If you are nearing retirement here are three short bits of advice for a successful transition:
First, throw away your alarm clock.
Second, if you happen to wake up and it's still dark out, go back to sleep.
Third, once the sun is up and you awake well rested do exactly what you want, but only indulge yourself this way on days ending in "Y".
First, throw away your alarm clock.
Second, if you happen to wake up and it's still dark out, go back to sleep.
Third, once the sun is up and you awake well rested do exactly what you want, but only indulge yourself this way on days ending in "Y".
Bob, you worked @ Dolby Labs; do you know Roger Dressler?
Any thought on Dolby Atmos?
My whole day was spent with a sprayer full of Glyphosate and a lawnmower. Tomorrow I will attack a few more root balls with a pick axe.
All of the above!
One of my mottos:
Never grow up. When you grow up you grow old. When you grow old you begin to die, so don't grow up. I am a 61 year old teenager.
B....it's too much like work.....way too many boring meetings. Been there, done that......Isn't this a thread about RETIREMENT. I'd rather be swinging my pick axe......or melting some tubes.
I haven't had one in 15 years. I got up when my body told me to, and got to work whenever....I got more work done than most of the younger people, so the boss didn't care.
That never made sense to me, but when Mot came to me and said "you need to get a degree to get ahead" and followed that with "we will pay for it" I agreed. A few years later it was an advanced degree....again I agreed. I actually started down the road toward PHD, but about 18 months they pulled the plug on tuition reimbursement so I quit school.
Some state colleges offer serious discounts for senior citizens. The school where I got my MS did, but that may have ended when the economy tanked.
Audit will not help if you are seeking a degree. The Florida school I went to had some restrictions, like there must be empty seats, they wouldn't turn away a full price youngster to give a cheap seat to an old timer, and the course price was tied to income or age or something....I don't remember since I was in my 40's at the time.
I actually do remember Roger Dressler. I didn't work directly with him, but he was there. I was only there from about 1984 - 88ish. When I got hired they were still on Sansome St. I enjoyed watching the company move into their present building on Potrero. Ray was having built a $4million dollar theater on the 3rd floor. Things were really growing fast. I wish I had stuck around longer. I missed the life I had up here in Oregon. Traffic down there is insane. Haven't had a great job since.
Tubelab, you're not too far from one of my favorite drives in all the USA, I80 roughly between Clarion, PA and the I99 junction.
I have an old friend from Weirton. He always calls it "the finger" of West Virginia (use your right hand, palm towards you.)🙂
For travel freebies, as far as I know many state parks will provide free RV hookups in exchange for superintending the park during the off-season.
I have an old friend from Weirton. He always calls it "the finger" of West Virginia (use your right hand, palm towards you.)🙂
For travel freebies, as far as I know many state parks will provide free RV hookups in exchange for superintending the park during the off-season.
Well now have the office/workshop I have called the PIT.😀 I will be making in small numbers the SECA amps I love.
The first one will be 30W/8R, 42W/4R. Already had some good results whilst working for TQ with the original design I have sneaked in some improvements.
Increased the heatsink size, and improved the regulated power supply.
The first PCB's will be with me just after my four day holiday looking at steamboats in the Lake District with my friend Uncle Dave.
Got a new company name, tongue in cheek One4Audio.
Thanks RM for you comments.
Regards
Colin J. Wonfor
Roger was let go of Dolby Labs in 2008, where he worked for 25 years.
Now he is @ a new surround sound venture, working with people exploring new approaches in movie sound (channels, objects in space, direction, etc.).
I am too lazy to search for the name of that company, but he seems to have still close contacts with Dolby people.
He post @ several audio/video forums. He is an expert on bass management, equalization, phase balance, and recently Dolby Atmos.
He designed the surround logo for Dolby headphones. ...On the front face of some audio components. ...A pair of headphones over the double D logo.
He's a very good man, down-to-earth, and always very helpful with information from his vast experience and knowledge on everything "Sound".
Maybe I should ask him if he could help you for a job; he lives in Oregon too.
But you can also get in touch with him easily (goggle, AVSForum, ...).
Hollywood, California; there must be jobs in the movie sound industry.
...Just sayin'.
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@ tubelab - Put that axe down, stop swinging it, relax, sit down on your front porch and have a pina colada, or three. 😀
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I'm 44 years old but, after reading Schopenhauer, I feel like 88.
Voltaire and Montaigne might cheer you up a bit, but just a bit.
Thanks a bunch for your input on Roger. I would love to work on the next generation of surround sound with Roger Dressler. I do that as a hobbyist, but it would be nice if I got paid too. People like him to collaborate with would be tops. I've never been to AVS Forum, but I'll look. I'm thrilled that he moved to Oregon. CA is way overcrowded and expensive. Portland is getting that way but still manageable. I hear Bend Oregon is the place to open a new business, but a lot less going on.
Schopenhauer? Yes, that is certainly a decided problem. I recommend that you start again on the last page and read the whole book backwards, in reverse. You'll slowly un-wind as you get closer to page one! Works like a charm.
Oh, by the way, there will be no charge...I'm simply here to help people recover from Schopenhauer.
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I don't have a front porch yet. I gave up alcohol about 30 years ago, for several reasons. So my therapy involves beating on things with a large object.
I was briefly put into a supervisory position at Mot (twice). While a super in the cal lab at Mot, I heard a racket coming from our shop. investigation revealed one of my techs had clamped a piece of 2X4 in a vise and was beating it into wood pulp with a hammer. I asked why, and he just showed me the board. He had drawn a picture of his future ex wife on it with a Sharpie. I understood......it is a stress relief technique.
I built a guitar in wood shop. Nothing fancy, just cut a pattern in a piece of wood, screwed on a bridge, a neck and mounted some strings. I played it in the classroom for about 20 minutes, then quietly took it apart, walked over to the miter saw and cut it to pieces, packed up and left. When I came in the following week, one of the newer guys asked what was up, and I replied that sometimes you have to try something only to find out that it doesn't work. It is a learning experience, which IS what school is about, right. It's still fun to kill your failures.
I have killed a few of my creations with a hammer, or a power supply (electrical things) or power tools (wood shop). The older wood shop guys had already seen me give away a set of speaker cabinets that I spent weeks on, and pick up another guitar body over my head and throw it across the room into the dumpster.
In this case destroying the evil root balls with a pick axe is like my tech destroying the image of his wife. I went at it for about 5 hours this morning. One of the neighbors told Sherri that it looked like I was having too much fun.
Other means of taking out one's frustrations on inanimate objects are no longer overlooked by members of law enforcement, especially when guns or explosions are involved!