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Mon 30 Apr 2007

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Thu 26 Apr 2007

24 Hours of Flickr

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Because taking photos is, apparently, easier for me to do right now than write—and I originally wrote that as “write now than right”, so I’m not kidding, folks—I’m giving 24 Hours of Flickr some strong consideration. I’m already going to shoot a crapload of photos at the Eric Peters and Randall Goodgame show on Saturday night, and hey … I can take plenty of photos earlier in the day. And then heck, just fire up FlickrExport for iPhoto and cull the crappy shots later, right? Or maybe focus on taking fewer shots of higher quality? I find myself doing that more now that I’m more comfortable with my equipment. I mean, I’m just your average dink with the budget to buy a DSLR, but I sorta enjoy it. :)

Maybe it’ll snap me out of this creative funk I’m in.

Geof’s New Music: 22-28 Apr 2007

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I have nothing witty to write. My brain is mush. So, here’s what I’m listening to this week [or what I'm supposed to be listening to, but I hadn't rated much of it, so it's not been in the rotation]:

Last week saw me checking out a classic Springsteen album, a classic Fahey, and some bootlegs:

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Wed 25 Apr 2007

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  • Gruber explains why I bought Coda yesterday. [I was holding out, but then I saw 1) introductory discount + 2) Transmit discount. They hit my price-point.]

Tue 24 Apr 2007

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Tue 17 Apr 2007

Godspeed, Dr. Bower

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Dr. Mark V. Bower, PE The sad news spreading through the UAH community today is the untimely passing of Dr. Mark V. Bower, PE, associate professor of mechanical engineering and the MAE department chair. Dr. Bower wasn’t the chair when I was a student, but I did have him for a class, and I knew of his character far longer than that. Dr. Bower was one of that cadre of educators that really cared for the students at his university. Even before I had him for class, he always had a cheerful word for folks he met in the hallway.

I’ll definitely miss him, as will the larger UAH community at large.

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Mon 16 Apr 2007

Corporate Press Release

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 15:31

Well, since Yahoo! has this, I guess it’s safe to post.

LOS ANGELES, California — April 16, 2007 — Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) today announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., has been awarded a $5 million contract by the Cargo Mission Prime Contractor, Lockheed Martin, to manufacture Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism (FRAM) carriers that are used to release payloads from the Space Shuttle Cargo Bay.

Under the contract, Teledyne Brown will build a Large Adapter Plate Assembly (LAPA) and multiple EXPRESS Pallet Adapters (ExPAs). The LAPA will be used to transport Large Orbital Replacement Units such as pump modules to the International Space Station (ISS). Because of their design, the LAPA and ExPAs allow robots to pick up and move the carriers without an astronaut leaving the ISS.

The scope of work includes precision machining of aluminum components and final assembly, system engineering and integration, quality assurance as well as safety and mission assurance. All of the hardware will be manufactured at Teledyne Brown’s facilities in Huntsville, Alabama.

“This contract is the result of a competitive procurement for hardware that fits well with Teledyne Brown’s experience and core capabilities,” said Robert Mehrabian, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Teledyne Technologies.

Teledyne Brown is one of two companies in the United States that has manufactured this hardware. Since 1999, the company has built 18 systems that include several versions of this hardware.

Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated electronic components, instruments and communication products, systems engineering solutions, aerospace engines and components and on-site gas and power generation systems. Teledyne Technologies has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada. For more information, visit Teledyne Technologies’ website at www.teledyne.com.

Looks like good work to me … :mrgreen:

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Sun 15 Apr 2007

Geof’s New Music: 15-21 Apr 2007

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Not only am I powering through Springsteen this month—and this week is probably the peak, as you’ll see—I’m getting into John Fahey as well. I’m taking the advice of my friend Derek Webb, who has said several times, “If you want to get to know the music of someone you really like better, find out who they like.” At the time, he was talking about Wilco and Woody Guthrie’s influence on them, and for his fans, he could just as well be throwing them a bone in having them listen to The Beatles, who are definitely strongly influencing him right now. [I know, it sounds cliché, but it's working, folks.]

