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08 Feb 2006 06:47:55 AM |
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Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
08 Feb 2006 10:21:09 AM |
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*****. I just remembered that Gregory cannot read my
posts because of a Y2K software bug. Would somebody
please copy this post in a followup for me? Thanks.
In article <dscp9r$8qk_001@s918.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
wrote:
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
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| User: "Richard Herring" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
08 Feb 2006 11:30:09 AM |
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In message <dsd5pl$8u0_001@s1233.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com writes
*****. I just remembered that Gregory cannot read my
posts because of a Y2K software bug.
?
Would somebody
please copy this post in a followup for me? Thanks.
In article <dscp9r$8qk_001@s918.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
Done!
--
Richard Herring
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
09 Feb 2006 06:35:02 AM |
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In article <91DxKRghqi6DFwCf@baesystems.com>,
Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
In message <dsd5pl$8u0_001@s1233.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com writes
*****. I just remembered that Gregory cannot read my
posts because of a Y2K software bug.
?
My newsreader is old-fashioned and uses a 2-digit year.
People are still writing Y2K bugs; the 06 year is converted
to 1906 and believes my posts are too old to write to disk.
Done!
Thank you :-). I appreciate it.
/BAH
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| User: "Gregory L. Hansen" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
08 Feb 2006 11:56:42 AM |
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In article <91DxKRghqi6DFwCf@baesystems.com>,
Richard Herring <richard.herring@baesystems.com> wrote:
In message <dsd5pl$8u0_001@s1233.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com writes
*****. I just remembered that Gregory cannot read my
posts because of a Y2K software bug.
?
Would somebody
please copy this post in a followup for me? Thanks.
In article <dscp9r$8qk_001@s918.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
Done!
--
Richard Herring
Thank you, Richard.
Do what PD said. They might be called a machinist, or an engineer, or
maybe a technician or mechanic. They might work in a machine shop or a
lab. There might be a department, there might be one lonely guy in the
basement of the Physics and/or Engineering department (chemistry is more
about glass blowing than about cutting metal). San Jose had one guy in a
large shop. Indiana has machine shops in both the physics building and
the cyclotron, plus (when I was there) a student shop with an instructor.
If you have trouble finding who you're looking for, I would suggest
calling up any experimentalist at the university to ask. They'll have
made his acquaintence.
--
"And don't skimp on the mayonnaise!"
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
11 Feb 2006 08:04:16 AM |
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In article <dsdbcq$4vv$1@rainier.uits.indiana.edu>,
(Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
In article <91DxKRghqi6DFwCf@baesystems.com>,
Richard Herring <richard.herring@baesystems.com> wrote:
In message <dsd5pl$8u0_001@s1233.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com writes
*****. I just remembered that Gregory cannot read my
posts because of a Y2K software bug.
?
Would somebody
please copy this post in a followup for me? Thanks.
In article <dscp9r$8qk_001@s918.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
Done!
--
Richard Herring
Thank you, Richard.
Do what PD said.
I did.
They might be called a machinist, or an engineer, or
maybe a technician or mechanic. They might work in a machine shop or a
lab. There might be a department, there might be one lonely guy in the
basement of the Physics and/or Engineering department (chemistry is more
about glass blowing than about cutting metal). San Jose had one guy in a
large shop. Indiana has machine shops in both the physics building and
the cyclotron, plus (when I was there) a student shop with an instructor.
I tried to find all of your magic words but didn't have much
luck. Staff was the best I could do with my mouse-challenged
webbit-ignorant fingers.
If you have trouble finding who you're looking for, I would suggest
calling up any experimentalist at the university to ask. They'll have
made his acquaintence.
I can't do the calling. If I do all the research work, then my
sister and her family won't learn all the useful stuff about
what goes on underneath a university's veneer. She now has
her whole family involved :-).
Thank you so much for telling that story so many years ago.
And now the lurkers also know that this kind of work exists.
/BAH
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| User: "PD" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
08 Feb 2006 11:16:00 AM |
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wrote:
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
Jumping in because of the communication problem...
Actually, you can do a lot of this legwork on your own. Go to your
nearby university's site, click on various department links, and look
for a "People" or "Staff" link. If there is a dedicated departmental
shop, there will be a shop head on the Staff list. In a physics
department, that shop head will either be a machinist or an electronics
tech, typically. Some departments have long-standing research
associates who are really their instrumentation gurus, the ones that
actually design and build equipment, but those are harder to pick out.
Sample links:
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/physics_and_astronomy/people/
http://www.gwu.edu/~physics/phys-fac.htm
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/directory/directory_report.php?staff=1
PD
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Query for Gregory L. Hansen |
11 Feb 2006 07:57:40 AM |
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In article <1139418959.982254.33880@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote:
jmfbah...@aol.com wrote:
My sister's son has to find a guy to follow for a day and
watch him work. His interests, or rather passions, are
welding and machinery.
About 8 years ago, you posted a story about the lonely guy
in the basement who fixed and made stuff for you scientists.
I think you called him a machinist, but can't remember.
My question is how can my sister, who has no idea about the
ins and outs of university life, find this particular worker
within a university? Is there a common name for his department
or place of work so she can just call and get connected?
Do these types of people mind if some kid, who is not afraid
to ask questions, bugs them for a day?
Thank you.
/BAH
Jumping in because of the communication problem...
I appreicate it. :-)
Actually, you can do a lot of this legwork on your own. Go to your
nearby university's site, click on various department links, and look
for a "People" or "Staff" link.
Done.
Hah! Staff was a magic incantation. It would be nice if people
told the work they do in their bios rather than CVs.
If there is a dedicated departmental
shop, there will be a shop head
I never found "shop". However, you gave enough pointers so
that I could tell my sister stuff and she's off getting
people to gather info.
on the Staff list. In a physics
department, that shop head will either be a machinist or an electronics
tech, typically. Some departments have long-standing research
associates who are really their instrumentation gurus, the ones that
actually design and build equipment, but those are harder to pick out.
I had problems picking anything out. But just the info that this
work and people exist on a campus was enough. My family didn't
know this kind of work was done. I wouldn't have known if
Greg hadn't written that post years ago. See? This newsgroup
is doing good work.
Sample links:
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/physics_and_astronomy/people/
http://www.gwu.edu/~physics/phys-fac.htm
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/directory/directory_report.php?staff=1
I didn't use your links but I did take quick look at a university
that I was familiar with. Now it's up to that family to do its
own research.
Thanks for the info. One of the things I do not like about
net info is that you have to have the right magic incantation.
/BAH
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