Friday, September 4, 2009

Me

Well, nobody really knows me, so I guess that's a good place to start.

I was born in La Crosse and went to high school here. In high school I was in charge of all the audio/video equipment for all four years. I had to setup for meetings, concerts, movies, plays, and just about any other thing you could think of. This meant that I had to give up quite a bit of my free time. I never really thought about going to any other college because I was intrigued by the style at WTC. I wanted the hands on thing, not my head in a book all the time thing.

I work evenings at a restaurant. I probably work too much for a student, but I gotta pay the bills somehow plus work slows down in the winter.

I built my own computer in the eighth grade (P4 3.0GHz, 4GB memory, 500GB and 160GB WesternDigital SATA hard drives, ATI Radeon X700 256MB, DVD+/-RW Dual Layer). Today it still serves as my best computer.

I own a 1998 Chevy K1500 Silverado (Z71, 350cu in., ext. cab, 4x4). I bought it on my eighteenth birthday. I put a complete sound system in it (Kenwood Excelon). I ran all new speaker wiring, built a custom center console to house the amp and a 10inch sub woofer. My favorite part about it is that the head unit can read music off of a USB thumb drive. It was really nice in my old truck because it had a manual transmission and I didn't have a free hand to change the CD. The reason I put a system in my truck was because I liked to listen to music with a lot of bass to it and my brother always yells at me to turn down the bass. In my truck, no one can yell at me (as long as I'm not stopped next to someone, then I turn it down to be polite).

I also own a 1984 Honda Nighthawk S CB700SC. It's a really fun bike. I like it because there is no weight on my wrists like a sport bike, but it handles like one. Plus the bike gets three times the gas mileage the truck does so eventually it will pay for itself. You probably won't see too many of them around. I only know of four others in La Crosse.

Lately I've been interested in 5.1 surround sound. I bought a receiver off eBay, a DVD player, center speaker and surround speakers from Amazon, was given two floor standing speakers that sound great, and bought a 32inch CRT TV from a friend. Its not a fancy system at all. The surround (rear) speakers are actually bookshelf speakers which don't have a lot of bass, but they don't really need a lot of it. The floor standing speakers (front) are probably ten years old and have amazing bass. The TV doesn't have HDMI or high-definition, just one component input and it weights 175 pounds. I just like things to sound balanced . Call me whatever you want, but I hate it when things don't sound good.

Well, I guess that's enough rambling on for now. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.






1998 Chevy K1500 Silverado

1 comment:

Jesse Close said...

Good to get to know a little bit more about you. Nice truck. How long you been riding bikes for? Thats pretty cool that you can put computers together to. How did you learn how to do that?