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I knew Dr Strughold at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. By the time I became acquainted with Dr Strughold, he'd retired but still spent his days at the base. I thihk the censorship by the Anti-Defamation League is reprehensible. Since when do we allow any organization to censor our programs? As far as I know, no PROOF has been found of Dr Strughold's guilt; thus, it's censorship by hearsay! Since when do we go on a witch hunt and convict people based on hearsay? Like others. I think he's been found guilty by association. Dr Stughold did not, as far as I know, belong to the Nazi party. He was invited to join but refused, according to his story!

Mary G. Caves

Catching up on your cool travelogue, I noticed a bug in your state labeling: http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/departures/usa/gt2010/wednesday.html

"Gardiner, MO ... I'm not one of those people who seriously keeps track of which 50 states he's visited but nevertheless: Montana, check."

MO = Missouri. MT = Montana.

*grin*

 - Chris

PS: I am eager to make it back to SF so that I can try the 2tone game. I love the idea of having a "game on demand" that I can use to introduce new people to the joys of it all. :-)

Didn't have my hiking boots on. But that was okay. Rested on the Ferry back. Really like the sourdough sandwich and the beer I had at the old ferry building. But I got on the 2 Clement and end back at the Toy Boat ice cream shop. Hey, it is still there, too. Well, at least I was there.

Thanks for the guided tour of the City and the Nearby.

Bob Wilhelm

Hi I have Two HAHL school wall clocks. NO bellows . VERY COOL CLOCKS brass movements work when you push down on plunger. Brass ring holds glass dome in place. Oak case. Metal face cracked like old painting LOOKS VERY COOL. What mite they go for?&bnsp; Jim       Can send pic.

Hello!

Thank you for providing an MTV link on the following page of your site:
http://www-
http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/departures/Washimore/hag003.html

We really appreciate the support. I have a few questions and would like to get in touch with someone regarding the information on your site. Can you let me know who is responsible for adding resources and updates to your site? Thank you for your time!

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Thanks,
--Anna

Anna Morris
Content Specialist

Hi Larry,

Thanks for getting back to me. We appreciate the support and we recently upgraded a few of our pages and we were hoping that you would be able to include them on your site as well.

I can send along the link details if you are interested.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Anna Morris Content Specialist

I have a very large Hahl Master Phne clock. I need information on the clock as to who can fix them and or make it run I live just outside of Sacramento Thanks again. Norm Karde 916 XXX XXXX

Hello, my name is Michael Rice.

You don't know me, but my grandfather served in the 65th signal battalion. I have been searching around for info on this unit but it is scarce due to a fire that destroyed their records. I found the Curtiss H. Anderson files through a Google search. He mentioned that he was in the 65th and I was wondering if there was any way you or I could contact him.

I'm trying to assemble a web site to chronicle their exploits in WWII. I would like to talk with all remaining members and get all of the info that they may have to be displayed for all to see. Any assistance you could give to me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and your help.

Sincerely, Michael Rice.

Hi

Just wanted to say thanks for your google closure article, original and educational. all the other pages i can find only replicate what google have already put out. Good Work!

Thanks

Frank

We (me, wife and 6 year old daughter) just spent a weekend in St. Louis (08/2009). Took riverboat cruise and did a lot of walking downtown. Was just looking at our pictures - power plants, bridges and buildings. It was fun to compare notes with your posting.

Thanks,
John, Melanie, Ava

I've searched the internet to no avail. I'm trying to find the song "Maybe it's not her head." I don't recall the artists name and noticed that you've referenced the song in your tags. Can you help me? This has been bugging me off and on for years.

Thank you,
Benny

does anyone at your group have any knowledge of the hahl master phnuematic clock. Need information... Norm Karde

Am I writing to the rigth place? I think a fan club is in order. ;)Ryan Hosken, ND, RN Board Certified in Natural Medicine Complementary Physician, Nurse, & Counselor

i_beg_to_differ.jpg

Nice filename :-)

~Jeff

I happened to come across your travels from St. Malo to England when I was googling some info about "adio" and its usage.

I just loved your little journal. Very sophisticated in its distancing and wry tone. The voice captures immediately. I clicked on "home" at the bottom thinking I would find that you were some terribly well-thought of author. Well, you could be. That selection is like the beginning of a novel which could either lead back to the circumstances that lead you to France, or forward to reveal how that slip-up on the visa affected your life in Britain, etc. etc.

