追星族

我记得当我是一个年轻的孩子，以田纳西州的山丘，无论我在哪里，我总是试图及时回来观看快乐的日子。当45年代开始旋转和主题歌曲开始时，男人那种感觉等于捕捉7磅（3.175公斤为我们的公制读者）低音3磅测试！好像它不可能变得更好;一位商业，一个警笛召唤，招手;“星期六在纳什维尔的Sonic Drive迎接Fonz”先知即将来到纳什维尔！... ......是的...是的!!!我恳求爸爸的硬核心驾驶120英里到纳什维尔，所以我可以见面;Fonz。他同意，在旅行中，我有愿景的愿景;“Aaaaaaaaa”，踢了一个Juke盒子和一首歌开始，甚至踢了一台焦炭，给我焦炭！ I..I..I..will keep this forever Fonzie! When we got there, it was nothing like I imagined This man dressed in a sport coat looked nothing like The Fonz. He was even calling himself "Henry" and telling us to use manners and stay in school... At this point if WTF would have been an acronym, I would have a used it. This is not "The Fonz" this is "The Dork" I was crushed. After that, meeting Hollywood types, sports jocks or executives has never really had much appeal to me. They are just regular folks, working to get a paycheck like the rest of us...just a whole lot bigger! Then when I was in college studying engineering, my definition of a celebrity changed big time. To me, it was the folks that stepped out, took a risk and invented some amazing technology. They thought so far outside the norm to achieve something that many folks said could not be done and they never ever gave up. Folks like Dr. Metcalf, Vint Cerf, John Postal,etc...hard core engineering types.我想问那些读到这篇文章的人;“你有想要见的社交名人吗?或者你已经见过哪些人了?”在大学里，大多数工科生学习惠普的设计原理。我们使用了他们所有的测试设备，就他们的想法写了论文，就在这里，我为网络而倾倒。远距离移动数据成为了我的一种热情。我记得读过布莱斯·克拉克和丹·达夫发表的所有文章。叫做多协议路由的新东西是在客厅里由Len Bosack和Sandy Lerner发明的。这真的会是…快进…几年……我是惠普的新员工，当我走过这个校园的大厅时，我几乎可以感觉到大脑的能量就像超负荷的博格人的充电站。然后我走到罗斯维尔的自助餐厅，看到了他。在一群随从的簇拥下，他以慢动作向我走来……10Base的共同发明人; Brice Clark. I didn't know what to do but just try not to look like a goober and keep on course. OK keep cool...maybe he is Brice in his papers and someone else in person...Then something happened that I did not expect or see coming... My manager was also walking with Brice. I did not even notice him. He stopped the Brice wagon train to say; "Brice, I want you to meet Jimmy Ray Purser our newest engineer" I had a ton of respect for this Dude. When he stuck out his hand to shake mine I said; "I like the tator tots here"...yeah that's right, tator tots. Brice looked at me, laughed and patted me on the back and said; "Just wait til Thursday, the burritos are fantastic" Redemption. This was not Henry playing the Fonz, this was Brice being Brice. Networking folks are the real deal. Fast forward a few more years and waistline inches... At Cisco, I am still a goober engineering fan boy in San Jose. I know folks turn out the lights and lock the doors when they see me coming. (Note to self; figure out a way to defeat Cisco IPICS) there are a few networking celebrities that I have bumped into like Cullen "fluffy" Jennings and Joe Hildebrand but the other day, I had my major celeb moment here. I was talking with a fellow peer engineer Ken Durazzo about getting Cisco's Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) into a TechWiseTV segment. Ken and I are both big amateur astronomy nuts, so we got the business stuff out of the way first so we could talk about star hopping. Then Ken dropped a bombshell on me. "How would like to meet Landon Curt Noll?" Wwww..what? You mean the Dude that has held the World Record for Prime Number factorization 8 times! THE Landon Curt Noll that is a major league astronomer currently looking evidence of Vulcanoid Asteroids? Sure enough! and he like the majority of networking celebrities I have met could not have been nicer, willing to share information or more humble. I would not walk across to street to meet a Hollywood star (well maybe, The Shat) and I would slam the door on talentless reality star hacks. Networking innovators have never disappointed or not met up to their billing. True celebrities. So as I got ready to finally meet Landon Curt Noll I was ready. I did not mention tator tots...but I did say something about Pokemon, so it all evens out. Jimmy Ray Purser Trivia File Transfer Protocol Lexington, North Carolina, is known as the Barbecue Capital of the World