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Gary Vest
3/25/2001
Hey Dan, did you get that fluid drained off the knees? Ouch! Had that done in high school from playing football and wresting. That shit hurts like hell.
Gary Vest
3/25/2001
Hey Doug. Snow starting to melt yet? Yeah, I believe that some of the attitudes and fights are what started linemen at Schenck to be called "Schencksters" Much tougher than gangsters! Those were some crazy ass days. Seemed like there was a lot more pride in what we did then and no one, I mean no one, ever called the cops on each other. If they lost, they just picked themselves off the ground and dusted themselves off and went about their business. Hell, most of the time, when it was finished we'd be sitting around downing a cold one and laughing about it. That ice cold beer fealt good on a busted lip! Guess those days are long gone though. Got to roll with the changes. Well, time to get ready to hit the road again. Damn, the weekends sure go quick! Take it easy.
doug
3/25/2001
Looking out at about 40" of snow in the yard going to be a messy spring, had a guy come over yesterday and plow, hopefully for the last time, the guy peeled up so much sod I told him he ought to look into a career in land-scaping!! bought a new gun this week-end ( 6m PPC ) made some loads and I'm headed down the the sand pit, everyone have a safe and productive week.
Dammitman
3/25/2001
Wow, Mr.Vest! Having read some of the disparaging comments made about you and witnessed your most honorable tact in handling the matter, knowing now that you have read a Zap Comic or two only strengthens my belief that you are one upstanding pillar in the cable community. Sir, I am proud!
Allen J. Ruiz
3/25/2001
dammitman...You asked about DWDM. Dense wavelength division multiplexing is a fiber-optic transmission technique that employs light wavelengths to transmit data parallel-by-bit or serial-by-character. In a nutshell, it's a way to use one strand of fiber to do more than one thing. It's along the lines of loading a digital stack (QAM) with more that one channel. Until a few years ago we were only able to use a single strand of fiber for one thing at a time. Use of DWDM allows providers to offer services such as e-mail, video, and multimedia carried as Internet protocol (IP) data over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and voice carried over SONET/SDH. Despite the fact that these formats—IP, ATM, and SONET/SDH—provide unique bandwidth management capabilities, all three can be transported over the optical layer using DWDM. This unifying capability allows the service provider the flexibility to respond to customer demands over one network. For a good tutorial on DWDM go to http://www.iec.org/tutorials/dwdm/index.html
Dammitman
3/25/2001
I sincerely appeciate the information Mr. Ruiz,I have been exposed to very little info regarding DWDM but I do understand the "nutshell". Our current design employs a central headend to local hub, the next phase of this project will be using DWDM to transport services to two other areas that are currently on stand alone headends. I'm smart enough to be dangerous with coax, so any info i can get for fiber transportation is like gold to me. Thanx again.
wireguy
3/25/2001
Hey you guys watch out what you post,NNOOOTTT!!Seems to me we have 2 sissy ass fuck boys on here steady ridiculing the cable industry.What the F_ _k is so much of a coward he cant even say a cuss word or should i say spell it,Dammit man is another grnd hand wanna B.What the fuck,dammit man,and apache man must run all in the same boat.Hope it sinks,Apache no disrespect meant towards you,but those other two guys dont even have a clue.I know a couple of drunks(lineman)that i would put up against the 2 of you inhouse do BOYZZSS any day of the week.They could do more cbl in their sleep than what the f,and dogshitOOPPS i mean dammit man could do all week,so take everything w/ a grain of salt especially from to guys who have the knowledge about cble as probably a baked potato!Never worried about a pot head stealin nothin,Had the owner of one comp in Mich.buyin the crew a little smoke evry wk so we did not have to spend our time lookin,we were frm out of town,he did not smke but dam sure did not mind us as LONG as WE were Gettin it done,and doin it right which has never been a prob.Been doin cble 13+yrsSmoked everyday,still do,and have NEVER seen anyone hurt on any of my jobs bein smoke related at ALL!!LIFE IS GOOD,YOULL B COOLLL!!!!!ENJOY THE RACE AT THUNDER VALLEY,WE MISS YA DALE!!!!!!!
Gary Vest
3/25/2001
Yeah, Zap Comics had some pretty funny stuff, Dammitman. Allen Ruiz, what do you think about the article, "Busted By Broadband" in this weeks Time Magazine, if you have had the opportunity to read it that is?. Pretty interesting. They discuss a new device called a LambdaRouter. Anyway, if you get a chance, check it out. Tell me what your opinion is on the article. You seem to be quite educated in fiber optics applications, and I am trying to discover how these changes are going to affect the industry, so I can be prepared and diversified enough to keep on plugging on in the future. What do you think the future has in store for the catv industry and what fields are going to be in highest demand?
E.Turner
3/25/2001
I got a good idea for some of you shmucks who are into composite pricing.
Why don't you start at the top with it. If industry standard for a proj. mngr. is say,$1200/wk
pay him $1100/wk and make him pay for his office, his secretary,his computer,his cell phone,his vehicle,
his air fare,even his stinkin' pencil out of that. Then at the end of the year or the job, tell him his bonus was part of his pay all along.
Then he will know what it is like for a sub-contractor to spend what amounts to 2 or 3 days a week pounding free ground rods, or cranking free anchors,
cutting in 8 free straight splices,or digging in free peds.while footing the bills on your help, your tools, the fuel, your ins., and giving away your blood and sweat.
I think that you people who decide to go with composite prices are a lower form of life than any crack-head or drunkard or wife-beater, you are a sell out to every one that gets out there and actually produces ANYTHING.
I'd put you lower than a gay male prostitute.You tell us that it makes it easier to keep track and to estimate costs,well you are a loser and a lazy bum.Quit hiring idiots into your office and get people who will learn their jobs
instead of paying some college boy $150,000/yr.+ benifits simply because he held the high score on pac-man.It is people like you who are running the industry down, making good people not care about their work because the are not getting fairly paid for half of it.
Shame on you and the bullshit way you think.
E.Turner
3/25/2001
By the way, my favorite was Fat Freddy's Cat if you guys remember that
