Archive Messages

If there is anything of interest to other members, you can say it here. For example,

• Anecdote's about things that happened at Photon.
• You just got married, and you want to tell everyone.
• You just won a million dollars and want to share it with everyone.
• You just got fired, and want another job!

Anyway, have fun.

I just received a mailing from a company called DSP, they are selling a scientific spreadsheet product called: DADiSP. Their URL is http://www.dadisp.com. They claim it is being used by: NASA, FBI, Ford, General Motors. It looks like it runs on Windows and Unix. It costs $1,895.00.

However, it doesn't look like it does any mapping or GIS-type functions.

In the mean time... Hey, Hi, Ho there. I'm at "vanwiere@cadvision.com". Current working for yet-another-small-company...

E-Zone R&D Inc. [formerly known as Nexar R&D Inc, and Voyer Entertainment Inc].

We might be changing the name or splintering the company to form "Push Software".

Any how... Good to drop a line, and when I'm not working, I'll use email and be more verbose!

evw

Long time no talk. Technically I still am working at the Photon - no wait Cogniseis office, but myself, Ed Chow and Joe Havlik are now self employed. We are now no good contract types.

Hey I noticed that not all the Photonites made the board of EX. We will have to send down more pictures of those not present.

You can reach me at either brackm@cadvision.com or murray@photcan.com at least until they nuke the last of the phot name from the e-mail world.

Long Live Cog - Just kidding

Having worked for AT&T and MCI has severely baked my memory, so don't feel bad if I missed your name.

My name is Mary Nasi. I have no job. I have a shopping cart By the way, I noticed that the questions that have to be answered on the way in are very male oriented. Why not ask which female had the shortest hair? or which female was under 5' tall or the last female to leave Photon/CogniSeis.

The female voice must be heard!!!

I insist that we have equality on the web. Damn It!!

I agree with Mary, that this website is totally sexist! Gosh, what kind of male dominated company was Photon anyway? Geeez.

Well I gotta go hack into a Porn site that refuses to include pics of me, later. :-(

Q: What is the difference between a plastic shopping bag and Michael Jackson?

A: One is toxic, and harmful to children. The other just is used for holding your groceries.

JOKE - how can you tell when its bed time at Michael Jackson's house?

When the big hand touches the little hand (old like all my others eh)

Now that I'm here, I'd like to claim my share of the mil. Unlike all you propheads, I intend to do something useful with it. Namely, I'm going to build the world's first Cryptobrewhostic Waystation in Moab, Utah (that's Mountain Bike Mecca, for those not in the know). Beds and beers in Paradise after a hard day of biking slickrock.

Perhaps I should challenge Barry for the "cowboy" title. I just did a two week trip to Colorado and Utah involving inordinant amounts of rafting, biking, 4WD, camping, and drinking (if you every run across Il Vicino's IPA, drink as much as you can!!), returning home as a CERTIFIED RIVER RAFT GUIDE by the State of Colorado (the Arkansas River). Let's see your certificate, Barry.

In the meantime, I'm still cooling my heels as "GEOMANCER", doing exploration and systems work for a few former Photon customers down here in Hell, I mean Houston.

Just thought that I would check out this shrine for our long lost company. It is really great that Ken has taken the initiative to create this message board so that we can all keep in touch with each other. As for me, I have started a small company to develop and sell interpretive modelling software (GeoNexus Interpretive Modelling Corp.) that bolts right onto SeisX and SeisWorks. I hope it flies, but who knows in this industry. My email is george@geonexuscorp.com and please send me a line and let me know what you are up to. As for Cog, I hope that they have fun with their new owners. Maybe they will be treated as well as we were. Hope to chat with you all soon.

Signed "The All Powerful OZ"

PS - Nobody pulls my strings!

Hello from Calgary, Geonexus Corp, the home of the Ex-photonites that are still carrying on the tradition of creating softeare that is easy to use, competes with lots of older companys, but kicks ass on anything even comparable.

Steve, Malcolm, Urszula, and I (Rob) are in support of all of the members of the Ex-Photon Club. Working here at Geonexus, keeping the tradition of being members of the "lowly programmers who love CANADIAN companies" club.

So keep in touch, like to hear what everybody is doing, arrange drinking binges, etc.

The rest of us.

BTW, here is another email address you can send mail bombs to: ;-)

jim@telebackup.com

I must agree with Than's assessment of the questions required for entrance to the member's-only page - I had to hack my way into the page, since so many of the questions are calgary-biased. How about some questions for the Houston folks? Q: Name one the Houston HP machines. A: titanic, nostromo, minnow

Q: Name one of the three Houston Sun machines. A: Mom, Dad, Prodigal

Q: Name one of the two original SGI machines in Houston. A: Smoke, Mirrors

Q: What did Craig lose in the 'management' fountain next to the Stewart Title building? A: His cell-phone.

