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Stagecraft Digest, Issue #745

 1. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
 2. Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB)
    by Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
 3. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
 4. Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB)
    by Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
 5. Re: Nixies
    by "Paul Guncheon" <paul.guncheon [at] verizon.net>
 6. Sarah Caldwell, R I P
    by IAEG [at] aol.com
 7. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by Jim Hyslop <theatre [at] dreampossible.ca>
 8. First computer (was Re: Sore spot..Scrabble)
    by "Michael Powers" <mptecdir [at] gmail.com>
 9. Conference question
    by "Bill Conner" <bill-conner [at] att.net>
10. Re: Nixies
    by Charlie Richmond <charlier [at] RichmondSoundDesign.com>
11. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" <stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com>
12. USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
    by "kosteral [at] juno.com" <kosteral [at] juno.com>
13. Re: ETC S4 Lense tube trade
    by "Riter, Andrew \(Head Ltg\)" <chanlights [at] exchange.ubc.ca>
14. Re: Conference question
    by "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" <stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com>
15. Re: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
    by "Don Taco" <taco [at] peak.org>
16. Re: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
    by Pat Kight <kightp [at] peak.org>
17. Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB) 
    by "chip.a.wood" <chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com>
18. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by "chip.a.wood" <chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com>
19. Re: Nixies
    by Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
20. Re: RP Material
    by Joe <joe [at] dunfee.com>
21. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
22. Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB)
    by Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
23. Re: Sore spot
    by Jim Hyslop <theatre [at] dreampossible.ca>
24. Re: Nixies, Pixies and CRT's
    by Jim Hyslop <theatre [at] dreampossible.ca>
25. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by David Duffy <david [at] audiovisualdevices.com.au>
26. Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
    by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com
27. Re: Conference question
    by Bill Sapsis <bill [at] sapsis-rigging.com>
28. Re: Nixies, Pixies and CRT's
    by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com
29. Re: RP Material
    by "Mike Katz" <narishkup [at] gmail.com>
30. Re: Conference question
    by "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" <stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com>
31. Re: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
    by Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
32. Why don't we have safety videos like this....
    by stuart [at] thedevilyouknow.ca
33. Re: Why don't we have safety videos like this....
    by "Elliott Family" <elliott [at] peak.org>

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Message-ID: <snS+7ODEgoJEFwlZ [at] ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:24:36 +0100
From: Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
References: <list-28811136 [at] prxy.net> <list-28814927 [at] prxy.net>
 <list-28826379 [at] prxy.net> <list-28827077 [at] prxy.net> <list-28827585 [at] prxy.net>
 <list-28832509 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28832509 [at] prxy.net>

In message <list-28832509 [at] prxy.net>, David Duffy 
<david [at] audiovisualdevices.com.au> writes
>The PicStart+ has always been boxed. You must be thinking of the 
>original PicStart16B or C which were the bare board but those haven't 
>been around for at least 10 years IIRC. I still have mine from a long 
>time ago. That was with the DOS only compiler, etc.David...

My first PIC programmer was the fairly expensive but still very 
affordable PicPro II.  It only programmed a few different processors 
very early in the PIC series (PIC16C54 EPROM based).  I've been using 
PICs for a while.

I just got the internal upgrade for my PicStart that allows it to 
upgrade via the serial connection instead of having to swap chips like 
when it first came out.

-- 
Clive Mitchell
http://www.bigclive.com

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Message-ID: <TWkhXTEfooJEFwgs [at] ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:33:35 +0100
From: Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB)
References: <list-28823999 [at] prxy.net> <list-28824686 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28824686 [at] prxy.net>

In message <list-28824686 [at] prxy.net>, Jerry Durand 
<jdurand [at] interstellar.com> writes
>There's also United Nuclear, sort of the opposite since you can buy 
>uranium there and my wife got several buckets of phosphors there.  Of 
>course, they've also received one of the CPSC decrees to stop selling 
>chemicals that could, possible, be used for making illegal stuff. 
>Interesting how only the smaller companies get these decrees, Fisher 
>Scientific sure hasn't.

