…and you had it right!
‘scuse me, I was under the impression this was a spelling test…?’
A great quote I have used here before - The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. - George Bernard Shaw
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I’m glad I grew up later. I’m mostly left handed (except when the right hand is closer) so I would have had issues being forced. My older brother (by 10 years )was lefty but was forced right. He ended up super stressed about school, was never good at it and ended up with a severe stutter.
But that kind of teaching fail didn’t end. One of my sons reads voraciously but non-linearly. He’ll read a book until something happens for him to set it down. Later he’ll start another, and another…and then pick the first up again. He would have as many as 6 books in progress in his desk. His grade school teacher tried to force him to read one at a time because “he can’t possibly keep them all straight” despite evidence including tests that he could. He hated that year in school and we even had to move him for a year to another before he’d give it a go again.
He graduated college in 2 1/2 years and will finish grad school after 1 year (both at Syracuse) while starting and running a VR sports recruiting company. That reading teacher could have ruined him. 
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Well it is refreshing to see that I was not the only one who had school souring experiences in the 19xxs.
I don’t know how I managed to not get held back at some point. All teachers and adults would tell me was that I was quite smart and then in the next sentence say “learning disability”. In fourth grade I could not reconcile the two.
Much later I figured out that yes you can be both. I don’t remember them ever saying that I was dyslexic but that is what it was. I’ve always read two to three grades ahead but to this day I can’t spell to save my life. Oh, I’m left handed as well. 
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Wow. What did you specialize in. Last year in Kansas City there was an auction to liquidate a Honeywell facility. It was a tinkerer’s dream.
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I was the CTO. I built all of the electronic infrastructure, web applications, call center etc. mostly by myself. With the worst timing ever we started in 2008, just months before the housing market crash. It was the fact that we had such a hand up technologically that allowed us to not only survive the crash, but to benefit from it. We grew from a company of 4 to about 100 in less than 2 years. It was a lot of fun.
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Oh I’m sorry, I think I misunderstood the question.
We bought foreclosed homes in bulk from the government/banks and resold them. We became the premiere purchaser of foreclosed homes from Fannie Mae and a number of large banks.
I really enjoyed this part of the job, because a lot of times we got to put people BACK in their homes after they had been taken away by the banks. They usually were able to buy them back from us for a lot less than they previously owed on their mortgages before foreclosure.
This means the only real loser in the situation was the bank who previously tried to take advantage of them by raising their rates to the point they couldn’t afford to live there any more.
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Yes. That’s the problem with English using the same pronoun for singular and plural. Actually nice to know the personal stuff too and to know the rest of the story that many got their houses back!
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My brain likes to explore, so I’ve tried a lot of different things 
Some of them seemed to have worked:
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I had an industrial (or “Future Pop” outside of the US) band that played shows all over the world, headlining festivals, and opening for (much-more famous) bands like Nine Inch Nails
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I taught a two-month intensive “Creative Coding” workshop for Huawei engineers to help them create their first Android phone. And look where they are now
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I created an interactive installation when I was at frog design that was the first large-scale public exhibition of a real-time depth-camera, 6 months before Kinect release (there are videos on YouTube if you search for Canesta + frog)
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If you’ve ever spoken to an Xbox One, you’ve spoken to me (I designed the interactions/UI - before they switched to Cortana)
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If you’ve ever moved a hologram with a HoloLens, I guided you (I designed how holograms interact with physical surfaces)
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I helped birth two of our four cats
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Okay, I didn’t understand any of the rest of it (although I’m tremendously impressed), but it’s the cat thing that puts you on the map for me. 
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Ah, you’re from cut.rate.box. Awesome! I have a number of your albums!
Everything I’ve seen about hololens so far has been really exciting as well. It’s so cool you’re working on that. I’m really looking forward to playing with AR. Welcome to the forums!
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Thanks! I do love my Huawei Watch. I’m sure your teachings helped get them there!
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Not sure if it makes me famous, but my name was in the phone book once. I have it on good authority that means you are somebody.
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A phone… book? What is this device that you speak of?
Wait wait… Is that that thing from the beforetime that my grandparents used to find phone numbers before the internet? Yeah… I remember them telling me about those. 
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no, I think it’s the thing that you sit on when sitting at the table when you are too short! They have no other uses
Oh wait, door stop, boost monitor height, holding up a couch when a foot breaks,…
I guess it does have its uses 
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Wondering… Do they still send out phone books in civilization. Out here, I still get a new book once a year but it’s only about the size of a pamphlet and my number is “two shorts and a long”.
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Yes. But I don’t know if it’s the phone company (is there even one of those anymore?). We get one every year. It’s still a couple of inches thick but we don’t even open it up - goes straight into recycling.
We used to save it for business listings but now if you’re not Googleable I’m not calling and likely not going to go buy something from you 
We do still have a “home” number. It’s VOIP (Ooma - no $) but almost no one calls us there. Still a few folks though so we keep it. No extra cost or work except checking the messages - we let it all go straight to voicemail because despite Do Not Call, we still get calls from spammers.
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After many years of no phone books I received two this year. Recycled both of them.
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Yep, the left hand was the hand of the devil. And freely-applied corporal punishment. On the other hand, it gave me an early reason to distrust authority…
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Nailed it.
“I always wanted to be somebody when I grew up.
I realize now I should have been more specific.”
- Lilly Tomlin
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it’s the cat thing that puts you on the map for me.
That’s really the only important one 
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