I am so, so very touched.

My good friend John Hopkins, current president of GANG, is as big a fan of the Apollo program as I am. We can trade Apollo stories all night. And John has been making me envious the last few meetings with tales of Virtual LM: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Lunar Module. I'm too pragmatic: I can never really picture myself as one of the Apollo astronauts. But the engineers of the program, those folks I can empathize with. My favorite episode of From the Earth to the Moon tells the story of the team who built the LMs. Well, this book is full of incredibly detailed design sketches and notes for the LM, as well as stories from the design and construction. And the bonus CD includes lots of photographs of LM test units, as well as operations manuals and checklists for the LM. It's a true delight.

Tonight, after my presentation at GANG, John gave me a copy of Virtual LM. So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank him publicly. This is truly a book I'll treasure.

I'll let you know when the slides and sample code for my presentation are up at the GANG site. I would post them on my site tonight; but I've got something else to occupy my time right now, thank you very much. (And thank John very much!)

When you explain to the interviewer at the new company that you're looking to work with new technology because the system at your current company is so well architected that there's just no reason for them to switch from the old technology, it always helps when the interviewer turns out to be the former architect for the current company.

It's a small world, after all...
It's a small world, after all...
It's a small world, after all...
It's a small, small world...