Have you seen the size of their neodymium magnets?????

Hand held to say the least.  They come with warnings about carefully 
planning your route if you intend to walk from one room to another with 
one.  These would make short work of your fingers if one decided to get 
to know another in your hand.

-- 
Clive Mitchell
http://www.bigclive.com

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Message-ID: <KXy33mCHcoJEFwjW [at] ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:20:23 +0100
From: Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
References: <list-28811136 [at] prxy.net> <list-28814927 [at] prxy.net>
 <list-28826379 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28826379 [at] prxy.net>

In message <list-28826379 [at] prxy.net>, Jerry Durand 
<jdurand [at] interstellar.com> writes
>Too bad they couldn't put a little more quality in their software and 
>programmers.  Little details like having several different connector 
>pinouts, all called ICP, and maybe actually put a box around the 
>programmer and charge a little more.  Professionalism.

Ah, but if you get the Picstart Plus it comes nicely boxed.

The bare board is the affordable system for experimenters.

The software is a bit huge at first, but once you've got it doing what 
you need it's fairly intuitive.  It does try to be a bit too integrated. 
I don't like software that forces you to set things up as virtual 
projects.

My only niggle about PIC's is that infernal bank switching to access 
blocks of files.

-- 
Clive Mitchell
http://www.bigclive.com

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Message-ID: <n3m8$7DVmoJEFwkf [at] ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:31:17 +0100
From: Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB)
References: <list-28823999 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28823999 [at] prxy.net>

In message <list-28823999 [at] prxy.net>, Dale Farmer <dale [at] cybercom.net> 
writes
>Tired of those tacky looking homemade tinfoil linings in your hats to 
>keep the radiation out of your brain?  Here's the web site for you!
>
>http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html

Cool!  My existing home-made tinfoil underpants tend to cause excessive 
groinal chaffage.

-- 
Clive Mitchell
http://www.bigclive.com

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:33:24 -1000
From: "Paul Guncheon" <paul.guncheon [at] verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Nixies
Message-id: <001501c650d9$dc811450$0202a8c0 [at] HUNKACRAP>
References: <list-28834692 [at] prxy.net>


> Anybody else here interested in Nixie tubes?

Oh, yeah!!!  they are absolutely vital to the subject at hand!

C>

I'm guessing that would be a "No" for you?

This is not on topic (like ancient computers) either but quite cool:


http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1299/

Laters,

Paul

"I'm trying to get some air circulating up here just beneath the roof", said
Tom fanatically.



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From: IAEG [at] aol.com
Message-ID: <1bf.86d1fe.3157f788 [at] aol.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:56:24 EST
Subject: Sarah Caldwell, R I P


In a message dated 3/25/06 9:56:00 PM, dale [at] cybercom.net writes:

<< RIP Sarah Caldwell >>

as a former OPERA COMPANY OF BOSTON staffer., ., 

I read the obit in the NY Times with great interest, 

I have to say, who ever wrote it did their homework, the sort of incidents 
described in that article sound like a typical day there during my stay.  I was 
there during the disputes over the Imelda Marcos connection and remember 
vividly the "street theatre" of giant Imelda and Sarah ( both dressed as Carmen ) 
puppets used by the protestors on the Carmen opening night.

Although Sarah had her moments of brilliance, the entire Opera Company of 
Boston "experience" is a warning to all potential arts supporters /  funder, 
etc., of supporting an organization that's pure existence is dependent on the 
artistic visiton and creative and personal energies of a single person.

You could have easily called the organization The Caldwell Opera Company as 
it really was more about Sarah than it was about Boston, , or Opera, and gen
erally speaking organizations founded like that seldom have a life beyond the 
life of their founder.

