Tuesday, February 20, 2007

One New Picture for Tonight

The latest in exotic Arab fashions is the male burkha. It makes you wonder why Arabs aren't cold weather people, since they already know how to dress like this.

This is how I dress before going out to open up the optical tracking stations. As I mentioned before, it is a 2 man job (I would say 2 person, but there are only us guys on the project up at the range), and we strive to do everything to start the systems with no more than 20 minutes exposure per site. Most of the time we can do it.

Today I operated a tracking station for the first time with an aircraft flying overhead. I failed miserably. I guess when I was playing Guitar Hero on the PS2 I should have been playing a game that taught me how to use a joystick. Well, tomorrow is another day.

Can you tell that those gloves are 20 years old?

I will try and do a couple of more posts tonight to answer some specific questions from the comments for everyone to see.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tim, now you are making me feel guilty that you spent too much time on the Guitar Hero guitar instead of on a joy stick. Actually , you can play Guitar Hero with the Joy stick controller, but it is near impossible to do (says Morgan). Sooo you can keep your guilt trip. If any thing, your handling the stick should be like the fret bar, no white knuckles, just relax...
Hell, I don't blame my bad landings on Guitar Hero ( I always say the sun is in my eyes!!!)

Tim said...

Don't feel guilty. Today I had another chance and I KILLED. I tracked the CF-114 tutor all over the place, it turns out the GPS coordinates of my system were off so I never had a chance yesterday.

Anonymous said...

GPS coordinates off? Sounds pretty close to "sun in my eyes" to me...RKW