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Below: Dixie Farm Road Park at dusk, September 6, 2011. The park is southeast of Houston on Blackhawk Boulevard.
Above: South Belt Hike & Bike Trail, February 19. 2012. Located in southeast Harris County near Pearland, the "lake" is a water detention basin. The pond only appears after a heavy rainfall and disappears with the return of dry weather.
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At the DuPont facilities in La Porte, Grady McAllister created training modules for the parts warehouse and for units manufacturing Uracil herbicides and Lannate insecticides.
The web master has used Adobe Dreamweaver since 2OO1 and currently uses version CS 5.5, including CSS Style Sheets.
Below: Sunset over Galveston's north shore. From this vantage point, the sun only sets over the water for the few days in the fall and in the late winter. Click images for a larger view.
Above: Dixie Farm Road Park near Pearland, Texas, January 23, 2012. All photos by Grady McAllister.
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Avast, Vastheads! You have reached the one, true home page for all of VASTHEAD.COM.
The
Vasthead is the professional web site of Grady McAllister of
Houston, Texas.
Some links in the upper left highlight a
background in training and development.
Other links take you to complete web sites within this web site,
each serving a different purpose.
For example, The
Galveston Arrow is a site promotes tourism for
Galveston. It also monitors all the weather on all the coasts.
Another group of pages, Houston
Retro Radio, is an educational resource site that
preserves part of the history of the Houston area.
Houston Retro
Radio is quite possibly the most thoroughly appreciated
radio history site ever created.
Who says so? Click
here if you dare to know.
Also, don't be too surprised by What
Others Say. That page highlights work related comments
about Grady McAllister.
Dear Prospective Employer:
I am Grady McAllister of Houston, Texas, and I am
involved in occupational education. I am qualified as an instructional designer, a developer
of training, a facilitator, a technical writer, and instructional technology
technician.
I have worked as a commercial broadcaster, a writer
of training materials, an evaluator of training, a learning
resource manager, and a provider of instructional media services.
I have a Master's degree in Training and Occupational Education from the
College of Technology at the University of Houston.
You can go directly to
a page with work samples. Simply click on either
of the yellow links in the left column.
This web site also includes an extended on line resume.
If you have any questions, please feel free to phone me or send
me an email.
Grady McAllister
The design of this home page last changed:
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About the arrow . . .
The arrow image is an early 35mm photo by Grady
McAllister. Taken along the Galveston seawall, the anamorphic image is the emblem for all The Vasthead web pages.
That includes The
Galveston Arrow and Houston Retro
Radio. Those are secondary web sites hosted by VASTHEAD.COM.
Any page with the arrow is part of VASTHEAD.COM.
Clicking on an arrow image in the upper right will return
you to this home page.
"Then there is electricity ... a VAST HEAD"
Who? What? . . . is The Vasthead?
The Vasthead name comes from Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the author of the American literary classic, The
Scarlet Letter.
The phrase "vast head" appears
in of his 1851 novel, The
House of the Seven Gables. In Chapter 17, an elderly character named Clifford speaks
the words during a sudden, unplanned train trip, a ride to nowhere in
particular.
As the train jaunts into the New England countryside, Clifford finds himself enchanted by the railway and the passing telegraph wires. Slipping into a manic mode of thought, he is ecstatic about
the new technology and the new world it is likely to bring.
The full quotation in
context
Fast Company Magazine
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