Only one main stage opera, to my knowledge,  was ever produced by the OCOB 
where Sarah was neither the Stage Director or the Music Director / 
Conductor,(although others always did all of the musical prep, she only stood at the podium 
with the orchestra when full stage rehearsals started)  and that was caused 
only because of her illness.

That opera came in under budget, , on time, with no mental breakdown by staff 
or artists and received rave reviews from the critics.

Instead of continuing the rest of the season in that manner as her illness 
continued, the season was canceled.  To this day I feel it was the fear of her 
"lieutenants" that it continuing the season without Sarah would only show how 
badly she ran the company administratively and professionally and potentially 
erode their own power base as sitting at her "right hand"

I mourn her passing and pray that she has wonderfully creative opportunities 
in the ever after, but I hope that the example that her company set is not 
followed by others in the future.


best regards,

Keith Arsenault

International Arts & Entertainment Group
Tampa, FL

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Message-ID: <4426A02C.3070309 [at] dreampossible.ca>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:07:40 -0500
From: Jim Hyslop <theatre [at] dreampossible.ca>
Organization: Dreampossible Inc.
Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
References: <list-28818304 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28818304 [at] prxy.net>

FrankWood95 [at] aol.com wrote:
> to the manufacturer, the car I drive has 19 computers in it. Some of them are 
> very simple-minded, running things like clocks and displays; others more 
> complicated, running things like fuel consumption calculations, both instantaneous 
> and cumulative.

The more complicated ones are probably each more powerful than the
computers on the Apollo spacecraft. Scary thought, huh?

-- 
Jim Hyslop


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Message-ID: <58f67b0f0603260714i277f6e69pf7ab0e24b218c85e [at] mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:14:11 -0600
From: "Michael Powers" <mptecdir [at] gmail.com>
Subject: First computer (was Re: Sore spot..Scrabble)

 "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org> wrote:

<<Did anyone else learn machine language programming on a DEC Link-8
computer - core memory and all?  ....>>

My first computer class was as a college frosh in'63. Only one
computer for the entire class of course.  I don't have the slightest
idea what model or make it was.  The card punch machine was the
smallest piece of equipment at about the size of a small apaartment
cook stove.  The punch card reader was about the size of a single bed
and 4' tall,  the teletype style printer about the size of a small
soda vending machine and the actual computer took up a room by itself.
  The one thing that I do still envy was the lack of a rats nest of
cables all around.  Just one cable between each component,  of course
it was about 2" diameter, but still, it was only one!
--
Michael

Michael Powers
Director of Operations
Central Lighting & Equipment
1720 Fuller Rd. Suite 150
West Des Moines Iowa 50265
515-277-4190   877-977-4190
Fax  515-277-2295
515-557-0178  cell
michael [at] clelights.com

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Message-ID: <00fb01c650ef$62ef65e0$6501a8c0 [at] BCA1>
Reply-To: "Bill Conner" <bill [at] bcaworld.com>
From: "Bill Conner" <bill-conner [at] att.net>
Subject: Conference question
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:07:30 -0600

The USITT web appears to be down.  Does anyone know if there is an age limit 
for the exhibits?  My 13 year old wants to accompany me since he is on 
spring break.  (Kind of squelches the Tuesday night gig for me.)

Bill 


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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:15:00 +0100 (BST)
From: Charlie Richmond <charlier [at] RichmondSoundDesign.com>
Subject: Re: Nixies
In-Reply-To: <list-28836808 [at] prxy.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603261914230.17359 [at] viscount.richmondsounddesign.com>
References: <list-28834692 [at] prxy.net> <list-28836808 [at] prxy.net>

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Paul Guncheon wrote:

> http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1299/

Pretty kewl!  Do you program them with punch cards, too?

C

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From: "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" <stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com>
Subject: RE: Sore spot..Scrabble
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:00:36 -0500
Message-ID: <007c01c65107$91453290$7f9bfea9 [at] p3m866>
In-Reply-To: <list-28818327 [at] prxy.net>

My high school was still teaching students to punch cards for programming in
1982!  Then they sent the cards downtown, and results sometimes took more
than a week to come back.  Most of the time, the results were a one line
syntax error message.  Nothing was learned by anyone using that system.

