schilsound
01-26-2006, 09:43 AM
My name is Ryan and I hail from south central Indiana. I have been involved with professional stage production for 20 years, moving around from audio to lighting and video production, rigging and more. I also served over 11 years in the US Army and National Guard during the period of Gulf War I.
I have been online since 1991 with AOL 2.01, and have gotten into PC computing from a mac base over 6 years ago. If anyone wants to talk system I'd love to see any other power users' systems out there . . . I am also a semi-retired partykid who learned to love deep electronic music while in school in Florida. I continue to spin tracks, play keyboards and dance until my knees give out.
Currently the majority of my work is as a stage rigger, working at height [typically 7o' to 14o'] setting temporary steel systems for staging and production. I travel regionally and occasionally pick up a tour or two. . . beats driving a desk. I'll enclose a couple pics of what I do for you guys. . . kinda fun, even if it does have a clench factor of ~14~.
I have had a longtime love of corns stemming from personal pet encounters over eight years ago here in Bloomington. My best friend was a BioChem major @ Indiana University and used to keep 3 adults and successfully bred a pair - from the moment I met them I was enthralled. When they clutched 14 and he sold the 13 surviving babies to a local pet store [after sucessfully feeding f/t for a month, I might add- very responsible lad] we both saw an opportunity.
When he decided to get back into herping I thought I would join him since it was so very fascinating to me before, so starting with one "just as a pet" that one became two, and with two there were eight, then ten, and now I'm considering another four or five or so. . .
We'll see what happens there . . . at last contact my best friend just got hired part-time at a small family pet store [I wouldn't buy a snake there, but their rodents are well-taken care of, and now they're CHEAP ;] so with the onset of my first colony rapidly approaching I may be able to balance costs to keep more ;]
Thanks to you all for maintaining such an encyclopedic collection of information and experience, and for being so ready to share it!
And especially thanks to Rich for the hosting/moderation, the various members for assisting a novice, and to everyone who read this.
[first 2 pictures are from my perspective @ 1oo feet above the ground, 3rd pic of of my work partner Ben doing the monkey climb untethered @ approx 13o feet- all shots in Bradley Center, Milwaukee WI]
I have been online since 1991 with AOL 2.01, and have gotten into PC computing from a mac base over 6 years ago. If anyone wants to talk system I'd love to see any other power users' systems out there . . . I am also a semi-retired partykid who learned to love deep electronic music while in school in Florida. I continue to spin tracks, play keyboards and dance until my knees give out.
Currently the majority of my work is as a stage rigger, working at height [typically 7o' to 14o'] setting temporary steel systems for staging and production. I travel regionally and occasionally pick up a tour or two. . . beats driving a desk. I'll enclose a couple pics of what I do for you guys. . . kinda fun, even if it does have a clench factor of ~14~.
I have had a longtime love of corns stemming from personal pet encounters over eight years ago here in Bloomington. My best friend was a BioChem major @ Indiana University and used to keep 3 adults and successfully bred a pair - from the moment I met them I was enthralled. When they clutched 14 and he sold the 13 surviving babies to a local pet store [after sucessfully feeding f/t for a month, I might add- very responsible lad] we both saw an opportunity.
When he decided to get back into herping I thought I would join him since it was so very fascinating to me before, so starting with one "just as a pet" that one became two, and with two there were eight, then ten, and now I'm considering another four or five or so. . .
We'll see what happens there . . . at last contact my best friend just got hired part-time at a small family pet store [I wouldn't buy a snake there, but their rodents are well-taken care of, and now they're CHEAP ;] so with the onset of my first colony rapidly approaching I may be able to balance costs to keep more ;]
Thanks to you all for maintaining such an encyclopedic collection of information and experience, and for being so ready to share it!
And especially thanks to Rich for the hosting/moderation, the various members for assisting a novice, and to everyone who read this.
[first 2 pictures are from my perspective @ 1oo feet above the ground, 3rd pic of of my work partner Ben doing the monkey climb untethered @ approx 13o feet- all shots in Bradley Center, Milwaukee WI]