March 12, 2008 at 9:45 am
Chris Morris (3/12/2008)
Grant Fritchey (3/12/2008)
Nice. I made my long bow in a course with the Royal Bowyer of England. It's only about 50-60lb pull, but it'll throw a bodkin point about 75 yards. Only about 1/2 of what I'd need to stand in the line with King Harry.It has to be done. I have two Bickerstaffes, a Victorian - similar to yours I guess, in hickory, purpleheart and lemonwood, and a "warbow" in 5 laminates with hickory back and osage belly. Both are modest, 50#-ish. Recently I had the opportunity to shoot with warbow enthusiasts in the New Forest, both of them pulling 145# selfyew bows and sending broomsticks 300yards. My "warbow lite" consistently reaches 170yards with target arras, but it has a 32-33" draw, more power delivered to the arras than the Victorian.
Gsquared, I've looked for but can't find a story on ArcheryInterchange of a lad who knocked up a crossbow using the leafsprings from an old car. He fired an 8" bolt, steel with feather fletches, at a tree, but it seemed to have missed...then he noticed the three fletches scattered at the base of the tree. Closer inspection revealed a small hole a couple of feet above the feathers. A screwdriver pushed into the hole went in about 4"...then hit metal...
:Wow:
I'm not worthy!
Sounds great. I'm pretty recreational in my shooting although I have to do a demo for the Cub Scouts each year at the Arrow of Light ceremony. I get pretty serious in my practice for the three weeks leading up to that event. It wouldn't do to skewer littly Timmy. Parents get all excited over stuff like that. I'm not sure why.
My bow is hickory & lemonwood with horn nocks. It's definately a bit on the showy side of things, but I'm proud of it. I made it and it shoots straight (well, as straight as I shoot anyway).
Did you try pulling the warbows?
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March 12, 2008 at 10:11 am
I'm not worthy!
Don't fink so mate, you made yours and you've a right to be proud of that! It's a different sport to recurve/wheelybow, more fun, less OCD 😎
Heh yeah I tried pulling one, a 75# job used by a diminutive German lass, wife of one of the lads. "Nah, can't quite get it into the power band"!! :blush:
It takes them two or three years of hard work to reach 100# - 120# and a lot of it is technique - there really is a 'power band'. If you're interested in this, Grant, then check out EnglishWarbow.com.
With humble apologies to the OP - this is waaaaaay off topic
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March 12, 2008 at 10:24 am
Thanks. I'll check it out.
This thing jumped the topic track about 5 or six pages ago.
Just to put it back near the topic for a moment...
When being interviewed, how many of you mention outside organizations either professional or not, in which you're involved. I ask because I'm involved in a few (too many really) in a leadership capacity. I consider them a net asset to my work, but I'm curious what others might think.
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March 12, 2008 at 10:32 am
I don't put any on my resume. I may during the course of the interview, if it looks like something that might help, mention one or two that I have been involved.
However I tread that ground very cautiously. I don't want to give them the perception that I might be distracted with too much going on.
Now I believe for personal development that type of thing is essential.
I know in the past I have spread myself too thin with various organizations.
March 12, 2008 at 10:39 am
I would put the top one or two on your resume if you think you need it. It's partly fluff. But on the other hand, one of the questions we've been known to ask at interviews is "If you ran into X problem, what resources would you use to troubleshoot it."
Usually we pick X problem from the questions that the interviewee has been unable to confidently answer. We're usually looking to see if the potential employee has any initiative to find the answers to problems rather than just sitting on it or asking their co-workers to fix the problems for them.
At any rate, don't list them all. Pick one or two (at the most), the one(s) you think might have the most impact for the job you're applying for, and add it to the Misc. section of your resume. Be brief. "Contributing Author: SQLServerCentral.Com" kind of brief. If the interviewers want more details, they'll ask.
March 12, 2008 at 10:53 am
Just be sure that you only include "mother teresa-like" organizations, or unimpeachable ones. Anything controversial at all should NOT be included. A resume writer advised I drop things like ROTC, Boy Scouts, Clay shooting, Bow hunting (back when that stuff was fresh enough on my resume to even be worth mentioning), etc... because you might associated with whatever bad association the interviewer has in his mind. Run into someone adamant about guns, and your NRA membership might cost you a job.