Jim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft [at] theatrical.net] On Behalf 
> Of Charlie Richmond
> Sent: March 25, 2006 6:24 PM
> To: Stagecraft
> Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
> 
> For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see 
> <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, FrankWood95 [at] aol.com wrote:
> 
> > And us 60-somethings remember computers with valves 
> (tubes). You wrote 
> > your program on punched paper tape, with a teleprinter, and 
> gave it to 
> > the guy who worked the machine. The results came back the next day.
> 
> Hey!  I was doing that in California in 1969!
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 



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From: "kosteral [at] juno.com" <kosteral [at] juno.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:03:33 GMT
Subject: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
Message-Id: <20060326.110356.10574.576558 [at] webmail30.nyc.untd.com>

No-Host Stagecraft List Gathering at USITT

Bluegrass Brewing Company
636 East Main - Louisville
(looks to be ~7-8 blocks east of the Convention Center)

7:00 - 10:30 pm Tuesday 28 March 2006

Ask for the "Stagecraft Group"

Hawaiian shirts are optional.
See you there!

Allison Koster
LD/ATD
Carleton College
Northfield, MN


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Subject: RE: ETC S4 Lense tube trade
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:11:00 -0800
Message-ID: <0E0CDE94AC5F92428C823684D00244E602038F8D [at] exchange10.mercury.ad.ubc.ca>
From: "Riter, Andrew \(Head Ltg\)" <chanlights [at] exchange.ubc.ca>

Lon:

Contact Christie Lites Vancouver.  604-255-9943.  Talk to David Neal.
(Head of sales).  He runs an exchange/trade-in for S4 gear.  He will
give you a new S4 for a used S4 and $100 (Cdn, approx).  He then sells
the used S4 to a school, church, group with no budget for a really good
price (lots less than a new, full price S4).

I'm willing to bet that he would swap your lens tubes 1 for 1, or at the
least, for a low cost.

I'm sorry to hear that doing a return with your supplier is difficult.

I'm just glad the Cdn dollar is rising so much that the price of S4 is
dropping significantly!  Now if that could happen with Selecon!!

Andrew M. Riter
Head Lighting Technician
Chan Centre, UBC
604-822-2372
=20
***********************
You understand, we are tied down to a language which makes up in
obscurity what it lacks in style.
                            Stoppard, R&G are Dead
************************
=20
>=20
> Coming out of lurk mode to make a proposition.  We have 10 new Source
=3D
> Four 36degree
> Lens tubes as a result or an order mix-up.  Long story short,
exchanging =3D
> them through
> the supplier is a convoluted option.  We have need of 50degree lens =
=3D
> tubes instead.
> If anyone is interested in a swap I'd love to hear from you off list.
>=20
> Regards,
> Lon=3D20
>=20

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From: "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" <stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com>
Cc: bill [at] bcaworld.com ('Bill Conner')
Subject: RE: Conference question
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:12:10 -0500
Message-ID: <007d01c65109$2ebf1cb0$7f9bfea9 [at] p3m866>
In-Reply-To: <list-28839518 [at] prxy.net>

Most shows are limited to 18 and over, or 19 and over.  Not sure why, and it
has annoyed me for some time.  Sometimes I can sneak my daughter in,
sometimes I can't.  She likes to see what I'm doing but technically she
won't be allowed in for years.

I don't think USITT (or LDI, etc.) imposes this rule, it comes from the
exhibit space operators (and possibly their insurers).

Jim

 
> The USITT web appears to be down.  Does anyone know if there 
> is an age limit for the exhibits?  My 13 year old wants to 
> accompany me since he is on spring break.  (Kind of squelches 
> the Tuesday night gig for me.)



