I was just looking for bink.nu which appears down and came across your site. Very interesting I thought you might be interested in this announcement in case you missed it. Did you know by the way that the comedy team of "Firesign Theater" used LISP in POP computers apparently to write some of their routines? At least that's what I read.:
NASA: Not-So-Heavy Metal: Electrical Conductivity in Textiles
I've been on the "bleeding edge" of personal computers since Edmund Scientific had a couple of home boards with logic chips and three LED's on each running on a 6 volt lantern battery to teach Boolean operations at the circuit level. I have been employed in "contract" or public archaeology and people I've worked for have often tried to use the latest in the off the shelf stuff to demonstrate that given a little time often archaeology can be accomplished as required by "earlier" law generally the US Federal 106 regs its recited as. I've had the opportunity to use the Epson HX-20 ("world's first laptop") hooked up to an infrared Zeiss what has become very quickly a "total station" survey unit that read timing signals of an infrared pulse sent to and received from a handheld corner prism, now an industry standard by Topcon (they say they invented it) who now owns Sokkia formerly as I used it Sokkisha instruments. Recently on the Iwo Jima Trail at the US Marine Corps Schools property at Quantico, Virginia we used a GPS that tied into a "Differential GPS" signal from a beacon in Annapolis, Maryland that will replace the former LORAN C I think radio transmitters, so using the satellites and the radio beacon locate positions. Still tough though under the large trees and holly there, in the way of the radar tower, where the US Presidents "Marine One" helicopter (a Sikorsky "Sea King" also widely used in Canada, to be replaced by a European consortium built, assembled in New York State thanks to Senator Hillary Clinton) is based. There were live and built Ospreys while we were there and an eagle nested in the chapel spire top!
Good luck with your house. The Nixons lived in an interesting one to be razed in Saddle River, NJ built by a woman architect who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright you might be interested in:
See: Nixon's Saddle River home to be razed We're next!
New NASA Hurricane Software Online!
May 29 , 2007
NEW! Version 1.0 of the PO.DAAC Event Tracker is now available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/hurricanes/
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