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Eureka
Reporter Column
My
Radio Station in the Times Standard page 1
My
Radio
Station
in
the
Times
Standard
page
2
Dr.
Anselm Franz, his Lycoming
Turbine Engine Division:
The AL5512, T55 and T53 Gas Turbine Engines
How does
your company deal with a technician's
expensive mistake?
"The Technician's Masterpiece" makes the case for systematic
investigations of errors
When
supercomputers gain human-like
intelligence, the fun will begin when they start screwing up
like us
Hi! My name is Robert Reed. I have a family, a job
and a
home. I go to my job
and I
return home after I work. I enjoy my time off from
work.
That's my real life. I am a writer and columnist (until
the
newspaper shut down recently!), a journeyman diesel
technician and industrial power generation technician, a
certified
Cummins Marine and Cummins MerCruiser technician, a licenced
A&P aviation technician, a USC certified aircraft accident
investigator, and served 9 years with Textron Lycoming (now
Honeywell)
as a technical representative on their turbine engine product
line. In all, I've been twisting wrenches since 1971 and
am still
at it 39 years later. I am a computer geek who sometimes
gets
lost in the
internals of my laptops and desktop computers. I help
run a ham
radio network of people around the Pacific Rim to assist
vessels at sea
in routine and emergency communtications and position
reporting.
I ocean fish and surf.
My off work time is spent working on my boat, fishing from it,
getting
the latest geek news, and spending a little time at the beach
on my
surfboard in the cold waters of Humboldt County.
Blogs? I have several. There's hamradiohead
and
Facebook (under my real name), I
also have put up some of my columns written for the Eureka
Reporter
here.
My
source of geek news is slashdot.org,
Engadget, Techcrunch and some others
like
it.
Sometimes good stuff is found there, and sometimes it's days
ahead of
mainstream news sources.
I'm a Linux operating system enthusiast. I find myself
visiting linuxtoday.com
for what's going on
there in that world. I own 3 laptops all of which are
dual boot
Linux / Windows machines, a PC that is the same, and a
Macintosh
mini. I need to keep up on as many operating systems as
possible. It keeps me comfortable and familiar in all of
them.
I enjoy the adventure and occasional terror that comes with
troubleshooting and fixing large expensive diesel
engines. The
pressure
to perform is high at times. Come with me to a broken
engine in a
large fishing vessel sometime and I'll show you. Browse
through http://hamradiohead.livejournal.com
and you will see.
My wrenches (and other handy skills) have taken me through a
wonderful
journey in life, traveling across the Pacific, all over the
United
States, and parts of Asia including Japan. A tradesman's
journey
is limited only by what he or she believes it's possibilities
are.