Tales of a Madman: Waiting for Nexus 5 - Nexus 5 General

Wake up the morning of November 6th 9:30am.
9:40 - Run to the shower before my father leaves for work, just in-case they come very promptly.
10:00 - watch out the window at cars and buses go by my street
10:30 - realize that i will be staring out the window for a while play ps vita with no volume
10:40 - hear a noise outside window, jumps across the bed. nothing.
10:42 - hear another noise outside window, jumps across. nothing...
10:48 - hears a third noise. NOTHING.
*we can assume that I continue doing this every 2 minutes, and that assumption would be true*
11:30 - hear a truck stop outside, it's FedEx, I curl up in a corner.
12:30 - decides it's safe to use my computer to pass time
12:35 - looks outside window even without hearing anything.
*we can also assume I do this every 5 minutes of not hear a car, and once again we would be right*
1:10 - I need to pee, resist the urge.
1:30 - completed computer science homework, decide i deserve a break.
1:31 - realize a break is more torture than actually doing work
1:35 - insanity begins to creep up as i lip sync while blasting the top 40, while staring at my front door.
1:50 - sends a snapchat fo myself lipsyncing, humanity lost.
2:30 - I can't hold it any longer, i do it quietly just in-case the doorbell rings, hand on the zipper
2:33 - the world isn't cruel
2:45 - the world is cruel.
3:00 - relax by reading other people's waiting pains
3:25 - begin to write post
3:25:01 - doorbell rings, it has ARRIVED.
3:27 - SANITY RESTORED
3:30 - still checking window for noises.
THE MADNESS CONTINUES.
currently - waiting for something that does not exist.
Result:
Cons: Over anxious, paranoid, hallucinating, brain fried & insanity
Pros: i got my nexus 5
blame: order tracking. ORDER TRACKING HAS MADE ME INSANE.
words to the wise, don't ever look at your order tracking or else your mind may explode.
share your madness.

WTF did I just read.. thank goodness I have school all day, I'd be going insane with impatience as well.
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I was doing the exact same thing on Monday, except I cant see the street from my window so every noise I heard literally stopped me breathing for a while until I'd decided it was nothing. And just as my luck would have it, I had no less than TWO other people knocking my door that day (when usually I'd have none) each one giving me a heartattack especially when I opened the door with a big grin only to be replaced my despair when it wasnt a delivery man. Finally at about 5pm I got a knock, opened the door with a half smile and THERE IT WAS. I even thanked the delivery driver and told him hes made my day haha. Fast forward 2 days and Im in love with my new phone

I sympathize. My package was supposed to be delivered to work today, I'm refreshing the tracking page every five minutes. At noon, it says delivered (at 10am) and I recognize the name of the campus mail room guy, which is weird because it was supposed to come directly to my building. But I walk over there and ask to pick it up, he says "oh no that was supposed to be delivered directly to you so I gave it back to the driver." I spend the rest of the afternoon twitching, convinced that the UPS guy is gonna mark it as rejected or something and I'll be waiting another month to get my phone. Finally about 10 minutes our front desk person pops her head in and says my package is here. absolute relief. Ah.

LMAO. Yesterday was the worst day waiting yet. Apparently all my billing companies decided to play a joke on me and send me all my billing invoices in one day. Literally every other time I checked my email for a shipping confirmation,,,, there was a bill waiting for me instead lol.

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Phone Taken Away And Im Pissed

