On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:49:56 -0700, George Plimpton
wrote:

On 7/24/2013 9:45 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:25:29 -0700, George Plimpton
wrote:

On 7/23/2013 1:36 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:31:55 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
wrote:

Ed,

The newsgroup badly needs someone who is as articulate as you are.

Keep me on my toes and correct me where ever you think it's
appropriate, as I respect what you have to say based on what you have
already posted. I will certainly take the time to think about whatever
correction, advice, etc. you post.

-- Jon Banquer, post to Ed
Huntress, Jun 23, 2002

Was he on a cocaine jag when he wrote that, or is he on a cocaine jag now?

I don't know if drugs are involved. Jon has some emotional problems,
one of which is a bipolar tendency that shows itself in extreme
"enthusiasms." The slightest celebrity or notoriety sends him ga-ga.
Believe it or not, people in metalworking knew I was writing articles
for the major magazines in the field a decade ago, and that was enough
to make Jon swoon.

He seems to be under better control these days, so I assume he's on
medication.

He always seems to me to be staggering along the edge of a cliff.

I'm convinced he doesn't do anything monetarily gainful. I expect he's
living on SSI or something like that. I suppose he knows how to
navigate around in CAD/CAM software applications, but *not* how to
produce anything useful with it.

He's probably not working, at least not at anything he'd admit. He has
worked as a machinist and programmer but he doesn't seem to last very
long.

In CAD/CAM, he mostly stirs **** to create controversy and to promote
himself. At one point he was notorious for bad-mouthing products that
he knew little about. He got into a fistfight with one vendor at the
primary West-coast trade show, WESTEC. g For years, that's what Jon
was best known for.

Most of his spinning these days is done in a vain attempt to gain
respect as a CAD/CAM "expert." He's trying for traction on LinkedIn,
where he can control the dialog in his "group."

--
Ed Huntress