Monday, August 24, 2009

Greetings From Fort Mill, South Carolina

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Di and I have finally settled into our new home in Fort Mill, SC. Yes, I know we were supposed to be heading for Las Vegas. But sometimes h...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Interesting Links And QRX De W5HLH

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I've found some interesting links I hope you'll check out: • If you ever get the feeling the current economic crisis is different, t...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Memories Of My Atomic Youth

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Some of my most vivid memories from the late 1950s and early 1960s involve the old Civil Defense (CD) program. White it seems like utter lun...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Forty Years Ago Today

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We were young, and we were fearless and, after all, nobody had ever told us young engineers that we couldn’t successfully land humans on ano...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Artist's Palette And Other Places In Death Valley

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The Artist's Palette Drive is located on the east side of Death Valley, up in the Black Mountains. It gets its name from the colors prod...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Finally, A Shot Of Reality In The Health Care Debate

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There is a terrible reality in the current national debate on health care reform that no one, regardless of whether they're conservative...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Is The Book Industry Going To Get "Napstered"?

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Before I retired from the publishing industry, I was a big advocate of eBooks-----in fact, if I were not sick, I would be managing my own eB...
Friday, July 10, 2009

The Marble Canyon Mining Camp Ruins

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The Saline Valley is located just west of Death Valley, and is almost as hot as Death Valley itself. It is also far more isolated and undeve...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

I Loved Lucy

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My rabbit Lucy died yesterday of an apparent stroke. She was about ten and a half years old and had been my companion since January, 2001. W...
Saturday, July 4, 2009

July 4, 1982

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I spent my first, and only, Fourth of July outside the United States on July 4, 1982. I was in London with my girlfriend (and future wife) T...