Anyhow, the Fahey comes from my love for M. Ward, who famously patterned Transfiguration of Vincent after Fahey’s The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. I’m hoping to be blessed by this. On to the music:

Last week turned out to be excellent:

Idle Thoughts on the Reds

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Today, I was watching the Reds when I had this idle thought:

Thinking that Josh Hamilton : 2007 Reds :: Brandon Phillips : 2006 Reds, in terms of forcing himself into the lineup. Move EdE to 1B!!!

In terms of what I’m thinking here, it’s:

  1. Install Josh Hamilton as the everyday CF.
  2. Move Ryan Freel from CF to 3B.
  3. Move Edwin Encarnacion from 3B to 1B.
  4. Bench the Jeff Conine / Scott Hatteberg platoon.

Now, I’ve been mulling on that more as the afternoon has worn into the evening [and I finished watching the Reds shut out the Cubbies 1-0], and I think that would work, but:

  1. It still has Ryan Freel being an everyday player, and I don’t really think that’s the way for him to be best utilized. I still think he’s best as a super-sub who gets four starts a week while the Reds regularly rest Junior, Dunn, Encarnacion, and Hamilton.
  2. It puts Freel, whose game is hustling and being a pest, at what is a prime power position in MLB. Granted, individual lineup construction on a per-team basis can overlook things like this, especially when you have an outfield of mashers like Dunn, Hamilton, and Griffey. [They're everything that D-G-Kearns was supposed to be, without all of Austin's injuries.] But it’s still sub-optimal, even when there’s prior art in terms of Tony Phillips and [more recently] Chone Figgins.
  3. It takes an infield liability at 3B [Encarnacion] and shifts him to 1B, where he’s not really guaranteed to be much better.

So then I had this thought:

  1. Install Hamilton as the everyday LF.
  2. Move Dunn to 1B.

I love the Big Donkey. I’ve had an Adam Dunn batting practice jersey since his first full season in the bigs. I gave him a break when he sulked after Kearnsie was traded last year. [Hey, I was sulking, too, because ... who trades two lineup regulars for two relievers and a couple of spare parts, even when those regulars are Kearns and Lopez, guys unlikely to make you really regret the trade in the future?] But as much as I’ve lamented his OF defense in the past, I think he’s improving now, and I wonder how badly he would react to an in-season move to 1B. I think it’s his eventual position—allowing him and Brook Jacoby to focus on his hitting—but I think that he’s the kind of player that can really use an offseason of learning how to move around the bag. I think that Dunn could be the kind of 1B that Derrek Lee is if he put the time and energy into it—he is certainly athletic enough, and working on footwork should be a natural for a former QB—but I think that he needs an offseason to do that.

Yes, yes, there’s Joey Votto to be concerned about down in AAA. Votto may be a stud, but … crap. Hamilton has essentially missed four years of baseball while dealing with his demons, never had played above AA until this season, and is mashing like he’s … well, the #1 pick he was coming out of HS. There’s small sample size to be concerned with—I’m judging his performance on spring training and two weeks in the bigs—but I have this nagging feeling that Hamilton is here to stay. I also think that he deserves the full-season trial to prove that, too. To really get a fair shake—as Phillips got last year—he needs to be in the lineup all the time. That’s going to mean rearranging the deck chairs, and that puts someone over at 1B to displace the platoon and relieve the crowding in the outfield.

Hey, who wants Hatteberg and Conine for a fourth OF who’s a fly-catcher? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

Geof’s New Music: 8-14 Apr 2007

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As many of you have noted to me, I’m … not blogging much. And that even means being a slacker about the music. But I’m listening, even when not posting.

Last week, I continued with some Springsteen and some good bootlegs:

Last week the week before last began my month of Bruce Springsteen’s back catalog:

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