Today someone buys a quadcopter on Amazon, posts an “unboxing” video to Youtube, and feels like they built it.
Or they use Super Mario Maker and feel like they’re a software engineer. Or they write the Yo! app and view themselves as a modern day Edison. I hope the kid does genuinely want to be an engineer, and that someone teaches him to do more than repackage a Radio Shack clock. Or maybe it was a Steampunk project? From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:27 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Hmmmm At 14 I was playing bass for Hidden Smile and got a gig in a night club. All of us except one were underage so at break time bouncer would escort us to a lobby area. It was supposed to be a Thursday Friday and Saturday gig....we played Thursday and our manager, guitar players mum got us some dough for cancelling other nights. It was a Ramada Inn with a club (still there!!!) and pancake house next door. We were excited but "smoke filled room of electric sound" (apologies to Carole King and Blood Sweat and Tears for ripping off lines form Snow Queen..btw a song horn players on list should listen to at least once) .. was nauseating. Most scientific thing we did was watch our neighbor almost burn my dad's workshop down with a cake pan filled with gas and kite string attached to sheet to make it fly...sheet caught fire and then roof...we ran ...My dad put out fire and told Ernesto to go home and never come back for like the 2000th time. That guy was a real life Dennis the Menace...now an EMT in Phoenix area....i should write a book about him......he made a city bus chase us!!!!!! Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: I'm pretty sure you weren't typical... but I'm equally sure I wouldn't have thought that clock thing was any great achievement at 14, I could see myself building something like that when I was about 7. It looks to me exactly like what a kid would build if he wanted to make a fake bomb to get some attention... On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: Perhaps I was not typical, but by 14 I was making my own printed circuit boards with a sharpie and ferric chloride. Also made my own gunpowder, attempted to make nitro cellulose and mercury azide. (It was lucky that the latter failed). I was also having a decent amount of romantic success. Had a car and a restricted license to drive to and from school (which I defined as any location where I might learn something). I was also an apprentice in a machine shop and had a certificate from the steamfitters union as a welder. Made excellent acetylene bombs. Philo Farnsworth invented electronic scanning for TV at this age. When my mom was 14 she had been out on her own for a year. Joan of Arc was 15 I think when she lead an army. Alexander the Great was young. Lots of young people do great things. So, this 14 year old... Was he naive enough to think he had actually "made" something? Is he just simple? Or was he trying to do a PR stunt? Are 14 year olds these days really that clueless? -----Original Message----- From: Mark - Myakka Technologies Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 8:19 PM To: That One Guy /sarcasm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Hmmmm Kid = 14 year old kid - they do dumb stuff English Teacher = cave man - doesn't understand electronics, is very concerned needs to consult with the elders Principle = 1/2 douche - I can understand him calling the cops to cover his ass. Engineering Teacher = full douche with no balls. Were the hell was this guy. He was most likely the only one in the school that could translate between what the kid did and dumb it down enough for everyone to understand. Police - 50% douche / 50% caveman. What is this foreign wizard technology. I think I saw one of these on TV once, must be a bomb. Burn him! Every adult in the room with the kid as a group - 150% douche - At what point in time did it become acceptable to bully and threaten a 14 year old kid. We have 5 - 7 adult authority figures in a room with a 14 year old kid. The best they could come up with is to slap him in hand cuffs and drag him to jail. BTW - lets make sure we do it when all the other kids are in the hall. WTF - why weren't his parents called to the school? Don't give me the crap that they really thought it was a bomb. If they thought it was a bomb, the bomb squad would have been there and the school would have been evacuated. Police chief - Almost acted normal. Came out fairly quick that there was nothing to see here, so just keep moving on. He dropped the charges real quick. Guess he didn't want anything to do with this circus. School system - 100% douche - how to you give a kid suspension for not doing anything. He didn't build a bomb. He didn't pretend it was a bomb. He never mentioned the bomb word. When asked he showed the teacher the clock. He wasn't trying to hide anything. What exactly did he get suspended for? Father - not sure where to put him, seems to have a chip on his shoulder. At the end of the day it does matter what this kid brought to school. It doesn't matter that he is Muslim, Jewish, Mormon or Christian. He did nothing wrong. He answered the questions