I simply cannot check out the rest of your site right now. I'm sure it's fun, but kudos for such delightful writing under Travels. I'll check back again. Alicia

Yes indeed, the mysterious not-a-street at 17th and De Haro is the former right-of-way of the Western Pacific Railroad. Thanks for posting the photos.

Eric

Hi Larry,

From Brussels, Belgium, one more Hoskens' to welcome to your club! Next travel to Europe should lead you to the 'flat land', 'le plat pays' as we say in french. Many Hoskens' from Waasland, in the north of the country, migrated to Cornwall centuries ago.

Wishing you all the best!

M Hoskens

lyon street.....nice!

hey . what can we do about the bumbs at soulard market ? they freak my kids out . maybe i should not go there anymore but otherwise its a nice place ,.

dam you sure arent any help

I never went to Lowell or read The Basic Eight, but an interesting side note to this novel; based on the strength of the characterizations in The Basic Eight, Daniel Handler's agent (I believe) suggested he try his hand at writing children's fiction. He thought it was a terrible idea, but lacking any other success at the time, he wrote a short book that was pretty much the opposite of any of the children's books he disliked as a child. He also decided to use a pen name so that this wouldn't be associated with his serious fiction career. The name he choose was "Lemony Snicket", the book was "A Series of Unfortunate Events", and the rest is history.

mahlen

Hi Larry. Found your blog when I was searching online for references to Daniel Handler's book The Basic Eight. I've just started reading the book. I graduated from Lowell in 1974, but some of the Lowell personalities who became characters in the book were there during my years.

The teacher Joanne Milton is obviously based on Joan Marie Shelley. I never took any of her classes but she was quite well known in the community.

The other teacher characters I recognized were vocal music teacher Johnny Land (Johnny Hand in the book) and English teach Flossie Lewis (Hattie Lewis in the book).

Mr. Land was a good voice teacher when I was at Lowell; I was sad to see his character described as a lush in the book.

I didn't have any of Ms. Lewis's classes, but I was on the editorial board of the lit magazine Myriad, which she guided. I have a great deal of affection for her, as do all of the Lowell students who were fortunate enough to have contact with her.

The various student characters are quite familiar to me, because they tend to occur in the Lowell population no matter what year we're talking about. In your blog, you refer to a character named Shannon, who is the head of the prop crew for student plays. That could have been me in high school.

If any other specific similarities occur to me, I'll send you a follow-up. Thanks for the blog.

Regards,
Judy Yim Robertson
Lowell Class of 1974

Hi I'm a Forletta I was born & raised in Birmingham UK. My great grandparents came to UK from Southern Italy & we have carried on from there. Where are you from? I see all Forletta's are from S Italy.

Liz Forletta-Williams

Please reply if you receive this. I've noticed your plea for news of any Hoskens a long time ago and, as I do not do family history, ignored it. Now my son, who lives in VA, has asked me about you and Wm Hosken of SA so I have to enquire.

I attach some notes on that William.

Regards

Phil Hosken
Redruth
Cornwall

Dear Mr. Hosken,

I'm a german journalist, who's writing an article about the nokia 9000. I'm stuck with the programmable facilities of the 9000. From Nokia I got no information.

When I read it correctly, you could install new applications on the 9000, which are programmend in C under Geos. Is this right? And how does the 9000 customer get these applications? Via PC or was it possible, to download them via Internet (in a very low speed, I know). And did the 9000 had this possibilities right from the beginning (that means in early March 1996, when it was announced on the Cebit 1996), or did he "learn" this later by an update?

Which applications were available in March 1996 for the 9000? Do you still have these applications somewhere on your harddisk and can send me a copy?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen von der Elbe

Michael Röhrs-Sperber

In case you are interested: when we get a telephone solicitation I tell them we don't ever want their phone calls and will not give anything if they call again. I say it nicely since it is probably a well-meaning volunteer. We don't get another call. When we get too many paper requests in the mail, I have written something like "you sent 5 solicitations so far and are wasting resources. If you can not manage to limit your appeals to one a year I will send nothing in the future." This also works. If there are consequences, these places can change their behavior quickly.

