Hi Everybody

[deadlygopher]

I've been lurking around here as a guest for ages.
I'm Michael. I'm the vice-head tech at the theatre in South Eugene High School, Eugene, OR. Yeah. That's about it.

[cutlunch]

Welcome Mike from one of the dowunder members. The Aussies will be along later.

Feel free to ask questions and contribute to discussions. There is also a search feature that will let you check old posts to see if your question has already being discussed.

Is Eugene part of timber country ? Excuse my ignorance when I think of Oregon I think of mountains and timber.

[Logos]

Welcome aboard. We aussies get up a bit later than the Kiwis but we get here.

A small word of advice, love your logon but never turn your back on Gafftaper. He just loves small furry animals ... to eat ... spitroasted.


If you've been hanging around for a while you know about all of us. The old guys the young guys the wierdo's. Don't be frightened off by anyone and please tell us a little more about yourself. Got a website, youtube entries etc.

See you round.

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by Logos

Welcome aboard. We aussies get up a bit later than the Kiwis but we get here. ...

Actually, you guys are the only ones on when I post at 4am Las Vegas time. Wonder why that is?

Originally Posted by Logos

...A small word of advice, love your logon but never turn your back on Gafftaper. He just loves small furry animals ... to eat ... spitroasted...

Don't try it Mark, he's poison. You must tell us where the name Deadly Gopher came from.

Ask the one question about tech you've always wanted to know, and you'll have many responses within the hour. But be aware, you may be admonished if it's been asked and answered before. The "search" feature is your best friend. That and a thick skin, and that inedible quality of yours.

Welcome, deadlygopher. We've got to come up with a better title for you than Vice-Head tech, unless we're trying to extract information, which in a way we are!

[Logos]

Duh, when it's 4am there it's midday here

I do like stating the obvious

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by Logos

Duh, when it's 4am there it's midday here

I do like stating the obvious

Yesterday, or tomorrow? So besides the metric system, you have different times too? Crazy. Has anyone noticed ControlBooth's time clock is often wacky? Sometimes it will have posts that haven't happened yet, other times spot on. Does Australia have it's own Cesium clock, or do you use ours in Denver? Maybe there should be one in Green-witch.

[avkid]

See here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=152

[Logos]

Originally Posted by derekleffew

Yesterday, or tomorrow? So besides the metric system, you have different times too? Crazy. Has anyone noticed ControlBooth's time clock is often wacky? Sometimes it will have posts that haven't happened yet, other times spot on. Does Australia have it's own Cesium clock, or do you use ours in Denver? Maybe there should be one in Green-witch.

Actually tomorrow.

And yes we do have our own cesium clock. I used to know the phone number. I'll see if I can find it.

Now I'll read avkids link and discover he's not only got got the phone number but arranged to have a beer with the bloke on the phobe as well. He's so good at this stuff.

avkid I'm in Adelaide actually which is 30 minutes earlier rather than the usual 1 hour. Apparently done years ago so our business poeple wouldn't have too many problems. trouble is we are now 90 minutes ahead of Perth which has its own problems. You guys have four time zones don't you?

[Chris15]

Welcome to the controlled (well normally) chaos.

Derek, we haven't used GMT since 1971. You didn't get the memo that said we were using UTC now? And UTC is based on TAI with an offset. And that gets calculated from more than 200 atomic clocks in more than 50 national measurement laboratories worldwide. http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/tai/tai.html

And I've learnt to take time stamps on posts with a grain of salt...

[derekleffew]

Bad link, Chris. And no, just like not being informed of taking the ° out of Kelvin, no one thought to copy me on that scientific memo. I get all my scientific info from Van, mad scientist. At least I think it was Van. Edit: Nope, good ol' Icewolf08, should have known.