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Re: Occupations

To: Henry Deaton <hdeaton@verio.com>
Subject: Re: Occupations
From: Kris Wright <kw@cimsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:37:55 -0700
Hi Henry,

Do you have any experience in DNA-Mapping/Sequencing
Technical Writing?  (Biology based)

We also need Software Programmers desperately.

Hope to see you on the Salt next year.

Thank you,
Kris Wright
Office Manager
Cimarron Software, Inc.
Utah Salt Flats Racing Association (USFRA)
Program Advertising/Registration

Henry Deaton wrote:

> I've mostly been lurking on this list, trying to learn a few things about
> land speed racing and running at the Salt Flats. Let's see, my list of
> occupations since college include: bread baker, computer programmer,
> technical writer (mainly telecommunications user docs), white water river
> guide, motorcycle courier, massage therapist, and facilities manager for an
> apartment building. Right now I'm doing some contract technical writing and
> looking for full-time employment as a technical writer.
>
> My motor sports resume is a lot shorter. I raced a Honda CB160-based road
> racer in the vintage class back in the mid-80s, and for the last three
> years I've been involved with the National Electric Drag Racing Association
> (NEDRA). This year I built an electric dragbike that holds the 120-volt
> motorcycle record of 14.25 seconds and 92.5 mph. That was set on it's third
> and last trip to a dragstrip in September, because right after that run I
> had a little problem with the electrical controls on the return road and
> ended up planting the bike in a fence and planting my face on the asphalt.
> I'm okay but the bike's frame is a twisted mess which means I get to build
> a new bike this winter, which I was planning to do anyway. The new bike
> should be capable of running the quarter mile in the mid-nines, and it's a
> bike I'd like to run at the Salt Flats next summer.
>
> I know lots of you guys are into land speed racing because you like
> internal combustion engines. I don't have anything against them, my car has
> one and so does my scooter, and I'll be showing up at Bonneville with a
> gasoline-powered generator, but I don't like working on them that much. The
> cool thing about electric vehicles is that I still get to spin wrenches and
> have lots of fun going too fast on bikes and the whole process is a lot
> cleaner and quieter than when I was fooling with gasoline-powered machines.
>
> Henry Deaton
> San Francisco, CA

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Kris Wright, Office Manager
Cimarron Software
175 S. West Temple, Ste. 530
SLC, UT  84101
(801) 521-3210
Fax (801) 521-3111
kw@cimsoft.com "each day comes bearings its
own gifts. untie the ribbons..."

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