Another meeting of forum-dwellers

[MarkB]

Well - I just got back from a week in San Fran.. and while I was there, I got to hang with (and the locals tour) one of our esteemed moderators, Peter Snowberg.

I always love meeting other forumites, and this was no exception.. had a great time checking out his hometown and seeing the sites.

If anyone makes it down to El Miami.. let me know - and I'll pass on the kindness.
"-)

[Peter Snowberg]

Thanks again for a fun afternoon Mark! The weather is still hot but now the air is clear too. It's quite a heat wave.


Even in the process of getting burritos and driving around we got to spread the DIY gospel to a sales guy at the local Harley Davidson dealership. Hehehe. We've got more flavors of strange here than you can shake a stick at.

To anybody else that wants to meet up, just drop me a PM.

take care,
-Peter

[aron]

Which one is Peter?

One of the cool looking guys in the front or the slightly grouchy looking guy in back  :wink:

[Peter Snowberg]

I'm the weirdo on the right. The guy in the back was from central casting.

[Paul Marossy]

Funny how people never match your mental image you have of them when you actually see them!

Nothing meant by that, just an observation I've always had.  

Maybe we could have a forumite convention? I dunno, would that be geeky, like a Star Trek convention? I'm sure we would make a strange bunch...

Who's the guy exiting the Hilton?  :lol:

[MarkB]

if I had to bet - I'd say he's an orthopaedic surgeon.

most of the hotels in SF were filled with them (it was the big ortho convention last week.. which is why I was there - my wife is one).
"-)

[Paul Marossy]

He looks like some sort of doctor or business man. He has that look...

[Doug H]

I was out in San Francisco about 4-5 yrs ago for a week. I loved it.  You have a beautiful city, Peter.

Doug

[Jay Doyle]

I was out in San Francisco about 4-5 yrs ago for a week. I loved it.  You have a beautiful city, Peter.

No kidding Peter, great town. I was there for a short while during my honeymoon a year and a half ago. Flew in, drove to Napa, down to Monterey/Carmel/Big Sur and back to San Fran. Wonderful area, you are lucky to be able to live there (or should I saw afford to live there  )

Jay

[Zito]

Maybe we could have a forumite convention? I dunno, would that be geeky, like a Star Trek convention? I'm sure we would make a strange bunch...

Hellva Idea!!!

The DIY Stompbox Jam and Trade Show

I have visions of hundreds of us in Hawaii.

Trade and Swap meets during the day and Jam and Party at night for about a week.

[Paul Marossy]

I spent roughly a week in Napa Valley for our honeymoon. We went to San Francisco for a day. It was a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind living somewhere like Newark or Redwood City, if it were affordable and I could get a job there.

A forumite convention in Hawaii sounds fun.  

[RDV]

True Story:

The first trip I took to the Bay area was in 1982. I'm staying with a friend & his wife in Alameda & we go into Berkely where they're applying for a job. Anyway, I'm sitting in the car on Telegraph AVE in the view of that nice tall pointy building when "Ebony & Ivory" comes on the car radio. It might have been the 3rd or 4th time I'd ever heard it at that point. Just as it gets to the chorus, a white guy & a black guy are walking down the sidewalk arm in arm(obviously quite enamoured with each other), and I, as a country boy from Pine Bluff, Arkansas found the dichotomy(between the song & what my eyes were seeing) just a little disturbing. I'm not a prejudiced man now & I really wasn't then either, but at 18 and from AR, there were a few things I had not yet seen.

I really loved the area overall though, sort of a freaky Disneyland, and my friends uncle that lived in Humboldt county brought us a little something that REALLY made it enjoyable!

Regards

RDV

[Peter Snowberg]

I know I'm lucky to be here, but as Ian Anderson wrote.... "that was just an accident of birth". It's got its ups and downs, right now the job market is garbage and I'm a nerd so there are a zillion of us all looking for the same jobs. I'm just barely keeping afloat. Sill, out of every place I've been its one of only a small handful of places I could ever image living.

I was hanging out the other day with a couple of gay friends and one of them kept saying that I need a queer makeover. :lol: It doesn't phase me at all, but I can imagine some people getting bent out of shape by it. Who knows.... that might be about the last picture of me with long hair. You never know.

I'm looking to move a bit North, up towards the "wine country" of Napa or more likely Sonoma County. This city boy wants a taste of the country. So long as I can get wireless broadband, I'm all set. LOL. Maybe I'll end up in Humboldt (often called part of the "green triangle"). Once you get that far north the locals tend to not like "outsiders". If you've moved there recently (like within the last 50 years), you get called "poison oak" after a local plant that you really don't want to touch(!).

Take care,
-Peter

[Doug H]

True Story:

nice tall pointy building when "Ebony & Ivory" comes on the car radio. It might have been the 3rd or 4th time I'd ever heard it at that point. Just as it gets to the chorus, a white guy & a black guy are walking down the sidewalk arm in arm(obviously quite enamoured with each other),

Tom Waits said something like, "The car radio is the soundtrack of your life". Sounds like you experienced that firsthand. Funny story!

Doug

[Mark Hammer]

Wait a sec.  I thought those were just handles and you two were both 17 year-old girls!!  Cripes, have *I* been wasting my time coming here. :?

[Peter Snowberg]

Wait a sec.  I thought those were just handles and you two were both 17 year-old girls!!  Cripes, have *I* been wasting my time coming here. :?

Truth be known.... we are both 17 year old girls, but MarkB is a whiz at Photoshop. Oooops... I let the cat out of the bag. :lol:

Now if I could only find 27 year old girls that are into building effects....

Take care,
-Peter

[AL]

Well what a nice looking couple of ........ doors.  Wow, etched glass that is fancy.  It's nice to finally put a face to the names - now I know who to avoid  .......  bwaaa haaa haaa !!!! Man caffiene is great stuff.  

AL

[smoguzbenjamin]

Hmmm... A convention in hawaii eh? Sounds like fun. I think I'll have to put off that amp build (2 packages I was expecting are over 4 weeks late so they're probably lost :evil: ) and save for a return flight to hawaii... :lol:

[zachary vex]

...
Now if I could only find 27 year old girls that are into building effects....

Take care,
-Peter

i know a 21 year old female guitarist/singer who is into building effects.  she's about to graduate with straight-As from college, early, and she' s just received her Mouser order of parts to build a 16-stage sequencer-controlled oscillator, her own design (well, i helped a little, but not until she found all of the basic circuits and planned her attack.)  not only that, she found everything she needed using her own search techniques WITHOUT EVER KNOWING ABOUT THIS BOARD.  they're out there.  8^)  i wouldn't be surprised if eventually, the whole guitar pedal scene was dominated by women.  more and more young women are intrigued by guitar effects.  and for darned good reasons.  8^)