This has been discussed in a lot of off topic and unrelated threads so lets put it all together here. Dayton is this Thursday. Who's going?
I'll be leaving work around 4:00 and making my way there. I should arive around 5:30 depending on traffic.
See you there.
[ November 20, 2003, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: beatnix19 ]
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
As you know I will be there about the same time. Look for a tall geeky looking guy with Crystal City in his hands. Early 40's with dark hair going grey.
msquared
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
quote: geeky looking guy with Crystal City in his hands
No offense to the great people on this site but... Isn't this kind of like a blade of grass saying "I'm the long green one"
Along the same lines, I'll be the short guy with glasses, a balding buzz cut and a soul patch. I've also decided that I'll probably be wearing a star wars t-shirt that says "let the wookie win" just to be more easily identified by anyone who cares.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
i'll be the girl that looks like i'm trying to be a geek. *sigh*
i'm also shooting for 5:30ish.
so is it just the three of us?
[edit: and i actually WON'T be holding a copy of The Crystal City...it's not in the budget.
[ November 18, 2003, 01:36 AM: Message edited by: fiazko ]
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
I might carry a sign that says Hatrack on it. Look for me. I am tall, 6'4" and medium build.
msquared
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
One of the things that hold me back from introducing myself to other members of hatrack, is the fact that my screen name is very hard to pronounce, I guess. So, its cyrus, as in billy ray cyrus, eh, as in canandian eh?. Cyruseh. Anyways, I'll probably show up around 5:00 to 5:30. I'll probably have a box on me, with all my analogs, that I want to have signed, and a couple other books I have aquired since the last signing. Blonde hair, brown beard. Maybe wearing a shirt that says, "camp golgotha".
Hope to see you there! (behind me in line, of course )
[ November 18, 2003, 08:49 AM: Message edited by: cyruseh ]
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Are you coming to the Dayton signing?
I am actually going to wait until the end to get my book signed. I am going to bring a book along that I am going to give to OSC so that he can read it. It is about the inventors who lived in Dayton around the 1900's. I always thought that Dayton was a City of Makers.
msquared
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
That books sounds interesting. Any major/important inventions come out of Dayton?
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
msquared,
Though I am from cincinnati, I share some of the fondness for dayton, but it really is for all of ohio. Ohio is the best state, period.
Usually, I would go up to the dayton one as well, as I did last time, but this year, I will have a class on thursday night, so will not be able to go. Friday it is!
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
major inventions out of Dayton??? aeroplanes for starters!!
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
Well, i guess you could argue that point, but the wright brothers certainly brought airplanes in to the public arena.
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Ok, other than the obvious, are their any major/important inventions from Dayton. Sorry, I have family in Dayton and kind of take the Write brothers as a given. Expl: Write State & Write Patterson AFB. I am not a complete moron, although my wife would argue that.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
List of Dayton inventions:
Dayton has a rich heritage of innovation and creativity. The Wright Brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar are not the only pioneers who used Dayton as their creative breeding ground. Here are some of the Dayton-based inventions and people that have helped change the world.
Vincent C. Apple - Isolated home/farm electric lighting system John Balsley - Stepladder Rufus Currier Bossard -Photoelectric cell - the black light John Birden and Kenneth Jordan - Radioisotopic thermoelectric generator for spacecraft Frank Caldwell- Controllable pitch propeller Carl Carlson - Microfiche Dr. William Hale Church - Cellophane tape E. R. Churchwell - Collapsible portable crib Leland Clark - Human heart-lung machine Luzern Custer - Motorized wheelchairs Tom Edwards - Walker attachment for wheelchairs E. T. Fraze- Pull tab and pop top beverage cans Arthur Frei - Ice cube tray with ejector mechanism Harvey Dunn Geyer - Automotive & refrigeration equipment Lt. Col. Roger Gounard - Smart fan - operates based on changes in temperature Barrett Green - Micro-encapsulation Wayne Hardy - Goniometer - measures location of thalamus for surgery Max Issacson - Manually operated external heart machine and expiratory valve John Janning - Liquid crystal alignment methodology C. Francis Jenkins - Movie projector, movie camera, movie film and movie theatre Warren Kampf - Multiple array continuous ink jet printer Charles F. Kettering - Automobile starter and over 300 other patents F. D. Klein - 100 Octane aviation fuel Fred Kohnle - Price tag affixing machines Geoffrey Kruesi - Directional compass with dual radio beam triangulation system Maurice Krug - Space food Sidney Lambden - Flexible radiator hoses and wire impregnated sweeper