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Message-ID: <05a001c6510b$be878380$e28aaa43 [at] DonTaco>
From: "Don Taco" <taco [at] peak.org>
References: <list-28843398 [at] prxy.net>
Subject: Re: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:30:29 -0800

No-Host Stagecraft List Gathering at USITT
Ask for the "Stagecraft Group"

Hawaiian shirts are optional.


   Are you sure that's a good idea?  Most of this group, shirtless, would 
be, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? 


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Message-ID: <4426EBED.7040907 [at] peak.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:30:53 -0800
From: Pat Kight <kightp [at] peak.org>
Subject: Re: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
References: <list-28843398 [at] prxy.net> <list-28843835 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28843835 [at] prxy.net>

Don Taco wrote:

> No-Host Stagecraft List Gathering at USITT
> Ask for the "Stagecraft Group"
> 
> Hawaiian shirts are optional.
> 
> 
>   Are you sure that's a good idea?  Most of this group, shirtless, would 
> be, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?

"Interesting"?

-- 
Pat Kight
kightp [at] peak.org

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Reply-To: <chip.wood [at] ieee.org>
From: "chip.a.wood" <chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com>
Subject: RE: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB) 
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:00:40 -0700
Message-ID: <BDEPLAABBMODPEGKLIAPEENACLAA.chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-28823999 [at] prxy.net>

Then one I like is the Bio-Grounder car seat to lessen road rage.  Maybe if
I was more grounded I wouldn't get so mad at stupid drivers.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft [at] theatrical.net]On Behalf Of Dale
> Farmer
> Tired of those tacky looking homemade tinfoil linings in your hats to
> keep the radiation out of your brain?  Here's the web site for you!
>
> http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html


------------------------------

Reply-To: <chip.wood [at] ieee.org>
From: "chip.a.wood" <chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Sore spot..Scrabble
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:15:32 -0700
Message-ID: <BDEPLAABBMODPEGKLIAPMENACLAA.chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-28843322 [at] prxy.net>

Ah, yes, the good old days when you could tell a real programmer by the
number of boxes he carried to the Input window.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft [at] theatrical.net]On Behalf Of Jim at
--
>
> My high school was still teaching students to punch cards for
> programming in
> 1982!  Then they sent the cards downtown, and results sometimes took more
> than a week to come back.
>


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Message-ID: <Gy2k+zJVlvJEFwwj [at] ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:28:05 +0100
From: Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 [at] ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Nixies
References: <list-28834692 [at] prxy.net> <list-28836808 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28836808 [at] prxy.net>

In message <list-28836808 [at] prxy.net>, Paul Guncheon 
<paul.guncheon [at] verizon.net> writes
>This is not on topic (like ancient computers) either but quite cool:
>
>
>http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1299/

I bet it was still full of water when they took it out.  :)

-- 
Clive Mitchell
http://www.bigclive.com

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Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20060326203752.015364d4 [at] pop.paonline.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:37:52 -0500
From: Joe <joe [at] dunfee.com>
Subject: Re: RP Material

On 3/24/06, Patrick Immel <salukitd [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a small children's tour that I need to make a rp screen for.  I
> am wondering if anybody has had any luck using "home bought" 

  Translucent Shower curtains covered in front with black sheer (shear?)
curtains.

  I used this for rear-screen video on one kids production, but wasn't
really satisfied. It had a significant hot spot, and wasn't really bright
enough.  Different brands of shower curtain may give different results.  A
white curtain may also be better as long as you have a bright light source.

  The fabric chain, Jo Anns will special order the black shear curtains for
you, up to about 10' wide panels.

> Lighting conditions will generally be cafeteria / gym

  Gyms mean a lot of amient light, so you will need a VERY  bright source...
consider using overhead projectors if you aren't already.



  
Joe Dunfee  joe [at] dunfee.com
Gordonville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.


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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:44:41 -0800
From: Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
In-reply-to: <list-28835869 [at] prxy.net>
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At 04:20 AM 3/26/2006, you wrote:
>My only niggle about PIC's is that infernal bank switching to access 
>blocks of files.

