nope.....I was still an altar boy until 15....got a steady girlfriend and I quickly fell from grace! first time I got drunk I was 16 or 17.....didn't drink for many years......guess I had more sense then
Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > Anybody sneak you a beer? > > *From:* Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:27 AM > *To:* Animal Farm <[email protected]> > *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".ￜ He really did not >>>>> > seem provocative or anything.ￜ He was super excited to show off his >>>>> > "invention".ￜ 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.ￜ 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: >>>>> > >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜThat reverse engineering article lead me to wonder if the >>>>> kid >was >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜtrying to be provocative. >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*From:* Bill Prince >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*Sent:* Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:17 PM >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*To:* [email protected] >>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Hmmmm >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜHmmm indeed. >>>>> > >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜWhen I saw that (maybe 2 seconds of viewing time) on the >>>>> >evening >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜnews, I came away with two things. One, where's the alleged >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜexplosive? and Two, that's not even a MacGiver'ed clock, >>>>> it's >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜmerely a commercial "clock" that's been partially >>>>> >disassembled. >>>>> > >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜMy conclusion? The teacher and the police are idiots. >>>>> > >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜbp >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>>>> > >>>>> >ￜ ￜ ￜOn 9/22/2015 2:00 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >>ￜ ￜ >>>>> >>>>> 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 >>> >>> >> > >
