Mike Kinman:
CLASS OF 1986
University High SchoolClass of 1986
Tucson, AZ
Mike's Story
Mike is from Tucson, Arizona. Mike's schools include University High School. Mike later attended, University of Missouri (Journalism: News-Editorial) . Mike works(ed) at Christ Church Cathedral, Episcopalians For Global Reconciliation, Episcopal Campus Ministry At Washington University In St. Louis.
Music Mike likes includes Public Enemy, The Beatles, Peter. Books Mike likes include The Bible, The American Way of Eating, The Hunger Games. Movies Mike likes include Bull Durham Movie, Gandhi, Bull Durham. TV shows Mike likes include Morning Joe, The Newsroom, ESPN Baseball Tonight.
One of Mike's favorite quotes is:""You guys know who Philo Farnsworth was? He invented television. I don't mean he invented television like Uncle Milty, I mean he invented the television. In a little house in Provo, Utah. At a time when the idea of transmitting moving pictures through the air would be like me saying I've figured out a way to beam us aboard the Starship Enterprise. He was a visionary and he died broke and without fanfare. The guy I really like though was his brother-in-law, Cliff Gardner. He said to Philo, "I know everyone thinks you're crazy, but I want to be a part of this. I don't have your head for science, so I'm not gonna be much help with the design and mechanics of the invention. But it sounds like, you're gonna need glass tubes. See Philo was inventing the cathode receptor, and even though Cliff didn't know what that meant or how it worked, he'd seen Philo's drawing and he knew he was gonna need glass tubes. And since television hadn't been invented yet, it's not like you co...Expand for more
uld get 'em at the local TV repair shop."I want to be a part of this", Cliff said, "and I don't have your head for science. How would it be if I taught myself to be a glassblower? And I could set up a little shop in the backyard. And I could make all the tubes you'll need for testing." There oughta be Congressional medals for people like that. I've looked over the notes you've been giving over the last year or so, and I have to say that they exhibit an almost total lack of understanding of how to get the best from talented people. You said before that for whatever reason, I seem to be able to exert authority around here. I assure you, it's not 'cause they like me. It's because they knew two minutes after I walked in the door that I'm somebody who knows how to do something. I can help. I can make glass tubes. That's what they need." -- Sam Donovan, Sports Night
"I'm what the world considers to be a phenomenally successful man. And I've failed much more than I've succeeded. And each time I fail, I get my people together, and I say, 'Where are we going?' And it starts to get better." - Calvin Trager, Sports Night
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it." -- Chinese proverb
"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide 'til it goes away." -- Xander Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
More about Mike:""Wouldn't it be wonderful if liberal and conservative church people ... came to a common realization that the real issue confronting us is whether the news of God's abundance can be trusted in the face of the story of scarcity?" - Walter Brueggemann".
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