Yes, well since these were originally intended more as programmable 
logic (I think General Instrument came up with these for printer 
hammer drivers), I'm impressed with how much you can do with them.

Our original DMX Converter box was based on a high-speed 
ripoff...err...very similar device made by another company.  The 
interrupts ran at 1uS and all peripherals were soft.

Now I mostly use the MSP430 line from TI.  These were intended for 
things like power meters, I designed one into a datalogger that won a 
Best of Show and TI said it was one of the first "other" uses of them.


-- 
Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.  www.interstellar.com
219 Oak Wood Way, Los Gatos, California 95032-2523 USA
tel: +1 408 356-3886, USA toll free: 1 866 356-3886
Skype:  jerrydurand



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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:49:02 -0800
From: Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
Subject: Re: No more tacky looking tinfoil hats!  ( Funny, WOB)
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At 04:33 AM 3/26/2006, you wrote:
>Hand held to say the least.  They come with warnings about carefully 
>planning your route if you intend to walk from one room to another 
>with one.  These would make short work of your fingers if one 
>decided to get to know another in your hand.

Some of these are amazing.  I sold a stack of about 50 VERY STRONG 
magnets on e-bay (left over from a research project).  I warned the 
bidders that you should never get your hand between these and a block 
of steel, I had the blisters to prove it.  The eventual buyer wrote 
to me and said he thought I was exaggerating, now he thinks I didn't 
warn enough.

I shipped them cross-coupled to each other so the box wouldn't stick 
to the wall of the FedEx (GROUND!) truck.  :)


-- 
Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.  www.interstellar.com
219 Oak Wood Way, Los Gatos, California 95032-2523 USA
tel: +1 408 356-3886, USA toll free: 1 866 356-3886
Skype:  jerrydurand



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Message-ID: <442703B2.3020708 [at] dreampossible.ca>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:12:18 -0500
From: Jim Hyslop <theatre [at] dreampossible.ca>
Organization: Dreampossible Inc.
Subject: Re: Sore spot
References: <list-28811829 [at] prxy.net>
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FrankWood95 [at] aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 25/03/06 13:04:01 GMT Standard Time, scparker [at] gmail.com 
> writes:
> 
> 
>>What's a cubit?!
>> Actually, if one searches the archives of this list, we've been down
>> this one before;-)
> 
> 
> It's the distance from fingertip to elbow.

That was a reference to Bill Cosby's "Noah" monologue. Something like this:

"Noah, this is God."
"Who?"
"God."
"Riiiight."
"Noah, I want you to build me an ark that's 40 cubits long."
"Riiiight. What's a cubit?"

-- 
Jim Hyslop


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Message-ID: <4427062F.1090107 [at] dreampossible.ca>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:22:55 -0500
From: Jim Hyslop <theatre [at] dreampossible.ca>
Organization: Dreampossible Inc.
Subject: Re: Nixies, Pixies and CRT's
References: <list-28821396 [at] prxy.net>
In-Reply-To: <list-28821396 [at] prxy.net>

Clive Mitchell wrote:
> For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here's a novel twist on a clock.....
> 
> http://www.timefracture.org/vectclk.html
> 
This clock suffers from what many digital representations of anolog(ue)
clocks suffer from - they do not move the minute or hour hand in between
the marks. At 11:22:43, the time shown on the clock, the minute hand
should be about 3/4 of the way between the 22 minute mark and the 23
minute mark. Similarly with the hour hand - it should be about 1/3 of
the way between the 11 and the 12. Otherwise, at 11:59, if you glance
quickly at the clock, you'll think it's 10:59.

