Re: Bios

[drew@pixar.com]

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

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