When you enter Morris Library at the University of Delaware, you will see a plaque that commorates the original opening of the library in 1963, and the rededication of the renovated building in 1986.
I addressed all of the invitations (about 2,000) to the rededication ceremony (Plus highlighted 4,000 parking maps, because there were two carparks to chose from, and I had to stuff the envelopes with them).
If, during the mid-1990s, you worked in a warehouse scanning barcodes and picking products, and you used a hand-held computer terminal from a Well-Known Rugged Wireless-Terminal Manufacturer That Later Merged With An English Pocket-Computer Vendor, there’s about a 33% chance that I tuned its radio.
If, after 1996 or so, you were one of the IT people maintaining the network controllers that feed those terminals, you have probably read one of the manuals I wrote.
If you bought electricity in Northern England, I helped in the billing software (sorry). If you weant to Eton Schhol in the early nintys I probably helped make some of the school uniforms you saw day in day out. If you weant on a tour of the Houses of Commons then I helped in the ticket distribution software. Whilst I worked for GCHQ you didn’t see pieces of me, I saw pieces of you
Nowadays you probably only see pieces of me if you are a computer chip designer.
If you purchased a Plantronics headset, there is a remote chance that I was the guy who operated the injection molding machine to make the parts, and hand trimmed the excess flash off them. Of course, if you want the guy that assembled your headset, he lives in Tijuana.
If from 1999 to 2003 you purchased software online, or via a WAP enabled cell phone, odds are you did it over a commerce engine for which I was one of very few dedicated QA resources.
If your order went through, that was all me. Booya, baby.
If you couldn’t get the damn thing to work, that was Travis’ fault.
If you were a high school student (or a parent of one, I guess) who received mail from Ohio Wesleyan University in the past two years or so, there is a decent chance I have handled it in some way.
If you encountered a criminal in New York sometime since 1982, it might have been someone I failed to rehabilitate. If so, sorry, I was having a bad day and I’ll try harder next time.
If you ever owned a Packard Bell Computer between 1995-1998 i am very very sorry. And You probably either spoke to me or someone I trained in Tech Support (since the machines were utter crap).
If you live in North America and called in for support from Microsoft from 1998 - 2000 you probably (60% chance) spoke to someone I trained.
If you, being anywhere in the world, have a volume license for Microsoft software and are using any Software Assurance benefits, you probably read or saw some online training, documentation or customer facing communications I sent out or possibly spoke to peopel I had trained to help you with your inquiries.
If you, being anywhere in the world, ever activated your copy of Windows XP, Office XP or other Microsoft software, the people you spoke to were trained using materials I had written.
If your airline flight doesn’t crash, you can thank me and the scientists I support in NASA’s Single Aircraft Accident Prevention program.
If you’re a Navy or Marine Corps pilot who flew a recon mission with the Raytheon SHARP pod, or an Intel analyst who worked on the data gathered with it, I had a couple of different pieces of that. (1998-2003)
If you were a Navy or Marine Corps pilot, I’m one of the faces behind the militarized GPS system you used to navigate with. (1992-1998)
If you flew a Navy fighter between 1988 and 1992, you can thank me for the onboard computers working so well.
If you bought a GM car between 1985 and 1988, I automated the assembly lines that produced your solid state distributor, starting motor, alternator, and battery.
If you were a sailor who trained on the Precise Integrated Navigation System for coastal minesweeping boats in 1984-1985, I wrote your training material.
There are some boats and conversion vans built in 1981-1983 that I upholstered the seating for. There is even a van with a captain’s chair that has “This is the last seat that VunderBob will ever cushion” written on the foam pad underside.
If your kid has used software at school called “The Digital Frog”, “The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest”, “The Digital Field Trip to The Wetlands”, “The Digital Field Trip to The Desert”, or “ScienceMatrix”, then they’ve been playing with large freakin’ great chunks of me.
If you’ve got harmon kardon speakers from 1996 or 1997, I might have soldered some of the wires together.
If you stopped at the Stake ‘n’ Shake off of I-70 in Indiana near Mooresville in '98 or '99 I may have waited on you. Maybe. I wasn’t there much because of school.
If you called Reynolds & Reynolds for a copy of a invoice around 2002, I was the person who faxed it to you.
Too bad I don’t have anything really cool to say. Maybe someday!
If you’ve read the letters to the editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer any number of times in the past year or so, you may have read some of my angry liberal rants.
If you’re active in the photography community in New Mexico, and recently have gotten some junk mail from the photography society or something similar about a workshop, I likely placed the stamp on it. By hand. Stupid broken postage meter…
If you’re in the media in the Santa Fe area and have recently gotten a review copy or just about any sort of non-personal contact from the Museum of New Mexico Press, I likely addressed it.
If you have read, researched or been affected by certain Kentucky statutes in KRS Chapters 198B, 227, 227A (all of 227A), 236, 304, or 318 or by Kentucky Administrative Regulations in 806 KAR or 815 KAR then you’ve seen my work.
If you performed in or attended a stage play anywhere in the United States in the last two years, chances are I’m the one who sent the actors their scripts and solidified the contract.
If you listened to contemporary classical piano music recently, chances are it was my CD. (Okay that one’s not true… but in order for me to make it true I implore you to visit my website, listed in my profile.
If you visit Cafes and Resturants in Irvine, chances are you’ve been served by me. If you attended anime cons between 200-2003, chances are you’ve seen me working…