-- 
Jim Hyslop


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Message-ID: <442706DC.6060608 [at] audiovisualdevices.com.au>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:25:48 +1000
From: David Duffy <david [at] audiovisualdevices.com.au>
Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble
References: <list-28811136 [at] prxy.net> <list-28814927 [at] prxy.net> <list-28826379 [at] prxy.net> <list-28827077 [at] prxy.net> <list-28827585 [at] prxy.net> <list-28832509 [at] prxy.net> <list-28835867 [at] prxy.net>
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Clive Mitchell wrote:
> In message <list-28832509 [at] prxy.net>, David Duffy
> <david [at] audiovisualdevices.com.au> writes
>> The PicStart+ has always been boxed. You must be thinking of the
>> original PicStart16B or C which were the bare board but those haven't
>> been around for at least 10 years IIRC. I still have mine from a long
>> time ago. That was with the DOS only compiler, etc.David...
>
> My first PIC programmer was the fairly expensive but still very
> affordable PicPro II.  It only programmed a few different processors
> very early in the PIC series (PIC16C54 EPROM based).  I've been using
> PICs for a while.
>
> I just got the internal upgrade for my PicStart that allows it to
> upgrade via the serial connection instead of having to swap chips like
> when it first came out.


Yeah, I upgraded my two PS+ units as soon as they came out.
New versions of MPLAB even check and suggest when newer
firmware is available. Very handy and only takes a minute to do.
David...

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From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com
Message-ID: <34f.b59316.31586747 [at] aol.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:53:11 EST
Subject: Re: Sore spot..Scrabble

In a message dated 26/03/06 21:15:59 GMT Daylight Time, chip.a.wood [at] gmail.com 
writes:

> Ah, yes, the good old days when you could tell a real programmer by the
>  number of boxes he carried to the Input window.

Imagine how many it would take for Windows!

Frank Wood

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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:05:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Conference question
From: Bill Sapsis <bill [at] sapsis-rigging.com>
Message-ID: <C04C7A5A.AD76%bill [at] sapsis-rigging.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-28843549 [at] prxy.net>

The website says "Children under 12 are not allowed at Stage Expo."

Bill S.
www.sapsis-rigging.com
800.727.7471
800.292.3851  fax
267.278.4561 mobile

Join the Long Reach Long Riders on their 3rd annual cross country charity
motorcycle ride.   <www.LRLR.org>






On 3/26/06 2:12 PM, "Jim at TheatreWireless.com"
<stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com> wrote:

> For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Most shows are limited to 18 and over, or 19 and over.  Not sure why, and it
> has annoyed me for some time.  Sometimes I can sneak my daughter in,
> sometimes I can't.  She likes to see what I'm doing but technically she
> won't be allowed in for years.
> 
> I don't think USITT (or LDI, etc.) imposes this rule, it comes from the
> exhibit space operators (and possibly their insurers).
> 
> Jim
> 
>  
>> The USITT web appears to be down.  Does anyone know if there
>> is an age limit for the exhibits?  My 13 year old wants to
>> accompany me since he is on spring break.  (Kind of squelches
>> the Tuesday night gig for me.)
> 
> 



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From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com
Message-ID: <2cb.646f927.31586ce6 [at] aol.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:17:10 EST
Subject: Re: Nixies, Pixies and CRT's

In a message dated 26/03/06 22:23:24 GMT Daylight Time, 
theatre [at] dreampossible.ca writes:

> This clock suffers from what many digital representations of anolog(ue)
>  clocks suffer from - they do not move the minute or hour hand in between
>  the marks. At 11:22:43, the time shown on the clock, the minute hand
>  should be about 3/4 of the way between the 22 minute mark and the 23
>  minute mark. Similarly with the hour hand - it should be about 1/3 of
>  the way between the 11 and the 12. Otherwise, at 11:59, if you glance
>  quickly at the clock, you'll think it's 10:59.

I once wrote one that overcame this problem, and with a sweep seconds hand 
too. I might still be able to find the software. The trick is to remember where 
the hands are, and continuously re-calculate where they should be. If, within 
the definition limits of the screen these are different, you draw a new hand 
in the right place, and erase the old one. This is more complicated than it 
sounds, since you have to cater for hands crossing each other. It was good fun, 
though, and I was lucky to live in a time when doing fun things at work wasn't 
frowned on.


