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Vindication! (Was: Re: notes on Mr.Pruden's things that go WHOOOOOSH!!!!!)
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Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:23:49 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Kirby Warden writes:
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> Hi! I didn't want to go through the hassel of making seperate posts to
> each of your new ships. Anybody else who is as lasy as I am, feel free to
> comment on Trevor Pruden's new ships via this post:-}
> Anyhow, despite the negative comments of my post for the MKIV I think
> you do a pretty good job with your ships.
> Quite honestly, (and please forgive me for my ignorance)I hakn't
> realised that Astro Lift and Trevor Pruden were one and the same!! Can you
> believe that? My comment on using an untrodden path for designs must have
> sounded strange considering the sheer number of ships in your Astro Lift line.
> I think your photos leave out a lot of detail in your models. Using
> your computer desk as the backdrop doesn't seem to help much either. From
> what I can see however, I like what you've done. Some people seem to be set
> off by blocky ships, but since the overall function of your vessals is that
> of cargo transportation...blocky is good.
:-)
Well, thank you very much. That makes me feel a whole lot better.
You know, when I was 18 I had to decide what type of engineering I was going
to pursue. In the end I chose "manufacturing engineering" because I entered
engineering school in 1992 (height of the recession - ie: few jobs with no
end in sight at the time), I was not a programmer at the time (ie: Comp and
elec were out of the question) and manufacturing had the most opportunites
upon graduation for mechanicals. But I did come THIS close (holds
forefinger and thumb apart 1/8th of an inch) from taking aeronautical
engineering. I really, really wanted to be an engineer for NASA. Ahh well,
we all dream... in the end I now have a friend who is a mechanical engineer
and is working for the Canadian Space Agency where she trains NASA
astronauts on how to work with the international space station's remote
manitulator, which she programed the execution path for one of the upcoming
missions. Life throws us curveballs, let me tell you! >:-P Right now I
work in the plastic injection molding industry. It fits well with my love
for Legos.
Anyways, my interest is not so much in the asthetics, although I am really
trying to improve on that, (*believe me!*). My main focus is functionality
and systems. If people would keep that in context, and the fact that I am
improving a design to achieve what I want, then things wouldn't be so bad.
But I still appreciate other people's comments, no matter how negative.
You do have to admit that I have improved greatly over that last few capital
attempts, non?
To sum it up, I do have a website: http://members.home.net/tpruden3/
For some strange reason, my website counter is not working, but Mark
Sandlin's is. And I have Fastcounter, like Mark. :-( Don't know what is
going on there...last count was 840. Not as good as Marks 25000+ of course,
but pretty good for two months with little advertising, I think.
If you read on of my earlier posts, my wife has my good camera for the week,
and my digital camera (which I used here) is a cheap, shoddy piece of animal
refuse. These pics are not my final pics, but just a few to give an idea as
to what I'm working on. I will delete the current pics when I get better
ones developed. Sort of the same process I have done before. Some my
previous designs got luke warm reviews until I took better pics, THEN the
detail came out. Like night and day!
Thanks for the good feedback! For a while there I thought I should pack it
in altogether. And then what would I do? Take a cooking class, I suppose...
;-)
~Trev (Da Head Cheese)
Astro Lift Co.
"Where Space Commerce Begins With You!"
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