hoses William Lear - Learmatic electrostatic gyroscope George H. Leland - Lighted scoreboard, Leland refractor, rotary and linear E. F. McDonald - Solenoid William McHose - Incentive stamps Alfred Mellowes - Self-contained refrigerator Thomas Midgely- Ethyl leaded gasoline John Morton - Parking meters Dr. Sanford Moss - Airplane supercharger Tom Payne - Official building mail chutes Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky - Electrically stimulated ambulatory motion James Ritty - Cash register Daniel Webster Schaeffer - Gas masks Henry Seeler - Portable breathing resuscitator Albert H. Smith - Computing scale for butchers and grocers Floyd Smith - Parachute John P. Tytus - Process of continuous rolling of wide strip steel manufacturing Orville & Wilbur Wright - Airplane, controls for rudder, elevator, wing lift shape
Other Inventions:
Airplane ejection seats Artificial heart Artificial kidney Automobile air bags Bionic Organs Blind solo flight Carbonless copy paper Chrome plating Double glass windows Electric cash register Farm lighting system Filter cigarettes Fixed-focus headlights Frost-proof freezer Fuzzbuster & radar detectors Ice cream cone Laser weapons Liberty engine Night serial photography Quick process malleable iron Room air conditioner Nuclear powered heart pacemaker Glass photographic negatives Instant blood-glucose level testing Computerized aircraft loading system
Just a few.
msquared
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
This book I am talking about is mainly about Kettering, James Cox, James Patterson of NCR and the Wright Brothers.
msquared
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
Im sorry beatnix, I thought that it had just escaped you, about the Wright brothers. no offense meant, I promise.
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
WOW! You take so many of those items for granted(spelling?) Sounds like a really interesting book. You'll have to let me check it out before you give it to OSC.
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
cyruseh -
None taken. Didn't mean to sound offended. some times I forget that people can't hear the tone of my voice as I type. But for future reference, I'm usually a smart a--.
[ November 18, 2003, 09:16 AM: Message edited by: beatnix19 ]
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
cyruseh, does that mean you will be at the Cincinatti signing?
I have talked to the lady at Barnes and Noble and I am supposed to call her on Thursday. She is going to set aside numbers for me for the group that is coming from out of town. Right now I think we have a total of 7, I can add you to the list for a guaranteed number if you want it.
Also you are welcome to par-tay or have dinner with us after the signing.
AJ
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
hmm, i was planning on going up there on thursday to see if i could get a number, but wasnt sure if they would give me one. Do you know what numbers shes going to reserve for you?
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
No I don't know exactly what numbers, she said to call her a day before, and she'd hold a block though. I'm of mixed emotions. I don't know if I actually want a really "low" number because I think it will be fun rubbing elbows with all the OSC fans.
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
Yes, I know what you mean, I figure i will be there for the whole event anyways... So im in the same boat as you. I guess, if you can, go ahead and add me to the reserve block. Thanks!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Will do. You'll have to find us when we get there though. You can e-mail me if you have a cell phone number and I'll send you mine so we can contact each other.
I wonder if we will all just be somehow magnetically drawn together without using modern technology but I'm not entirely willing to leave it up to chance!
AJ
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Well, Signing is tomorrow. Seems there are only going to be a few of us there from Hatrack. But just in case... Anyone else?
See you all there tomorrow!!!!!!!!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"I wonder if we will all just be somehow magnetically drawn together without using modern technology but I'm not entirely willing to leave it up to chance!"
I'm probably going to sound like a broken record -- anyone remember what those are? -- on this one, but I've often found it useful to bring balloons to gatherings of this sort. Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Records? Aren't those big black CD's with a bunch of groves in them? I think I saw one of those at a museum once.
Balloons? is this a serious suggestion?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
A balloon is an excellent idea. It's a relatively unusual item for a person to be carrying in a book store, so it's unlikely that there will be a lot of balloon carrying fans, but it's fairly easy to acquire, and would be visible from virtually anywhere in the crowd. It's a simple, cheap signaling device.
Does OSC ever mention Hatrack at these things? I've never been to one of his signings.
[ November 19, 2003, 12:46 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Koryu (Member # 5922) on :
quote: Rufus Currier Bossard -Photoelectric cell - the black light
I missed this. Ravers everywhere thank you, Ohio.
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
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