I know Mike Wasowski

[tmazanec1]

I was talking to a friend of mine, Mike Krasowski. He works at NASA Glenn in Cleveland. He told me that he was once working with Disney on some robotics (he is a robotics specialist) and posed once miscievously with one eye closed. When they made Monsters Inc. They used this as an inspiration for Mike Wasowski (the two "k's" ellided together when they got his name recorded). This is an animation of him morphing into the monster, done by one of the Disney crew as a gift for him. It is first shown in a small box in the upper left, but after the first time you can enlargen it.
images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OptInstr/images/people/Mike01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OptInstr/folk_krasowski.html&h=270&w=202&sz=26&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=iOb-C-Qgq5Q6WM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmighty%2Bmorphin%2Bmike%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
I swear as a Catholic that he brought up the topic in the conversation, I did not. We were friends from High School.
Try Google images on "mighty morphin mike"

[RandallBoggs]

Try this ^_^

www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OptInstr/folk_krasowski.html

Ha...does kinda look like'm ^_^

[tmazanec1]

He is not given to joking, so I believe him. What are the odds that someone on this board would know the source of a MI character? BTW, I was in a hurry when I posted this (Mike told me just before I wanted to leave for a Toastmasters meeting) so I put it in the wrong forum. Maybe it could be moved?

[screwyolddame]

That is very cool. Small world, eh? Thanks tmaznec1!