Good Old Stock, who enjoys life to its fullest, with his lovely wife Nada.
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BOB STOCKLER
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Good Old Stock, who enjoys life to its fullest, with his lovely wife Nada.
A b o u t M e:
Born in Louisville, I left my home in a boat during the 1937 flood. Later I graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1945, then from Speed Scientific School in 1948. After two years working for Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport, TN, I enlisted in the Navy and attended the US Naval School of Electronics at Great Lakes, IL. I left there to go to Officers Candidate School in Newport, RI, and on graduation was assigned to the USS Pocono AGC-16, the Flag Ship of COMPHIBLANT, which stayed tied up to Pier 5, USNOB Norfolk, VA, most of the time until I was released to inactive duty in 1954.
After that I joined my father in his retail optical dispensing business and spent the rest of my life as a dispensing optician . . . until my bookkeeper retired and my NCR Bookkeeping Machine broke down at the same time. On the advice of our accountants I replaced them with a Radio Shack MODEL II computer, which soon highjacked me, so all I`ve done since then is play computer.
M y F a m i l y:
My wife and I first dated when I was in Speed School and she was in Louisville Girls High School. We went together for about four years, when - for some reason or another - we married two different people. After we had both become widowed, about 10 years ago we got back together and have since married. She has one daughter and two granddaughters, and I have one daugher, two grandsons and a granddaughter. We`re all one big happy family.
M y P e t s:
We don`t have any pets of our own, but my wife gets her dog-fix by playing with her daughter`s blond Labrador Retriever. My daughter has three cats, but I don`t need any cat-fixes.
M y C o m p u t e r:
I`m sitting in my family room right now, typing on the IBM ThinkPad before me on the coffee table. It`s in touch via Wi-Fi with my SCO OSR 5.0.6 system, Windows Me box and Red Hat Linux 7.x system upstairs in my computer room. Those systems are connected by ethernet to my router, which is connected to the DSL modem I use to connect to IgLou. (BTW, I`m one of the earliest customers of IgLou, having subscribed to a dialup UUCP and news feed from them when they were still Coplex.)
Using VNC I can bring up on my ThinkPad the desktops of any of the systems upstairs, making it easy and convenient to work on them.
M y O c c u p a t i o n:
Having sold my optical business over ten years ago, I spend most of my time working on my computers. I do some programming for a national software firm that publishes backup software for UNIX and Linux systems, and I have one local business for whom I still provide support for their software programs.
R e c r e a t i o n:
Recreation used to be golf - in fact I found the lot on which I built the house I`m living in, just above the 11th green at Hurstbourne Country Club, one Sunday morning when I was playing golf with a friend who was selling lots here at the time. Now I play golf vicariously, by watching PGA Tournaments on the TV as I play on my ThinkPad.
M y L i k e s:
My favorite food is whatever my wife cooks (she graduated with a major in Home Economics from U of L), preceeded by some vodka on the rocks and followed by some Kentucky Bourbon on the rocks.
O t h e r I n f o:
I really appreciated the help Dean Brooks and the IgLou team gave me when they were about to discontinue my UUCP feed. They got me set up with DSL in such a way that my email address was the same as it had always been, and I made the switch from a dialup UUCP feed to DSL without a hitch. The icing on the cake was that, by being able to discontinue my computer-dedicated phone line, I was able to get DSL Internet speed and still SAVE MONEY.
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