I am a member of the LinkedIn AV Professionals group to help keep up on AV industry issues. I was amused by the "You Know You are a Hard Core AV Pro When ..." discussion.
My favorite comments are:
- every party you attend someone says, “There’s this one thing I can't get working on my TV system....”
- you refuse to buy any piece of gear that does not have a Serial port.
- you have a customer from 15 years ago call you and ask a question about the system that was installed. Without ever being in the building since the system went in, you tell them where to look for the ___ and how it was connected. You do this without even stepping away from the phone to find the old drawings.
- you simply CANNOT walk by any EQ which shows a smilie face without grumbling.
- the only clothes you own are black.
- you sit in a church giving hand signals to the sound booth guy instead of listening to the sermon.
- you know a projector lamp life without looking at the projector menu setting.
- you wear out one knee on all your pants from taping cables down.
- you avoid sports bars with screens that need the color adjusted.
- you empty your pockets and find them filled with all kinds of connectors you forgot about.
- your coffee mug collection includes at least 3 AV manufacturers who are no longer in business.
- you refuse to run sound for the school musical because you know that a single microphone being spoken at from 20ft will not cut through to row 25 via the speaker 10 ft away from the mic.
- you have a drawer full of polo shirts with AV manufacturer's names embroidered on them
And last (and probably least) my entry: Your own home system is in shambles as you're too busy creating and tweaking "masterpieces" elsewhere.
Grant
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