Frank Wood

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Message-ID: <7cd95e180603261458v12ff5339k26656db60f57dd3e [at] mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:58:01 -0500
From: "Mike Katz" <narishkup [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RP Material
In-Reply-To: <list-28772131 [at] prxy.net>
References: <list-28772131 [at] prxy.net>

Patrick, I used to use muslin heavily starched before any normal
theater could think about affording the gerrietts screen which was all
that was commercially available. We have done several drops that
incorporate rear projection using the same technique in the last few
years. Just use a seamless piece of medium weight muslin with many
layers of starch size. I suspect the crystals that form allow the
screen to work. It is not as good as a Plastic RP screen, but it does
work surprisingly well
Mike

On 3/24/06, Patrick Immel <salukitd [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> I have a small children's tour that I need to make a rp screen for.  I
> am wondering if anybody has had any luck using "home bought" materials
> rather than a pro rp material.  We will be, most likely, projecting
> static images.  Lighting conditions will generally be cafeteria / gym
> lighting.
>
> TIA,
>
> Pat
>
> --
> Patrick Immel
> Lighting and Scenic Designer
> Northwest Missouri State University
> patrickimmel.com
>


--
Mike Katz
Technical Director
MIT Theater Arts
617.253.0824

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From: "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" <stagecraft [at] theatrewireless.com>
Subject: RE: Conference question
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:01:52 -0500
Message-ID: <002401c65129$452995a0$6901a8c0 [at] p3m866>
In-Reply-To: <list-28847321 [at] prxy.net>

That's the lowest age limit ever!! Excellent!!

And this show is also one of the few where exhibitors are allowed to move in
their own stuff.  I greatly prefer this...

Jim
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft [at] theatrical.net] On Behalf 
> Of Bill Sapsis
> Sent: March 26, 2006 5:06 PM
> To: Stagecraft
> Subject: Re: Conference question
> 
> For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see 
> <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> The website says "Children under 12 are not allowed at Stage Expo."
> 
> Bill S.



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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:44:54 -0800
From: Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
Subject: Re: USITT & BEER! -- The Gathering
In-reply-to: <list-28843835 [at] prxy.net>
Message-id: <7.0.1.0.0.20060326174350.01f59008 [at] interstellar.com>
References: <list-28843398 [at] prxy.net> <list-28843835 [at] prxy.net>

At 11:30 AM 3/26/2006, you wrote:
>   Are you sure that's a good idea?  Most of this group, shirtless, 
> would be, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?

Yesterday we were at a fireworks training seminar and elsewhere in 
the building was a fashion show.  I mentioned that NOBODY would 
mistake the pyros for fashion show people.  :)


-- 
Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.  www.interstellar.com
219 Oak Wood Way, Los Gatos, California 95032-2523 USA
tel: +1 408 356-3886, USA toll free: 1 866 356-3886
Skype:  jerrydurand



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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:25:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Why don't we have safety videos like this....
From: stuart [at] thedevilyouknow.ca

European fork-lift safety video (or more likely...send-up of same)

Possibly not for meal-time viewing

http://tinyurl.com/2wk6h
http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000

Stuart B

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From: "Elliott Family" <elliott [at] peak.org>
Subject: RE: Why don't we have safety videos like this....
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:50:31 -0800
Message-ID: <000001c6516a$c08913b0$0300a8c0 [at] mdw>
In-Reply-To: <list-28857739 [at] prxy.net>

Wonderful! I needed to laugh! Thank you.

--John Elliott
Albany, Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft [at] theatrical.net] On Behalf Of
stuart [at] thedevilyouknow.ca
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:25 PM
To: Stagecraft
Subject: Why don't we have safety videos like this....

For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
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European fork-lift safety video (or more likely...send-up of same)

Possibly not for meal-time viewing

http://tinyurl.com/2wk6h
http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000

Stuart B


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