So i was in school and i was caught texting due to the tilt being so damn big. I was in the cafeteria and a teacher came up behind me and snatched my phone. Good thing this is my first time getting caught because its 1 day without my phone and a parent has to come and pick it up. Second offense is 3 weeks and a parent comes and gets it and the third offense is they keep the phone until the end of the year. This sucks. I feel so lost without it.
ROFL.. i would of ****ign stabbed a ***** if she grabbed my phone.. u kno they probli took it and played around with it n ****
I pull the whole, I was writing down HW that a friend gave me, so that I wouldnt forget, its a PDA too ya know...
And thier like, Oh, get really red (Because ive taught all me friends to stare at the teacher meanacingly if any of us gets out phone taken away) and the PDAhone is returned.
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Second offense is 3 weeks and a parent comes and gets it and the third offense is they keep the phone until the end of the year.
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sounds like crappy public schools of america. I'm glad my high school years are long and far behind me...this is one of the reasons college kicks hard core ass.
they have no right to take your phone for that long...only unless you signed something that allows them to hold it, but other then that, they cant do that...sue them mofos
The suckage...
My school sucks just as much if not more. They see a phone out, its instant detention, 3 demerits, and its taken away for 2 weeks! Oh and 18 demerits is an expulsion. Oh and for some reason, havin a PDA in class constitutes cheating becasue of what it can do!? and thats 6 extra demerits and 2 detentions! Yeah America needs to wake up and stop stereotyping people who actually care about not having a $1 piece of crap as their phone!!!
American Kids need to man up & stop being little girly sissies. "Oh, the big bad teacher took my phone, boohoo."
It called a rule. You know it's there. You chose to either follow it or not. If not, you know the consequences, so deal with it & quit whining.
The one thing I'll give you credit for??? Thank God you weren't dumb enough to post this waste of space in the Development thread.
wait they took it for 2 weeks? yo F that i would deff slice the principals throat while laughing.
No they only took it for today i get it tomorrow. If i get caught again its 3 weeks. It sucks major. These are the times i wish i had put a pw on my phone. I havent because i usually have it and its a hassle to type in a pw everytime i look at my phone so i didnt. But oh how i wish i have. It sucks.
I think that there should be a crossroads
I also attend a High School with such rules, i just dont understand why they get so damn anal about it.
In Orange County Pubilc Schools the stupid rule is as follows:
-If I See It, Or Hear It, (Even if it attached to your belt) I Take It.
Why cant they get that most high school students, and now middle schoolers have phones. One thing is to be texting in the middle of Algebra Class, but why cant i check my messages at lunch or passing time. Why cant i make that quick call between classes or at lunch. But yet, here is the irony, ADMINS AND TEACHERS USE THEM IN FRONT OF US ALL THE TIME!!!!!!, but yet if i carry my tilt in my belt pouch, and if they see the pouch, they get all stupid about it. They want us to hide it, (as if it was illegal to carry one??).
this should probably be moved to off topic or else where.
When i was in highschool they tried to implement a rule like that, where if you were caught with your phone they'd take it away and a parent had to come pick it up. BUT a group of kids and parents got together and went against it. The school ended up not enforcing the rule because of all the highschool shootings most of the 911 calls came from students with cell phones in the school. The students were also able to call 911 before the school did in several cases.
So they just implented a rule that you cant talk/text during class. if you were texting in the hallway or cafeteria a teacher would just tell you to put it away.
One dickhead teacher use to attempt to confiscate them... then his tires got slashed... he wasn't that much of a dickhead after that
Also speaking of cheating.. When the nokie 3650 first came out (one of the first camera BT phones) a couple of friends and I had them and one person would sit in the hallway next to the class i was in and during an exam i'd covertly snap a pic of the test page and bluetooth the pic to my "corespondent" then he'd look up the answers and text them back ... or i'd take pics of the text book and zoom and pan through the pic for answers
oh ya i didnt know where to post it. I just saw kaiser general and figured this was the spot. But i was in the cafeteria and had it under the table and its just so lame. Gimme a break.
that sucks, at my school of corse your not supposed to use your phone in class, but thats it. during passing period, lunch, before or after class, you can use it.
however one time my teacher saw my phone when i had the camera app up, she asked "is that a cell phone or camera?" i knew she wouldnt have cared if i said it was a phone, shed just tell me to put it away, but i said it was a camera and showed her. she thought it was, lol.
