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LandShark · 04-10-07, 10:07 AM

This is the 69th in the series of T32 Spotlights!!

NOTE: For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD.

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dfonda

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Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you.

When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date.
Sept 2006 but it seems longer.

If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?
Started using linux, Going to pay my house off in 8 months so thats cool.(Then I can afford some real shiny parts for folding)

What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?
Link

You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice)
West and north of Philadelpia, Pennsylvania, Near a town called Springmont There is a small Ski mountain 1/2 mile away where I learned to ski 40 years ago and now my daughter ski's there.

How did you initially hear about F@H?
Saw a call to arms in the Folding section in Sept and wanted to help the Team

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?
An excuse to build Rigs, the competition, but mainly to help the people on the Team that place a high level of importance on it. My closest friend has something that might be cured, as well.

What do you do for a living?
An Over the road truck driver... but I get home almost every night, I drive a Model 379 2007 Peterbilt 435HP big truck and pull a tanker. We run from the Canadian border down to North Carolina and as far West as Indianna.

What do you do for fun?
Its a long list I enjoy everything including work. I spend lots of time with my 10 year old daughter Sking, Skating, Rollerblading, Swimming, Biking, Golf etc.We play cards too, I have lost aprox. 250 straight games of fish.

I also like to ride my Harley(Wife won't let my kid ride) so I ride it to work. I read a lot. We all do a lot of Soduku puzzles. We also travel a lot.[

Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?
Remodel my house. We do one or two big projects every year. I built her a dream kitchen a few years ago and right now I am remodelling my daughters bathroom.

Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for?
The one in sig. CM Wavemaster Case(With the window)E6600 @3.15GHz P5B Deluxe, Blue lighted etc. It has the 24' Widescreen screen thats why its the fave

Used for Folding, school work the usual stuff. I used to game but it slows down my folding so I have stopped almost completly.

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)
No just the 3 rigs in my sig. I will continue to rebuild them or replace as dictated by needs. Quad cores are next and maybe a laptop to take to work with me.

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?
My wife and I have traveled and skied all over North America and we want to take my daughter to all these places now. Most importantly get my daughter through college. I have had a full rich life so far and hope it continues.

If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are?
I laugh at almost everything(not in a mean way more like a hobbit) and enjoy where I am at and what I am doing when I am doing it. I don't need much to keep me happy. (It could be because I killed to many braincells when I was younger but I won't go into that.

)

and of course, a pic is worth a thousand word!!

Working on bathroom remodel

Main Rig.

Back of the house

Daughter in front of the house

Team 32 truck

Jon · 04-10-07, 10:13 AM

Nice to meet you D! Very calming home you have there. Looks very peaceful!

dz_jad · 04-10-07, 10:24 AM

*pets the big rig*

Macaholic · 04-10-07, 10:25 AM

Nice to meet you! Keep on truckin' and foldin'!

LandShark · 04-10-07, 10:27 AM

nice to meet you too!!

oh, I'm also doing a small remodeling job at my house right now. redo the living room's bathroom and kitchen floor....

p.s. IF you ever ran out of remodeling work at your house, feel free to come over to my house anytime!!

cuda340 · 04-10-07, 10:53 AM

Good to meet you.

Nice lot dfonda !!

Fold on

benbaked · 04-10-07, 10:57 AM

hey dfonda nice to meet you! great looking scenery there, and only minutes away from the slopes too! lucky!

WarriorII · 04-10-07, 11:16 AM

Great to know more about you!

Everyone has an Evil Twin some where in the world....

Well, never mind.

Fold On!

really nice house.

||Console|| · 04-10-07, 11:25 AM

WTF

Love the house cant waite till I can own my own house I hate renting .

zim01 · 04-10-07, 11:36 AM

Nice to meet you and learn more about
your interests. Love the Truck

ihrsetrdr · 04-10-07, 12:45 PM

Glad to meet you D!

Nice lookin rigs! I know the one folds, but how 'bout the big red one?

fold-on!

jws2346 · 04-10-07, 01:14 PM

Good to finally meet you dfonda

, you've got to be one of the best people on this Team 32 forum.

Edit: Hey , without a doubt that's a good picture of your house (with your daughter in the front?), but I'd have rather seen a picture of your daughter with the house in the background

Mark620 · 04-10-07, 03:57 PM

Greetings dfonda

dfonda · 04-10-07, 07:49 PM

Thanks for the kind words from a great bunch!

The last 6 months has been a real pleasure with everyone.

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IF you ever ran out of remodeling work at your house, feel free to come over to my house anytime!!

If you do any hardwood floors I have the floor nailer so you wouldn't have to rent one... you let me know.

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but I'd have rather seen a picture of your daughter with the house in the background

Yeah that was a tough call, decided to stay a little private.

Lookin forward to seeing your mug next JWS since I'm nominating you.

