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Hermann's Hole

part time workaholic

About Me

Private backyard concrete skatepark in the jungles of Missouri.... But the park won't build it's self... The bowl has been done since May 08 and the rest is to follow. Donations and volunteers are still needed!! It's not too late to help make this bowl complete!! There are many more phases to this concrete jungle gym!! Come out and put in some work.Send a message to this profile if you want to donate cash for concrete, materails, got mucle, and/or brains to be helpful.

My Interests

Skateboarding...Building terrain to skateboard on.. What more do you need to know?

I'd like to meet:

The wise old souls who lurk in dark place.. Anyone who want's to come out to a sweet location in the wilderness of Missouri in order to assist in building a concrete skatepark!! Handy creative peoples who ride skateboards only..Ohh! And I'd like to meet some action packed superhumans!!

Music:

Just recently i've gotten back into listening to and collecting old records..but here is just a bit of the stuff i like....blah blah blah..!I like it all..No really, i do.

Television:

Who is the inventor of television? You have really opened up a can of worms with that question! Probably no other invention in history has been so hotly disputed as the prestigious claim to the invention of 'Tele-vision or 'long-distance sight' by wireless.”Since Marconi’s invention of wireless telegraphy in 1897, the imagination of many inventors have been sparked with the notion of sending images as well as sound, wirelessly. The first documented notion of sending components of pictures over a series of multiple circuits is credited to George Carey. Another inventor, W. E. Sawyer, suggested the possibility of sending an image over a single wire by rapidly scanning parts of the picture in succession.On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television. Belin’s machine took flashes of light and directed them at a selenium element connected to an electronic device that produced sound waves. These sound waves could be received in another location and remodulated into flashes of light on a mirror.Up until this point, the concept behind television was established, but it wasn’t until electronic scanning of imagery (the breaking up of images into tiny points of light for transmission over radio waves), was invented, that modern television received its start. But here is where the controversy really heats up.The credit as to who was the inventor of modern television really comes down to two different people in two different places both working on the same problem at about the same time: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah.“Zworykin had a patent, but Farnsworth had a picture…”Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television. This was because the patent for the heart of the TV, the electron scanning tube, was first applied for by Zworykin in 1923, under the name of an iconoscope. The iconoscope was an electronic image scanner - essentially a primitive television camera. Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals, which he did on September 7, 1927, using a scanning tube of his own design. Farnsworth received a patent for his electron scanning tube in 1930. Zworykin was not able to duplicate Farnsworth’s achievements until 1934 and his patent for a scanning tube was not issued until 1938. The truth of the matter is this, that while Zworykin applied for the patent for his iconoscope in 1923, the invention was not functional until some years later and all earlier efforts were of such poor quality that Westinghouse officials ordered him to work on something “more useful.”Another player of the times was John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur who 'achieved his first transmissions of simple face shapes in 1924 using mechanical television. On March 25, 1925, Baird held his first public demonstration of 'television' at the London department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. In this demonstration, he had not yet obtained adequate half-tones in the moving pictures, and only silhouettes were visible.' - MZTVIn the late thirties, when RCA and Zworykin, who was now working for RCA, tried to claim rights to the essence of television, it became evident that Farnsworth held the priority patent in the technology. The president of RCA sought to control television the same way that they controlled radio and vowed that, “RCA earns royalties, it does not pay them,” and a 50 million dollar legal battle subsequently ensued.In the height of the legal battle for patent priority, Farnsworth’s high school science teacher was subpoenaed and traveled to Washington to testify that as a 14 year old, Farnsworth had shared his ideas of his television scanning tube with his teacher.With patent priority status ruled in favor of Farnsworth, RCA for the first time in its history, began paying royalties for television in 1939.Who is the inventor of television? You have really opened up a can of worms with that question! Probably no other invention in history has been so hotly disputed as the prestigious claim to the invention of 'Tele-vision or 'long-distance sight' by wireless.”Since Marconi’s invention of wireless telegraphy in 1897, the imagination of many inventors have been sparked with the notion of sending images as well as sound, wirelessly. The first documented notion of sending components of pictures over a series of multiple circuits is credited to George Carey. Another inventor, W. E. Sawyer, suggested the possibility of sending an image over a single wire by rapidly scanning parts of the picture in succession.On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television. Belin’s machine took flashes of light and directed them at a selenium element connected to an electronic device that produced sound waves. These sound waves could be received in another location and remodulated into flashes of light on a mirror.Up until this point, the concept behind television was established, but it wasn’t until electronic scanning of imagery (the breaking up of images into tiny points of light for transmission over radio waves), was invented, that modern television received its start. But here is where the controversy really heats up.The credit as to who was the inventor of modern television really comes down to two different people in two different places both working on the same problem at about the same time: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah.“Zworykin had a patent, but Farnsworth had a picture…”Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television. This was because the patent for the heart of the TV, the electron scanning tube, was first applied for by Zworykin in 1923, under the name of an iconoscope. The iconoscope was an electronic image scanner - essentially a primitive television camera. Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals, which he did on September 7, 1927, using a scanning tube of his own design. Farnsworth received a patent for his electron scanning tube in 1930. Zworykin was not able to duplicate Farnsworth’s achievements until 1934 and his patent for a scanning tube was not issued until 1938. The truth of the matter is this, that while Zworykin applied for the patent for his iconoscope in 1923, the invention was not functional until some years later and all earlier efforts were of such poor quality that Westinghouse officials ordered him to work on something “more useful.”Another player of the times was John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur who 'achieved his first transmissions of simple face shapes in 1924 using mechanical television. On March 25, 1925, Baird held his first public demonstration of 'television' at the London department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. In this demonstration, he had not yet obtained adequate half-tones in the moving pictures, and only silhouettes were visible.' - MZTVIn the late thirties, when RCA and Zworykin, who was now working for RCA, tried to claim rights to the essence of television, it became evident that Farnsworth held the priority patent in the technology. The president of RCA sought to control television the same way that they controlled radio and vowed that, “RCA earns royalties, it does not pay them,” and a 50 million dollar legal battle subsequently ensued.In the height of the legal battle for patent priority, Farnsworth’s high school science teacher was subpoenaed and traveled to Washington to testify that as a 14 year old, Farnsworth had shared his ideas of his television scanning tube with his teacher.With patent priority status ruled in favor of Farnsworth, RCA for the first time in its history, began paying royalties for television in 1939.BUT I WOULD'NT CARE BECAUSE I DON'T WATCH IT!!