well im in southern cali as well and i have never had anything like that happen to me. i would give them the shaking im gonna kill you and everyone you know look and would get off with a warning. i just dont let people take things from me, be it a pda or pen or anything. however if you are as violent and selfish as me you should try and follow the rules if you know you will have this reaction. just my .02 cents.
oh and the guy crackin on americans, kinda rude bro, theres no need for that here. but then again this post should prob be moved but whatever. sorry to hear bout your tilt, just be sneaky next time or face the same result.
I can see high school hasn't changed a bit since I've been there. They teach you all about freedom yet it's more of a police state than North Korea. The only loophole was the TI graphing calculators. They were not necessary for our studies but they were the one device that could play games that wasn't banned. They tried to incorporate them into math class but the teachers could't use them.
HAHA yeah In my Jr. year of high school. We had a sub for my psychology class. I had my nintendo ds out and she made me put it away. So I did. Later 10 min b4 the bell when we were not doing anything I placed it ontop of my desk with all of my books and sat there. The teacher came over and placed her hand on my ds. I imedantly grabbed her hand and threw it off of my ds. I then threw my books and told her to fu** off.
LoL that was just for my ds.....
WTF???
"more of a police state than North Korea"? Yeah... I'm sure North Korean peasant families surviving on subsistence rations, a few hours of electricity a day, and being kept from seeking a better life elsewhere at the point of a gun are looking at you guys and saying "Well, at least we're not attending an American high school."
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I also attend a High School with such rules, i just dont understand why they get so damn anal about it.
In Orange County Pubilc Schools the stupid rule is as follows:
-If I See It, Or Hear It, (Even if it attached to your belt) I Take It.
Why cant they get that most high school students, and now middle schoolers have phones. One thing is to be texting in the middle of Algebra Class, but why cant i check my messages at lunch or passing time. Why cant i make that quick call between classes or at lunch. But yet, here is the irony, ADMINS AND TEACHERS USE THEM IN FRONT OF US ALL THE TIME!!!!!!, but yet if i carry my tilt in my belt pouch, and if they see the pouch, they get all stupid about it. They want us to hide it, (as if it was illegal to carry one??).
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LoL, I just graduated from High School in a OCPS school, last year, they tried to pull the same thing my senior year because they saw my phone on my belt clip, and attempted to take it away, the loop hole in this one is they CANNOT take items over $150 in pricing because, its consider a liability if they loose it while its in their hands, but since they never inform students on that, and only inform students WHAT THEY CANT DO, and not the rights they have while attending school, its easy for them to get away with alot of it, just like (for OCPS schools anyway) a administrator cannot search your personal belongings, only your locker, only a administrator that is accompanied by law enforment. There is a website on the OCPS website somewhere that shows state statues for students rights, just sad a student has to find them to use them, but I guess its a fight to not get pushed around by school administrators that like to abuse their power more then others. So bottom line, if your in a OCPS school, you can fight it, you need to provide some proof though of the phone cost, and deny there attempt to take the phone, they will make you leave for the day for insubordination, but I think its better that then to leave a expensive phone in the hand of idiots as it is.
Friends,
Couldn't pass this up and not posting on this thread.
There are pro's and con's to using technology at all levels school, business, and socializing. The problem here is that the school's objective is to teach w/o interuptions of cell phones ringing, someone sending pictures of test questions (interesting though) and reducing theft issue's. Many students who break these rules ruin it for everyone else because of how it can help students that do have respect.
This also applies in the business world as well - If your in a meeting with the ceo, co-workers you want to be respectifull and not break the concentration of the meeting. Same with companies that are specific to what phones can be used and at what time. Most government companies will not allow pda's - camera's, voice recorders etc. Same principle - school/business.
Rule is a rule which has to be abided by. If abused then the school has the right to enforce their policy. We all have to live by rules and regulations.
The technology is cool and can be used to help students, but when the rules are not followed by everyone - this is the cause in effect.
I do think that having the phone in your locker, backpack - sound turned off is legitimate. During recess, lunch cool to use the phone.
Tvos

