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    Film Noir...in Color?

    Three-strip Technicolor had to be more expensive because you are shooting the movie three times at once. The process worked by using three reels of B&W film shot simultaneously through three separate color filters - one filter per reel of B&W. Therefore you had the color information separated...
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    Democracy

    In engineering there are two other subsets of "professor" ranks. One non-tenure subset is "Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of the Practice, _________ Engineering. These are people who have had extensive "real-world" experience and are hired to teach courses that have significant...
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    Vintage neon signs

    I think it's a bit after the actual year of the car. That style of customizing (lowering, lakes pipes, tubular grille, etc.) was hot in the 1954-55 time frame.
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    Deco Deliveries

    Very nice pair of vehicles. I use the Chrysler Airflow in my engineering-design course as an example of a design that was technically superior in all respects, but was rejected by the public for aesthetic reasons and was therefore a famous commercial failure.
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    Star Trek

    As an engineer who used to do research for NASA, I say thanks to you for the kind words about a fellow "outer-space-engineer". I wasn't inspired to be an engineer by Scotty, since I was already beginning engineering school when "Star trek" came out, but if I had been a bit younger I probably...
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    Star Trek

    How did Spock get hold of my kitty-cat?? I didn't know she had a TV career before joining me. Maybe that's my kitty's evil twin, but it's hard to tell whether a black cat is wearing a goatee.
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    Star Trek

    One thing that I think hasn't been mentioned concerning who would be the "star" in the original Spock/Kirk shows is that they are both on a "Starfleet" space ship. As a military ship, Kirk would be a line officer (at the top of the line as Captain) and Spock would be a staff officer (Science...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This brings back a fond humorous memory... We were at a major NHRA drag race - in late summer - hot as all get out... It was between rounds, so it was dead quiet... An ice cream vendor was down at the front walkway of the grandstand yelling "Ice Cream!" - "Ice Cream" - "Ice Cream" --- At the...
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    Your TOP Cagney movie . . .?

    I agree with the choice of "The Public Enemy" as the best Cagney movie. The shoot-out in the rain is a great lead-in to the final death scene. I doubt that they could have made the movie the way they did after 1934.
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    Show us your Guns!

    The ROTC range here at Vanderbilt used to be in the basement of the Engineering Building - the building I am in right now. For a while my office was right above the range, and I could hear the shooting and always wanted to join in, instead of working. Later, I was around there enough to get...
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    Old gas stations

    Those were the prices when I was in high school - ~1966. Even with my hot-rod 1965 Chevy I could buy $1 worth of premium and get by for date night.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Chances are you will be better off getting oxygen & acetylene tanks and *brazing* the repair panels in. Learning to arc-weld on very thin and rusty steel would be a very difficult task. I have been welding for several decades and I wouldn't want to try the arc-welding method on such metal.
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Can you provide the name of the YouTube video? I'd definitely like to see it. My dad finished the war camped just outside Pilsen, Czechoslovakia after liberating the city. "Every manner of vehicle was coming down the highway, from horse-drawn wagons to full-tracked vehicles. They had obviously...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Concerning the long-term viability of digital data: Beyond the multiple changes in format, which will make use of even moderately-old data impossible to read, my computer-science friends talk about a phenomenon called "data-rot" in which cosmic rays and other radiation cause the data and...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Around here (Nashville) the success or failure of malls apparently depends mostly on their location. Those in the more-affluent areas (three really big malls) have people waiting in long lines just to get off the Interstate to get to the malls. (I wouldn't sit in traffic lines that long if...
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    WONDER WOMAN

    Is there any connection between setting "Wonder Woman" during WWI and the present 100th Anniversary of US entry into WWI (1917-2017)? I'm glad you mentioned "stop-action martial arts" in "The bad" portion of the review. I can't abide stop-action martial arts, so I'll probably wait until the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A local saloon uses a variant of a WWII military acronym as its name: "FooBar" Considering the part of town it's in, and the nature of the locals, that name likely describes the bar's customers at the end of the evening.
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    What do you do for Living?

    If you work on performance vehicles for fun, you might want to consider mechanical engineering. You can work on performance vehicles and get paid for it. I went to engineering school partly for that reason myself. However, after graduation I went a slightly different route and kept the...
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    Small rewards?

    It couldn't be any cheaper, and people did it during the GE, and that's to take a longer and open-ended sleep. After a long and difficult project, extra sleeping is both therapeutic and rewarding. No alarm clock - just sleep until you wake up naturally... After sleeping and recovering, then buy...
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