Q: What's the first name of the client who needed to buy warm socks? A: Betty

Q: What was the first answer to every question after the CogniSeis buyout? A: No. (alternate accepatable answer: That Requires Management Approval)

Q: How many programmers relocated from Calgary to Boulder? A: Zero.

I am still waiting for all those scanned images from everyone. It would be really neat to see new images on this website. If you don't have a scanner, then I guess you're SOL. If you mail me the Photo's I can scan them in, and then mail them back to you.

I especially want the Photo of ED puking in the bathroom!!!!!! Other puke related photos are welcome (unless I am the puker)

1) The answer to susies question about how many programmers relocated to boulder is incorrect. The actual answer is one. Bruce Fusheng went... he wanted the alien card (aka green card). 2) There is no such photo. Any allegation about my "puking" at any event are exaggerated and I will respond with a libel lawsuit should any such allegations persist. Like a cow and rabbit, I need to eat my foods a multiple number of times to get the full nutrionaly value. 3) The Errogenous Zone (aka E-Zone) "flat" bed scanner [falsely named because the false breasts are NOT flat!] is in operation [sort of]. I can [and will] scan photo's. Simple give me the photo and one week for processing time. Watch this site for Doug and his mistress in compromising positions here soon!

Updates: Malcolm Currie is no longer with GeoNexus... he's with Panther. Todd Prescott left Facet to join Veritas. Urszula joined GeoNexus from Panther! Dan has joined the UI line-ups in ontar-i-o. I just turned 32. Sex makes your eyes glow and skin tingle. Masturbation IS a suitable replacement for NO sex! The pathfinder on Mars is yet another attempt by the US government to pull a fast one on us. And last, but not least, Jello does NOT jiggle if you make it right [increase gelatin content by a multiple of five!].

Long live G-Spotware.... software that will turn into firmware and finally hardware before your own eyes. Great for your E-Zone! evw

Basically, I was at a bar. And I was drinking heavly, as is my normal behavior. Then a guy enters the bar. This, of course is also normal, since 1 out of 2 people are guys. Anyway, he proceeds to shout for bartender service. Linda approaches and serves this man a drink.

Eventually this man leaves and is seen loitering in front of Linda's car. She is concerned. On further inspection, we see that this man has a friend who is drunk and "sleeping" on the sidewalk. Linda's car is in no danger as these two guys are simply waiting for a ride.

Eventually a ride appears for these men. They begin to fight. Then they kiss. Then they fight again. Then kiss and hug. Etc...

This continues for atleast thirty minutes. Linda (the bartneder) calls the cops. Before the fuzz arives the male lovers enter the waiting car and depart.

As for all the whining about the skill-testing questions ... Have you read the manual ?? Multiply by 3.281. Ha Ha Ha !!

Jill has been seen with a group of male models. Here is the picture:

Shayne "fabio" Stogrin was unavailable for comment.

See, A new paragraph is born! Using the <BLINK> tag I can annoy everyone! You have been officially annoyed

Cheers, I am off to Florida for the next 4 days.

A quick update on me. I've left GeoNexus, moving on to become the Development Manager at Panther Software Corp (Calgary). Steve Klassen is calling me a "mangler" and put it this way: "Malcolm, I guess you must be tired of doing productive work."

Anyone short of work and interested in an stable environment that rivals Photon's, please keep Panther in mind. (I'm serious... give me a call).

You can get a hold of me at (403)298-4804 or mcurrie@panther.ab.ca or http://www.panther-group.com.

Also, Chris Thorne was responsible for indoctrinating me into the Photon cult (I have since been C programmed, err, I mean DEprogrammed). His e-mail and WWW are now listed on the members page.

Like everyone else, Chris claims to have photographs which he will somehow get to me for inclusion on this site. I have since learned to doubt all such claims since nobody, zero, zippo, nil, null, has sent me anything (Edna sent me some very provocative photo's but I don't want to share those.)

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I'll post the rumors at a later date... but needless to say, "Photon" still has that "active" feeling! Things never seem to settle down!

I bought a new laser pointer for entertaining small pets. (Now I need a small pet.) Also, I am writting applications for my Timex Data-Link watch.

/* Th-th-th-that's all folks! */

(Mike Nemeth always used this as his ending for C files.)

oink oink

On his first day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: A one way ticket to boulder.

On his second day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his third day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his fourth day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his fifth day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his sixth day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his seventh day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Seven tenths of my salary. Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his eight day at CogniSeis bill Bartling gave to me: Eight VP's meeting. Seven tenths of my salary. Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his ninth day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Nine more dollars. Eight VP's meeting. Seven tenths of my salary. Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his tenth day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Ten propheads bailing. Nine more dollars. Eight VP's meeting. Seven tenths of my salary. Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his eleventh day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling Gave to me: Eleven days of work left. Ten propheads bailing. Nine more dollars. Eight VP's meeting. Seven tenths of my salary. Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

On his twelfth day at CogniSeis Bill Bartling gave to me: Twelve months for SeisX. Eleven days of work left. Ten propheads bailing. Nine more dollars. Eight VP's meeting. Seven tenths of my salary. Six unhappy support staff. Five hundred dollars. Forty disgruntled customers. Three corporate flacks. Two pointless meetings. And a one way ticket to boulder.

