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[3023.22 --> 3029.22] So I worked there and I cleaned the toilets and I cleaned the, you know, all the floors and the consoles |
[3029.22 --> 3030.22] and everything for three months. |
[3030.22 --> 3034.22] And then I, after working there for free, after three months I got to work in the tech room with the other people |
[3034.22 --> 3038.22] working on SSL consoles and Eve consoles, do-do tape machines. |
[3038.22 --> 3040.22] And that was that. |
[3040.22 --> 3041.22] Cool. Sweet. |
[3041.22 --> 3042.22] It was fun. |
[3042.22 --> 3046.22] I think with that we are, oh no we have about ten minutes left. |
[3046.22 --> 3049.22] Let's see if there's any actual topics to talk about. |
[3049.22 --> 3051.22] No topics. |
[3051.22 --> 3052.22] No. |
[3052.22 --> 3057.22] Turns out recycling garbage in like the poor part of the thing, that's also a really good way to get technology. |
[3057.22 --> 3059.22] That's how I got most of my first computers. |
[3059.22 --> 3062.22] It's like let's Frankenstein stuff together. |
[3062.22 --> 3066.22] I think, I feel like most people that are into computers have a similar story to that. |
[3066.22 --> 3070.22] Like my favourite one is, I went to like a country high school. |
[3070.22 --> 3073.22] We didn't have very much money, especially not in the tech departments. |
[3073.22 --> 3078.22] And the way that we built a new computer lab, because we needed one really badly. |
[3078.22 --> 3081.22] Because there's a lot of kids in the school that were interested in computers. |
[3081.22 --> 3084.22] It was just designed as a country school, so it was the most trades and stuff. |
[3084.22 --> 3090.22] The way we built a new computer lab was my teacher waited for the truck that went to all the different schools |
[3090.22 --> 3094.22] and picked up all their broken computers, because they did it once every few years. |
[3094.22 --> 3098.22] And called him, the guy directly, I don't know how he got his number, and diverted him to our school. |
[3098.22 --> 3102.22] Which originally he wasn't planning to go to, because we had no computers to give up. |
[3102.22 --> 3106.22] And he was like, yeah, yeah, we got some stuff. Just leave the truck for a little while. |
[3106.22 --> 3110.22] And he left the truck and we offloaded everything that was on there, which was not supposed to happen. |
[3110.22 --> 3113.22] I'm not going to say your name, but thank you very much, teacher. |
[3113.22 --> 3116.22] Because I think the hard drives and stuff that were on there. |
[3116.22 --> 3120.22] But we took everything, we shoved it all in one room, and then my teacher was just like, |
[3120.22 --> 3122.22] OK, bye, thank you, leave now. |
[3122.22 --> 3127.22] And we spent the next few months, that whole computer class, just like, we would lay out like, |
[3127.22 --> 3129.22] oh my goodness, OK, this motherboard actually works. |
[3129.22 --> 3133.22] Let's find all the CPUs and all the RAM and everything that can go into this board and test all of it, |
[3133.22 --> 3137.22] and mark everything as good or bad, and like, find all the, use those, |
[3137.22 --> 3140.22] find all the motherboards that work, and like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
[3140.22 --> 3142.22] And we ended up building like, one and a half computer labs out of it. |
[3142.22 --> 3144.22] That was a really, really cool project. |
[3144.22 --> 3146.22] That was a lot of fun. |
[3146.22 --> 3150.22] We had, I was accused, by the time I made it to high school, I was accused of black magic, |
[3150.22 --> 3154.22] because the local repair place would always replace the motherboard whenever a PS2, |
[3154.22 --> 3157.22] whenever a kid would something, the PS2 ports were really bad, |
[3157.22 --> 3160.22] because like if you pulled the keyboard the wrong way, it would blow the fuse on the motherboard. |
[3160.22 --> 3162.22] And so, it was not surface mount, it was through hole. |
[3162.22 --> 3166.22] It was really easy to replace, and I would be like, well, let's just crack it open, take the motherboard out, |
[3166.22 --> 3170.22] and replace the through hole fuse, and the local computer repair company was like, |
[3170.22 --> 3174.22] Black Magic, Witchcraft, burn him, burn him at the stake, he's breathing. |
[3174.22 --> 3179.22] We gotta replace the motherboard, we can't just repair them, that's like three cents, we can't do it. |
[3179.22 --> 3185.22] So yeah, that was not fun in a poor high school where they can't afford a thousand bucks a machine to replace stuff. |
