About Me and this Blog.
My name is Chris Ballance. I am a Georgia Tech grad working for a biomass boiler OEM in Norcross, Georgia. I started this blog in August 2005 as a writing experiment. I had an urgent need to confirm all the engineer stereotypes about the bad spelling and grammar. This blog has given me no end of opportunities to do that.
War brings out the absolute worse and best in human beings, and screen writers, directors and actors are no exception. The research required to write a blog about "Hollywood" tanks has forced me to watch some of the worst films ever made. I am not a film critic. I have no desire to be film critic, but I reserve the right to cast stones when required. Having written this, you will find that I am surprising forgiving and generally silent when it comes the accuracy of armored vehicle props and related phyical and visual special effects work. I must state again that this blog is just a writing experiment. In time something may become of this work, but I already have a day job.