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[Alelou]

Normal weight to overweight on film equals anorexic to normal weight in real life.

[justTripn]

The film with Bill Pullman I worked on in September 2006 opened today in Vegas. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpNx8pksCo they actually show my scene for exactly 4 frames around the 15 second mark

Wow, that's some trailer. OK, I'll bite. I want to see that movie.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

At first glance I thought you were wearing those Trip NOT.DEAD. t-shirts!

[TPoptarts]

^ LOL actually that's Bill Pullman on the shirts

The film with Bill Pullman I worked on in September 2006 opened today in Vegas. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpNx8pksCo they actually show my scene for exactly 4 frames around the 15 second mark

Wow, that's some trailer. OK, I'll bite. I want to see that movie.

Yeah I wanna see it too. Just for my scene though because the whole thing doesn't really look like my type of film. But they're not gonna give us copies and I don't really know if it's ever gonna get to like wider distribution to get a torrent download or something, maybe when the DVD comes out (whenever the hell that's supposed to be) but still I'm not sure because it's not a wide distribution. Any chance your husband could get his paws on a decent copy?

[justTripn]

Here we are at the Texas Star Party. Those are all the Pittsburghers. This is like day two. We were high on astronomy! You can tell by the smiles.

[justTripn]

I am smiling:

[JadziaKathryn]

Wow, you were awake in the daylight and everything! It looks like fun, and if possible I'd quite enjoy seeing a couple pictures of the sky.

[justTripn]

Those cards I am holding are actually star charts, "Astro Cards." They are produced by Bob Kepple, the guy to the right on the front step. I believe it was the evening and we are preparing for a night of observing.

Bob and the guy to my right wrote a two-volume book on deep sky observing: the two volume Night Sky Observers Guide, so they are minor celebrities and awfully helful. They are actually former Pittsburghers. They each moved to Arizona for better skies. So we were observing with EXPERTS.

There is a picture of the sky I hope to post, but I have to get it off someone. I didn't take any astrophotograhy myself (or any pictures at all)

Two of our group, Dan on the far left and another Bob in the middle in the black shirt, brought all the scopes from Pittsburgh (mine included) down to Texas in an UNAIRCONDITIONED van. The rest of us just flew in. These are wonderful people!

I'm wearing a nerdy t-shirt so I can be identified as an amateur astronomer, not an amateur astronomer's wife. There weren't that many unaccompanied women there. But there were like 8 women there more intense than me. And I MET THEM! It was so cool. There was a surreal moment there at the end where I'm standing in the bathroom of the woman's bunkhouse describing the amazing view I got of the of the galaxy M101 the night before, and how I never know you could see so much detail, including clumps of starforming regions, and the other woman goes THAT"S WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT and runs and gets her star charts of the galaxy and lays them out on the sinks. Only at the Texas Star Party.

BTW, in Pittsburgh, M101 looks like a "thumbprint on the lens." In Texas it has distinct spiral arms and clumps of starforming regions.

[Asso]

Pretty pictures, justTripn.

[Alelou]

Yep, thanks for sharing the pictures and the experience. I can just see that sink conversation. Isn't a shared passion a wonderful thing?

[TPoptarts]

Whoa sounds like you had a lot of fun

[blacknblue]

And here I was thinking that the flock of geezers were all grinning because you were standing in amongst them. You mean they were really that excited about astronomy? Amazing...

*shakes head*

[justTripn]

Hey! They guy right beside me looks like Patrick Stewart, a little. (More so in real life)

[Elessar]

A girl in The Boys Club... they were in love

[justTripn]

I'm Vice President of the boys club.