Favourite memory/funny story

Just as the post suggests, go ahead and share a funny story or memory..try and keep it clean.
I'll start us off:
I was in college, and we usually have a "bar" night, where we all meet up - professors and students and we just chat and connect (usually speakers from different companies come by, giving us some inside stories or job oppratunities).
Anyways, I had an assignment due - and I didn't bother doing it, I was doing other stuff - trying to get a business laid out, and I couldn't care less! Thing is, this assignment was due that night. (you submit everything online.)
Long story short, me and the prof started to chat and we actually became pretty good friends - bought us a couple rounds of drinks, introduced me to other staff - (which landed me some freelance work later on) and I was totally exempt from doing the assignment.
Your turn people. Have fun.
This isn't my story - it's my Mum's, but it's a great story.
When I was a baby my Mum decided it was about time she learnt to swim. So one evening a week her and my Aunty would go to our local swimming pool for a lesson. After the lesson they'd go for a drink at the nearest pub and just have a general catchup.
One week my Mum was waiting at the bar to be served and there was a guy stood next to her that kept smiling at her. She didn't know what to do at first as she had no idea who he was, but then it hit her - it was her swimming instructor. In the middle of a quiet lull in the pub, she turned to him and said out loud, "Oh hello. I nearly didn't recognise you with your clothes on."
One of my favorite memories was playing in front of 5000+ people for the first time. Yet, I didn't have a penny to my name that night. It opened my eyes to today's music industry. So shortly after that show, I called it quits and decided to go back home to my wife and kids, and start being a responsible adult. Best decision I ever made.
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Almost lost Nexus 7 to thief at Starbucks

Learn from my mistake and never leave your Nexus 7 unattended.
Left my Nexus 7 on my chair at Starbucks and stepped away for a few seconds to throw trash away. Noticed in my peripheral view someone sitting down in my chair then immediately get up to head towards the door and my Nexus 7 in its sleeve was missing. Spun him around before he could make it out the door and snatched my Nexus 7 back which was hidden under his jacket under his left arm. It's like 90 degrees outside so the jacket was obviously suspicious.
Wow, at least you got it back. What did the person say when you snatched it back? Lastly, curious to know what city area this was in -
Taking care of your own device is your responsibility. But accidents and assholes appear everywhere. So, its a nice idea to install a reliable anti-theft app too.
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Taking care of your own device is your responsibility. But accidents and assholes appear everywhere. So, its a nice idea to install a reliable anti-theft app too.
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Definitely - there are many out there, but I would recommend this one : Cerberus Anti-Theft - excellent and fast response support from the developer too. Rooted device extra features, May also consider an application protection addon-app to protect it from being uninstalled.
Google Play link : (work friendly safe)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.cerberus&hl=en
Developer's Site FAQ : (work friendly safe)
https://www.cerberusapp.com/help.php
If that was me, dude would have been getting a free ride to the hospital.
You shouldn't have worried, he would have seen the 1mm of screen lift and returned it.
I know things like this happen all the time, but when it happens to you it really kills your faith in people, eh...
I would have put that person through the door and waited for the police. I have Android Lost setup and I would love to see someone steal any of my devices.
You gotta tell us what the guy did. I would have taken him to the ground and called the police.
Regardless of where it happened you're going to run into thieves anywhere. Ironically, I always keep it with me except for that one time because the trash can was only steps/seconds away. Lesson learned that thieves eye your property and are quick when the opportunity arise. He said something to the effect that "he just sat down" (whatever) and was apologetic but probably not because he was sorry but because the incident attracted attention so there were eye witnesses and he was on camera so he probably realized he was better off scurrying off with tail between his leg rather than resist and wait for the police to show up. Get the feeling he's a seasoned Starbucks property snagger so he'll probably be back another day to target others. Thanks for the tips on the post-theft apps. Fortunately, I had pattern screen lock enabled to protect personal info/data and prevent unauthorized Google Play purchases.
If someone comes to your table asking for directions then puts a big map down on the table, they're after your phone, or your tablet, or whatever else is under the map. I've seen this scam worked in Starbucks.
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I hope you made a scene and made him very uncomfortable so he doesn't come back to the same Starbucks anytime soon. The Starbucks I frequent has the same regulars, we all visit at roughly the same hours, work from Starbucks, and we all look out for each other. What a scumbag, he knew what he was doing.
Don't leave your anything unattended.
Life lesson learned.
This is a good reason why it is always a good idea to install an anti theft app or some form of mechanism.
Makes me lose faith in humanity when I hear these stories.
This is why I'm always skeptical of people in general when I'm out in public. Being naive only gets you in odd positions.
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chlehqls said:
This is why I'm always skeptical of people in general when I'm out in public. Being naive only gets you in odd positions.
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Obviously we should all be hostile to each other because of the few.
I'll be a less paranoid and more outgoing person and risk losing those $$$. No one ever died losing 200$ or 1000$.
Dude you gotta be more careful. The Nexus 7 is so small you can just stick it in your pocket. That is what I did last night when I was at the movie theater watching the 2012 DCI Drumcorps show. It was almost 6 hours long so when I went to the bathroom I took my Nexus with me. Heck you could even tuck it under your arm if you had it in a case.
At least now you will be triple careful .... until the next time that is.
I have a friend who works at a local middle school here in Northern VA and the school tells all of the parents, "do not have your kid bring cellphone, games, tablets to school or if you do lock them up in your locker." They are routinely stolen and the parents come in complaining.
I bet he thought it was an iPad. Because the current Apple v Samsung trial has shown me stupid people think everything is an iPad.
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Obviously we should all be hostile to each other because of the few.
I'll be a less paranoid and more outgoing person and risk losing those $$$. No one ever died losing 200$ or 1000$.
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Funny story, when I first got my SGT7, i decided to walk down to a friend's house at night. I didn't pull the tab out of my pocket until I was almost to his house, but shortly after I pulled it out, some kid ran over to me pretending he had a gun. Turns out he thought I was someone else, we had our laughs, and he happened to also be heading to the same house as me
I would of held him in Starbucks waiting for police to arrive to arrest him. What he did was a crime. Took something that did not belong to him. He should be punished.
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You were very diplomatic.
All I can say is if it was me, it would have been his unlucky day!

