#hobbies

Dec 22, 20192 min

Serendipity

The origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my...

Aug 16, 20172 min

The Lost Cause

The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...

May 13, 20173 min

A Measure of Success

The email was a surprise and then it wasn’t. The man was in my scout troop in San Francisco thirty years ago and as a teen was not the...

Apr 30, 20142 min

Ham I Am

I am now officially KG7LEA for the next ten years! A week ago I took and passed my amateur radio Technician Class exam, one wrong answer...

Feb 2, 20142 min

I don’t know, Roku?

I often consider what normal features of daily life would be incomprehensible 20 or even 10 years ago – smart phones, tablets, online...

Dec 15, 20133 min

What are you reading? Hearing?

I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...

Mar 26, 20133 min

Home Movies

I just completed a couple of desktop home movie projects, another genre of the technology revolution. I was a participant in the growth...

Feb 19, 20132 min

A funny thing happened to me on my way to the forum

One thing I like to do is participate in online forums (fora?). These are the discussion groups. Back in the early days of the Internet,...

Oct 13, 20122 min

Podcasts

Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...

Mar 17, 20093 min

Games

A minor interest of mine (it doesn’t yet rise to the level of hobby) is strategy and simulation games for the computer. I have always...

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