October Sky - Awesome Movie
Evans A Criswell
DDF <ddfe...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>
>I saw October Sky this past weekend - there are absolutely NO
>big name stars in this picture (except Laura Dern) and it was
>wonderful!
I saw that Sunday night, and it was a very good movie. I also saw
"Office Space" and "Blast from the Past" this weekend, which I also
enjoyed. I must admit that "October Sky" was one of the best serious
movies I've seen in a while. If you're going to see it in Huntsville
at Hollywood 16 or Madison Square 12, be sure to see it before it leaves
the large auditoriums. It's a 2.35:1 anamorphic (Panavision) film, and
if you wait too long, you'll see it chopped to 1.85:1 in one of their small
auditoriums.
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Page
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~criswell/theatre/
Gary Dobbs
years....hope to have Homer on our early morning show very soon...
Gary
DDF wrote in message <7asrj8$24g$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I saw October Sky this past weekend - there are absolutely NO
>big name stars in this picture (except Laura Dern) and it was
>wonderful!
Own
DDF
big name stars in this picture (except Laura Dern) and it was
wonderful!
It's based on a true story, and the man who wrote the book lives right
here in Huntspatch, Alabama. I won't tell you too much except that it's
all you engineering geek-types out there should love it (women too). (Hey,
I'm a geek, too, so I can say that) I think it was a low-budget independant
type film so it has a PLOT! (but no car chases...)
Made by the producers of "Field of Dreams" - that type of feel-good movie.
OK - you can go back to whatever you were arguing about. 8'D
DDF (Dianne)
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Some days, the bear eats you
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Travis Hardison
<gdo...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> I will have to agree with this post.....best movie I've seen in
> years....hope to have Homer on our early morning show very soon...
You mean you waited until they made a movie of his excellent book
before someone thought he might make an interesting guest? Gary, Gary,
Gary. :-/
Huntsville should be doing regular stuff on these guys, not just during
sweeps, but on a regular basis. Some of the original engineers that Von
Braun brought with him are still alive and living there and have tales to
tell....And when these folks are gone they're really going to be gone.
My only regret is not doing MorningWAAY when Von Braun was still alive
and maybe convincing the Smith-in-charge that we could do it as a remote
from the observatory on the dark side of Monte Sano. My first question: "I
understand you actually helped shovel the dirt to build the foundation of
this building..."
Ah, memories......
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
> DDF wrote in message <7asrj8$24g$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> >I saw October Sky this past weekend - there are absolutely NO
> >big name stars in this picture (except Laura Dern) and it was
> >wonderful!
> Own
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Dan Harper
<thardisonNOSPAM-...@user-38lcmuv.dialup.mindspring.com>,
thardis...@mindspring.com says...
<snip>
>Voicework samples now available http://www.archerproductions.com
LOL. You sound just like a slick used-car salesman.
Dan Harper
Travis Hardison
Harper) wrote:
Then I'm doing my job. :-)
>
> Dan Harper
Hardison - not every gig is worth $1400/hr but I've done a couple....
Uh....how's engineering, Dan? Comparable wages for an
hour's work that leaves me with maybe 39 hours to amuse
myself?
Dan Harper
>
>In article <WmbCpX2X#GA....@newstoo.hiwaay.net>, dwha...@hiwaay.net (Dan
>Harper) wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <thardisonNOSPAM-...@user-38lcmuv.dialup.mindspring.com>,
>> thardis...@mindspring.com says...
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >Voicework samples now available http://www.archerproductions.com
>>
>> LOL. You sound just like a slick used-car salesman.
>
> Then I'm doing my job. :-)
Calling it your job don't make it right :-)
Actually, I'm sort of glad that slick used-car salesmen
use that affected way of speaking. I've pretty much
learned to tune it out completely when they come on the
radio or television. Now if I could just manage it for
the written word, we'd probably both be happier.
> Hardison - not every gig is worth $1400/hr but I've done a couple....
