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About Me

Hi everyone, McDole here. If you knew me from high school, you probably remember me as a skinny geek who always played soccer and tooled around with computers to much.

Well, some of thatâ€™s changed, and some of thatâ€™s the same. I've been working for a Swiss encryption company in a very small field of digital television (stationed in Atlanta), and have recently been named a senior software engineer. Itâ€™s a solid, yet mind numbing at times, job that lets me travel around the world. (Thank you computers and GaTech).

I met my wife at a GaTech event (where she was decided on entering the graduate program). We were married in northern Scotland early January '06, and have been happily married since. We currently live in the house that I purchased before I met her, since its right smack in the middle of Atlanta and accessible to everywhere.Iâ€™ve remained strong friends with several of the people I went to school with. Youâ€™ll find an array of them linked through myspace friends. We may not live in the same town, but we still keep in touch, get together to party, and make plans together. If youâ€™re an old friend Iâ€™ve lost track of, drop me a message and lets fix that.

My Interests

Computers (games/software/hardware)
Camping/Hiking (anything outdoors)
Cooking
Construction (currently working on expanding my attic)
Automotive (rebuilding my '95 Impala SS; engine is done)

I'd like to meet:

Old friends and new.

Music:

Metallic, Mozart, and everything in between.

Movies:

Dark City, Pulp Fiction, Serenity, Gangster movies, Dr. Strangelove, etc.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Over There
Law & Order
Law & Order SVU
Drawn Together
The Daily Show
Mail Call
Rescue Me

I love TiVo.

Books:

Anything technical
The Wheel of Time (Rober Jordan)
Scientific American (magazine)

Heroes:

My wife, Erin
My Dad
My Grandfather Adeimy
My Grandpap Six
Mr. Shalack

My Blog

Water Damage / Shower Removal

Earlier this week I discovered the floor in front of my master shower was giving. Now, if I lived on a trampoline, this would be expected, but I live in a solid structure house with tile floors in th...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:05:00 PST

Truck woes

So the truck started having this electrical gremlin that was causing it to shut off while driving, or not start - in the midst of this the alternator quits on me. Thinking that might be the only thin...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:20:00 PST

The Chevy Volt

Update: There's a new poll on gm-volt.com, feel free to help me stack the vote in favour of the concept!I'm sure a couple of you have already seen the production pictures for the new Chevy Volt. I fo...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:37:00 PST

This week in John.

I loved it when The Daily Show would have the segment, "This week in God". The big shiny red button that would stop on a topic - reminded me of that game show Press Your Luck, "No whammies!". Well, ...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:24:00 PST

Conversations from work: Fun in the sand

And here's a nugget of joy from work, dealing with a major component in our software stack, and the multitude of changes I've made in one project to a) upgrade it to use newer modules and b) fix bugs ...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:10:00 PST

New Hair Cut

Well, I've gotten a ton of positive feed back along with a little negative. Most people are asking "why", and the simple skinny is, just because. I've always had short hair, every girl I've ever dat...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:40:00 PST

Rock Band, Track Pack Volume 1

Phil and I were playing Rock Band for the Wii when we came across "Green Grass and High Tides", for which I played the damn drums on (I've been getting much better!)... we had to play the song three t...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:18:00 PST

Rock Band for the Wii

So my roommate and I caved in and got Rock Band for the Wii... There is a good reason though, we're both addicted and we wanted something more than just Guitar Hero. It started out with 'Hey, lets ju...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:23:00 PST

New door

Yesterday my new glass door insert came in. Its not the same as the old one, but it matches pretty close, aside from it being low-e glass! I'll just have to order another one and install it in the o...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:45:00 PST

Bear punching

So I went to my good friend Laura's wedding party (Laura and Herve got married in Belgium. I met the two of them through Erin as Laura and Erin were childhood friends). This party was north of Decat...
Posted by The Scottish Pineapple on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:46:00 PST