Hi,

While in Seattle a couple of days ago, I came across the Pier 86 grain elevator (in the process of loading a ship). It seems that the same sign that you read is still there. Aside from its apparently being 8 years out of date now, the thing that puzzled me was the bit about having loaded a record of just under two million TONS in the previous year and having teh capability of being expanded to a capcity of 4.5 million BUSHELS. 2 million tons is already a lot more than 4.5 million bushels. Is one the conveyor capacity per year, while the other is storage capacity? Inquiring minds want to know, so, on returning home, I googled "Cargill Terminal Seattle" and found your wedsite. It doesn't answer my basic question, but did provide some additonal information and was very interesting. Thanks for takign the time and effort to put up that website.

Richard.

To Wallis and Ian

Just to say, Wallis, that I think we've met. I'm Philip Hosken who lived in Truro, now in Redruth, and have a son in Virginia. Anyone want to get in touch? I'm at [marrack atsign btinternet period com]

Phil

TAGGING IS UGLY

Especially with an overwhelming Chinese-speaking student body (with many non-native speaker parents) ... Roewer is Lowell with a heavy accent.

Christina B Castro

and was curious to see if J.Heath was indeed one and the same. I was able to locate a pic of J Heath, which looked a lot like how I would guess Josh might look now. He appears to be engaged in the breeding of exceptionally tasty pigs in Spokane, WA.

I wonder if anyone would have predicted this.

See www.woolypigs.com for more info.

Hey Larry, Michael Kearney here, from the Silly Hat Brigade. Those college quizbowlers aren't just college-age, you know. There are certain events that let anybody in, regardless of affiliation. Most of them are all pop culture tournaments, which are a hell of a lot of fun, and ot nearly as competitive. I'm pretty sure Stanford runs several of them each year. Go get a team together and try one out!

Michael K, from the officially second best TRASH(pop-culture quizbowl) team in the nation.

Heh. Actually, LOLcats, peanut butter jelly time, star wars kid, all sorts of internet memes pop up all the time at these tournaments.

You'd be surprised at how much you find that you know, and how much stuff that you thought only YOU had ever heard of.

They always like spectators, too.

Interesting timing: While you were writing about labor leaders young people never heard of, I was at a memorial for a woman who used to be in my literature class. Norman Leonard, her lawyer husband, defended Harry Bridges. Marjorie was also a lawyer and helped in the defense of labor leaders and later draft resisters during the Vietnam war. There was a fellow from the ILWU who came to the memorial and said that it would not be fitting if that union did not pay respects to all the Leonards did although the younger members didn't realize how much they owed to them.

A group of left-thinking friends walk at Fort Point and talk together still, but their numbers are dwindling. You can check out the sfgate obit Marjorie Leonard. (7/28) And concerning your book review, she was born in Brooklyn. Two other gals who were there and raised in N.Y. tell me that anyone going to college then had to take elocution lessons to lose the Brooklyn accent. Some of the "Fort Point Gang" of walkers were veterans of the Spanish Civil War Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Jerry enjoyed your puzzle

I think it was the word gasket that had me misread hoover for hover. Why would they call it gasket?

I'm interested in placing an ad on your site, specifically this page: http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2006/07/book-report-political-fictions.html. The ad would be for website which offers a variety of person finding options, such as background checks, and locater services. It's a nice site, and offers a nice service.

I know that's not what your site is about, persay, but I truly like your site and would love to have a link from it.

I don't have huge budget, but I'd be happy to pay you what I can for the ad.

Please get back to me and let me know if this might be possible.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks so much,
Becky Murphy

Larry,

This probably doesn't require any action on your part, but I thought you might like to know. 

It seems like a spambot likes coming from the trackback you created at  http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/comment/big.html follows through to attempt to leave a spam comment via [the coevolving.com comment-post page], at the rate of about every 30 minutes.

This appears to be a well-known problem at http://www.theblog.ca/?p=64 .

I'm not experiencing any issues from the activity on my web site, because I've got anti-spam (Akismet) working ... but this explains how the blog comment spam comes onto my site.

For your interest, here's what I see on WP-Shortstat:

You mention "My father Leonard Hosken was born in Hayle Cornwall England." and "Is anyone reading this related to William Hosken who emigrated to South Africa in 1874?He was my Great Grandfather's brother".

Unless I am mistaken, based upon knowledge of my research, I am indirectly related to the William Hosken through a brother whose decendants migrated to Australia, where I live.

