Hi my name is Sean Reynolds.
I dont know if anyone will read this but here I go. Email me if you want, I am completely cool with that.
This is for everyone who went to Broken Arrow High School with me.
After graduation from Broken Arrow High School, I went to Concordia University in Seward NE. I studied Computer Science, Physics and Math. I dated a couple girls but no one who is too worthy of mention. Sorry if you’re reading this and I dated you.
At Concordia I made a lot of friends including one named Mike Blackford, and one named Noah Jeppson. Mike and Noah were roommates’ freshmen and sophomore years, and they both graduated with me in 2004.
Noah’s dad, like mine, worked for American Airlines. We both got flight privileges through their work. When we met each other we began to take trips randomly on weekends. One weekend we went to NY and visited Ground Zero. Over Thanks Giving in 2003 we went to Scotland for the week. Jokingly we thought it would be funny or cool if we moved over seas.
As jokes turn real, our senior years we worked out what it would take for visas and did the leg work necessary. Now Noah and I have lived here in London since September 2004 and we both plan to stay for a couple years.
I work for a company called BBA-reman. I do IT which is a generic way of saying I do stuff on computers. I write programs, do web related interactions with databases and sometimes HTML coding. Also I have been writing software to test equipment for the company. BBA remanufactures, "reman", car parts here in the UK. Once remanufactured they need a way of testing parts and that’s where I came in. Anyway that’s what I have been up to for a career.
Noah is Graphic Design. He works for an advertising company which prints adds in the newspapers here in London.
We travel a bit, but are mostly focused on work, London and trying to meet girls who by the way dig American accents. This story, much like Concordia, is short. I met one girl but nothing serious. She moved back to The States and we haven’t done much since.
The future looks interesting; I want to work here for at least 2 years since it’s my first career and I enjoy it quite a bit. After that I would either like to work for a company such as Lockheed Martin or Boeing, or I would be interested in going back to University and getting a Masters and Doctorate in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence respectively.
I would really like to hear about the rest of you, so drop me a line and catch up a bit.
Since I know google caches weblogs and most of you probably wont type in my name I will put the names of some of the people I wish I still talked to. If your name is here I want you to send me an email at the scrambled address below. If you can figure out my email address then please do so, otherwise you aren’t very smart and I don’t want to talk to you anymore. J
Lesley Baker
Kara Parker
Jocelyn Rowland
Josh McGuire
Justin Plowman
Jennifer Tufts
Amanda Tufts
David Wilkins
Byron Hook
Anthony Towery
Stephen Kroll
Again, its hard to remember 4 years ago, so I am just remembering stories and the names in them, I don’t have my year book here, so please don’t get upset if your name isn’t here and you think it should be.
Until then I guess I should say something cheesy like "Go BA" but I wont degrade myself like that, so how about just "Remember the good times and try to keep making them everyday!"
My Email is my First Name dott my Last Name at the initials for Concordia University NEbraska or CUNE dott Org. So Sean dott Reynolds at CUNE dott Org. Sean.Rey(R.E.M.O.V.E)nolds(.A@T.)cune.org
I do this because I don’t want spam. If you make it so that only people can read it, not programs, then it’s harder to get spam.
Hi, my name is Sean Reynolds.
This is my first entry into a weblog ever. I am an American from Oklahoma. I went to Concordia University in Nebraska. I have a major in Computer Science and minors in Physics and Math. I have moved recently to London, and am working for a great company here named Viable Business Technologies. Owner, Nick Swan, is very laid back and easy going. I find it quite easy to settle in here in London. I have been going to Church here at a place called The Bible Talks, and have found that to be a good place to meet people here in London.
I have many jobs here at VBT. I am learning .Net for the first time and find it to be quite easy to learn, even quite fun. I have had experience in VB6 and C++. Learning C#, I felt like a kid in the candy store. I find functions which are quite powerful and easy to use. I also had experience in ASP. Now I am learning ASP.Net with ADO instead of ODBC. I find it to be easy to learn as well. Programming in a new language is like exploring a new country. With Visual Studios and .Net I think it’s like every corner I look around I see new functionality. All I have to do is enter a ‘.’ and I get a list of new roads I can go down. If you know anything about Computer Science the street signs .Net and VS gives you are quite clear and easy to read. When I have been programming in the past, I found C++ and other languages like Perl to be more like exploring a country blindfolded. The book was the only way we could learn. It was like someone telling you where to go, but you are stumbling around and can’t see where you’re going. Visual Studios and .Net allow you to test and explore with the help of the debugger to grow and learn the entire framework in much less time, very freely.
I have come from a background where Microsoft was evil. It crashed a lot in 95 and 98. It wasn’t as fast for applications and games as Linux because of the overhead for the environment. I always ran Windows just because no software designers for the applications I use often support Linux as much as Windows. After touching .Net for a couple days all that changed. I think Microsoft has really taken a step towards trying to play well with others by developing .Net. The other thing is the support for .Net will be there for tomorrow because it’s backed by Microsoft.
I look forward to exploring more as time goes on.