Posts by Locutus of Borg

I built four or five 40% Ultimates for clients back in the late 90s using the big 3W motors, awesome airplane considering so few full scales were ever built. I had a 35% Ultimate myself for a couple seasons back then. It was one of my faves. My 35% Staudacher was my #1 though.

bluesbreaker59,

I play the guitar also, do the local jam circuit on occasion. . . where are you located geographically? I am in the Utica/Rome area of NY State . . . but I travel alot for work around the NE US.

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What is your most favorite hobby?

by R.F. in

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just wanting to find out some of you all's hobbies.. my favorite is video gaming.

i love it and i love visiting video gaming stores.

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Locutus of Borg

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What is your most favorite hobby?

by R.F. in

jw
friends

just wanting to find out some of you all's hobbies.. my favorite is video gaming.

i love it and i love visiting video gaming stores.

.

Locutus of Borg

nvrgnbk . . .

nice to know someone else knows what I am speaking to . . .

I have always loveed Art Deco and Arts and Crafts style Americana

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What jobs have you done as. . .

by Lady Lee in

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ok we all have stories of "window-cleaners" but some of us had other kinds of work - that you got payed for (slave labor excepted).

so what kinds of things have you done?

what did you enjoy?

Locutus of Borg

WOW Lady Lee. . you sure know how to baseline folks. .

Let's see, at 53 yrs old, this is a trip down memory lane . . . . . this starts in 1971 . .

1: right out of dropping out of HS in Stratford, Ontario . . worked in a furniture factory doing upholstery and working in the wood shop

2: Worked at the Marlette manufactured housing factory in Stratford, Ont.

moved back to Concord, NH in the states

3: pumped gas at my (ex) FIL's gas station in NH for about 6 mos , he was a good man

4: worked in a printing factory for about 6 mos.

5: worked as a machinist at various jobs until 1980

6: went to college for two years and got an AAS Electrical Engineering

LEFT THE THE CULT THE FIRST TIME . . . got a divorce

7: worked in a semiconductor /capacitor mfg plant

8: worked as a field engineer in the telecom industry

9: got laid off, worked as a machinist for a few months (1985ish)

10: worked in the process controls (SCADA) industry for a few years, traveled around the world and saw none of it . . .

got laid off again and moved to CNY, got remarrried to the most wonderful woman in the world (NOT in the LIE) , WENT BACK TO THE FRIGGIN' KULT . .WTF was I THINKING!!! (its a long, long story)

Central NY . . .

11: 1991ish . . .worked on the line in a sweat shop factory making auto parts, hey I got to all the sales meetings!!!!

12: Started my own carpet cleaning/floor refinishing business, it was the theocratically acceptable thing to do!!!

13: Used the income from the carpet/floor biz (worked 2 days a week, made a ton of dough) to start a small global design/mfg business

14: Designed and manufactured Giant Scale R/C airplanes for the competition and high end sport markets (see "small global design/mfg business" in item 13 above)

starting to realize going back to the kult was a big, big mistake . . .

15: 1995 . . . NAFTA is kicking my ass, I have exact copies of my A/C designs coming into America from Mexico retailing for less than my cost of production . . yeah . . . I have patents . . . but they don't mean anything unless I can afford $250K to enforce them, thanks Bill. Still clinging desperately to the kult . .

16: small global design/mfg business failing, back to work in some really down and dirty mfg production line jobs .. . but!!! they were Borg approved . . .

17: Bailed out of the small global blah blah . . .

18: Bailed out of the fucking kult also (for the SECOND time)

19: 1996ish . . . . Worked in Aviation Maintenance, I actually enjoyed this period, I love airplanes . . . working on them and getting paid???? life is sweet.

20: Aviation Maintenance Facility I worked for went belly up . . . . went back to school (at 46 years of age: Graduated in 2003 Summa Cum Laude) got a BS in Teloecommunnicaions from SUNY IT

21: Graduated in 2002, Summa Cum Laude, BS Telecommunications

23: working on a MS Mathematics

24: I have the best job in the world

yes Virginia, there is life after the Watchtower . .

BC . . if you are reading this . . Fuck You!

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What is your most favorite hobby?

by R.F. in

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friends

just wanting to find out some of you all's hobbies.. my favorite is video gaming.

i love it and i love visiting video gaming stores.

.

Locutus of Borg

In this order . . .

1: Playing Hendrix tunes at the local music jams on my Strat.

2: Working on my house, I am restoring a 1930s Arts and Crafts style Bungalo

3: A couple of sports car projects

yeah, I'm a Hedonist . . . but Mrs. LoB loves me . . .

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which celebrity death....?

by nowisee in

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just heard about the death of joel siegel, the entertainment critic for abc, and found myself, surprisingly, in tears.

maybe it was because he had such a young son and made plans to let him know how much he was loved, long before he died.

maybe because i have watched him for so many years.

Locutus of Borg

umm, make that chris farley . . .

man doesn't this stoopid thing have an edit button (locutus looking frantically)

and add Christa McAuliffe to the list. I was living in Concord NH when that tragedy occurred. My daughter was in kindergarten in Concord and was also deeply affected by that.

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which celebrity death....?

by nowisee in

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just heard about the death of joel siegel, the entertainment critic for abc, and found myself, surprisingly, in tears.

maybe it was because he had such a young son and made plans to let him know how much he was loved, long before he died.

maybe because i have watched him for so many years.

Locutus of Borg

I cried like a baby when Stevie Ray Vaughan died. For some reason that one really affected me. I was familiar with his struggle with addictions and a dysfunctional family (like myself). It was good that he slew those demons and was clean and sober for three years before he died. I have musician friends who knew him personally and they all said he was yhe sweetest man they'd ever known, even when he was totally f**ked up. They all described him as "everyones little brother".

Others that hurt me were John Lennon, (how friggin senseless was that?), the great Jimi H (in three short years he changed the music world forever), Robert Nesta Marley, John Candy, Chris Foley, John Belushi, Jim Morrison,

sigh.

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Just wanted to apologize to Minimus....

by eclipse in

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...for thinking you were a red m&m!.

i just read jgnat's correction, that you are (well your pic is) the red 7-up spot dude!.

so sorry for the mixup!

Locutus of Borg

ohh, thats just not right . .

minimus has two M's in it, and I swear that red spot was the M&Ms dude.

If this is true then I need to rethink my entire world view and this place is going to need a "Consiracy Theory and Alternate Reality" forum . .

jus sayin'