Operations Research and Civic Optimization; Aviation industry, esp. ergonomic and civic driven Operations Research; Libertarian activist and advocate; Green activist and advocate; Soaring and Sailplane piloting (Flying Gliders); General Aviation and light aircraft flying. FBO operations research and development, World Travel, Sailing, Swimming, Snuba and Scuba, Aesthetic Theory and Contemplation, Musical composition, Target Shooting, Archery, Hiking, Voracious Reading (over 8,000 books in personal library mostly non-fiction); reading hundreds of periodicals and magazines. You can generally find me at the airfield, at the lab or at a local Barnes and Noble.
Anyone who understands the concepts and the risks outlined in the clip above. Anyone intellectually interesting. Anyone who thinks. Anyone who can add and subtract. Anyone who gives a damn. Anyone who builds, and uses wings. Anyone who builds, and uses high-performance clean engines.
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My musical interests are eclectic. I prefer Classical or Euro / Techno, but bad music is good also if it is REALLY bad. I enjoy the armonica, harpsicord and the theremin.
The first clip above is an example of a harpsicord.
The second clip is an example of a theremin. The piece he is playing is the theme music to the science fiction TV series 'The Outer Limits', on ABC from 1963-1965.
I also liked the garage band 'combo' sound that came out of SF and Southern California in the mid and late 60s until the harmonics changed to cacophonics, but I have yet to find an appropriate example clip.
Idiocracy (2006) is my favorite movie. The main stream political parties and the mainstream media are living examples of life imitating art.
Dr. Strangelove (1964) is my second favorite movie featured in the top clip above. In it you see the heart and soul of the Likud-led and Neocon-infested modern Republican Party. I'll bet those Tom Clancy and Jack Baur fans would love to have one of those doomsday machines.
Election (1996) shown in the bottom clip features Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick. Tracy (Reese) was obviously channeling Hillary Clinton in this movie, or is Hillary channeling Tracy Flick? View this movie as a warning.
Other movies (Alphabetized) that I have enjoyed and have in my personal movie library are: '1941', '1984', 2001-A SPACE ODYSSEY, BATTLE OF THE BULGE (Henry Fonda / Robert Shaw) , BEDAZZLED (Original 1969 Version), CATCH-22, CONRACK, DAS BOOT, DOWNFALL, FAHRENHEIT 451, (The) GREAT DICTATOR, I MARRIED A WITCH (Veronica Lake), KINGS OF THE ROAD, LIFE OF BRIAN, (The) MEANING OF LIFE, MODERN TIMES (Charlie Chaplin), OMEGA MAN, PATTON, PATHS OF GLORY, (The) SEA HAWK, STAR TREK I, STAR TREK IV, SULLIVANS TRAVELS, TRIBES, VIVA MAX!, WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM (Bill Murray), WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR, WINGS OF DESIRE, XANADU, ZENTROPA, and ZORBA THE GREEK.
I don't watch television as a rule. Television is a menace to human civilization. Every now and then I watch the History Channel or the Discovery Channel. I used to watch Discovery Wings until it became too militarized. Maybe they ran out of clips of civil aviation.
CSPAN though, is occasionally illuminating as illustrated in the top clip above. Harvard's law school should ask for Alberto Gonzale's degree back. He appears to have missed class the day Article 1, Section 9, along with the Sixth Amendment was discussed.
In the middle clip Gene Roddenberry got it right, speaking through Captain Kirk (William Shatner). Shatner was a Canadian, but I bet Gene would have urged his Congressman to invoke Article 2, Section 4 on Alberto's boss.
Getting back to the original scene of the crime, referenced in the bottom clip above, it now appears that there are several unindited co-conspirators that weren't flying airplanes on September 11, 2001. Hint: Check the duals at PNAC, which more properly would have been called PNIC. Follow the money. . .
Finally, the Howard Beale character in the movie 'Network' had something important to say about TV. And he had something important to say about the American Demopublican party. They are as relevent to our lives, and care as much about us, as the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Lets get mad, stay mad, or they will be back.
'CLASS' by Paul Fussell is my favorite book. If you are baffled by American culture, you should read 'CLASS'.Some of my other favorite books are: 'A HISTORY OF ART' by Antony F. Janson; 'THE GREEK WAY' by Edith Hamilton; ' A HISTORY OF PI' by Petr Beckman , 'ATLAS SHRUGGED' by Ayn Rand; 'THE FOUNTAINHEAD' by Ayn Rand ; 'BRAIN POWER' by Karl Albrect, 'THE VNR CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATHEMATICS'; ' MOLECULES OF THE MIND' by Jon Franklin; THE DEMING MANAGEMENT METHOD'; 'SURELY YOU ARE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN', 'WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?' and 'THE FEYNMAN LECTURES 'by Richard Feynman; 'CLASS', 'ABROAD', 'BAD', and 'THANK GOD FOR THE ATOM BOMB' by Paul Fussell; 'FAHRENHEIT 451' by Ray Bradbury; 'STRANGER TO THE GROUND' by Richard Bach.
RON PAUL for his lonely quest that is not so lonely any more.. .. . Natalie Maines for being very prophetic. . . .. . .Rachel Corrie for helping in our name while our government cowers. . .Richard Feynman for his Appendix F. . . Jeff King for being one of the first for taking a look at the fingerprints. . . Ayn Rand for both Kira and John Galt. . . Robert and Jack Kennedy for saving the East Coast and my father's life in October 1962. . . Jeanette Rankin for her courage to vote against a scam (twice!). . . Henry Ford for trying to stop World War I with his peace ship. . . Rudolf Diesel for his sun powered engine. . . Otto Lilienthal for the beginning of controlled flight and his famous quote. . . George Mason for his refusing to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights. . . The Founding Fathers: our self educated Deists that brought about Novo ordo seclorum. . . Michael Faraday for figuring out how to make inexpensive electricity. . . Hypathia for her courage and wisdom. . . Archimedes for his original thinking if not his math.