[3185.22 --> 3188.22] And you, I'm just, I don't know why I'm jumping back to this now, |
[3188.22 --> 3193.22] I kind of skimmed over it when you were first telling the story, but you built an amplifier, you said? |
[3193.22 --> 3196.22] Yeah, it was a C-Moy, I mean they have all these guides in line on how to build them, |
[3196.22 --> 3200.22] it's a headphone amplifier that you build into an Altoids can, that's powered off a 9 volt battery. |
[3200.22 --> 3201.22] So what got you into that though? |
[3201.22 --> 3203.22] I just enjoyed Hi-Fi audio. |
[3203.22 --> 3206.22] Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, so you wanted to like kind of build some of the... |
[3206.22 --> 3208.22] Yeah, I just thought it was something cool to do in my spare time. |
[3208.22 --> 3214.22] And I've seen, if I remember correctly, you have those like the, I'm gonna use the wrong term, but the sound dampening panels? |
[3214.22 --> 3216.22] Yeah, I have those sound dampening piles, panels. |
[3216.22 --> 3217.22] Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
[3217.22 --> 3218.22] Piles of panels. |
[3218.22 --> 3220.22] Yeah, in my office and at home. |
[3220.22 --> 3223.22] Yeah, are you still into custom Hi-Fi stuff? |
[3223.22 --> 3224.22] Yeah. |
[3224.22 --> 3225.22] Yeah, cool. |
[3225.22 --> 3227.22] What's like the most recent custom Hi-Fi project you've done? |
[3227.22 --> 3230.22] Like just the Vanderstein set of speakers that I have at home. |
[3230.22 --> 3232.22] You really don't need really expensive stuff to make it sound good. |
[3232.22 --> 3237.22] You can find new stuff online like Vanderstein speakers for $400, a cheap amplifier, |
[3237.22 --> 3240.22] and some of those Corning 703 panels and it'll sound amazing. |
[3240.22 --> 3246.22] Yeah, I've actually been, for a while now I've wanted to copy your sound dampening panel project. |
[3246.22 --> 3248.22] You just can't have a cat, because if you have a cat then... |
[3248.22 --> 3250.22] Yeah, I don't have a cat. |
[3250.22 --> 3255.22] Yeah, they use it as a scratching post, they've made it, that entire section of my apartment look like garbage. |
[3255.22 --> 3256.22] That's not good. |
[3256.22 --> 3258.22] The cat is cute so it gets away. |
[3258.22 --> 3261.22] You worked in IT for quite a while. |
[3261.22 --> 3266.22] I had several hats in that company, but I worked very close. |
[3266.22 --> 3270.22] Well, I started actually doing energy audits and stuff within the company, |
[3270.22 --> 3274.22] and we also wrote our own software to run on various devices, |
[3274.22 --> 3277.22] either iPads or the Samsung devices I mentioned. |
[3277.22 --> 3279.22] And we had major contracts with the power companies, |
[3279.22 --> 3284.22] and then our IT department was extremely overworked in supporting all these devices, |
[3284.22 --> 3287.22] upgrading them, getting ready to go, repairing them. |
[3287.22 --> 3291.22] And we also had our in-house software development team. |
[3291.22 --> 3295.22] And then the more they realized that I was the guy that was actually going around |
[3295.22 --> 3298.22] in the field helping other field people. |
[3298.22 --> 3300.22] So if you had a problem you had to call into the help desk, right? |
[3300.22 --> 3304.22] And our help desk was three guys trying to support a company of 350 field agents. |
[3304.22 --> 3306.22] And it was just like, that could get overworked really easy. |
[3306.22 --> 3307.22] Yeah. |
[3307.22 --> 3314.22] And that was the same, our IT department of three was the same guys also building and managing our three countrywide, |
[3314.22 --> 3318.22] six major cities VPN that kept all of our offices in communications. |
[3318.22 --> 3324.22] So if they were doing that or they were out at a data center or something, we were just like down in person. |
[3324.22 --> 3325.22] Yeah. |
[3325.22 --> 3329.22] So I was the guy that everyone started calling out in the field to come help them if they had tech problems with their equipment |
[3329.22 --> 3331.22] or something was broken, needed it fixed. |
[3331.22 --> 3333.22] When the company realized I was doing that, then they were like, |
[3333.22 --> 3335.22] Hey, do you want to manage our help desk? |
[3335.22 --> 3337.22] And I was like, I don't know. We'll see. |
[3337.22 --> 3342.22] So because they knew I had all the end user experience as well as the technical know how to keep it all working. |
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