{"id":38778,"date":"2016-02-04T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=38778"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:21:49","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-zack-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-personalities-meet-zack-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Zack Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ZackZack Notes, UncommonGoods Senior Product Manager, Product Management<\/em><\/p>\n

My hometown\u2026<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m originally from Boulder Creek<\/a>, a little mountain town in the northern California. We lived on Chipmunk Hollow Road<\/a>, where there were indeed a ton of chipmunks. There were also slightly less cute animals – like scorpions, tarantulas, and mountain lions. We had a vegetable garden and a chicken coop. One time I was collecting eggs and the rooster decided that he wanted the eggs back. A brutal showdown ensued and I lost. Luckily, I was rescued by our dog, Sasquatch<\/a>. I still have a scar on my cheek.<\/p>\n

In our backyard, I had a laboratory under a redwood tree where I worked on my \u201cinventions.\u201d Starting when I was three, I would take stuff out of the trash, bring it into the backyard, and try to build things with it – time machines, etc. I wish I had some kind of baby genius invention to tout, but I don\u2019t think I ever actually made anything other than a mess.<\/p>\n

Every now and then someone\u2019s house would go into the creek when we had mudslides<\/a>. My parents tell me that one of the guys that lived on our street was a Hells Angels<\/a> gang leader who would frequently throw raging biker parties. One time, the Hells Angels let me shoot a shotgun at a washed up house in the river. That was probably around the time my parents decided we should move.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m passionate about\u2026<\/strong>
\nSocial progress<\/a> and new technology. Right now I\u2019m really into this futurology thread on reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best gift I\u2019ve ever given is\u2026<\/strong>
\nWho am I to say? You\u2019ll have to ask those that I\u2019ve given gifts to.<\/p>\n

I would like someone (maybe me) to invent\u2026<\/strong>
\nWow ok, I have a long list, but I\u2019ll give three big ones: Robotic farms<\/a>, hyperloop networks<\/a>, and digital democracy.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid my favorite television program was…<\/strong>
\nLooney Tunes<\/a><\/em>. And Double Dare<\/a><\/em>. My grandparents lived in the same retirement community as Marc Summers<\/a>‘\u00a0parents. They got me an autographed headshot of him and I had to hold back tears of joy.<\/p>\n

If I could become an expert on one thing that I\u2019m not already, it would be\u2026<\/strong>
\nBreakdancing and bluegrass fiddle.<\/p>\n

The most amazing thing I\u2019ve ever seen is\u2026<\/strong>
\nOK, one time I saw a video of a robot\u2019s encounter with a ghost. I used to work in defense, programming robots. I was working on an army depot in the Nevada desert and we had a little 4-wheeled robot sentry<\/a> we were building to guard the bunkers there. We were never told exactly what was in the bunkers, but I can only assume there were aliens, mutants, nukes, and maybe even Tupac<\/a>. Anyways, the robots had a cluster of cameras on them, including an infrared camera. The infrared was really fun to play with at night. It sensed heat, so you could spot coyotes, rattlesnakes, rabbits, and other desert creatures.<\/p>\n

One morning I walked into our office, and everyone was crowded around the video console \u2013 they were looping a video from a few hours prior. Basically, the robot was driving its usual mindless route, when it picked up something on radar. The robot set off his alarm and he sped over to the radar blip to get a closer look. When he got there, he pointed the color camera and there was nothing there. Then, he tried infrared. That\u2019s when things got scary.<\/p>\n

There was a man standing in the desert in front of the robot. He looked like an old WWII soldier. He had a rifle and a German shepherd. He kind looked like one of these dudes<\/a>. The robot kept toggling between the color camera and the infrared and the ghost kept disappearing then coming back. Clearly, the robot was confused. I\u2019m pretty sure the soldier was confused as well. Eventually, the ghost decided he had better things to do, so he left. Then the robot resumed his route.<\/p>\n

My favorite place to go in New York City is\u2026<\/strong>
\nAnywhere that makes me feel tiny and lost. There\u2019s a spot on the Manhattan Bridge<\/a> that looks out over the rooftops in Chinatown. There\u2019s all this awesome graffiti, clothes lines, water towers, smoke stacks. It\u2019s chaotic and beautiful.<\/p>\n

An uncommon fact about me…<\/strong>
\nOne quarter of my heritage is a mystery, because my Grandmother Narcia was an orphan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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