Something about endurance testing of cars at General Motors.
Grandfather<May his soul rest in peace>: WW2 Vet, Test Technition for Generyl Dynamics. He tested the heat sheilding for all of the Apollo mission pods and the current space shuttle. He also designed many parts for aircraft that we fly on today, including the Braking system for many of the older Boeing aircraft.
My grandpa is a l33t artist. ph33r his mad skillz, yo.
[ 11-20-2002: Message edited by: Adrecia Tru'Ril ]
damn that turned into a rant fast, sorry, i got kinda carried away
addy, your grampas art is great
quote:
We were all impressed when OtakuPenguin wrote:
I honestly don't REALLY know. Was a Master Sergeant in the Air Force, retired from that, and now I'm pretty sure he does something dealing with the government.
$10 says he is a government super ninja.
Sux. 
When we moved out to PA, he was a nuclear Saftey Technician.. Only, he like, taught people how to be safe, and stuff.
I got to say that my dad was homer simpson.
Note the past tense.
Anyhow, since he's pretty much dead to me, my stepfather is on the WAN team at IBM! He does a lot of cool suff, like working in nuclear power plants. When he was working at Pharmacia (still FOR IBM, though) whenever they got a new drug approved by the FDA he got sent out to DC to set up the network for their conferences.
He recently got his CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) certification and probably next year he'll go for CCIE 
In conclusion, if I had the chance I would be brutalizing my real father right now. Instead, I'm sitting comfortably in my room at home with my mother and stepfather sleeping in the room next to me. I don't have to worry about being endangered by anyone when I'm at home; my stepfather protects his family, unlike my real father.
I don't really want to pull a Rera here (haha), so I am going to stop ranting now.
Closing thought: SPLOO!
Now he's retired/disabled.
Dad's Dad used to own the dealership.. till he died of a heart attack (I was 5)
Mom's dad was a WW2 vet, and I *believe* a factory worker in one of the many factories in Glens Falls. He died a few months after due to cancer (I was 6)
Mom was a Marine, surved during vietnam.. stationed in Cali.. she's now a bookeeper/secritary for a local TV/appliance shop. Small business just herself and her boss.
My mom works for my dad.
My granddad is in the government somewhere, but I'm not exactly sure just wtf he does. And no, he's not a goddamn government ninja.
[ 11-21-2002: Message edited by: Mr. Leckie ]
my grampa works for the goverment, i not sure what he does but i know he works on computers, hes byfar the smartest personi know, has an insane number of books and tape, every episode of countless series, even got three computers in his house all allways on doing some fancy math stuff, forgot exactly what, i believe finding all the prime <somethigns octoples or soemthing i think)
great grampa died when i was really young so i never got to really know him =( but he was an inventor, had dozens of patents, but never got much money off of any of them, he invented a method of drying or washign or soemthing that was adopted by a bunch of huge companies once the patent expired
