Steve’s Little world

Ok since I have been tagged by James I will oblige just so I have the opportunity to pass it on…

1. I am a Bass player - classically trained though I also played the bass guitar in a band in High school - yeah battle of the bands and the whole shebang. I was actually pretty good at Classical Bass (stand up 4 string); went to NY All-State Orchestra in 1987. I played up through my Masters but then I had some repetitive stress problems from digitizing too many aerial photos and stopped. I haven’t picked it up in the last 14 years and I miss it sometimes. I used to play everything from Copland and Saint-Saens to Rush, Van Halen, Dixie Dregs, and Aha

2. Crashed my dad’s motorcycle when I was in high school. My Dad took me out for a couple of lessons and I thought I had it under control. One day after school I decide to drive it over to the high school (about 3 miles away). I was ok on the way there because it was all right hand turns but the way back was another story. Laid it out on the first left turn going home with cars coming the other way. Needless to say I was a bit shaken after that and took it really easy getting home. I get to the driveway and start thinking I am OK but of course I hit the one little patch of ice in the driveway and end up in the ditch with the bike on top of me. I was ok but it turned me off from riding.

3. I used my BB gun to shoot 2 birds. I got 2 BB guns when I was about 12 years old. I was given it with the condition that I couldn’t use it to shoot anything living, including friends and little sisters. Well I then proceeded to shoot up the windows on the garage, the back of the old pick up, bottles, and cans. On two occaisions I broke the rules and shot birds, one was a starling and one was a mourning dove. It was odd/sad/disconnected to be standing over the starling as it lay there dying. I am still conflicted about whether I could hunt birds and mammals. I have no problem with fishing but I am not sure how I would do with a deer or another bird.

4. My sinuses are a mess, I once had a hole drilled above my right eye to drain a clogged sinus - betcha just said thanks for oversharing. Greatness has the endoscope picture of the sinus up in her office. The crazy part was the radiologist told my ENT that everything looked fine but because I asked to look at the CAT scan I knew it was totally full.

5. I was voted “best dressed” in high school. I think I am just going to leave it at that.

I now tag - Jeremy, Rob, Matt, Dave, and Jei.

Ok, not a great topic but they do a pretty good job making it funny - in a cheesy kind of way. So to my dear friend Kristian O. - lose the cloth hankerchief….

So my Dell M90 does not want to install some older programs from DVD even when I copy it locally to disk. It gives this error message: “Specified path does not exist”. A little searching and I find some answers
This thread has a big discussion of the issue (once again, how did we live before google search).

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pw_cdrom&message.id=1241

particularly this message

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/print?board.id=pw_cdrom&message.id=1293&format=one

So this post is more a note to me in case I get another persnickity program that won’t install I can remember this thread.

One of my professors from Grad school, Dave Wagner is one of the videos on the front of the NyTimes (I linked to the version in the media section). He is a really fun guy to talk to and he has some great catepillars in his lab. I still remember the time my friend Manuel’s dog stole Dave’s hamburger by executing a flying leap and grabbing the burger and bun right from Dave’s hands. Dave said with an effort like that Argus deserved to keep the catch.

My blog went dark since my hosting acct expired and I never really felt like renewing. Let me just give a short but sweet update…

1. I no longer work for ESRI, I am doing Conservation Biology now for a consulting firm. I decided I like eating sausage more than I like making it.
2. I am still programming and using ESRI products but it will only be part of my work. The other part will be doing more of what I love in a different field. My PhD is in Ecology and I am going to get a chance to use it.
3. If you are only interested in GIS stuff be sure to subscribe to the GIS feed because I plan on writing some GIS stuff but not only GIS stuff
4. Since I am under new management I am going to make this more of a personal blog. I never spoke for ESRI before and I certainly do not speak AT ALL for my new employer.
5. That being said there will be no juicy office politics aired here and I am going to try to focus on being constructive rather than just snarking. I know I am foregoing some hits but oh well.
6. I am going to work on the theme some and the widgets so expect changes to the look and feel

With all that said I will now return to my generally unintersting posts arriving at an irregular and far-too-long-between-post frequency.