[AG-TECH] Beer Symposium

Wed Jan 8 13:28:14 CST 2003

Ruhul,

You sound like someone who likes to climb to the "M" daily...

:-)

Michael Miller
Grizzly Alum
NCSA

>From: "Amin, Ruhul" <ramin at me.montana.edu>
>
>Don,
>
>As you know I was not born or raised in Montana, but I have been living in
>Montana for last 14 years.  Its mountains are beautiful but that does not
>mean we have to be such a risk taker.  It's beautiful to look at the
>mountains from the valley, exciting and challenging to hike up there.  And
>if you want an aerial view, as far as I am concerned, a commercial airline
>flight is much safer and should be enough!
>
>Ruhul
>
>********************************************************
>M. Ruhul Amin, Ph.D., P.E.
>Professor
>Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
>Montana State University
>Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
>Phone: 406-994-6295, Fax: 406-994-6292
>E-mail: ramin at me.montana.edu
>********************************************************
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barbara A. Kucera [mailto:bkucera at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:49 AM
>To: Terry Disz
>Cc: judson at mcs.anl.gov; 'Don Morton'; 'Michael Daw'; 'Sergeant A. G. Tech';
>'Western Education and Scientific Network (WESNet)'
>Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Beer Symposium
>
>Yikes, you guys! . . . do you recall John Denver's fate?  I worry about you
>and I'm not even your mother!
>
>Although I do understand the attraction for roaming about Montana in the
>air as opposed to up and down mountains, Ivan.
>
>Barbara
>------------
>
>At 10:42 AM 1/8/2003 -0600, Terry Disz wrote:
> >Check this out
> >
> >http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-crash02.html
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > > Behalf Of Ivan R. Judson
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:40 AM
> > > To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; 'Don Morton'; 'Michael Daw'; 'Sergeant A. G.
> > > Tech'
> > > Cc: 'Western Education and Scientific Network (WESNet)'
> > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Beer Symposium
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.sportcopter.com/
> > > For those interested :-)
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ivan R. Judson
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:17 AM
> > > > To: 'Don Morton'; 'Michael Daw'; 'Sergeant A. G. Tech'
> > > > Cc: 'Western Education and Scientific Network (WESNet)'
> > > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Beer Symposium
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I've been mildly interested in roto/gyro-copters lately.
> > > >
> > > > --Ivan
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Don Morton
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:33 AM
> > > > > To: Michael Daw; Sergeant A. G. Tech
> > > > > Cc: Western Education and Scientific Network (WESNet)
> > > > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Beer Symposium
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I think it depends how you define mechanical - one could
> > > > > argue that Daedalus and Icarus attempted "mechanical" flight
> > > > > - trim those feathers and wax, boys!
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, in particular, I had airplanes in mind, though there
> > > > > are many different mechanisms an AG symposium could address.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:57:15 -0000, "Michael Daw"
> > > > <mike.daw at man.ac.uk>
> > > > > said:
> > > > > > Point of information - is this flying with or without mechanical
> > > > > > assistance?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > > > > > > Behalf Of Don Morton
> > > > >
> > > > > > > Sent: 08 January 2003 01:54
> > > > > > > To: Sergeant A. G. Tech
> > > > > > > Cc: Western Education and Scientific Network (WESNet)
> > > > > > > Subject: [AG-TECH] Beer Symposium
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > OK, so at least I got your attention.  We're approaching
> > > > > the first
> > > > > > > anniversary of the First Annual AG Symposium on Beerology.  My
> > > > > > > interests lately have shifted from drinking beer to learning
> > > > > > > EVERYTHING there is to know about flying (and hunting, fishing,
> > > > > > > backpacking, etc., etc.)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Surely there must be a huge number of you out in the AG
> > > > community
> > > > > > > with such interests - anybody wanna have an AG symposium
> > > > > on flying
> > > > > > > sometime in February?  In particular, how many of you out there
> > > > > > > would contribute, or have pull with people who would contribute?
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  **************************************************************
> > > > > > >    Don Morton
> > > > http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
> > > > > > >    Department of
> > > > Computer Science       The University of Montana
> > > > > > >    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax
> > > > (406) 243-5139
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  **************************************************************
> > > > >    Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
> > > > >    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
> > > > >    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
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>National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
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Thanx,

Michael Miller
System Engineer
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Computing and Data Management
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois - UC

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