truthfully, he never threatened anyone, and he never tried to hide anything. The adults in this story FAILED. At any given point in time we had 7-8 adults at the school trying to figure out what happen. As usual now a days they over reacted and common sense what thrown into the void. This should have never been a news story. It should have never left the school. Parents should have been called. Maybe one police officer should have shown up. A rational discussion of what happen should have taken place. Kid should have been advised to clear all future experiments/inventions with engineering teacher. Maybe all future engineering projects should stay in the engineering lab until after school. Kid should have been sent back to class, parents back to work, police back to speed traps, and principal back to whatever principles do now a days. I only have 3 more years left of dealing with public schools. It is sad I'm counting the days that my children go off to college. -- Best regards, Mark mailto:[email protected] Myakka Technologies, Inc. www.MyakkaTech.com Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL Please Donate at Please Donate at http://www.myakkatech.com/RFL.html ------ Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 8:31:57 PM, you wrote: TOGs> realistically how does anyone here or most anyone in the TOGs> non jihad world even know what a bomb in a briefcase looks like, TOGs> beyond what is on tv. The kid is a douche, his dad is a douche, TOGs> whoever escalated it to an arrest is a douche, whoever reported TOGs> it is a solid citizen, better to report and be wrong than scrape TOGs> kids off walls. the president is a douche for inviting him to TOGs> the white house before ensuring it wasn't a stunt. TOGs> He will get 15 minutes, and a ton of free loot (look at TOGs> the Microsoft care package) his dad will further his agenda, and TOGs> some new travesty will pop up. TOGs> the only thing that changed is his ability to fly TOGs> unmolested, he made the top ten on the no fly lists I bet. TOGs> He better hope he didn't social media it up about his TOGs> plans for this stunt, he will have royally fucked his life up if TOGs> he did. TOGs> I wonder if he was planning on adding batteries to make it a portable alarm clock TOGs> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:02 PM, - - TOGs> <[email protected]> wrote: TOGs> Bombs in briefcases are something from a bad action movie... On September 22, 2015 at 3:53 PM George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: I don't doubt there was prejudice based only on his name, but you know what I think of when I see a clock in a briefcase? A damn bomb! What he did was as dumb as painting over or taking the orange muzzle piece off of a water gun and then running around town with it. You're gonna get shot by the cops, dumb ass. Maybe that's un-PC of me. I don't give a shit. On 9/22/2015 5:34 PM, Sean Heskett wrote: > I saw a teevee interview with the kid and honestly he seemed like the > super nerdy kid (like myself) who would disassemble stuff and > reassemble it to make it better or "more cool".ï¿œ He really did not > seem provocative or anything.ï¿œ He was super excited to show off his > "invention".ï¿œ Granted to us "expert" adults his invention seems like > just a repackaging but give the kid a break, he's 14 and has probably > just learned about electronics and such.ï¿œ That was my take on the > revere engineering article and the news interview. > > 2 cents > > -Sean > > On Tuesday, September 22, 2015, Chuck McCown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œThat reverse engineering article lead me to wonder if the kid >was >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œtrying to be provocative. >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œ*From:* Bill Prince >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œ<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œ*Sent:* Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:17 PM >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œ*To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œ*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Hmmmm >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œHmmm indeed. > >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œWhen I saw that (maybe 2 seconds of viewing time) on the >evening >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œnews, I came away with two things. One, where's the alleged >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œexplosive? and Two, that's not even a MacGiver'ed clock, it's >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œmerely a commercial "clock" that's been partially >disassembled. > >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œMy conclusion? The teacher and the police are idiots. > >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œbp >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œ<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > >ï¿œ ï¿œ ï¿œOn 9/22/2015 2:00 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: >> >>ï¿œ ï¿œ http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/ > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
