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Here's a glimpse of a work day lost months ago. I relocated to Long Island from San Jose. This is my office in San Jose. I'm ashamed of my new office. Oh well, can't be cush forever ;-)

apeman

that is a seriously nice office!
nice cacti too and you appear to have (at least) 3 PCs

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nosuchuserexist

Interesting collection of cacti you have there. So what exactly do you do? Are you a dev or a tester of some sort? Purely a guess due to the amount of devices in your little cabinet.

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apeman

developing the next generation of digital, wireless, programmable cacti perhaps?

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I'm a Sr. System Analyst for Symbol Technologies. Basically, that means I play with RF equipment. My function is end of the line support for wireless networks consisting of your basic backbone, extended to wireless Access Points (on the left) and then to the ruggedized handheld PocketPC terminal (on the right). I don't fix things like "why can't I sync my mail server to my PDA", rather I fix things like "Using a Bluesocket DHCP server instead of a standard Microsoft Server, the 8146 will broadcast the ACK back rather then direct it to the server." or "I need to create 3 vlans and do a wireless hop to another building across the street while using Kerberos and I can't seem to get from the Master AP to the Slave AP."

Yeah, basically I'm a fucking monkey. However, I'm only a few years away from not working for the "man" so I'll keep my chin up!

I’m a cactus connoisseur if you will. I love Cacti and the cacti that you see are not store bought. I harvest them from grandfather cacti, seeds or cuttings. I’ll see if I can dig up some pictures of my back porch in San Jose. Obviously, I had to get rid of most of them moving to NY as they don’t handle low light and cold weather well.

NoSoup

I really hoping you test PDAs or something... noone should have to use that many


Edit: Yeah... I just read your post, so I see how stupid this comment may seem now, lol

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paddyjoe

Hey Rup.

Good to see a slice of your life, past, present or otherwise.

Thanks man.

bernadette

man! i've never seen so many PDAs in one place except at a store.

shame you've left san jose.
i think i would like to meet up with you if you were still here.
lemme know if you're ever visiting this way again.
i'll buy ya a drinkypoo or some coffee, your choice.

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tropicdiver

That's easy for you to say...

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Fly

damn Rup..........you gots some serious plant action goin' on.......niiiiiiice.



thanx for showin' us your life in incraments man.

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nosuchuserexist

BTW Flyman...I don't think it would be a good idea to try to smoke any of those.

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ARTelevision

Cool scene, Ruprex.

Welcome to the right coast.

...I gave up a big bonsai collection when I moved back to PA from Marin County. I feel your pain.

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Thanks Art. I lived alone for a good long period in SJ and I had a large cacti collection at home as well as the ones you see at the office. Not to mention the large house plant collection...shit, they were my friends and I had to leave them behind. The big money plants that I couldn't bear to leave behind I brought with me via chartered moving truck. They are just now coming out of their shell from being locked in the back of a hot, dark trailer for a week and a half...now I'm trying to move again. Poor babies. I'm not going to put them through that again. This time I'll find them a green-thumb home.

Blah, blah, blah.. Too much information, huh ;-)

Bern,
I imagine I'll visit at some point in the future. I have too many frineds. Good healthy friends that are too fun to let lie.

I'll take you up on that drink, you too sound like a cool person!

paddyjoe

Hmmm...........

tropicdiver

Hey Batter Batter Batter <B>SWING</B> Batter....

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Norske8

You may be working "for the man" but at least the man lets you personalize your area a little bit. I can forsee some corporate weasel from our accounting department turning me in for wasting "precious company energy" by keeping lights on such a display. I lost a fish tank for that reason.

Here are a couple more cacti as a toast for when you stick it to the man!

I think they are a bit overexposed.

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Norske8

Those were the good old days. I have one plant in my cube now...it's not even a cactus. Cactus are dangerous.

So yeah, I feel your pain bro.