Anyone know about cops got a question

Simply put, if a retired cop attempts to pull you over and play cop is that illegal? Plus, wouldn't his jurisdiction be ZERO since he's retired? Had one try and flex muscle with me today and was completely out of line.
Cliff notes: Guy probably near 85 years old driving wildly, I push it to get away from him, then he tries to tell me I'm the crazy one behind the wheel pulls a badge and a retired cop card thing.
Nothing happened afterwards but just curious...
Sue that fool that is completly illegal.
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Nosferatu. said:
Simply put, if a retired cop attempts to pull you over and play cop is that illegal? Plus, wouldn't his jurisdiction be ZERO since he's retired? Had one try and flex muscle with me today and was completely out of line.
Cliff notes: Guy probably near 85 years old driving wildly, I push it to get away from him, then he tries to tell me I'm the crazy one behind the wheel pulls a badge and a retired cop card thing.
Nothing happened afterwards but just curious...
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Wtf? Lol
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You should have called the police on him. A retired cop has no right to pull you over. I bet you we're Wondering why a random car was chasing you down. If you got his name or license tag, I would report him if i were you.
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Before you do anything, make sure he isn't a Reserve officer or deputy. A large amount of law enforcement departments hire retired officers on a reserve-only basis. They work only part time, but many are still sworn officers with arrest power.
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Before you do anything, make sure he isn't a Reserve officer or deputy. A large amount of law enforcement departments hire retired officers on a reserve-only basis. They work only part time, but many are still sworn officers with arrest power.
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This guy was close to 80-85 years old hardly active. He showed me a badge so I pulled over initially. Then he showed me his credentials in which it clearly said RETIRED on it.
He just kept yelling at me I told him to lower his voice. Eventually we went our separate ways. I was tempted to record him off my phone and then call the real cops on him but figured I have better things to do.
He was swerving his car next to me so I naturally accelerate by him at a good clip and try and keep my distance from him but he just kept tailing me and with his maneuvers you could hear his tires screetch at times. Almost hit my car twice.
Card83 is right about being a reserve cop. Also, depending on how high up they made it before retiring, some get to keep credentials (ie, sheriff for twenty years, still has pull after retirement).
If you got his name, call the cops and make a report.
That'll get the incident on record. He broke the law afaik.
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You should have called the police on him. A retired cop has no right to pull you over. I bet you we're Wondering why a random car was chasing you down. If you got his name or license tag, I would report him if i were you.
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carhustler said:
You should have called the police on him. A retired cop has no right to pull you over. I bet you we're Wondering why a random car was chasing you down. If you got his name or license tag, I would report him if i were you.
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Ditto what was stated above. I myself am a LEO. There is a reason we typically drive marked patrol vehicles with emergency lights on them. This type of behavior can be confusing, not to mention outright dangerous for all parties involved. I'd go make a report and cover yourself. Also, if this man has made a habit of doing this type thing in the past and has ever been called on it before, his nuts could really end up in a vice. The best thing he could have done was pick up the phone and call the police and let it ride from there.
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If a police officer (especially if it's an Off-duty or retired one) oversteps their bounds you should definitely report it. That's the only tool we as regular citizens have to keep them from abusing their power. If the Police Station is no help (unlikely) you can call your local news, contact blogs and use the internet to spread the story.
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Decided I wanted to expand on that since I hate to think anybody would be clueless as to their rights in the event they interact with a LEO.
"Probable cause" is anything that gives the Officer reason to suspect you are or have committed a crime. A classic trick of crooked cops is to say that the smell marijuana which gives them probable cause since that there may mean there are drugs in your possession.
1. They do not have the right to give you anymore than a basic pat down to check for weapons/paraphernalia without probable cause.
2. They do not have the right to search your vehicle without probable cause. If asked make it clear that you do not consent to search and lock the door to your car if you get out.
3. Miranda rights will not be read to you unless you are actually being arrested but remember your right to plead the 5th until you have legal counsel. They are capable of using your words against you if you say something that might incriminate yourself.
4. You have the right to speak to the LEO through your window without opening your door. You can also tell them to have their department call you if they need to speak to you. Unless they have a search warrant they do not have the right to invite themselves in.
5. They do not have the right to go through your phone and if there is a passcode lock you are not obligated to give it to them.

