Month: May 2010

General

Ghostbusters 3

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I read this Bill Murray quote a couple of weeks ago. I forget where I read it, but it was one in of those free NYC papers. He was talking about a possible Ghostbusters 3.

“It as just this imaginary thing. Honestly it’s just the studio who wants it to be made. We did a great one and then we did another one. It’s hard to go to the well again. But really, they’d just like us to be sort of alive, but pass it off to new guys. I don’t wake up in a sweat about it, but it’s getting so annoying I might just write the damn thing and get it over with.”

These pictures are from the event I did last year at the 92nd Street Y, when I moderated the questions for Dan Aykroyd and his father Peter.

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At the beginning, Dan Aykroyd said he wanted to acknowledge the Ghostbusters in the audience. They looked so happy when he said that to them.

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Letters to the Lab

Letters to the Lab

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Now and again I think about this one paragraph from an August 30, 1944 letter of J. B. Rhine’s. I wish I could research it more. Apparently Rhine was having some sort of exchange with one of his donors about Thomas Edison. (I posted about Edison and the afterlife here and here.) But it’s not the part about Edison that haunts me. Here is the paragraph:

“I did not make myself clear about Edison. I am satisfied about the facts. There is a man named Fitzgerald in Detroit who is doing something similar. He is a young physicist. He claims to have read Edison’s notes, as well as those of Steinmetz [famous inventor and engineer who worked with Edison] and Tesla [another famous inventor and engineer]. I have only talked with him over the long-distance telephone. He claims to be able to register electric wave transmission given off by the action of a muscle twenty-five feet across the room. He wants to investigate mediums to discover whether they can transmit some physical force which his machine can pick up. I have a friend in Detroit investigating him.”

I wonder what happened to Fitzgerald. I didn’t copy the entire letter, and I’m not sure why I didn’t. I must have been tired. I’m completely ignorant about things like this though — does the body emit electric waves?

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[That’s a picture of Tesla that I found while googling.]