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Originally Posted by Ronny Mahoni
Is this a blog or more of a well type thing?
Both.
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If the latter, what was the most entertaining/interresting production you did/worked for?
There have been several. On the entertaining side, my first Olympics, which was my first national gig, was a thrill. Lot of stories there.
Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants are always fun. In 1999 I was the edit supervisor in Trinidad for Miss Universe. They put the crew up at the same hotel as the girls. Hilarity ensued.
On the interesting side, I did a lot of work as a freelance instructor for a couple of the video equipment manufacturers. Those gigs sent me around the world meeting a lot of interesting folks.
In 1991, for a week I was cleared for unescorted access to the Launch Control Building at Kennedy Space Center to train the crew on a new editing system. After the first day of class, the supervisor gave me the tour of that facility including the launch control room, which was mission control for the Apollo Moon Missions, and the 50 story vehicle assembly building next door. After the next class I was driven out to a launch pad that was preparing for a shuttle launch, and was able to walk right under the shuttle engines.
Another fun training gig was at the Engineer training facility for a major railroad company. After lunch one day, I was given a 10 minute lesson on how to run a locomotive and thrown on the full sized simulator for the certification run. I was doing quite well till I got to a downhill portion of the run. I almost got knocked off my feet (with the instructor laughing) as it felt and sounded like I was getting rear-ended 8 times (8 car train).
The instructor neglected to inform me on how to handle downhill runs. Then he tells me you have to apply throttle to the engine and brakes to the cars at the same time to keep the cars from rolling into the engine.
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Edit: You only created the blog sub-forum so you can brag about your 8 Emmys. Confirm/denie?
Exactly, and waited 11 years to roll it out.