Well, it says introduce yourself so.. Hey, here I am.

Hey all who decided to take the time to click the header and just... see what this XDA Newbie is all about. lol
Well, the long and the short of it all is, i stumbled across this site while tinkering around with a Fire 7 HD i believe. Watched a video or two, downloaded the toolkit from this site, and I've been tinkering and playing around on it since. Too much fun. Before i get the "Skript Kiddie" label, I despise that term, and actual Skript Kiddies, if you're learning to become better? Ok, i get playing around a little for a little while, but then educate yourself and become proficient.. Don't just live out your days as a script kiddie and think you're accomplishing anything of note... I've tinkered and built PC's, laptops, desktops, (yes i know what PC stands for, lol), pretty much my entire adult life, not diving deep enough to really make anything of it, but enough so where back in 2006 out of highschool, i basically had a mini sever farm in my living room, built from old parts the schools either broken or trashed, and anywhere i could pick up any used PC's for little to nothing. Fast forward to mid to late 2010, my then GF, now wife, pushed me to get my GED and attend college, to which i did and majored in auto mechanics, studied to achieve masters mechanics status but late 2011 i was driving home late/early morning and ended up spinning out from a faulty right rear second hand strut tower mount on the right rear of a 97 subaru lagacy that had the boxer engine in it, and 8 months of steady work done. Went around a curve close to home and the strut shot through the top mount, right rear dropped on the tire causing a skid, jumo a covered pipe completing a 180, and htting a tree square in the middle of the trunk at approx 65mph. Severe head trauma, broke my orbital bone, left clavical, all of my ribs, cracked skull, and 2 fractured, one broken, and 2 crushed vertebrea, lacerated liver, deflated and punctured both lungs and lacerated my pancreas... Went out the back glass of the car, and 20 feet on the other side of the road in the ditch.. The people that rescued me, and operated on me i owe the air i breathe, and the sports medicine specialist i owe my ability to do all else and function like a normal adult for the most part. 2 18 1/2" Silicone rods down either side of my upper dorsal spine, 12 titanium blocks, 6 straps and 32 screws all jiust on my spine between my shoulders, and 12 1" blocks on my clavical with 2 screws each... Went in the ER 260lbs at 6' 4"s tall solid big guy, came out 3 months later and medically induced coma, 6' even and 141lbs soaking wet. Fast forward 9 yrs, came across some online courses and jumoed back into computers hard, went through a 10 month program through the My Computer Career folks and graduated a ITCSE October of 2020, and attempting to earn gainful employment close to home at the new microsoft facility that has been up and running and under construction for the last 10 yrs or so, so going down a more practical route. and have been workin for myself and been trying to start my own business of "Mobile IT Troubleshooting, repair, replace & installation. What makes me different, is I'll beat the competition. I'll beat them there, and in price. Give me a call, and I'll come to you." Yeah, corny, i know, but it's a start and im loving it so far... Just starting out, but through networking, trial and error, and with each disability check, purchasing the specialized tools needed for certain jobs, I'll get to where i want to be soon enough. Thanks to any who actually read this long winded intro, and hope that im able to learn a lot from here, and to meet and correspond with the best and brightest.. Thanks again,
~Dimented