> Uh....how's engineering, Dan? Comparable wages for an
> hour's work that leaves me with maybe 39 hours to amuse
> myself?
I refer you to the "Epidemic of extravagance?" thread where
the consensus seems to be that money doesn't make you happy.
Of course, feel free to tell us how your millions are making
you happy.
Dan Harper
emk...@ingr.com
dwha...@hiwaay.net (Dan Harper) wrote:
> In article <thardisonNOSPAM-...@user-38lcmtb.dialup.mindspring.com>, thardis...@mindspring.com says...
> >
> >In article <WmbCpX2X#GA....@newstoo.hiwaay.net>, dwha...@hiwaay.net (Dan
> >Harper) wrote:
> >
> >> In article
> >> <thardisonNOSPAM-...@user-38lcmuv.dialup.mindspring.com>,
>
> > Uh....how's engineering, Dan? Comparable wages for an
> > hour's work that leaves me with maybe 39 hours to amuse
> > myself?
>
> I refer you to the "Epidemic of extravagance?" thread where
> the consensus seems to be that money doesn't make you happy.
> Of course, feel free to tell us how your millions are making
> you happy.
>
Schwing! He shoots, he scores! It looks like this round has definately gone
to Mr. Harper.
J.D.
Letterman last night... did anyone see it? (I didn't.)
Regarding the German rocket scientists, Travis Hardison wrote:
> Huntsville should be doing regular stuff on these guys, not just during
>sweeps, but on a regular basis. Some of the original engineers that Von
>Braun brought with him are still alive and living there and have tales to
>tell....And when these folks are gone they're really going to be gone.
>
> My only regret is not doing MorningWAAY when Von Braun was still alive
>and maybe convincing the Smith-in-charge that we could do it as a remote
>from the observatory on the dark side of Monte Sano. My first question: "I
>understand you actually helped shovel the dirt to build the foundation of
>this building..."
>
> Ah, memories......
I would love to hear/see/read those interviews! Somebody, please do it! I've
heard that the obvservatory is made out of a junked Saturn 5 fuel tank....
is that true??
J.D.
Dan Harper
says...
>
>I heard that Homer Hickham (who wrote the book) was charming and funny on
>Letterman last night... did anyone see it? (I didn't.)
Yep. He was charming and funny. He made several references to
Hunstville, the Rocket City, and MSFC.
<snip>
Dan Harper
Travis Hardison
> > > Hardison - not every gig is worth $1400/hr but I've done a couple....
> > > Uh....how's engineering, Dan? Comparable wages for an
> > > hour's work that leaves me with maybe 39 hours to amuse
> > > myself?
> >
> > I refer you to the "Epidemic of extravagance?" thread where
> > the consensus seems to be that money doesn't make you happy.
Not at all what I was saying there, Dan. You inexperienced engineers
like to take these wild leaps based on asking insufficient questions
thinking you know enough already (i.e. losing the ball bearing, if you're
familiar with that old saw) or misinterpreting data that's there before
you (breaking the ball bearing/drawing the wrong inference) and requiring
someone to explain it again at far greater length. (And $1400 exchanged
for an hour of my time and all it required was me reading the names of 22
country music superstars - "tags" in the bidness, which pay $55/ea - made
me *extremely* happy. YMMV.)
The key there isn't so much the $1400/hr - which comes rarely, but
*does* come occasionally - as it is the 39 hours that I *don't* have to
work, which can be more profitably used by me instead of some manager or
administrator who's taken a break in his alcoholic/power acquiring reverie
to micromanage my existence. (See your daily Dilbert for more on this.)
I tend to use that time in reading and often reading a book in a single
sitting, drawing/painting/writing, catching the cheap features at the
movies, doing my shopping in the uncrowded aisles, tending to
time-intensive hobbies, having a leisurely relationship with my lovely
daughter, maintaining a leisurely relationship with my wonderful brother,
etc. etc. etc.
