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Nice Ego-boost

Pirates of Mars
I was recently profiled in ABA Banking Journal under their "First Person" section. This is the nice "human interest" story you see on the back pages of a lot of professional magazines. They also ran this photo with the article:  I'm quite pleased!

ETA: here's a more web-friendly link to the article:

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Photo copyright: ABA Banking Journal American Bankers Association 2013; designed by Emily Cocheo.

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bogwitch64
Feb. 27th, 2013 06:41 pm (UTC)
That is a GREAT pic!!! You should have it framed and put it up in your home.
chris_gerrib
Feb. 27th, 2013 06:59 pm (UTC)
Alas, the house is for sale right now, and I think my real-estate stager would have a fit if I did that!
baron_waste
Mar. 3rd, 2013 08:45 pm (UTC)

Down at the Kennedy Spaceflight Center they had a setup like the old Coney Island beach cut-outs, where you and your sweetheart put your faces through openings and your picture is snapped.

In this case, there are two pressure-suited figures seated in a Lunar Rover parked on the lunar surface - and it's my wife Linda and myself, our smiling faces clearly visible through our suit visors!

That was a long time ago. I hope they still have it, but now it's probably done digitally with no physical mockup.

I always liked those brute-force solutions. Back in Surveyor days, to get the most bang for their buck they used fisheye lenses, but then what? Well, simple: You paper the inside of large hemispherical displays with printouts of the images! The distortion is reversed, and you have a large panoramic view.

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