Author Topic: Enter the Matrix (Read 14889 times)

Steve Helmick · « **Reply #100 on:** April 16, 2012, 07:47:15 PM »

I don't know anything about any Matrix movies...I thought they were a small Toyota. But the paint job is very cool, even if I don't understand it. The cowl scoop shape is extremely nice.

Steve

Mike Keville · « **Reply #101 on:** April 16, 2012, 07:51:38 PM »

Quote from: Steve Helmick on April 16, 2012, 07:47:15 PM

I don't know anything about any Matrix movies...

Same here. Watched one once...for about an hour. Couldn't make any sense out of anything they were trying to say. (But then I'm an old fart.)

Nonetheless, Derek's model is an awesome example of workmanship.

PJ Rowland · « **Reply #102 on:** April 16, 2012, 08:16:41 PM »

The original Matrix movie is considered my many to be comfortably inside the Top 20 in many lists.

Alongside Shawshank redemption and Shindlers List.

Here is a quick Storyline courtesy of IMDB

Matrix (1999 )

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix, which is how we currently see the drudgery of modern day life. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.

dale gleason · « **Reply #103 on:** April 16, 2012, 08:41:50 PM »

"If it ain't a Martin, it ain't a Dreadnaught".
C. Prompt

Mike Keville · « **Reply #104 on:** April 16, 2012, 09:28:44 PM »

The "Shawshank Redemption" is easily understood. The "Matrix" stuff is not. Sorry, but I just don't get it.

Superb model, nonetheless.

RandySmith · « **Reply #105 on:** April 16, 2012, 09:33:08 PM »

Quote from: dale gleason on April 16, 2012, 08:41:50 PM

"If it ain't a Martin, it ain't a Dreadnaught".
C. Prompt

It s a Dreadn O ught Dale not a Dreadn A ught

Besides several Guitar companies make really Great Sounding Dreadnaughts besides Martin, I have several here.....plus Martins

Regards
Randy

john e. holliday · « **Reply #106 on:** April 17, 2012, 09:45:14 AM »

You guys have left out one important factor in all this mess. The sixth man has stated he will not be at VSC any more as he is going for the NATS, Team Trials and the Worlds. I truly hope he does it, just to show the kids what work and perserveirance can do.

Doug Moon · « **Reply #107 on:** April 17, 2012, 10:13:20 AM »

Who is the sixth man?

john e. holliday · « **Reply #108 on:** April 17, 2012, 10:14:06 AM »

Look at last years NATS results.

Derek Barry · « **Reply #109 on:** April 17, 2012, 10:37:31 AM »

Quote from: john e. holliday on April 17, 2012, 09:45:14 AM

You guys have left out one important factor in all this mess. The sixth man has stated he will not be at VSC any more as he is going for the NATS, Team Trials and the Worlds. I truly hope he does it, just to show the kids what work and perserveirance can do.

Tell him to bring it on! The "kids" are ready...

Derek

PJ Rowland · « **Reply #110 on:** April 17, 2012, 12:32:32 PM »

or trying to get ready........

Doug Moon · « **Reply #111 on:** April 17, 2012, 01:20:35 PM »

Quote from: PJ Rowland on April 17, 2012, 12:32:32 PM

or trying to get ready........

NO.....

We ARE ready.

proparc · « **Reply #112 on:** April 17, 2012, 02:38:44 PM »

Quote from: Doug Moon on April 17, 2012, 01:20:35 PM

NO.....

We ARE ready.

Their you go-the attitude of a Champion!!! You would make Bob Lampione proud with that statement.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #113 on:** April 17, 2012, 03:00:50 PM »

Mike,

The Matrix is easily understood ... you just have to be under 60.

Mike Keville · « **Reply #114 on:** April 17, 2012, 04:28:22 PM »

<chuckle> Well, that explains it. That chance passed 12 years ago.

Mark Scarborough · « **Reply #115 on:** April 17, 2012, 04:52:37 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on April 17, 2012, 03:00:50 PM

Mike,

The Matrix is easily understood ... you just have to be under 60.

On a totally unrelated but tangental topic Randy,, On Book to of Honor Harrington series,, ( in 8 days reading time,, kinda slow reading lately)

Randy Powell · « **Reply #116 on:** April 17, 2012, 06:55:58 PM »

Off Topic-----

Mark,

Killer series. On Basilisk Station got me hooked.

Paul Wescott · « **Reply #117 on:** April 17, 2012, 09:07:42 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on April 17, 2012, 06:55:58 PM

Off Topic-----

Mark,

Killer series. On Basilisk Station got me hooked.

It's a totally killer series. And Looong too which is surprising considering the quality of the writing. The only thing missing is that in addition to being a baseball junkie, martial arts master, and sometime full-scale sailplane pilot, Honor Harrington should also be a control-line flyer too. Including Navy Carrier of course...