Were money how I defined myself, I'd be in Dire Straits indeed, as I
find myself poor as a church mouse. Mr. Kelso, OTOH, IIRC (and BTW) lives
in a two-story five bedroom brick palace on the lakeside with a dock big
enough to tie up small ocean-going vessels, and yet he has to spend an
extra ten hours a week in his commute to the orifice -- time that's just
pissed away and can never be returned to him and for which he is not
compensated -- and at work, at Interconnectedgraph IIRC (Wait a mo':
that's where *you* work, Dan!) he's required IIRC to work among yahoos,
moral and political inferiors, and various sub-human types whose only
purpose is in raising his blood pressure and adding to the stress that
already has turned him into a twitching sphere.
And with all of this "wealth" at his disposal, and living as he does in
Xanadu, he lives alone. I think this makes my point more eloquently (and
poignantly) than my words could. :-)
> > Of course, feel free to tell us how your millions are making
> > you happy.
Wasn't it Poor Richard's Almanac (Ben Franklin) that suggested "Enough
is as good as a feast"? I've got enough, Dan; I'm feasting. :-)
> >
>
> Schwing! He shoots, he scores! It looks like this round has definately gone
> to Mr. Harper.
>
Sorry, Kelso, but you work cheek to jowl with Dan and are incapable of
being an honest judge of this, so you should recuse yourself. Besides, who
the hell do you think you are to *judge* these exchanges? Shouldn't you be
licking chocolate off your fingertips and bragging to your cow orkers how
indispensible you are? I mean, aren't you at *work* or something? :-)
- H - who has enough money to last for the rest of his life if he can
just die by August (and wishes he were just being witty with that)
Dan Harper
<thardisonNOSPAM-...@user-37kbaia.dialup.mindspring.com>,
thardis...@mindspring.com says... much about nothing.
<snip>
Hey, Travis, your post was so succinct methinks you couldn't
possibly be protesting too much.
Dan Harper
Dani Richard
>
> I heard that Homer Hickham (who wrote the book) was charming and funny on
> Letterman last night... did anyone see it? (I didn't.)
>
>
> > Huntsville should be doing regular stuff on these guys, not just during
> >sweeps, but on a regular basis. Some of the original engineers that Von
> >Braun brought with him are still alive and living there and have tales to
> >tell....And when these folks are gone they're really going to be gone.
> >
> > My only regret is not doing MorningWAAY when Von Braun was still alive
> >and maybe convincing the Smith-in-charge that we could do it as a remote
> >from the observatory on the dark side of Monte Sano. My first question: "I
> >understand you actually helped shovel the dirt to build the foundation of
> >this building..."
> >
> > Ah, memories......
>
> I would love to hear/see/read those interviews! Somebody, please do it! I've
> heard that the obvservatory is made out of a junked Saturn 5 fuel tank....
> is that true??
>
> J.D.
It is my understanding that the ceiling for the planitium projector is
formed from a top a 2nd stage bulkhead.
I remember Wilham Anguler who was one of the people that helped keep the
telescopes in running order. His work was in gyroscopes at Simens during
the war. He said he worked on both torpedos and rockets. Van Braun asked
him to come to the USA.
One evening I asked him to tell me what it was like to build the first
satellite. We were in the new (at the time) Celtron observertory that
was named after him. He sat down like there was great weight on his
shoulders. A glite was in his eye and he extended his hand has as if to
to grab a piece of space-time and present it me. He started to speak in
is thick German he started with the story how they would build part of
satellite and then have to disassemble it to hide it when the Washington
people would visit. Einshower didn't want the German rocket scientist in
the US a all. The first satelllite was suppose to be a "civilian" system
not a "military" one. He said "We could have had one a year sooner if
they had let us!" And when they were given the go head (after the
Vangard died on the pad) "We had only 90 days to do it, or be shipped
back home (to Germany)." I asked him what was the last rocket he worked
on, he said, "The shuttle."
Wilhmam passed away last year. It was a real priviledge to have meet him
and listen to him talk about builing rockets.
Dani Richard
Jean Smith
=->J.D. wrote:
=->>
=->> I heard that Homer Hickham (who wrote the book) was charming and funny on
=->> Letterman last night... did anyone see it? (I didn't.)
