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hey malmsteiner....check out this one I found a couple years ago-i dig me some 13th Floor Elevators
http://videosift.com/video/She-Lives-feat-Betty-Page

"Whyyyyyyyyyy, is he acting so strange?"

Man, this song has always been a fav.....
Got all the 13th Floor Elevators lp's......
Roky was arrested in 1969 with about six joints on Mount
Bonnell in Austin. It was his second arrest for pot. Rather than serving a
short term in prison, he pled insanity and was sentenced to the Rusk State
Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Austin. While in Rusk, Roky started a
band with fellow inmates (The Missing Links), wrote nearly 100 songs, befriended
Jimmy Wolcott (an Elevators fan who had murdered his family while high from
sniffing glue), was subjected to electroshock and liquid thorazine treatments
and, with the help of his girlfriend (and later wife) Dana Gaines and his
childhood best friend George Kinney, put together OPENERS, his first book of
poetry. Through the efforts of his brother Mikel and attorneys Jim Simon and
Jon Howard, Roky was judged sane by a Travis County jury and released in late
1972.
-http://bomplist.xnet2.com/9510/msg00075.html

tee hee....."You never reoliiihiiiihize!"
In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
Damnit Choggie, I was about to post this

i think it's amusing that still, to this day, most buildings taller than 12 stories don't have a 13th floor.

i dunno though. it sounds plausible. ( http://www.geek24.com/g/non-stop-express-elevator-ride-with-a-simple-elevator-hack )

The hack is rather simple, instead of pressing just the "floor" button, press the "door close" and the "floor" button together at the same time. It works on most Otis Elevators (All but the ones made In 1992), Dover (Model Numbers: EL546 And ELOD862) and most Desert Elevators(All, But Model Numbers ELD5433 And ELF3655).

engadget also has a piece on this too, though they also do a lot of quoting and repeating without checking it seems.
( http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/02/elevator-hacking/ )

it would seem that, if nothing else but to conserve manufacturing prices, if this was a non-functional button they would 'write it out' of the plans. that depends on whether it's a template, or robotic manufacturing. easier to leave a nonfunctioning button in if it's a template, no need to create a new template. easier to take out a nonfunctioning or obsolete button with robotics... reprogram, save a button, and that precious 0.03¢

The remarkable Roky (13th Floor Elevators) Erickson's "You Don't Love Me Yet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX2MLsMrmCc

Music: I Got Levitation - 13th Floor Elevators.

And the rest of the story:

In 1962, FRC Director Paul Bikle approved a program to build a lightweight, unpowered lifting body as a prototype to flight test the wingless concept. It would look like a "flying bathtub," and was designated the M2-F1. It featured a plywood shell, built by Gus Briegleb (a sailplane builder from El Mirage, California) placed over a tubular steel frame crafted at the FRC. Construction was completed in 1963.

The success of the Flight Research Center M2-F1 program led to NASA development and construction of two heavyweight lifting bodies based on studies at the NASA Ames and Langley research centers--the M2-F2 and the HL-10, both built by the Northrop Corporation, Hawthorne, California. The Air Force also became interested in lifting body research and had a third design concept built, the X-24A, built by the Martin Company, Denver, Colorado. It was later modified into the X-24B and both configurations were flown in the joint NASA-Air Force lifting body program located at Dryden.

The X-24B design evolved from a family of potential reentry shapes, each with higher lift-to-drag ratios, proposed by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory.

To reduce the costs of constructing a research vehicle, the Air Force returned the X-24A to Martin for modifications that converted its bulbous shape into one resembling a "flying flatiron" -- rounded top, flat bottom, and a double-delta planform that ended in a pointed nose.

First to fly the X-24B was John A. Manke, a glide flight on August 1, 1973. He was also the pilot on the first powered mission November 15, 1973.

Among the final flights with the X-24B were two precise landings on the main concrete runway at Edwards, California, which showed that accurate unpowered reentry vehicle landings were operationally feasible. These missions were flown by Manke and Air Force Maj. Mike Love and represented the final milestone in a program that helped write the flight plan for the Space Shuttle program of today.

After launch from the B-52 "mothership" at an altitude of about 45,000 feet, the XLR-11 rocket engine was ignited and the vehicle accelerated to speeds of more than 1,100 miles per hour and to altitudes of 60,000 to 70,000 feet. After the rocket engine was shut down, the pilots began steep glides towards the Edwards runway. As the pilots entered the final leg of their approach, they increased their rate of descent to build up speed and used this energy to perform a "flare out" maneuver, which slowed their landing speed to about 200 miles per hour--the same basic approach pattern and landing speed of the Space Shuttles today.

The final powered flight with the X-24B aircraft was on September 23, 1975. The pilot was Bill Dana, and it was also the last rocket-powered flight flown at Dryden. It was also Dana who flew the last X-15 mission about seven years earlier.

Top speed reached with the X-24B was 1,164 miles per hour (Mach 1.76) by Love on October 25, 1974. The highest altitude reached was 74,100 feet, by Manke on May 22, 1975. The X-24B is on public display at the Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

welcome charter member palmpictures......Great to have a 13th Floor Elevators fan in the mix......here's a couple for ya, some of my personal hipster classics
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ted-Nugent-Journey-To-The-Center-Of-The-Mind-1969
http://www.videosift.com/video/Electricity-Captain-Beefheart

A similar story of an Austin native musician, is that of Roki Erikson, of 13th Floor Elevators fame......eccentric, brilliant, institutionalized
http://www.rokyerickson.net/biography/

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