Well I guess I was off by a few months but I did my damndest. To all the former photonites I wish a very merry christmas and I have a shiny lump of coal for each and every one of you.

All my love

Bill

I got a informative email from the Boulder office....

There are quite some changes in the company since Paradigm bought Cogniseis. SeisX will become a subsidary company of Paradigm after they failed that GMA deal. Rob and Keith will go with that new company. It seems Murray C. is very ambitious and he wants to have visualization capabilities like VoxelGeo in SeisX. I am not sure what the detail plan he has in his mind. For the development, some may be in Boulder and some in Calgary. The future for VoxelGeo is very uncertain. Paradigm originally just wanted to have it as a visualization tool for their product (called geodepth). But they seems interested in it as an interpretation tool now. But I am the half of VoxelGeo team now. Bob Wentland resigned last week. Mike McCabe and me are the only persons left.

Jawad, used to work on VoxelGeo, is now working on the multichannel display. He could come back to VoxelGeo in the future if he is still with the company. But it is very likely he will jump to another boat very soon. ULA got some interest from Paradigm. But only one person is working on that (not Darryl, he left about 2 months ago). Geostrat is dead. No customer, no developer. The future of Geosec is another unknown. There was rumor that initially Paradigm was trying to find a buyer, but not succeed. There are a couple of people here working on that.

Boulder center will be eventually gone. All the development will be moved to Houston. At the end of October, several people got laid off including Donna, Jess, John (system admin), Val and Schuman. Good thing is the severance package is pretty attactive and everyone found a job already. It seems they are happy about that. If those who left had the same deal, I am sure they will be happy too. Jim is still here, but no longer VP nor center director. His title is something like Algorithm developer reporting directly to Aldad (CEO of Paradigm) in Israel. Whoever left including me got some kind of promise, i.e. job guarantee until end of 1998. And if job termination happens before that, people will have a better package, for example I will have 2 months pay. The morale is very bad now, just like last summber in Calgary. Playing tanks are sometimes main jobs here.

Bill Bartling is gone. Steve is in charge of everything in West Hemisphare. David Johnson and Don Duyka are in charge of software development. Technically, I will talk with Mike. For all other issures, Don is my boss and he is the boss of all the developers in Boulder.

(BTW My hair is starting to point a little too.)

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS:

1. Q: What was the name of Photon's most successful product?
   A: XXXX
2. Q: What was the name of Photon's cross section product?
   A: XXXXX
3. Q: At Photon, which workstations were named after beer?
   A: XXX
4. Q: At Photon, which workstations were named after cars?
   A: XXX
5. Q: At Photon, which workstations were named after philosophers?
   A: XXXX
6. Q: At Photon, which workstations were named after objects in the solar system?
   A: XXXX
7. Q: At Photon's peak, how many floors of office space did they occupy?
   A: XX
8. Q: What floor was used by the development staff?
   A: XX
9. Q: What floor was used by the support staff?
   A: XX
10. Q: Where was Photon's fitness club located?
    A: XXXXX
11. Q: What is the name of the file format used for storing seismic data?
    A: XXXXn
12. Q: What is the common abbreviation for the annual canadian show for the oil & gas industry?
    A: XXXXXXX
13. Q: First name of an employee with fish in their office?
    A: XXXXX
14. Q: First name of the male employee with the longest hair?
    A: XXXXX
15. Q: First name of the employee that gave massages at work?
    A: XXXXX
16. Q: What city in the U.S. had a Photon office?
    A: XXXXX
17. Q: What city in Europe had a Photon office?
    A: XXXXX
18. Q: First name of a framemaker hacker?
    A: XXXXX
19. Q: First name of a Photon secretary?
    A: XXXXXX
20. Q: What flower is mentioned on Alberta license plates?
    A: XXXXXX

Cheers, Ken Stauffer.

"Grrr, when I was a kid, grrr grrr you could get more fur a dollar, grr grr grr. And people these days grr grr I'll tells ya, it just ain't they same anymore. And there's no decent speak easy's... Hmmm, now where did I leave my tonic?"

A prize goes to the first ex-photon member to correctly identify the mystery man behind this photo:

I don't know what an appropriate prize should be yet. Any suggestions?

Hey Dog Boy... Credability? What's that? I've scanned thousands of photo's and posted them to alt.binaries.erotica.fetish.dogboy Fortunately, due to their popularity, they are now self propogating across all the alt.binaries.erotica newsgroups. A new kind of virus I must say...

We really must put up pictures of the ex-photonites. If they won't submit their own photo's I think we should get them from the above mentioned newsgroup and incriminate them... Are you subject to legal prosecution if you do this? Can we put the photo's in sweden as a link to avert this litigation?