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  1. MikeKardec

    Show us your Guns!

    I am very interested in this subject: Do you believe that you were trained to a higher standard than soldiers in WWII? Do you believe to were trained to react more quickly to enemy contact? I am often concerned that modern kids who play computer games and thus train themselves in an "if it...
  2. MikeKardec

    Show us your Guns!

    There's a bunch of the SLA Marshall material and that of others that is controversial and I don't necessarily believe all of it. But military training did change significantly and pound for pound modern militaries are much more lethal. That is the front line is more lethal, the decisions made...
  3. MikeKardec

    Enjoying Hollywood In The 40s

    I didn't do it all, I've got a photoshop expert for a friend. It doesn't hurt that both pics were probably shot with the same camera and the same film stock. The "head" shot was MUCH better a pic. The ship needed a lot of clean up ... I'm guessing there were high temps before development and...
  4. MikeKardec

    Electric meters on the side of houses in the 30s and 40s?

    Next thing you know our power meters will be spying on us recording what we say in our homes and picking up or keystrokes for Go-ogle and the NSA. Time to get off the grid, off the net and back to the stone age ... well, maybe just typewriters.
  5. MikeKardec

    Enjoying Hollywood In The 40s

    My Avatar is actually similar. It's a pic taken by my father or Dick, a shipmate of his, of another shipmate ... for promotional purposes we grafted on my dad's head from another photo from the same decade, it was necessary to choose a photo where the shadows were as right as possible and to...
  7. MikeKardec

    Show us your Guns!

    Brace for a tome - Both guns fire a ball swaddled in a patch, a cloth square. The patch is actually what makes contact with the barrel and has some compressibility so it can be forced down into the rifling. Today's rifles require vast pressures to force the lead and copper of the bullet to...
  8. MikeKardec

    Nazi V2 archival documents found

    I believe that we bombed Mexico with a couple of these after the war ... with some of those same Germans at the helm. I can believe the desperate need to test them on buildings might have lead to this, and certainly the Nazis would have been the ones to do it but I suspect that we also proved...
  9. MikeKardec

    Electric meters on the side of houses in the 30s and 40s?

    I had a meter like that in a metal housing until ten years or so ago. I didn't realize it might have been the original meter! When building recording studios we used to try to keep them as far away from the equipment as possible ... not for any tested reason but they did throw out a fair...
  10. MikeKardec

    Differences between RM Williams and Frye boots?

    In general RM Williams boots are great. I have 4 pairs of their elastic side made to orders. I got them in Oz 15 years ago when they cost me about $150 US and have worn them a great deal over the years. The workmanship is excellent, elegant, easily cared for and resoled.
  11. MikeKardec

    New Audio Drama Cover Finished ...

    A fantastic job by Craig Mullins. The first time I've worked with an artist who does all his work in the computer. A clip of the first couple of minutes ... http://www.thediamondofjeruaudio.com/Downloads/ShortClips/TDOJ-CD1-Scene01-02.mp3 After many adventures we delivered the master on...
  13. MikeKardec

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "Over restoration" in anything is a matter of varying taste. As is the matter of wear and tear ... that first scuff or two on your leather jacket or on your nicely preserved classic car is an offense against nature but sooner or later it becomes just part of a pleasant patina. Enough patina...
  14. MikeKardec

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There are still plenty of ADD and AAD CDs on the market, indicating an Analog original source ... but there are less and less produced that way. Tape stock is disappearing faster than 35mm film stock. The great old recording studios are going out of business, the two best of the few I have...
  15. MikeKardec

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    We used 5050s (as you could see) with oversized caps and DBX noise reduction that had been returned to the original circuit specs (DBX bean counters notoriously downgraded their components according to my engineer but the initial designs were excellent) and also had the cap mod. Delicious...
  16. MikeKardec

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I know I've seen the aluminum disks in the past, I've always wondered what they sounded like. I loved working in tape (as an employee ... as a producer, note my other entry). There was something really exciting when we'd do a mix and the remote "gang start" button would be hit and every tape...
  17. MikeKardec

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The answer to that is, unfortunately or not, "no." Digital is most people's and most company's preferred recording medium. Recorded on similar equipment and using the best practices there is no advantage that I see to analog. If you want a vintage sound, that is one thing, though you can get...
  19. MikeKardec

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    During the 1990s I worked with a company associated with Madonna's Maverick Films I have a memory of being around when they were "backing up" a number of her albums to a 78 rpm analog disk system. Higher rpm theoretically meaning higher quality but just one song per side. Having archived many...
  20. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

  21. MikeKardec

    Wilbur Smith

    I didn't say Mitchner wasn't fun to read ... I said Smith was MORE fun to read. Obviously, both of these calls are utterly subjective on my part. Actually, reading Tales of the South Pacific was a revelation for me. I never cared for the stage show but I was floored by the book. I've never...
  22. MikeKardec

    Wilbur Smith

    I assume that a number of Loungers have read this South African author. He deals with the era we are all interested in in significant detail ... sort of the James Mitchner of Southern Africa, though perhaps a bit more fun to read. The work can occasionally be a bit dated, the sort of style...
  23. MikeKardec

    Diamonds in the Golden Era

    I think it was the mid 19th Century when the big diamond strike hit in South Africa ... the one that eventually caused the founding of De Beers. Ironically, De Beers is named after the De Beer brothers who owned the land that was the location one of the earliest and most lucrative mines ...

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