Do you use a large, high-speed laser printer in your workplace made by a Huge Printer manufacturer? I had a role in its development.
If you live in the Boise area and recall seeing a guy with brown hair and glasses driving a teal Nissan Sentra and heard him listening to heavy metal music, that was me!
If you have received newspaper inserts for retailers such as Pepboys, Goody’s, Qwest, Firestone, Macy’s West, Home Depot, or any one of about 30 others, I may have told them to put it in your ZIP Code.
In Colorado: If you’ve lost your job, found a job, been injured on the job, gotten screwed on the job (figuratively or literally), applied for a petroleum storage tank, school design or explosives permit(!), You did so on computers I try my damndest to keep up and secure.
Where is this exactly? I’ve been on I-70 through Missouri and probably stopped at a truck stop so I might have seen you!
As for me, if you’ve ever flown in the US then someone in the plane was using information that came from my office. If you are a pilot and are IFR and fly west of the Mississippi except for Texas then you have used on of my IAP books.
Hmmm… If you invest your funds with either of two banks that merged with each other earlier this year, I help keep your information secure and reliably available.
And if you’ve visited h2g2.com (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy official website), you’ve possibly read an article, poem or short story that I’ve written.
If you’ve listened to NPR in the Florida Panhandle (one news station and one classical station, with repeaters) and some points south, in the last three years, you’ve heard my voice and some program material that I either created or fixed up on the computer or produced live. You may also have heard my voice if you watched the PBS TV station; I did some of the day-and-time tags on their promos, too.
If you have read anything in the last 40 years (books, magazines, newspapers, advertising, mail, internet, TV, packaging, CDs, signs), then you’ve probably read type that I’ve designed or developed.
And if you have a painting or photograph hanging on your wall, there’s a **slight **chance it was done by me.
And if you have a CD by the North Coast Men’s Chorus, it was designed by me (and I’m one of the singers).
Until very recently, I worked for a mail order company doing database development for their website. If you order something from this company and get an email when your item was shipped, backordered or cancelled, or go to their website and check the status of the order, that is (or was) me.
If you bought or refinanced a home in Utah or Iowa in the past year, there’s an excellent chance I decided if you needed flood insurance or not (and a slight chance if it was in Virginia or Minnesota). If your mortgage has been bought/sold or paid off or your lender has been audited by FEMA since July, there’s a similarly good chance I handled a database record with your name on it.
If you live in California, there’s a decent chance I’ve been in your backyard (or frontyard) looking at the power lines, making sure your trees con’t grow into them and burn your house down. Your welcome.
If you eat food grown in California or Japan, there’s a good chance I’ve been at least somewhat responsible for the quality of the research that went into getting FDA approval for the pesticides used.
I’ve performed stress analysis on components (valves mostly) on the Space Station, F-22, JSF, Gulfstream V, MD-90, the newer 737s, along with tangential work on other projects, such as the 777 and the B2.
I’ve trained people to use engineering analysis software to analyze a whole bunch of other stuff you encounter here and there.
If you’ve had cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation within the last 20 years there’s a small chance the lens was milled, drilled or measured using code I wrote.
If you or someone you knoe suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and a Defibrillator was used it’s likely that I had a hand in building it.
If you bought natural/organic foods during 1999-2001, there’s a very high likelihood that the person who scanned it out of the warehouse has called me for tech support.
If you went to through training or worked at a certain Norfolk Naval Air Station command, its detachments in Florida or Cherry Point or Naval Air Station Brunswick’s SERE school from 1988 through 2001 (at least), then you’ve probably seen/used audiovisual materials that I created. HM-12, NAMTRAGRUDET and VAW-120 in Norfolk used some of my stuff too.