Now - SSC would be different, since in a way - it's a professional association. But still - try to make sure that it will play FOR you, and not against you.
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?
March 13, 2008 at 1:03 am
Grant in RI... I am in Worcester MA.
I am looking for a DBA job! I come here to learn and search for answers.
I have even helped a few people. Though I generally do not post.
Anyway, I was originally a software support person in a small company that used a home grown relational database. I picked it up quickly and became the goto guy.
We eventually changed over to SQL7 where I had to learn by fire.
Then on to sql2000 where the company actually let me take a few classes. It was very timely as it turned out. My first master db problem hit about a week after I started backing up the system databases every night.
I am currently working a few hours a week at the same company(hard times) and going to school for Oracle 10g two nights a week and every other saturday.
I would never claim to be a guru, but I feel I know my way around sql7,2000 and 10g.
I play with MySQL and some different tools, TOAD, SQLYOG etc.
I am currently testing some of our 2000 DB's on 2005 for performance purposes only.
I have a few tables with several million rows and I want to see if partitioning the tables in different ways will help. Though, I think 10g is better at this than 2005... I haven't looked at 2008 yet?
Side note, I had this table split into 3 tables of identical structure to be unioned when needed, but the developers didn't know how to deal with this???? They are off shore and I do not get to talk to them directly! HMMM, why are going out of business again?
Okay... If you have read this long, THANKS! Where in RI is the job? What are you looking for in the candidate? Can I send you my Resume? It is 1 page, but could be 3 if I put all the "STUFF" I had to do in a small company. 25 people was the largest it got. However, I had 10,000 distributed databases to deal with! 2Gig DB limitation problems etc... Oh how I miss that!
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Sorry to all of you reading this looking for QA's about interviewing.
Be Well,
Gene
March 13, 2008 at 4:47 am
Gene,
Just a note. If you want to respond to people with personal questions or comments, use the PM button. You'll see it in the rectangle right below their response. PM means Private Message and it'll make sure your message doesn't get read by people you might not want to read it.
Also, that way you're not stealing someone's thread for a totally off topic discussion... Of course, this thread has already degenerated several times, so that might be moot at this point. @=)
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March 13, 2008 at 6:01 am
Thanks for the PM info! Yes, this is public too.
I actually knew the PM was the way to go, but at 3am ish.... The mind doesn't always work correctly! Also, I just started using SQL ServerCentral again after a 4-5 month Oracle only mode. Back to using both engines daily for now.
It seems though, if you don't visit for a while, you get purged out. So, I had to sign up again.
I used to love working on the question of the day before starting my job each morning.
It would mix things up from the daily typical stuff.
Glad to be back. What did I miss? Just kidding! LOL
Gene
March 13, 2008 at 6:36 am
19 pages :w00t: :hehe:
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March 13, 2008 at 6:57 am
Actually that made me wonder what the record is? Or do we have to count only those posts that were about the OP topic 🙂 I would guess that at least 80 of the 190 posts are at least loosly related to the topic of what to expect in an interview.
March 13, 2008 at 7:03 am
I think the threads about Bankers Rounding (I know of two threads on this topic) may be longer.
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March 13, 2008 at 7:04 am
Bob,
Please don't encourage us to continue this thread simply for the sake of beating a record of "most posts" (related or unrelated). All it takes is a mention of a challenge and people will be all over it like jam on toast.
yuuuummmmmmm, TOAST.......
Um, anyway... It's bad enough we're into dwarven interviews and porkchops. Do you really want us to start talking nonsense about nonsense??? @=)
Besides, with your post, the numbers went up to 191 and with mine, the number is at least 192. So neener!
Opps. Did I just post a post about posting? Darnit!
March 13, 2008 at 7:04 am
I vaguely remember one of the flame wars on Nulls going to some ludicrous amount of posts. Not sure this is the record - but it might be the record without mudslinging and people getting ejected....:D
Of course - we jumped off the tracks early in this thread and never quite made it back....:)
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?
March 13, 2008 at 7:12 am
But this has been a fun and entertaining thread where people have been open, honest, and shown a great deal of humor.
A great distraction from the mundane aspects of work.
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