Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rei... if you head back this way please let me know so we can meet. I plan to explore AZ more with my camera... perhaps I will post a few more Sedona photos at some point. Steve www.kididdoc.com/index.htm/arizona > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html