To: | Brad Kahler <bkahler@omc.ja.dtra.mil>, triumphs@autox.team.net |
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Subject: | Re: Bios |
From: | drew@pixar.com |
Date: | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:43:35 -0700 "Re: Bios" (Aug 15, 8:40pm) |
References: | <37B7B26D.9BDD4C36@omc.ja.dtra.mil> |
Ok. Since someone's keeping track of this in a list I guess I'll take my turn in the barrel. I'll be 49 next month. Have been married to my (first and only) wife Kathy for 28 years. Two children; daughter Anne is 23 and finishing up college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. Son Matt just started UC Berkeley this week. Kathy and I are suffering through a bit of empty nest syndrome right now. It's just us, the cats and the dog at home now. After starting in the machinist trade when I was 18 it took me 9 years to discover that playing with computers was a LOT OF FUN so I took Joseph Campbell's advice to follow my bliss and made a horizontal career move. I don't regret the move to computers but I'd still like to have a lathe and mill in the shop to play with. After various and assorted jobs I've been working here at Pixar Animation Studios as a computer programmer for the last 8 1/2 years. I'm not sure what it was that got me into British cars but it may have something to do with learning to drive in my then girlfriends Morris Minor 1000. My first car was a clapped out 1956 TR3. I fondly recall the paint job on that car as BRG and Rust. The rust mainly consisted of a narrow band between the BRG and the big gaping holes where sheet metal used to be. But it was a swell car and I sure had a lot of fun in it. After wrecking the TR I picked up a new BMW 2002 in 1969. A real nice car in every way but I never felt as connected to the road in the BMW as I did in the TR. About this same time I bought a 1964 Norton Road Atlas. I'm a little amazed at the number of people on the list who either have or have had a Norton. I think this may be another connection between a lot of us. Around 1971 I bought another 1956 TR3 with a factory hardtop. It needed a paint job and upholstery but the body was real straight and not a speck of rust. This is my "Boy I sure wish I had THAT car!" car. I ended up selling it (only car I ever made money on) in '74 to buy my first computer. I don't regret buying the computer but boy I wish I still had that car! Now comes a series of nondescript cars which don't rate going into until about 2 years ago when I picked up my third TR. This one is a 1958 TR3A in the proverbial (name your favorite shade of) Red with black interior. Maybe one of these days I repaint it back to the light yellow the factory painted it but I think I have better taste to put in a red interior like they did. Probably go to a tan or brown one instead. The only other thing I guess I should mention is that I drove a Sports Renault/Spec Racer in SCCA road racing between 1987 and 1993 when I won the San Francisco Regional Championship in the class. Drew -- Drew Rogge drew@pixar.com Protect privacy, boycott Intel: http://www.bigbrotherinside.org |
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