Be Mindful and Be Thankful.

 

Never Give Up. A lot of people said that. Winston Churchill and His Holiness the Dalai Lama both said it.

 

About Me and my Picture Taking:

 

I like to take pictures of architecture and people.

 

Regarding architecture; well, my pictures aren't only architecture. Often, they might be a closeup of some industrial design and sometimes, it might be a landscape. However, the general theme is "architectural" i.e. overall, I feel there is an architecture to a human or divinely engineered specimen, whether it is a building or a tree.

 

I also like to take pictures of people. My primary attempt at "people picture taking" is to capture people's essence. The only way I can define that is to "capture the spirit of God" in them.

 

So, if you find me, you'll usually find me w/ my Nikon D40x, taking your picture.

 

More About Me:

 

I'm a connector: I have about 2,500 addresses in my address book. I like to talk to people. That's what I do. That's who I am. I connect people to people.

 

The way I connect people to people is through my vocation: I'm a Technical Recruiter. However, I'm not a typical recruiter; I'm an engineer and ex-engineering manager.

 

I started engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley Radiation Laboratory ("the Rad Lab") at Berkeley in 1975; I was a Statistical Sociology student at Cal.

 

The first program I ever wrote was in Fortran; I wrote it on a PDP-11 mini-computer on 2,000 punch cards which were fed to a machine on what was, at that time, the world's largest computer, a CRAY-1 Supercomputer, the CDC-7600 (type that into Google). It was really cool.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Cray-1-p10102...

 

I developed this program while working for the Environmental Protection Agency, in Berkeley, during the late 1970s. I worked on what was the Internet, in its infancy. We called it "the ARPANet."

 

If you type ARPANet into Wikipedia, you'll get a picture of the first ARPANet logical map that was deployed in 1977 (which also shows Berkeley's CDC-7600 and their old CDC-6600). I actually worked on that very first ARPANet. We used fcopy to move files around. I wrote documents in nroff and troff.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arpnet-map-march-1977.png

 

Anyway, that's a little bit about me.

 

I had my 60th birthday on October 20th, 2007.

 

Here's me, smiling.

www.flickr.com/photos/stuartliroff/1751970422/