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Dragon Wisdom
. “When you squeeze the nobility, it’s the peasants who feel the pinch” – Draco / Dragonheart See? Even fictional dragons know maxism/socialism/communism doesn’t work …
Paul Frees ~ Voice Craftsman
. I LOVE this guy’s work ! It’s amazing that I’ve heard and recognized him all my life, yet didn’t know his name until around 1986 when I read that he had passed … He had an incredible 4 octave range … So not only could he be the booming voice in Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” […]
Doc Watson
. 89 years is a long time to be on this planet. It’s great to see someone live a long life and create something so wonderful for the public.
Memorial Day 2012 ~ A Short Film Offering
A short film I made in 2008 – My way to honor those serving … Yes – That’s Ed Murrow … The narrator you do not see is Spencer Tracy.
Happy Birthday Robert Moog
What would you do if you turned a corner one day to become nose-to-nose with someone who had a great influence on your life as well as many others? That happened to me with Bob Moog … Surely Bob Moog is in the top ten list of people in history that had the greatest influence […]
Life is a Wagging Dog
I enjoy being half a century old. Youth is overrated … Now that I’ve been around the oak tree a few times, I can finally boil life down into one or two lines. Life is just like an unfamiliar dog wagging its tail at you. It may bite you anyway.
May 22nd, 1968
. The USS Scorpion went down on this day in 1968 … The Submarine Service pushes the envelope of technology and science. Submarines are important to keep our nation strong. We should always keep the crew of the USS Scorpionand their families in our hearts and prayers. Allen, Keith Alexander Martin, FTG3(SS), USNR Amtower, Thomas […]
Breaking the Speed of Sound
. Growing up in the ’60s in northern Florida, it was common to hear sonic booms from fighter planes from the Air Force bases that were some distance away. Not long after, they were forbidden to break the sound barrier except for over the Gulf of Mexico. I can vividly remember the awesome sound. So […]
The 1967 Electric Mini Bike
. Don’t think that electric vehicles are something new … 100 years ago, gasoline was a “waste product” from refining oil. Oil refiners would dump gasoline in large pits and burn it. It wasn’t worth anything to anybody. It wasn’t stable enough to lubricate or burn slowly in a lamp – but not volatile enough […]
Submariner Movie now at Museums across the USA
. “Submariners: The Men of the Silent Service” Now available at – Pearl Harbor Memorial ~ Hawaii US Submarine Force Museum ~ Groton, CT … and many other fine museums across the USA We also have several “spoken word” projects coming out over the summer. I use the term “spoken word” because they are not […]
A Cowboy’s Secret to a Long Life
. A tough, old cowboy from Texas counseled his grandson on how to live a long life. He explained to the youngster that to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gun powder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this religiously to the age of 103 when he […]
Top Gear Korea VS the other flavors –
Top Gear Korea is now in its 2nd season. A great improvement over it’s first season … everything is all “warmed up” – . . I still can’t enjoy the “American” Top Gear version. Mainly because the producers apparently cannot understand what makes Top Gear so popular. It is mainly the interaction of the three […]
Economical is great – but so is Performance !
Do Something … Get ‘er done … stop talking about it and do it … I promised myself I would stay away from posting anything political – that’s hard to do. I can remember gas at 28 cents a gallon … folks would freak out when it went over 30 cents. If you think about […]
Are we The Jetsons Yet ?
… What a strange time to be living in … Who would think back in 1979 that the average American home in a couple of decades would have their own big screen cinema in their own living room with better sound than the most advances theater to be found anywhere? Also – people would have […]
Picasso On Computers
. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picaso I can dig that … Computers are like a hammer … some swing ’em better …
Was Old Math Better Than New Math ?
. As a side question – Why isn’t there any more brilliant comedy made like these ?!? . And now a little “new” math … The problem with this is you can’t divide by zero …
The Duty of All Americans
“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” – Thomas Paine
A T and T is evil and abuses their customers
… We became victims of A T and T when they bought out CINGULAR a few years ago. We have been free from A T and T for several years and doing great with a great carrier – which I will not mention because this is not a commercial … This article is posted because […]
Succeeding
… “If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Joseph Addison
An Honorable Way out …
… Grandad told me to always give a man an honorable way out. The man may be no way honorable – but give him a choice to do what is honorable when you catch him in his dishonor or you may have him show up on your doorstep with a shotgun in the night … […]
What’s the difference between north and south … ?
I keep hearing folks asking what’s the difference between North Korea and South Korea … It’s as simple as it is complex – Here is my best way to illustrate it: A typical girl group in North Korea – A typical girl group in South Korea – That just about makes it pretty simple, huh? […]
What make was the tripod ???
