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  1. 1 hour ago, kennywtelejazz said:

     

    Well from the looks of things in your picture  , had  you been an actor , you could have put Tom Cruise out of Business ...

    What Happened ?

    Oh before I forget next time you are hanging out with Jane Seymour ! can you pick me up a jar of that crepe erase cream you have been using ?

    I want to give it a try ☺️

    Kenny

    Three ironies (said in a manner so they sound better than they probably are! ?). 

    Irony #1 - I had been accepted by the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis to fly F-14's.  I ended up not going when a relative informed me that I had grown too tall (6' 2" was the limit, Tom Cruise is far more suited even at the fake height of 5' 7" he claims to be; he's not!).

    Irony #2 - Down in San Diego around 1986, prior to working where the above picture was taken, I actually went out with a girl who had just dated Tom Cruise the prior week.  She said he was "short, pompous and annoying!" ?  We literally were working at a defense contractor across the street from the Miramar Naval Air Base at the time, and had  the clearances and base passes to go there.  I believe she met him on the base while he was either shooting or promoting Top Gun (I've been in the very tiny "nightclub" and I've seen the Top Gun plaque!).  Interestingly, I found out due to a "Command Change Ceremony" invite that my cousin had been the base commander at that time!  He chose to retire to fly for Delta instead of a star and ten more years (smart move!).  Wish I had known I could have gone across the street for a visit though!

    Irony #3 - I'm going out on a yacht this Saturday with the daughter of a Hollywood actor! ?  Ok, this is the "stretch" part: The "yacht" is a friend's 17-foot boat.  Her father actually was an actor and played a part in the movie the Gambler!  (That's all I know of so far. ?)

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  2. I've only been on a sub a couple of times (a BIG nuclear type out of Point Loma in San Diego - back when I was helping code the guidance system for the Tomahawk Cruise missile... Yay. ?).  All I can say is that the thought of being deep under water in that claustrophobic tin can scared the begeebus out of me! ?

    I don't even want to think about what those passengers were going through towards the end!  ?

  3. 7 hours ago, hockeyjx said:

    They are smaller  .WAV files.

    I'm now scrolling through 174,000(!) .wav files that Everything (the best search engine ever, and it's free!) has found on all my drives...

    It's definitely a trip through the past though!  Anyone remember DR-008 or Groove Maker?  And soooo many loop files!  Dang! ?

    I'll upload (and post a link to) and IR's that I find!

  4. Hmm...  I know I had some, but I can't seem to find them yet!  I hope they weren't on the 10 TB drive that died on me a couple of years ago! 

    Which reminds me to let everyone know to NOT use Carbonite for their backups!  After having them for many, many years, I found out after that disaster that they hadn't backed up everything!  Lots of directories structures and folders were created, but only the small text files had generally been saved!  I lost over 8 TB's of data and it took them over 37 DAYS to restore the 1.3 TB's that they had backed up!  ???

    Once again, I can't recommend Backblaze more!  FAST, accurate and does sooo much more!  My business partner and I liked them so much, we're both share-holders too!

    If you guys can let me know what file format the IR's uses I can search again!

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

    While the video is indeed embarrassing for those involved, I wonder if those people weren't intoxicated because some of them don't seem okay in a sense and this was filmed at an event. You can even see some of them holding bottles during their questions.

     

    Are you implying being intoxicated during the questioning or while in school?  ?

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