D1mented said:
Hey all who decided to take the time to click the header and just... see what this XDA Newbie is all about. lol
Well, the long and the short of it all is, i stumbled across this site while tinkering around with a Fire 7 HD i believe. Watched a video or two, downloaded the toolkit from this site, and I've been tinkering and playing around on it since. Too much fun. Before i get the "Skript Kiddie" label, I despise that term, and actual Skript Kiddies, if you're learning to become better? Ok, i get playing around a little for a little while, but then educate yourself and become proficient.. Don't just live out your days as a script kiddie and think you're accomplishing anything of note... I've tinkered and built PC's, laptops, desktops, (yes i know what PC stands for, lol), pretty much my entire adult life, not diving deep enough to really make anything of it, but enough so where back in 2006 out of highschool, i basically had a mini sever farm in my living room, built from old parts the schools either broken or trashed, and anywhere i could pick up any used PC's for little to nothing. Fast forward to mid to late 2010, my then GF, now wife, pushed me to get my GED and attend college, to which i did and majored in auto mechanics, studied to achieve masters mechanics status but late 2011 i was driving home late/early morning and ended up spinning out from a faulty right rear second hand strut tower mount on the right rear of a 97 subaru lagacy that had the boxer engine in it, and 8 months of steady work done. Went around a curve close to home and the strut shot through the top mount, right rear dropped on the tire causing a skid, jumo a covered pipe completing a 180, and htting a tree square in the middle of the trunk at approx 65mph. Severe head trauma, broke my orbital bone, left clavical, all of my ribs, cracked skull, and 2 fractured, one broken, and 2 crushed vertebrea, lacerated liver, deflated and punctured both lungs and lacerated my pancreas... Went out the back glass of the car, and 20 feet on the other side of the road in the ditch.. The people that rescued me, and operated on me i owe the air i breathe, and the sports medicine specialist i owe my ability to do all else and function like a normal adult for the most part. 2 18 1/2" Silicone rods down either side of my upper dorsal spine, 12 titanium blocks, 6 straps and 32 screws all jiust on my spine between my shoulders, and 12 1" blocks on my clavical with 2 screws each... Went in the ER 260lbs at 6' 4"s tall solid big guy, came out 3 months later and medically induced coma, 6' even and 141lbs soaking wet. Fast forward 9 yrs, came across some online courses and jumoed back into computers hard, went through a 10 month program through the My Computer Career folks and graduated a ITCSE October of 2020, and attempting to earn gainful employment close to home at the new microsoft facility that has been up and running and under construction for the last 10 yrs or so, so going down a more practical route. and have been workin for myself and been trying to start my own business of "Mobile IT Troubleshooting, repair, replace & installation. What makes me different, is I'll beat the competition. I'll beat them there, and in price. Give me a call, and I'll come to you." Yeah, corny, i know, but it's a start and im loving it so far... Just starting out, but through networking, trial and error, and with each disability check, purchasing the specialized tools needed for certain jobs, I'll get to where i want to be soon enough. Thanks to any who actually read this long winded intro, and hope that im able to learn a lot from here, and to meet and correspond with the best and brightest.. Thanks again,
~Dimented
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