Re: snow in... NEW ORLEANS!

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On Dec 11, 5:39 pm, John Larkin
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John

It seems that we are at a solar minimum and this is the bottom of it.
The sun is starting up again.


I live in New Orleans. We had three days advance notice of the
predicted
snow fall. It came along with the dip in the jet stream and a moist
flow
from the southwest. It snowed for five hours. The next day it was 62
degrees. It snows here every few years. The last time was December
2004.
Global Warming has nothing to do with it!


I grew up in nola, on Broadway near the river. I only remember it
snowing once maybe, at least enough to make snowballs. It turned out
to not be the best place to do electronics, so I moved on. It is tough
to get a good oyster po-boy around here, and crawfish etoufee is flat
impossible.

What do you do?

John

I moved from Southern CA years ago. There I did 20 years as a process
control designer and had a 10 year small business doing custom designs.
When we decided to move here it was so backwards most of them did not know
what a computer was. I bought a business making shutters hoping my kids
would run it and I could write a book. That did not happen! I still make
shutters and still do custom designs mostly for my old CA customers. I am
old enough to know how to use a transistor and smart enough to not use a
microprocessor to turn on a light bulb so I get by. By necessity, I can
layout and make my own PCBs. Do my own software and do some *** metal
work. Being in the industry since 1970 you tend to learn a few things.
By
the way, are you the John Larkin from Fullerton?



No, there are a lot of us John Larkins around. I'm in San Francisco.

Do you know of TANO Corp, in New Orleans East? They do marine
automation systems. I started working for them when I was a freshman
at Tulane, as employee # 5. 12 years later, they had 400 employees and
I was chief EE, and I'd designed about $200M worth of stuff for them.
Then they fired me for insurbordination. The fools didn't realize that
being insubordinate is fundamental to electronics design. They're down
to around 50 employees now, I think.

The TANO prez at the time was Jimmy Reiss, now a big political
influnce, post-Katrina. He's sort of a classic Uptown patrician, and
seems to not really want to repopulate the town, umm, the way it was.

These guys are TANO spinouts...

http://circuitservices.com/index.shtml

http://www.axonn.com/products.html

http://www.homeauto.com/main.asp

http://www.raaci.com/


NOLA has great food and a unique culture, but I found it to be a
rotten place to do business and especially to do electronics. Too much
Uptown status and too little respect, and pay, for the people who do
the technology. In California, a geek can still be a superstar.

I'm also hoping my kid can run my business some day, so I can write
books.

John



Actually I am in Mandeville; across the lake. It is a different life style
over here. I did some work for the Causeway crooks a few years ago, I know
what you mean.


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