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  1. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I like that approach! Even if what comes out is Grandpa built it for the donkeys. I have fun watching this show but it's mostly for the footage of odd places in Argentina and stuff like that. I've taken to calling it "Hunting History on the Hitler Channel."
  2. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I'm aware of the Ronald Richter (?) "fusion" project, also rumored to have been a Zero Point energy project. Whatever it was it was both odd and probably didn't stand a chance of working. But I'm unaware of the South American A Bomb story ... as in the "supposedly" true one you mention above...
  3. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    The loony thing about this show is that there is "evidence" (as in the kind conspiracy buffs accept) that there was an A Bomb test or even two in Germany during the war. Now I don't actually believe this but there is proof that some far out types (Joseph Farrell and that sort) accept ... but...
  4. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Just some thoughts: While I respect your opinion and recognize that a peripheral environment of information does exist leading this to be a worthy subject for investigation, it's my opinion that it was tapped out years ago. I suspect that like many of these controversies, people in the...
  5. MikeKardec

    Woody Allen Film "Café Society"

    The movie was pretty to look at but not too much else. Great cast per usual. Kristen Stewart is back to brooding in Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk but she is also very good.
  7. MikeKardec

    Missing Java Sea WWII Wrecks

    Hmm. Is it possible that a current industrial power that did not have a steel industry prior to the beginning of atmospheric nuclear testing needed some "low background" steel for radiation detection devices? We get into thriller plot territory when we start thinking about a government needing...
  8. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Taking my own advice I hope to go over Dad's first novel (78 years sitting in a drawer while all that time he set record sales!), and gently impose a touch more adherence to structure while tying a couple of characters into the narrative a bit better. Both are hard to do without messing with...
  9. MikeKardec

    9mm or 45cal

    You are quite right but you got me doing some research because that's not quite what I meant. Here's what I found on the sort of load I was referring to -- http://www.handgunsmag.com/ammo/ammunition_hg_wickedwadcutters_200901/ There's a bunch of computer nonsense in the middle of the article...
  10. MikeKardec

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Ha! That reminds me of a couple of times when the pin that held parts of my clutch linkage broke. I don't know what it's called but this would be the cotter type pin that locks vertical to horizontal linkage parts together, once it breaks and the two parts disconnect the linkage drops away...
  11. MikeKardec

    9mm or 45cal

    It seems to me that there is a parallel between 9mm and .45 cal and certain edged weapons that were common prior to the early 19th century. A rapier, where the deadly part is the point rather than the blade, was very fast and it's wound very deadly (because of deep penetration) but it was not...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Here's another version of story structure that includes some notes on dealing with the same structural issues within an Act or a Scene: Story or Act Structure · Initiating Incident o Kicks off the critical aspects of an Act or Scene by destabilizing the situation. It puts a character...
  14. MikeKardec

    Grandma Goes to Hollywood, Classic Pics ...

    Here's a few more ... I have a few more "on the set" shots somewhere but they are not turning up. The last one is from the early 1930s, after she married my grandfather. He had trained AEF pilots during WWI, the Army wouldn't allow him to fight as he was from the Austro Hungarian Empire...
  15. MikeKardec

    Grandma Goes to Hollywood, Classic Pics ...

    The Wampas girls were "stars" and once you were chosen the studios would no longer let you work extra ... possibly for fear of diluting your "brand." It turned out to be a tough middle ground, noted as an up and comer but not yet having arrived at true stardom ... or even solid featured status...
  16. MikeKardec

    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

    I have yet to see this film or any other in this exact process, as far as I know only one or two theaters are showing it in 4k 120 3-D. However, I have seen Showscan, an old film process that ran 70mm film at 60fps. I have also seen regular 4K 3-D and 2K 60fps 3-D. I used to produce TV movies...
  17. MikeKardec

    Grandma Goes to Hollywood, Classic Pics ...

    In the early 1920s my mother's mother came to Los Angeles from Hot Springs, AR. She was one of the 1925 Wampas Baby Stars, a group selected as up and comers by Hollywood publicity types. For a few years she had a minor career in "pictures" before returning in her 20s to finish high school. By...
  19. MikeKardec

    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

    Wow! What an amazing, complicated, ambitious, film. Not for everyone and containing some problems but very, very, impressive. The story is intercut between moments covering Pvt. Bill Lynn's tour of duty in Iraq and the final day of what is essentially an Army propaganda tour celebrating his...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'm still working intermittently on my Great Structure Round Up. For my own purposes and looking at the work of mentors, text books and things I have written without initially planning the structure here's some of what I have discovered. Though I was taught to write in 3 Acts I quickly...
  21. MikeKardec

    Sold! Hitler memorabilia goes to Argentine buyer

    I'm laughing at your "Ouch!" I think the two sides of my family didn't really have a racial axe to grind in WWII, those that pitched in just did what was asked of them, sometimes a bit grumpily, whether that was fighting in Europe or working in an ammo plant. Most, I believe had left their...
  22. MikeKardec

    Sold! Hitler memorabilia goes to Argentine buyer

    Regardless of what I said, and the fact that I'm part Gypsy and part Jew, I agree with you. There is a certain lack of logic to it. At the same time, I'm not sure I'd choose to collect Roman swords specifically used to kill Christians or Chinese rifles used in the conquest of Tibet. It's okay...
  23. MikeKardec

    The Seven Basic Plots

    I wish I'd thought of this as I was writing the above: The book is sort of like the archeology of story, how the psychology of story has evolved from the days when human challenges were mostly external 'til today when they are often internal. At the same time it is a vastly convenient way of...

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