First on my do-it list this morning was to deliver a lecture at Miami University at Middletown, Ohio. I'm still here in Colorado (though, alas, Carol is in Chicago again and I'm batching it until the 26th) but it worked out well, and the lecture was my first "production" use of Skype and the Mikogo plug-in for Skype for remote presentation.

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• I got drilled and post-ed yesterday and am mostly over it. The weirdest part of the whole procedure was listening to Dr. Salcetti cranking the implant post down into my jawbone with a small tool that sounded like-and in fact actually is-a miniature ratchet driver. ( ( Read more... )

• I've posted a significant update of my Carl & Jerry page, with new material on John T. Frye, including the conclusion I've drawn (with help from 1910, 1920, and 1930 census records provided by Bob Ballantine W8SU) that Bailey Frye was not John Frye's brother. Bob also ( Read more... )

I just uploaded a new version of my Carl & Jerry index, including an expanded bio of John T. Frye. We know a lot more about him than we did a couple of months ago, and almost all of the new material came to me from Lisa Enfinger, whose parents were close friends of Frye's for many years. I'll ( Read more... )

• Stumbled across a spectacular site devoted to WW-I era military aviation. These guys restore and actually build faithful replicas of things like the Sopwith Triplane. Go through the photo albums if you have any least interest in such things.
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• For a little over a year, I've been buying dry-roasted peanuts from Safeway that do not contain MSG. Recently we noticed that the packaging had changed, and checked the ingredients. MSG returns, gakkh. Dry-roasted peanuts are a much better snack than their rep would have ( Read more... )

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Well, if you've breezed through Arthur Machen on your broomstick and are now fresh out of Halloween reading, you might download "The Hand of Selene," a free Carl and Jerry story originally published in the November 1960 Popular Electronics. In the story, the boys create a very creepy, remote-controlled severed hand for use in a seance put on by ( Read more... )