From: Bdale Garbee Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:52:40 +0000 (-0700) Subject: update bio pointer to use new HPE version X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f46b743f4ab4d1479486af38460db263485b770 update bio pointer to use new HPE version --- diff --git a/bdale/index.mdwn b/bdale/index.mdwn index be4a933..e384765 100644 --- a/bdale/index.mdwn +++ b/bdale/index.mdwn @@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ Bdale Garbee, KB0G Welcome to my "new" personal home page. After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as -[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I am now back -as an -[HP Fellow](http://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf) -in the Office of the CTO helping to drive open source strategy +[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I was recruited +to return in September of 2014 and am now an +[HPE Fellow](http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04839247) +in the Office of the CTO at [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), +helping to drive open source strategy and advocacy for the company. During my retirement, from September through December of 2013, I worked part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group that is part of Samsung Research diff --git a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn index 757f6d0..f7fe02b 100644 --- a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn +++ b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ For Christmas 2014, Robert and Elizabeth bought Bdale a beginner's guitar book, and Robert offered to help with a guitar build project based on the success of his Telecaster build. This is the resulting project, Bdale's -first guitar, started in February of 2015! +first guitar, started in February and completed in December of 2015! After a lot of reading and listening, a few core decisions got things rolling: * build a "clone" of a hard-tail Fender Stratocaster (no tremolo) * body and neck to be near-natural wood color with satin finish -* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities +* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities) * pickups and all hardware in black * standard strat-like 3-pickup, 1 volume, 2 tone design with 5-way selector * second tone control with push-pull switch to phase-reverse middle pickup @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ The rest of the parts were mostly obtained from [Guitar Fetish](http://www.guitarfetish.com/), with the exception of a nicer [hard-tail bridge](http://guitarheads.net/products/bridges/hardtailrear.html) sourced from [GuitarHeads.Net](http://guitarheads.net), and a 22-fret natural -Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88". +Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88", and black machine +screws in several sizes sourced from Amazon. ## Purchased Items ## @@ -83,7 +84,9 @@ but the STEP import process seemed to lose the ability to keep the various sub-assemblies oriented correctly relative to each other. Since Alibre has been replaced by Geomagic Design, I pulled down a 15-day trial version of that package to one of the Windows machines in the house, and (not -surprisingly)it was able to read the file just fine. +surprisingly) it was able to read the file just fine. I was then able to +export just the body and read that into FreeCAD, which was used for the +remainder of the design work. Another interesting STEP file of the body from a 1962 strat drawn by Marc Erasmus is available on [GrabCAD](https://grabcad.com/library/62-strat-asm)