CompuServe Messages

Must be nice. The NASA Select people in Huntsville might have known about it being shown on CNN (if it really was) but all **I** heard about was the "Today in Space" show. About half of the time that I spent on the animation was in figuring how to make things work right. I had all four short sequences down as "rough drafts" after the first day (about 6 hours of work). The rest of the time was spent fixing problems and including suggestions from the people that looked at the rough work. I got bit once by doing the preliminary work at home. I ended up with a nice looking animation that had thin horizontal lines that flickered like mad when I saw them on the VGA Producer at work. I **did** get to do something that I've always wanted to do because of this project. I was getting calls from a place that wanted to sell me some home improvements. I wanted to talk to them, but they were getting kind of obnoxious, so we (truthfully!) told them that "I have a rush project at work and won't be able to meet with them until after the next Space Shuttle mission." They just about hurt themselves trying to promise that they wouldn't call for a couple of weeks. I just wish that I could use that line more often… Chris