Rocket Scientists

This was a directory of Aerospace workers' personal e-mail addresses, created to allow fellow workers to look for and communicate with fellow space enthusiasts and co-workers without having to worry about abusing Government resources. Believe it or not there was a time that even sending e-mail that wasn't directly related to your daily job from your work e-mail could land you in a discussion with your manager and KSC security (you can probably guess how I know :-)).

The Primary link to this website is:
https://gandalfddi.z19.web.core.windows.net/

Some of my projects that I work on or have worked on:

Bliss and my Zen by riding my motorcycle hither and yon.
Collecting Space Shuttle documentation that I find around the Internet.
Adding to my videos about technology and Motorcycles
Pinning random thoughts and videos to Pinterest
Randomly tweeting thoughts about science and technology on Twitter
I have a Facebook account but I do not use it as the Facebook privacy policy violations have piled up too hight for my taste
Working on a few woodworking projects for the garden.
Creating ways to disrupt computers with the Rose Attack using Internet Protocol fragmentation.
While the Veilid Framework is MUCH better for anonymous transmission, I have created / suggested other ways to keep your packets private by routing using Anonymous Anonymity or encoding your HTTP traffic using Anonymous HTTPEncode.
The Fake E-mail FAQ / alt.spam FAQ, how to read e-mail headers and report e-mail that is abusive
The Troll FAQ describing what to do about trolls. TLDR - Ignore them. It seems that they are more prevalent every day. Especially on places like Facebook
Humor from a JSC sim instructor that blew up simulated shuttle missions on a daily basis:

My Dad is a Rocket Scientist (and all that entails)
The vacuum cleaner

Old geek humor,You know if you are an Internaut if ...

A little about Ken Hollis

While getting my degree in Math / Computer Science I was introduced to a professor at my school who had created a business, Rhiannon Software. She and her business partner had an idea for an adventure game. This computer game was unique as the target audience was for girls, all other games at the time were targeted for boys. She needed a programmer. So using their concept I programmed Jenny of the Prairie. The first computer game for girls. Thus started my career in programming.
For my first full time job Lockheed Space Operations

hired me to work on the Space Shuttle for the GLS (Ground Launch Sequencer) for Launch Countdown at Kennedy Space Center. I then moved in the company to work as the third shifter for the Main Propulsion System (MPS) / Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) and after many years I ended up as a Senior Engineer. While I was in MPS/SSME the company changed its name to Lockheed Martin Space Operations (LMSO)

and then to United Space Alliance

. I have been launch certified (Level I) for CMPS and CMPL. I was also standboarded level II (Test and checkout, basically not launch) for CSME and CCME.

I worked on four of the vehicles, Including OV-102 (showing me next to the wing of Columbia), which was affectionately known as the penguin ... A penguin no more indeed (The quote is near the bottom).

Most of my Real Work was done in the Firing Room. During launch I worked as a "NASA Technician loading the External Tank of the shuttle" (as NASA PAO puts it). The usual camera shots of the Firing Room are more like (as a friend put it) a picture of the New York Stock exchange. Sometimes (accidentally) a picture that almost looked like me appeared. Of course there are better pictures of friends like Bob Waterman. I supported landings both on console and at the runway. Sometimes I supported landing in California for ferry flight back to Florida at DFRC (Dryden Flight Research Center) and was able to see planes like the The SR-71 Blackbird (with Jim Drew a co-worker). You can also take a virtual tour at Dryden and look at the SR-71 Blackbird (and other planes).

My job at ARINC

working ACARS VHF

allowed me to visit interesting places like Thailand and China. I visited the Great Wall, where I wore my Shuttle Jacket. This is a little bit of geek humor. The Great Wall is one of the few man made things that can be (arguably just barely ... or not) be seen from the Shuttle.

Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and contempt for their elders and love idle chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants not the servants of the household. They contradict their parents, chatter before company. gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers. --attributed to Socrates c.450 BCE

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Blade Runner - Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) speaking to Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford).

"May you live in interesting times" - Ancient Chinese Curse

People like to belive they control their life in a logical and orderly fashion. Reality is that major life defining events like marriage and jobs are almost purely random events. - Ken Hollis

"You know, I'm barely interested in my own life. I don't know how you could be interested in it." -- Jerry Seinfeld

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you...

To Market
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety jog.
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

There is a Hidden Easter Egg hidden in my pages for you aspiring Hackers ;-)

Please send additions / deletions and corrections to me:

Username = "GandalfDDI"
E-Mail = "Outlook.Com"
Obviously to send me e-mail just put the preceeding two together --> Username@E-Mail (this is to minimize the amount of SPAM I get thank you)

Rev 20200111
Interesting e-mails you REALLY do not want to send to, trust me : Hmmm mm mm Mastodon