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I know the one folds, but how 'bout the big red one?

Just need to install one of Macaholic's powerbooks in it.

There are enough wifi hot spots popping up anymore this will be a goal this year.(Uh and a tax write off)

Oh and Console talk about great sking my wife and I were in Lake Louise back in 96. Up in your neck of the woods we didn't have to worry about finding a Taco bell on the slopes like down here in the States

The prettiest section of the Rockies.

jws2346 · 04-10-07, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dfonda

Thanks for the kind words from a great bunch!

Lookin forward to seeing your mug next JWS since I'm nominating you.

Hey bro, they haven't got a camera with a thick enough lens to take my pic

. I wasn't trying to mind your business with the picture thing, I just figured your daughter probably looked a whole lot better than some ole' house.

(your house looks nice too

)

pscout · 04-10-07, 08:07 PM

Great to meet you some more D

I luv your posts ... always so upbeat

You have a great house esp the surroundings ... i am too close to the big city for my tastes ... well except when i have to commute.

It is all our pleasure to have you folding on T32 with us

and here's to finding some of those brain cells we both may have misplaced

Hack30 · 04-10-07, 08:18 PM

Good to meet you D. Glad to have you drivin' for us. (big red truck)

dfonda · 04-10-07, 08:21 PM

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I just figured your daughter probably looked a whole lot better than some ole' house

She is as cute as a button. Obviously takes after her mom.

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and here's to finding some of those brain cells we both may have misplaced

lol

and another for Jon(JW got his lost 1760 doggie back),DZ,Mac,Gary cuda,ben(cookin)Warrior,Console,hero(Zim),Horsetra der,JW, Mark,Pete,Hack.

Garynator,Spion,TIS,Jer seytomato, Adak.

misfit

the garynator · 04-10-07, 11:08 PM

Nice to meet you dfonda!

Ack, now I gotta stop associating kate w/ your screen name...I feel all creepy and stuff now, lol...maybe you should change your avatar :P

Spion · 04-11-07, 12:57 AM

nice to meet you dfonda

TIS · 04-11-07, 01:04 AM

good to know you more

jerseytomato · 04-11-07, 07:14 AM

Nice to meet you DFonda

Adak · 04-11-07, 07:57 AM

Great spotlight, dfonda. Looks like a great home & truck, too.

Adak

Misfit138 · 04-11-07, 02:30 PM

Nice to meet you, D. Great spotlight! We share many of the same passions.

04-10-07, 10:07 AM	#1
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	F@H Spotlight #69 This is the 69th in the series of T32 Spotlights!! NOTE: For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD. Now please give a warm welcome to.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dfonda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you. When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date. Sept 2006 but it seems longer. If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? Started using linux, Going to pay my house off in 8 months so thats cool.(Then I can afford some real shiny parts for folding) What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link? Link You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice) West and north of Philadelpia, Pennsylvania, Near a town called Springmont There is a small Ski mountain 1/2 mile away where I learned to ski 40 years ago and now my daughter ski's there. How did you initially hear about F@H? Saw a call to arms in the Folding section in Sept and wanted to help the Team After starting, why do you continue to Fold? An excuse to build Rigs, the competition, but mainly to help the people on the Team that place a high level of importance on it. My closest friend has something that might be cured, as well. What do you do for a living? An Over the road truck driver... but I get home almost every night, I drive a Model 379 2007 Peterbilt 435HP big truck and pull a tanker. We run from the Canadian border down to North Carolina and as far West as Indianna. What do you do for fun? Its a long list I enjoy everything including work. I spend lots of time with my 10 year old daughter Sking, Skating, Rollerblading, Swimming, Biking, Golf etc.We play cards too, I have lost aprox. 250 straight games of fish. I also like to ride my Harley(Wife won't let my kid ride) so I ride it to work. I read a lot. We all do a lot of Soduku puzzles. We also travel a lot.[ Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? Remodel my house. We do one or two big projects every year. I built her a dream kitchen a few years ago and right now I am remodelling my daughters bathroom. Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for? The one in sig. CM Wavemaster Case(With the window)E6600 @3.15GHz P5B Deluxe, Blue lighted etc. It has the 24' Widescreen screen thats why its the fave Used for Folding, school work the usual stuff. I used to game but it slows down my folding so I have stopped almost completly. Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM) No just the 3 rigs in my sig. I will continue to rebuild them or replace as dictated by needs. Quad cores are next and maybe a laptop to take to work with me. What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? My wife and I have traveled and skied all over North America and we want to take my daughter to all these places now. Most importantly get my daughter through college. I have had a full rich life so far and hope it continues. If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are? I laugh at almost everything(not in a mean way more like a hobbit) and enjoy where I am at and what I am doing when I am doing it. I don't need much to keep me happy. (It could be because I killed to many braincells when I was younger but I won't go into that.) and of course, a pic is worth a thousand word!! Working on bathroom remodel Main Rig. Back of the house Daughter in front of the house Team 32 truck __________________ ~~~ Currently In Semi-Active Mode ~~~ Got SOLD? MOVE your own thread! How many GHz of Intel + Nvidia folding power? Dunno! Lost count! \| F@H Vista Sidebar gadget \| F@H Yahoo Widget \| F@H iGoogle gadget \| \| My Heatware \| My New HTPC 3.0: Server/Client setup + Better energy efficiency \|