Books:

Yes I read books.. Please feel free to recommend any you think I might like and/or give me your's when your finished... Thanks.

Heroes:

Dad... Skateboarding, Herrmann's Hole, Janette Lee, cookie monster, Bill Munny outta Missouri, Captian Pochie the pegleg, Pat Sharpe, Vrundavan Hospital in Mapusa, Willie Mcgee, Stephen Colbert, Steve McQueen, Paul Iceberger,John Cardiel, Steve Ellis, Richard Stevens, Plattypuss and Gnarly the dog.

My Blog

Bowl is born!!

Missouri bowl is born!! Hermann's Hole 1st concrete bowl pours were a success!! The new baby bowl was born Thursday, May 8th at approximately 3pm... After and intensive 2 days labor with a 3 month ge...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Mon, 26 May 2008 06:02:00 PST

The Flying Ham-Hawk!

After leaving Goa...my ham-hawk, and I made a quest thru the jungles of east India. The iron rail carried us thousands of kilometers into the dark forest of Chennai where we found a perfect concrete h...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:08:00 PST

Planes, trains, and auto-rickshaws.

I made it home in one piece this time and thank fuck for that..! Only 6 weeks out and that was plenty.. The first 4 weeks was beaching out with cows and vendors, motorcycle trips to jungle locations, ...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:22:00 PST

30x30 tour

  Yeah so i made it and the leg mucles are still a bit sore... I skated 30 miles on my 30th birthday..! What else was i gonna do?   From the Arch in downtown St. Louis to Creve Coure La...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:22:00 PST

my old "about me".

Staying on the move..I can keep up the pace.. trying to find a good place..laying back peepin outerspace.. I love this country, but I hate the "united states"..... I'll never stop trying... I'd rather...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Fri, 05 May 2006 06:36:00 PST

Fuck to Sprint PCS!

I had this as a bulletin, but bulletin's don't last so here you go... Those fuckers are trying to rip me off again! No matter what you do don't ever sign a contract with these assholes... But if ...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:57:00 PST

Holiday sweaters!!

Ok, I have to admit.. I really hate all the christmas hype out here in the midwest... You west coasters don't have to deal with all the ridiculous holiday cheer. Yea! "Go shopping, take...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:07:00 PST

back seat drivers.

I recently went to arizona on a skate trip. Twice actually.. but the first one was the buzz kill. I drove my car because it's good on gas and holds the most people and gear. I've driven my car across ...
Posted by Hermann's Hole on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:05:00 PST