For the most part, these bios are all the same..."Mr. Daigle received the BS degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University blah blah blah..." But this guy below, whose name I changed since I don't really have permission from him to publish this (though he hardly sounds like the kind of person that would care), has made a complete mockery of the bio in the best way possible. I'm definitely going to his talk! Anyway, here's the bio half of the email...
About the speaker:
Tick Nennick has the usual degrees from typical universities
and has held an uninspiring assortment of run-of-the-mill jobs.
For example, he has been a fry cook, Air Force pilot, janitor,
university professor, dishwasher, design engineer, truck driver,
naval officer, oil field worker, and corporate executive. He even
helped start a few companies, but was soon forced out.
However, despite an appalling lack of knowledge about
programmable logic and electronics in general, he was once chief
scientist at Altera, a leading maker of programmable logic
devices. Through what could only have been a monumental
bureaucratic foul-up, he was also once a Research Staff Member at
IBM's prestigious Watson Research Center. Nennick has put
considerable effort into finding something he could do well. No
luck so far.
He started his career as a working engineer (nerd), but moved to
management when he found watching people work was easier than
working. He moved to a university when he found talking about
work was even easier than watching it. He has finally reached the
pinnacle of his career in a position where he doesn't even have
to talk about work. He is a technology analyst for Gilder
Publishing.
Awesome.
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You could have at least picked a name that didn't RHYME with his real name. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah...I'm not sure what I was trying to accomplish with that. It's like I went out of my way to call attention to the fact that I'm plagiarizing and and, as an additional slap in the face, I misnamed the author. Oh well. Sorry, Tick.
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