=->>
=->> Regarding the German rocket scientists, Travis Hardison wrote:
=->>
=->> > Huntsville should be doing regular stuff on these guys, not just during
=->> >sweeps, but on a regular basis. Some of the original engineers that Von
=->> >Braun brought with him are still alive and living there and have tales to
=->> >tell....And when these folks are gone they're really going to be gone.
=->> >
=->> > My only regret is not doing MorningWAAY when Von Braun was still alive
=->> >and maybe convincing the Smith-in-charge that we could do it as a remote
=->> >from the observatory on the dark side of Monte Sano. My first question: "I
=->> >understand you actually helped shovel the dirt to build the foundation of
=->> >this building..."
=->> >
=->> > Ah, memories......
=->>
=->> I would love to hear/see/read those interviews! Somebody, please do
it! I've
=->> heard that the obvservatory is made out of a junked Saturn 5 fuel tank....
=->> is that true??
=->>
=->> J.D.
=->
=->It is my understanding that the ceiling for the planitium projector is
=->formed from a top a 2nd stage bulkhead.
=->
=->I remember Wilham Anguler who was one of the people that helped keep the
=->telescopes in running order. His work was in gyroscopes at Simens during
=->the war. He said he worked on both torpedos and rockets. Van Braun asked
=->him to come to the USA.
=->
=->One evening I asked him to tell me what it was like to build the first
=->satellite. We were in the new (at the time) Celtron observertory that
=->was named after him. He sat down like there was great weight on his
=->shoulders. A glite was in his eye and he extended his hand has as if to
=->to grab a piece of space-time and present it me. He started to speak in
=->is thick German he started with the story how they would build part of
=->satellite and then have to disassemble it to hide it when the Washington
=->people would visit. Einshower didn't want the German rocket scientist in
=->the US a all. The first satelllite was suppose to be a "civilian" system
=->not a "military" one. He said "We could have had one a year sooner if
=->they had let us!" And when they were given the go head (after the
=->Vangard died on the pad) "We had only 90 days to do it, or be shipped
=->back home (to Germany)." I asked him what was the last rocket he worked
=->on, he said, "The shuttle."
=->
=->Wilhmam passed away last year. It was a real priviledge to have meet him
=->and listen to him talk about builing rockets.
=->
The following link, http://members.aol.com/VBASTRSOC/History.html,
helped me to arrive at the following interpretation of Dani's note.
It's a nice rememberence.
<<
It is my understanding that the ceiling for the planetarium projector is
formed from a top a 2nd stage bulkhead.
I remember Wilhelm Angele who was one of the people that helped keep the
telescopes in running order. His work was in gyroscopes at Siemens during
the war. He said he worked on both torpedoes and rockets. Von Braun asked
him to come to the USA.
One evening I asked him to tell me what it was like to build the first
satellite. We were in the new (at the time) Celestron observatory that
was named after him. He sat down like there was great weight on his
shoulders. A glint was in his eye and he extended his hand has as if to
to grab a piece of space-time and present it me. He started to speak in
is thick German he started with the story how they would build part of
satellite and then have to disassemble it to hide it when the Washington
people would visit. Eisenhower didn't want the German rocket scientists in
the US at all. The first satellite was supposed to be a "civilian" system
not a "military" one. He said "We could have had one a year sooner if
they had let us!" And when they were given the go ahead (after the
Vanguard died on the pad) "We had only 90 days to do it, or be shipped
back home (to Germany)." I asked him what was the last rocket he worked
on, he said, "The shuttle."
Wilhelm passed away last year. It was a real privilege to have met him
and to have listened to him talk about building rockets.
>>
Back to Jean:
I wasted a lot of time searching for a listing of the Von Braun Team.
I found lots of "Von Braun and others" and one with VB, Tiesenhausen
and Dannenberg. Then it struck me that we were talking about the
astronomical society! I had that one in a few minutes.
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