04-10-07, 10:13 AM	#2
Jon Just Another Moderator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Lawrenceville, GA	Nice to meet you D! Very calming home you have there. Looks very peaceful! __________________ theHTPC.net Contribute to theHTPC.net HTPC Wiki!

04-10-07, 10:24 AM	#3
dz_jad Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bealeton, Virginia	pets the big rig __________________ AM2 3800+ X2 Asus M2N-SLI DLX BIOS Rev. 0304 1GB Corsair PC8500 x1900xt - (Retired from Folding)

04-10-07, 10:25 AM	#4
Macaholic Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: 1 Infinite Loop	Nice to meet you! Keep on truckin' and foldin'! __________________ Fold!..It.does.a.body.good! Home of the Meromac™ mini Rack, Quadzilla™, and Mac Pro Octicore™. 13th Ranked Folder in the World Conservatively powered by Intel Core 2 and nVidia GeForce technology.

04-10-07, 10:27 AM	#5
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	nice to meet you too!! oh, I'm also doing a small remodeling job at my house right now. redo the living room's bathroom and kitchen floor.... p.s. IF you ever ran out of remodeling work at your house, feel free to come over to my house anytime!! __________________ ~~~ Currently In Semi-Active Mode ~~~ Got SOLD? MOVE your own thread! How many GHz of Intel + Nvidia folding power? Dunno! Lost count! \| F@H Vista Sidebar gadget \| F@H Yahoo Widget \| F@H iGoogle gadget \| \| My Heatware \| My New HTPC 3.0: Server/Client setup + Better energy efficiency \|

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04-10-07, 10:53 AM	#6
cuda340 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	Good to meet you. Nice lot dfonda !! Fold on

04-10-07, 10:57 AM	#7
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington State	hey dfonda nice to meet you! great looking scenery there, and only minutes away from the slopes too! lucky! __________________ Maximus Formula SE \| QX6700 \| 4 GB ECC DDR2-800 \| Dual HD4850 in CFX \| TX750 GA-EP35-DS3R \| QX6700 \| 4 GB DDR2-800 \| 8800GT \| SST-ST56ZF GA-965GM-S2 \| E6600 \| 1.5 GB DDR2-533 \| 9800GT-U \| AX500-A PowerBook G4 12" 1 GHz \| 1.25 GB DDR \| 160 GB HDD HEATWARE (22-0) \| my quads \| OCF's first Folding/SETI/Rosetta triple millionaire (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) "I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer." - Douglas Adams

04-10-07, 11:16 AM	#8
WarriorII Moderator #666 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Moderating	Great to know more about you! Everyone has an Evil Twin some where in the world.... Well, never mind. Fold On! really nice house. __________________ To Honor Those who went before their time. God Bless them all Fight the Fight worth Fighting *FOLD for Team 32* IS THERE A CURE AMONG US? Black Belt Overclocker MyHeatware under WarriorII Become a fan on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! \| Follow us on Twitter!

04-10-07, 11:25 AM	#9
\|\|Console\|\| Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary, AB	WTF Love the house cant waite till I can own my own house I hate renting . __________________ [CPU]-------------[E8400 E0 @ 500x9=4500Mhz 1.54v Load=62] [MainBoard]-----[XFX 780I] [GFX]-------------[ATI 4830 @ 750/1080] [RAM]-------------[OCZ PC-6400 2x2gig 5-4-4-15 @ 1.9v ] [PSU]-------------[Corsair HX 620w] [Cooling]---------[TT Armor / DD TDX / Maze4 / Black Ice Extreem III ] [Display]---------[ Ben-Q E2200HD 1920x1080] [HDDs]---------[ 3x250 Seagate 7200.10 Raid 0 /2x1Tb WD Storage] 3Dmark06 score @ my 24/7 settings ^^ = 14026 " If that Bong is filled with the right stuff you wouldn't give a damn how much noise the cooling system made lol" ViperJohn

04-10-07, 11:36 AM	#10
zim01 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Northern Virginia	Nice to meet you and learn more about your interests. Love the Truck __________________ "He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.”