… Shot at 30 fps and mastered at 24 fps ??? Probably shot at the max fps and then jacked up in post production no doubt. I want to know what fluid head tripod they were using … VERY smooth … I get pans like that using the old “rubber band trick” … I’m sure […]
Just good enough
… Is it just me – or is this attitude toward work out there make you sick also? What ever happened to QUALITY ?!? How long will your business last if you just slap things together and get it out the door? The American car industry fell into bad times years ago because of the […]
Post Production is the most fun these days
… Post production used to be the worst, tedious job anywhere … In the early days of film, women were film editors. Because in the studio system, editing was considered the same as sewing. And sewing was “women’s work”. During production, they had a script which told what shots to get – and it was […]
Historical Manipulations ~ Stealing the Limelight
— Edison was not what he is made to be. He couldn’t hold a candle to real genius like Tesla, so to speak. Edison was not the great inventor kids are taught. He was actually a tinkerer at best. Then why was he so regarded and hailed as a great inventor? It is because he […]
Will the last American that leaves the Moon, Please bring Our Flag home?
. Oh … right …. He already came back a long time ago. Now the Chi-coms are planning to walk over our footprints in a few years. The russians jacked up the price to ride their rocket to the space station we had the most into building. The UK Top Gear show had James May […]
Solar Farm Fantasy Reality
… Wow! A farm without manure !!! It depends on where the manure comes from. A new solar farm has cranked up just outside Memphis. ONE MEGA WATT ! It only cost $30,000,000 to build it. They hope that by the year 2020, the cost per watt will get down to $1 per watt. So […]
The LA / Hollywood Production Depression Season
. Right now – as TV shows aren’t in production this time of year … … this is known as the season of unemployment for production out there. Used to be – production folks would simply grab up work on movie production during the TV “off season”. However … According to folks I know out […]
I’m In Heaven ~ Aspect Ratios Revisited
Not even a year ago I made note of the screen size of movies – know as the ASPECT RATIO So many channels are now showing the full picture on the HD channels ! It is really like seeing a lot of my favorite movies for the first time … I was absolutely blown away […]
Moments In Time
… I’ve been working on the new audio project based on a very comical and heartful true diary of a ten year old boy from a rural town of the year 1868 … Last year when I finished the submariner movie, I really wanted to adapt this real diary from post civil war times to […]
Eat Kimbap – Not Sushi
… Again – it’s all over the news … Salmonella from sushi !!! Like in this New York Daily News article. Another outbreak of salmonella from people eating sushi. There’s a great alternative to sushi – and it goes way back further. KIMBAP! Kimbap is a Korean roll that uses … … COOKED ingredients. KIM […]
This is Not a Commercial ~ I’m Just Frustrated
… Linus had his blanket … Caffeine addicts have their coffee … Junkies have their heroin … … and I have my – Inglehoffer’s Sweet Hot Mustard :-) But I can’t find any on ANY store shelves in Nashville lately !!! Just when I needed some. None of the food stores have it here. Sure […]
Will-eez or Will-‘is ?
… Having grown up in the 60s in drag strip pits … (my crib was wrapped baby blankets on the the race car tow truck’s leather front seat – went to my first drag race at two weeks old as I am told) … … and dad ran a ’41 Willys A/gas undefeated for years […]
Ten Dollars is Ten Dollars
… Albert and Sylvia always made it to the county fair each year. There was a crop duster who made extra money giving airplane rides in his plane because it was the off season. He charged ten dollars to ride two people. Every year, Albert would say to Sylvia, “I’ve always wanted to ride in […]
Coming Alive
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman I am encouraged by my daughter today as we prepare to have a long outing. She expressed how fascinating it is to watch the scenery […]
The Bulls, the Fleas and the Intimidated
The idea of actually doing something affects types of people differently ~ Some blast off like a bull in a china shop … Some are too intimidated by fear to even start out … Some wander with no map … Yet there are the few who are wise and treat life as a road where […]
Happy Birthday Brando
… A real classy actor – which I have grown to fully appreciate is Marlon Brando. I do remember all the goofy stories in the news about his real life situations – and I can remember that strange Academy Awards show where his award was accepted … uh … NOT accepted? Who cares about an […]
Be Not Deceived ~ Be Useful and of Good Skill
… “A night of peaceful sleep is worth more than all the king’s coins.” – Tony Rollo … “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.” – Thomas Jefferson … Does it not seem apparent; a common ideal all should posses would be a desire to […]
Dogs Training Humans?
… The jig is up! I was reminded of Pavlov’s experiments with conditioning using dogs. I had no idea that our dogs were conditioning us! As in a recent blog, I indicated how Klondyke and Tamborine (the beagle sisters) were using the drinking trough in turn to take a cool bath. This is not good, […]
Ideas are Common and Fleeting ~ Make It Real
… “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.” – Henry Ward Beecher
I Own the Goofiest Beagles That Ever Walked the Earth
… The culprits: Two sisters – American Beagles “Tamborine the Wonder Dog” and “Klondyke the 3rd” I swear – these beagles are the goofiest dogs on earth. Maybe even the universe. Today as I returned to the rear yard after (*ahem*) mowing the front – they gave me the “we just have to have it […]
What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
History has proven that the United States is the greatest system for freedom, prosperity and encouraging the human spirit to achieve it’s greatest potential. A free market and a freedom from manipulative intervention has proven to be best. It is the free market that rewards responsibility and diligence, thwarts the efforts of criminality and shines […]
From the Author of “Gulliver’s Travels”
— “No wise man ever wished to be younger.” – Jonathan Swift —