Paul

Mark Scarborough · « **Reply #118 on:** April 17, 2012, 09:24:39 PM »

wow common threads revealed,,
first it was the whole "Sig Sauer " discovery,,

now I find that there is a love of science fiction! specifically Weber,,, ( though I grew up with Ander Norton, Isaac Asimov, Rad Bradbury all before I was 14,,,)
I read the Bolo series,, at least all i can find,, then Randy was telling me about the Honor Harrington series,, THEN I discovered my sister , who is a SciFy Junkie, has the whole series,,, so now almost through book two,, with three waiting,,

Steve Helmick · « **Reply #119 on:** April 17, 2012, 11:21:06 PM »

Read "Mission of Gravity". It's not about Powell Stunt or Scarborough Stunt.

PJ Rowland · « **Reply #120 on:** April 18, 2012, 07:46:44 AM »

Doug.. you might be ready..

Some of us are not...

But we will be ready in 2013..

John Leidle · « **Reply #121 on:** April 18, 2012, 09:31:08 AM »

Randy,, I now understand why I didnt understand Matrix.
john

dale gleason · « **Reply #122 on:** April 18, 2012, 11:44:11 AM »

There's quite a plethora of verbiage on this thread, much of which is nonsensical to many. Sooo, I thought I would toss in something off-topic, misspelled, off the wall and irrelevant.

And Randy knew exactly what it was. This forum is truly a formidable think-tank.

dg

RandySmith · « **Reply #123 on:** April 18, 2012, 05:25:23 PM »

Quote from: dale gleason on April 18, 2012, 11:44:11 AM

There's quite a plethora of verbiage on this thread, much of which is nonsensical to many. Sooo, I thought I would toss in something off-topic, misspelled, off the wall and irrelevant.

And Randy knew exactly what it was. This forum is truly a formidable think-tank.

dg

yep !!

<------ was just messing with dale

billbyles · « **Reply #124 on:** April 18, 2012, 05:56:18 PM »

Quote from: dale gleason on April 18, 2012, 11:44:11 AM

There's quite a plethora of verbiage on this thread, much of which is nonsensical to many. Sooo, I thought I would toss in something off-topic, misspelled, off the wall and irrelevant.

And Randy knew exactly what it was. This forum is truly a formidable think-tank.

dg

Both "Dreadnought" and "Dreadnaught" are correct spellings & mean the same thing. When I was helping Frank Sanders build the Dreadnought Hawker Sea Fury for Reno racing in 1983 an aeronautical engineer working for McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach at the time named John McGuire came up with the name just about the time I was painting the airplane. A race car lettering/striping guy named Larry Fator did all of the lettering on the big airplane and it has been "Dreadnought" for the past 29 years. The color scheme (metallic silver with red trim) is one that Hawker used on its prototype airplane.

RandySmith · « **Reply #125 on:** April 18, 2012, 07:25:19 PM »

Quote from: billbyles on April 18, 2012, 05:56:18 PM

Both "Dreadnought" and "Dreadnaught" are correct spellings & mean the same thing. When I was helping Frank Sanders build the Dreadnought Hawker Sea Fury for Reno racing in 1983 an aeronautical engineer working for McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach at the time named John McGuire came up with the name just about the time I was painting the airplane. A race car lettering/striping guy named Larry Fator did all of the lettering on the big airplane and it has been "Dreadnought" for the past 29 years. The color scheme (metallic silver with red trim) is one that Hawker used on its prototype airplane.

Hi Bill
of course I was just yanking Dale's chain,, and I knew exactly what he was saying,, Dreadnought was a British battle ship many decades ago, a large Guitar, and an airplane, maybe even more things have been named dreadnought over the past 100 years...

The correct Spelling for mine is Dreadnought..... I don't remember any Dreadnoughts in the MATRIX

Maybe they need a 4th Matrix movie , and it needs to have a Dreadnought in it

Regards
Randy

PJ Rowland · « **Reply #126 on:** April 19, 2012, 09:03:54 PM »

I like the Dread-E-Nought.

RandySmith · « **Reply #127 on:** April 19, 2012, 10:10:33 PM »

Quote from: PJ Rowland on April 19, 2012, 09:03:54 PM

I like the Dread-E-Nought.

-E- is evil , you saw what the machine did with it in the Matrix !!!

Derek Barry · « **Reply #128 on:** April 20, 2012, 04:45:27 AM »

Quote from: PJ Rowland on April 19, 2012, 09:03:54 PM

I like the Dread-E-Nought.

I tried to use the Dread-E-Nought but I kept having motor stoppages and my Ice Lite 100 kept smoking then my Plettenberg Orbit kept losing the shaft, so the Matrix ate it and spat out the charred remains of the battery...

Derek