04-10-07, 12:45 PM	#11
ihrsetrdr Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: In the fold for Team 32	Glad to meet you D! Nice lookin rigs! I know the one folds, but how 'bout the big red one? fold-on! __________________ Visit the Team 32 members on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! Fold for the cure, support cancer awareness-make your sig pink! Folding Farm: Four i7 920 Linux folding rigs Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Heat

04-10-07, 01:14 PM	#12
jws2346 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Sep 2006	Good to finally meet you dfonda , you've got to be one of the best people on this Team 32 forum. Edit: Hey , without a doubt that's a good picture of your house (with your daughter in the front?), but I'd have rather seen a picture of your daughter with the house in the background __________________ One cat (OC'ed depending on amount of catnip) Intel E6600 (OC'ed 3.0 GHz, WC'in') WinSMP Intel E6600 (stock, air coolin') Ubuntu 64 6.10 SMP Intel E6420 (OC'ed 2.8 GHz, air) Ubuntu 64 6.10 SMP Intel E6300 (on the floor, open) doin' nothing but wastin' electricity (only kidding, I surf with it to keep my folders undisturbed. All but the cat and E6300 folding their little transisters out 24/7

04-10-07, 03:57 PM	#13
Mark620 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Spencer Mountain, TN	Greetings dfonda __________________ Fold for Team32 On May 20th, 2008, the names of >31,000 scientists (>9,000 are Phds), who refute man made CO2 is causing global warming, was released. Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth.

04-10-07, 08:07 PM	#16
pscout Senior Newbie Cannon-Fodder - R. I. P. good buddy :( Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto	Great to meet you some more D I luv your posts ... always so upbeat You have a great house esp the surroundings ... i am too close to the big city for my tastes ... well except when i have to commute. It is all our pleasure to have you folding on T32 with us and here's to finding some of those brain cells we both may have misplaced __________________ Main Rig - p5b-d, E6600@3.15 Folding rigs - usually linux-64: 2xQ6600 B3 @3.0, 3.1 p5w64, DS3 4x Q6600 GO @ 3.1-3.3 on p35-DS3R/DS3L, p5k 4x x3210 B3 @3.0-3.1 on DS3 rev 3.3 x3220 B3 @3.0 on g33-ds2r 3x E6600 @2.8-3.5 on p5b, ds3, p5w64 E6320 @ 3.15 on ds3 1x930 c1 @4.0 on p5wd2-E Folding for OCF Team 32 as pete_scout

04-10-07, 08:18 PM	#17
Hack30 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Folding@Home on the Blue Ball	Good to meet you D. Glad to have you drivin' for us. (big red truck) __________________ "All computers wait at the same speed:How fast is yours running?FOLD!" "The only one you are truly in competition with is yourself!" "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe"-Jengo Fett" "Fight the Fight worth Fighting-FOLD for Team 32-WarriorII" "I'm just so envious of all that PPD good luck with the builds, bills and better half..-dfonda" "I hate not knowing what it is!-Daffy Duck" "We're sure of one thing, though - if we don't try to find a cure, it won't be found; so we try.-Adak" Foldin' For Team 32 HEAT

04-10-07, 11:08 PM	#19
the garynator Chief folding_monkey Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wrightstown, WI	Nice to meet you dfonda! Ack, now I gotta stop associating kate w/ your screen name...I feel all creepy and stuff now, lol...maybe you should change your avatar :P __________________ folding_monkeys needs you!!!! Join the folding_monkeys folding@home subteam. > 2ghz folding for team 32 Black Belt Ubercloxx0r My Heat

04-11-07, 12:57 AM	#20
Spion Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Iowa	nice to meet you dfonda __________________ Nova Phenom X4 9950 BE @ 3GHz \| 2x2GB Gskill \| Visiontek HD4850 FSP Group 700watt \| Rocketfish Case \| Foxconn A7DA-S \| WD 640 Black Edition HTPC Mobo - GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H \| CPU - Athlon II 250 Memory - 2gig DDR2 \| Video Card - ATI HD4200 (785G) Hard Drives - Maxtor 300gig \| 2x1TB WD GP \| Case - nMediaPC 1000B + PRO-LCD PSU - Sunbeam NUUO 550watt \| Tuner - Hauppauge HVR-2250 OCForums Metal Club member #3 \| Heatware

04-11-07, 01:04 AM	#21
TIS Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Mandeville, LA	good to know you more __________________ Intel Q6600, 4GB Dual Chan DDR2 800, Radeon x3450, 500GB HDD

04-11-07, 07:14 AM	#22
jerseytomato Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Folding@Palau	Nice to meet you DFonda __________________ OCForums Folding (Team32)

04-11-07, 07:57 AM	#23
Adak Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	Great spotlight, dfonda. Looks like a great home & truck, too. Adak

04-11-07, 02:30 PM	#24
Misfit138 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dallas, TX <-> New York City	Nice to meet you, D. Great spotlight! We share many of the same passions. __________________ archlinux: Power in simplicity.