greenbeast
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That may be his thought process! It took weeks of subtle convincing before he would let me give it a try, he is pleased with the results, thank goodness!
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PabloCruise
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100% Best darn movie ever made!!!
"Somebody go back and get a s***load of dimes!!!"
greenbeast
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Will do, she is kicking us out Sunday night, wants to get good night sleep before school next day and just enjoy her quiet time in her new apartment.
PabloCruise
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Ha ha, I love it...
PabloCruise
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Safe travels Friend! Mom will feel good knowing the 4Runner is near...
"He said, 'The Sheriff is near!'"
greenbeast
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So many memorable quotes it should have its own thread!!
PabloCruise
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gonzopancho
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Well, my name is Jim, but most people
call me... Jim.
call me... Jim.
PabloCruise
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Well let's just play chess...
Work work work…
gonzopancho
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gonzopancho
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How I always imagined the pig parties
greenbeast
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Is this not how they go?
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Pretty close 
gonzopancho
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Excuse me while I whip this out.
PabloCruise
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'Zactly how they go!
gonzopancho
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I got hired to implement networking (Ethernet) for the mine, both base camp and at the mine proper, as well as between the two, which was … fun.
A few years later I got hired to implement a LAN with Internet connectivity at every show for Lollapalooza.
Pigeaten
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1s and 0s
gonzopancho
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Lollapalooza was more drugs and hos, but that, as they say, was a long time ago…and …. I only participated in half of that wild cocktail, unless you count me watching (beer in hand) the nightly show of what happens behind the scenes on a rock and roll tour or the co-ed showers…
Fast forward to 2009 and the surgeon and anesthesiologist are peppering me with questions before an emergency open heart surgery they don’t expect me to survive.
Anesthesiologist: “When was the last time you smoked?”
“I had two Cubans while I was in France 2 months ago.
Surgeon: “well. I’d have done that. Before?”
Me: “1985”
Anesthesiologist: “how about illicit drugs? Do you smoke pot?”
Me: “1994”
Surgeon: “that’s oddly specific”
Me: “I was on tour with Lollapooza…” (technically I was the “Internet roadie”. $500/day plus expenses while on vacation with pay from my straight job..)
Zane Vella
www.zanevella.com
What Zane doesn’t say there is that Interval Research, Paul Allen’s (yes, same as upthread) “we write patents against the technology we see coming” firm was sponsoring the whole tent, and they had people with clipboards studying the way the “youth” were interacting with all this technology.
So even though they were paying us pretty well, we were ****ing with their results. “tattoo cam” was us attempting to jam the results, and yes, people would just lift the shirt or drop trou to show us the work they had done, and let us take photos while they explained the what and why. We made a website than was updated a few hundred times a day.
BTW, this is the tour where I came up with GonzoPancho.
Zane Vella —> Pancho Villa (they called me Pancho all that summer), and I’m a big HST fan (so much our son is named Hunter Speed), so GonzoPancho
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Anesthesiologist: “anything else? We can have your wife leave the room, but we have to know…”
Me: “nope. Beer, mostly.”
Yes, that’s my ass, about 70lbs and 30 years ago.
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Thanks for sharing, infinitely more exciting than any stories I have of wiring projects for 35 years!
