Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i worked for motorola. they got a big plant in tempe. i was in the moribund micro computer division, which made 68K and 88K-based VME-board and turnkey UNIX systems. another job i had was working for a small reservations system company what used pyramid UNIX transaction processing systems; this was mainly interesting because our offices were right in the middle of the north pointe resort! i also worked for status computers as their UNIX guy, and frequented the many data centers in and around phoenix for citibank and amex. because of phoenix's sunny weather x 365, it hosts a large number of data centers, operations centers and disaster recovery centers. but data processing isn't really what i do, so i eventually took off for professional reasons. the people were just great; laid-back and friendly. they thought i was an amusing tight-assed new yorker. they were on to something... i wish i had taken more photographs when i lived there. i bought my first m6 back then, and i also had a hasselblad and a couple of nikons. but it tough to motivate myself to get out; it was just so damned hot ! :-) also i was living in an apartment at that time without a darkroom, and i find that having a darkroom always motivated me to shoot more. travelling north a couple of hours was always fun, sedona and oak creek canyon were much cooler and very beautiful. for whatever reason, i never made it down to tucson in the 2 years i lived in AZ. - -rei > From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> > > probably a lot more people here now..as development and growth has been extreme in that > period of time. what did you do here? thank you sir for your comments. Steve > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:37 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Arizona..(where we live) > > > > i used to say that in phoenix the rule was sunny 22! :-) > > > > 15 years ago, my commute took me around camelback mountain every day ... > > steve, you make me miss the place... > > > > -rei - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html