so what does darryl look like?

**OPTIDONN** · 12-08-2005, 12:38 PM

Look in this months 20/20 suppliment "HOW TO BE A SPECS EXPERT" and there on the front page is the man...the myth...MR. DARRYL MEISTER!!!!!!!! Ladies hide your daughters! :bbg:

**chip anderson** · 12-08-2005, 12:41 PM

Daryll looks like one smart person. Which puts him heads above most of us.

**Darryl Meister** · 12-08-2005, 04:45 PM

There's a picture of me in 20/20?!? SOLA hasn't had a picture of me taken since I was like 22 or 23...

**OPTIDONN** · 12-08-2005, 04:53 PM

Maybe thats why you look so youthfull:p There is also a picture of some other guy Steve Mitrakos.

**Darryl Meister** · 12-08-2005, 06:12 PM

It must be my old SOLA photo then -- from about 10 years ago. This is what I actually look like now, in case any OptiBoarders should run into me at a tradeshow or something (be sure to flag me down and say "Hi").

And Steve is the guy who runs our Marketing department -- but he's from 'Jersey, so I cut him some slack. ;)

**Aarlan** · 12-08-2005, 06:16 PM

Yikes,

From your posts I thought you were one of those wizened professor-like gents who accumulated his knowledge throughout the past 100 or so years. You know the type, smoking a pipe in front of his fireplace reading Tolstoy...

AA

**Darryl Meister** · 12-08-2005, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Aarlan

From your posts I thought you were one of those wizened professor-like gents who accumulated his knowledge throughout the past 100 or so years.

No. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express. ;)

But, seriously, I've just had a passion for this stuff since I got into the business (back in '91), as well as the fortune of having access to a lot of exceptional people that have taught me a great deal along the way.

**chip anderson** · 12-08-2005, 07:25 PM

See pitur. You be sure you is over 22 or 23 now?

**JennyP** · 12-09-2005, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Darryl Meister

But, seriously, I've just had a passion for this stuff since I got into the business (back in '91), as well as the fortune of having access to a lot of exceptional people that have taught me a great deal along the way.

Ah, Darryl!
Don't spoil the myth! I've been supposing that you are the reincarnation of an old time optician (or the multi-talented wizard, Da Vinci,) who has successfully accessed all those memories and secrets from another eon and who delights in expanding his knowledge in these later days, sharing the knowledge with your awestruck optical acolytes! :D

**Eddie G's** · 12-09-2005, 01:28 AM

WHOA!

I had to do a double take... for a minute there I thought it was Wayne Gretzky!!!

:cheers:

**Chris Ryser** · 12-09-2005, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by Eddie G's

WHOA!
I had to do a double take... for a minute there I thought it was Wayne Gretzky!!!

Cpuld we have a picture you wearing the armour and uniform when coming to the defence of the corporative empire?

**karen** · 12-09-2005, 09:02 AM

Darryl, thought you were a babe then and still do....

We should gather all you hunks up and do a calendar.

**Jerry Thornhill** · 12-09-2005, 09:35 AM

Darryl
It is good to see what you look like after all the years of talking to you on the telephone it is nice to put a face with the voice. I knew you were young when we first started communicating and it looks like you still are. Keep up the good work.

Jerry

**GOS_Queen** · 12-09-2005, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by karen

Darryl, thought you were a babe then and still do....

We should gather all you hunks up and do a calendar.

That would be great !! A year of "optiboard hunks" ... (Steve would make $$$)

**Chairtime** · 12-09-2005, 11:31 AM

A calendar? I'll volunteer. My washboard abs are so ripped you could grate cheese on them. Besides that I am extremely, ridiculously good looking !!

**QDO1** · 12-09-2005, 11:35 AM

i would do august and september as 1 image on a centre fold! (it would have to be to fit it on!)

**Jedi** · 12-09-2005, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by GOS_Queen

That would be great !! A year of "optiboard hunks" ... (Steve would make $$$)

Is there enough for a full year, we might have to reduce the amount of months in a year.:D

**GOS_Queen** · 12-09-2005, 12:45 PM

Ah ... I'm sure there are more than enough optical hunks to fill pages for years to come !! Perhaps, until the end of time ! :D

**Darryl Meister** · 12-09-2005, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Jenny

I've been supposing that you are the reincarnation of an old time optician (or the multi-talented wizard, Da Vinci,) who has successfully accessed all those memories and secrets from another eon and who delights in expanding his knowledge in these later days, sharing the knowledge with your awestruck optical acolytesp

Well, I'm the son of an old time optician, if that counts for anything. Though, as much as I enjoy expanding my knowledge, I really don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Da Vinci, whose brilliance and talent I have always admired. He truly embodied the spirit of the Renaissance.

Originally Posted by Chris

Cpuld we have a picture you wearing the armour and uniform when coming to the defence of the corporative empire?

Only if you agree to dress up as Chicken Little waiting for the sky to fall. ;)

Originally Posted by Jerry

I knew you were young when we first started communicating and it looks like you still are.

Hey Jerry, good to see you turn up again! I don't know that I've heard from you much since I left Tech Services; I hope you're at least still keeping Nancy in line. I turned 33 last month, so I'm not quite the whipper-snapper I once was.

Originally Posted by Karen

Darryl, thought you were a babe then and still do....

I don't know that I'm really "Calendar" material, though I certainly appreciate the kind remarks. :o But Jedi, Chairtime, and QDO sound like they might be up for a photo spread. ;)

**OPTIDONN** · 12-09-2005, 03:44 PM

I think a calandar would be awsome!!! Gotta have some chicks as well!!! We should get some pictures go to KINKOS and start taking orders! I would be proud to hang it up in our lab!! Heck send me some photos and I'll see if I can do it:
dandmoptical@hotmail.com

Hey Darryl you have mentioned in the past that your father either worked for Pearle or owned one. He has to be proud as all heck of you and what you have become!! Does he always ask you for optical info?

**QDO1** · 12-09-2005, 03:50 PM

we could always use some minus 4 lenses to make our bits look more managable

**Darryl Meister** · 12-09-2005, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Donn

Hey Darryl you have mentioned in the past that your father either worked for Pearle or owned one. He has to be proud as all heck of you and what you have become!! Does he always ask you for optical info?

Yeah, after he got out of lab work he managed a Pearle store at one point, and later owned his own Pearle Franchise for a while. I'm sure he's proud of me, but I'd like to think that most parents are proud of their kids, as long as they don't wind up in prison or a methadone clinic. ;)

**Snitgirl** · 12-09-2005, 04:42 PM

what size do you want?

Originally Posted by OPTIDONN

I think a calandar would be awsome!!! Gotta have some chicks as well!!! We should get some pictures go to KINKOS and start taking orders! I would be proud to hang it up in our lab!! Heck send me some photos and I'll see if I can do it:
dandmoptical@hotmail.com

Hey Darryl you have mentioned in the past that your father either worked for Pearle or owned one. He has to be proud as all heck of you and what you have become!! Does he always ask you for optical info?

**OPTIDONN** · 12-09-2005, 04:55 PM

I'm not sure. Something that might take up a page or so. But keep it taste full you naughty naughty girl;) . I was thinking if we get at least 12 good pics and enough people are willing to buy them we could take all the left over money and send it to hurricane katrina relief groups or something.

**Darryl Meister** · 12-09-2005, 05:16 PM

I was thinking if we get at least 12 good pics and enough people are willing to buy them we could take all the left over money and send it to hurricane katrina relief groups or something.

What, you guys aren't going to post them here, first? I hope you're not planning to leave me hanging high and dry in this thread...