for a few years and the Mac came along... from there... I became expert at operating one and consulting jobs and development team jobs followed. I made a career out of Macintosh computing, met my wife and many other folks, and had a blast doing it all. | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| My Hoberman Sphere... represents an awesome design... Chuck Hoberman is brilliantly thinking very differently. Along the lines of the marvelous R. Buckminster Fuller. | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Raising my son well. Great people, great toys. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| Jesus. I'd ask him what he thought of what people had done to his beliefs. I'm sure I'd get an earful. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| My voice and no. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| A good dad. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Jeff, tell us what you really think... |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | See above. | Education: | De La Salle high school, Diablo Valley Jr. College, B.A. Comm Studies CSU Sacramento. | |
| Location at Birth: | Up for adoption in Albany, CA. | Current Location: | Concord... back in the family business, Bay Area Barricade Service, Inc. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
D J at KWOD 106FM, KKIS AM990 & FM 92.1, Computer support person at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Support at Software Ventures Corp., Support and product teams at Claris Corp. | Astrological Sign: | Leo, born on same day as Tim Holmes... a buddy of mine from BMUG and Apple. | |
| Available? | Taken. In for the long haul. | Chat Nick: | I gave up chatting years ago. I prefer phones and friends to the randomness of chatting. | |
| Favorite Books: | Anything about or by Bucky Fuller, or Arthur C. Clarke. Star Trek novels are fun too... and gobs of magazines. | Favorite Music or Band: | James Taylor, Dave Brubeck, Stevie Wonder, Crash Test Dummies, Oscar Peterson, Frankie Yankovic, Miles Davis, Janis Joplin, The Who. | |
| Favorite Food: | Mac & Cheese | Cat or Dog Person: | Cat... currently no pets. I've begun to feel that domesticating and keeping pets is inherently cruel. I don't want zoos and circuses to be the only place my son can see an elephant. | |
| Personal Web Site - Still don't have one... when I do it'll be attached to www.babsinc.com | |
| Jeff's Professional Web Site | |
| Favorite Web Site: | Slashdot or Mosr or Mosr |
| "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein. Kinda sums up the OS wars for me. | |
Created Sunday, February 21, 1999; Edited: 2/27/99