Pauldos!
Is what I call me. I am located in Southport, on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
I have nearly 30 years experience in the electronics industry, and the last 20 years in lasers. I work full-time in the laser industry.
I been involved in the design, manufacture, maintenance, repair, installation, and use of a wide variety of lasers, laser systems, and sub-systems.
Lasers I have hands-on experience with include:
Semiconductor
Helium-Neon
Helium-Cadmium
CO2 - Slow-Flow, Fast-Flow, TEA
Nitrogen Lasers
Nd:YAG - Flashlamp-Pumped, Diode-Pumped
Erbium
Alexandrite
Argon (Ion)
My experience with lasers covers the whole spectrum of laser uses, including:
Commercial
Industrial
Medical, Oncology, Cosmetic, Therapy
Military
Education
Communications
Entertainment
I have started a blog about my work with lasers. There's not much there yet, but it is only early days.
My electronics career began in radio, and radio remains my hobby to this day.
I hold an amateur ( 'Ham' ) radio license, callsign VK4DOS.
I mainly hang out on six-metres.
I have a UHF CB also, and pester the other users of the local repeaters.
I have another website, Radio Rampage, a look at the local CB radio scene.
To provide funding for my hobby, I manufacture and sell some of the equipment that I build for myself. If you are in the market for communications systems accessories, look on my enterprise page -
I have a page on Peak Oil, where I propose my own theories as to how the looming Peak Oil crisis will affect Australia.
The name 'Pauldos' was given to me by Lester, of Laser 2000 Industrial Laser Cutting.
Way back in the eighties we both worked at Laser Dynamics Limited, or LDL, formerly known as Radiation Research.
One day I was assigned to plot the RADCAD files for laser cutting. It was my first time using an IBM computer, and as I bumbled my way around MS-DOS 3.1, Lester approached and asked "How's it going, Paul-DOS?". He laughed, I laughed, but the nickname stuck.
I liked it, so I kept it and added the exclamation mark, and now I use Pauldos! as my trading name.
Come on, baby. Let's go get you shot full of botox.
My Sayings
Computers: If you didn't back it up - you didn't want it.
The only way to make something foolproof is to keep it away from fools.
Confucius: Man who play with tool in shower not necessarily plumber.
Magic Tricks: There's no such thing as magic, just tricks.
Answering the Phone: Disaster Centre... (ever heard a telemarketer lost for words?)
My Dad jokes
Me: Is your face hurting you?
Child: No.
Me: Well it's killing me!
Child: Ow! Dad, that hurt.
Me: I didn't feel a thing.
Me: I'll cut your head off...
Child: Dad!
Me: Don't worry, it'll grow back.
Me: <fart>
Me: Can you smell oranges?
Child: <takes a big sniff>
Some of my favourite lines from some Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.
Terminator.
"Your clothes. Give them to me. Now."
"I'll be back." (everyone knows this one)
"Get Out."
Terminator 2.
"Of course, I'm a terminator."
"I swear I will not kill anyone."
Terminator 3.
"No. I am not shitting you."
Predator.
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
"We're all gonna die..." (not Arnie, but a great line)
Total Recall.
"Sue me, dick-head"
"Two weeks."
"You're in a Johnny Cab." (not Arnie, but a great scene)
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