It was at Dragon*Con 2009, a HUGE convention in Atlanta, GA. One of my all-time favorite filmmakers, Terry Gilliam, was there, promoting his (then new) movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Terry Gilliam had a panel on Friday afternoon, in a…
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Videos from Kennedy Space Center
Here’s a couple of videos I shot – the first is a look inside the Assembly Building:
The second is the recreation of how the launch of Apollo 8 went:
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Apollo Flight Control, Kennedy Space Center
A recreation of the launch of Apollo 8 at the Saturn V building at Kennedy Space Center.
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Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, Kennedy Space Center
NASA goodness.
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Photos: Kennedy Space Center
I’ve always wanted to visit Kennedy Space Center and I finally got around to crossing that particular item off my “bucket list” this past weekend. Even better, I was able to tour the Vehicle Assembly Building, where all the Saturn…
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Like my writing here? Then buy my book!
You may have thought I was done when I posted my last post about my book on The Prisoner… Au contraire! A compilation of all things Joe Called “My Life, My Tweets” is now available on Amazon’s kindle store. A…
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A feast of riches
He was crestfallen. The actor John DeLancie was standing in front of an auditorium filled with hundreds of people. It was August 2011, at the official Star Trek convention. Best known for his role of Q in Star Trek: the…
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Revisiting The Prisoner, wherein McGoohan changes his mind.
Episode 12, A Change of Mind Patrick McGoohan himself directed this one. Using a pseudonym, one that I really really like. “Joseph Serf.” Give you a couple of guesses why. This is the most Orwellian episode of the series, with…
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Reflections on The Prisoner: “What’s it all about?”
Recently I’ve become quite reflective and introspective about many things, about who I am as a person, about what drives me. About who I am. I think I’m a good person. I care, sometimes too much. I speak too much…
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Build your own James Bond Car!
I was at a newsstand here in Sydney last week and was surprised to find a really cool magazine, the first issue of a series that allowed you to build a super-detailed 1/8th scale model of the Aston Martin DB5…
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Is River Song the Astronaut?
Spoilers, Sweetie… The obvious answer is “Yes, the suit contained young River, and so young River killed the Doctor in the suit.” And River “missed” because she could not kill her younger self (and her “of course” quote is because…
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In Battlestar Galactica how were the Cylons able to create a military force that was able to destroy the human race in only 50 years?
Well, you have to look at “The Plan” to see how that was possible. But first, to discuss manufacturing capability… The Cylons being could manufacture themselves continuously, and just because we didn’t see massive construction shipyards in the series didn’t…
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What is about William Shatner that has allowed him to have "four acts" in his Hollywood career when the majority barely have one?
Here's some of the factors that come into play. A key one: Shatner has lived through lean times in the past (post Trek he ended up doing TV commercials for margarine)… And so when the work comes, he grabs it…
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Movie Review: Captain America is a triumph
When I returned to the states for a while last month, I put aside time to catch up on some movies. It being summer, this means I mostly watched superhero and action films. I’ve already wrote up my thoughts on…
Geek, Technology
My life, my tweets
One of the ways that software development has changed over the years is the way that developers are considered “good” at what they do. In the early days a good developer was a productive one – if you produced over…
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Belated Transformers 3 Review: Less than meets the eye
So I finally got around to seeing Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. It was definitely a movie. it certainly exists in that form. And it does a great job… existing. If that response comes off as an extremely generic…