Aviation and Audio: Time Critical Decision Making, Part One

*And some random pictures from when I worked at NASA mission control

Here is a pic of me at my best ‘backstage’ position ever. Behind me is a room full of experts monitoring and communicating with the International Space Station .

Not too long ago I was working a comedy show for HBO that was a one-day, load in -shoot- load out. Everyone arrived for the call time and started the usual routine of introductions and trying to figure out where we’ve met before. “Were you at that thing for Comedy Central with the guy with the puppet? Or maybe I worked with you at the Beacon ?” As 8 AM came and went, it became clear the guy yelling into his cell phone at the end of the block was the guy who was supposed to let us into the theater. He’d forgotten his keys. The only other guy who had them was in New Jersey (more…)