Ian Hosken

larry,

i was perusing your site and saw your anecdote about dishwasher pete. i have one of my own....

in high school i met dishwasher pete on the streets of hot springs, arkansas. he was in town looking for work. we hung out all day long, walking around town (i had no car) and showing him the coolest kitschy tourist attractions of my sleepy little town. i invited him to stay with my family. he agreed. he stayed in our basement for a few weeks while he washed dishes at a place called granny's kitchen downtown. my parents were fascinated by him, but also concerned that their 15 year old son brought home a 40 year old professional dishwasher and was so enamored of him.

i felt vindicated months later when i heard pete was going to be on david letterman. i told my parents and we gathered around the televison set the night of his appearance. finally my parents would see that we had invited a truly great man into our home.

well, you may already know how this story ends if you saw it, but pete didn't go on. he had the singer from the odd numbers go on in his place, posing to be him. he pulled some stunt about how he had washed so many dishes he had no feeling in his hands and he lit his hands on fire. my parents got freaked out and figured we had a pete impersonator staying in our house. i had to wait for the next issue of dishwasher to come out to prove to them that we had indeed put up the real deal.

I was amused by your light writeup about the "book production war economy standard", and linked to your entry from http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/books-in-print-as-scarce-resources/.

Do you have a map of the breakwater in Lake Michigan along Chicago skyline??

Hi Larry,
I saw your photo of breakwater in Chicago where water inside wall was frozen and water outside wall was not frozen.
Great shot!
I live in Cleveland, OH.
I want to take my boat and kids on Lake Michigan along Chicago shoreline this summer.
My kids are little and I feel better planning trip so that if kids (wife) are nervous about being in open water, then I can stay inside break wall if I have to.

Map you sent is perfect.
Thank you for taking time to help me.

Don

Hello,

I was searching for articles detailing parallels between Lowell High School and Roewer High and came across your website. The John Hand character is modeled after Mr. Johnny Land, who taught music and choir classes at Lowell.

He died in 2005, you can read his obituary here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/28/BAGOFFFC2M1.DTL

Was any character modeled after Mr. McMains? He was a real asshole, I remember the time he made a girl break down and cry during geometry class. Rumor had it that he was suspended for a semester after he called a Latino student a "spic" and slammed the student against the lockers.

- Jorge

Hi Larry, poking around on the web and found your "mysterious envelope" comment. I, too, have received several letters from the same guy in India -- photocopies of him squaring the circle and proving pi is some quantity with square root of 14 involved, I believe. No letter, just these weird proofs that don't make sense.

I got the first of these during a very dark period in my life, and it totally made my day. The weirdos have found me! Joy!

cheers,

Mike Naylor

(PS: just put up a weird website myself: www.nakedgeometry.com fwiw.)

Hello

Is it possible to get the Nokia 9110 SDK in some kind?

Please tell me if you stil got that

Thank you

there is someone across seas trying to get me to contact a security company in a country somewhere to have millions of dollars sent to me. is this a joke or what?

Hi Larry

Have you thought of publishing the "lifetime to-do list." ?

Just chuckled at your comments on New Zealand - especially when one is a civilized Wellingtonian?

Anita

?Hola Larry Hosken!

Just a note to say "Hola" now that we each have links to each other. I actually remember sitting across from you on the train back from Hogwarts but I was a little too conked-out to make any friendly chit-chat. Regardless, our first Bay-area game was a lot of fun and it'd be cool to make it down there for another event, so perhaps we'll meet up again one of these days.

Also, just curious: how specifically did you know my neighborhood was called Phinney Ridge? Are you familiar with Seattle-area neighborhoods or...?

~El At?mico (a.k.a. Jeff)

?Viva Los Jefes!

I've been reading through your Hogwarts writeup -- ever so fun, as usual. A few things that I wanted to comment on:

Team Lowkey really does have a Real Graphic Designer. Jen, one of their members, is a Real Artist. Hence their awesome coat of arms. :)

You think we didn't find any appropriate Weasley fanfiction? Well, we were actually looking for fanart, and we found *lots* of it. But we decided at the last minute that it was just possible that some people might have more delicate sensibilities than the two of us, and then Ian also got worried about the fact that, technically, it might constitute child porn. Despite the fact that he'd plastered dour faces of Queen Victoria over all the naughty bits. So no calling cards. ;)

Err, there might be other things, but I need to go to sleep now instead of continuing to read.

Hi Larry,

I enjoyed your writeup on Hogwarts, nice work. Curious about this, though, in reference to us "a team to whom I was already in Karmic arrears."... Dare I ask what this refers to? :)

By the way, about the phone call, no worries about the delay. We were having a really hard time getting phone reception and were happy just to get any connection at all. :)

Rich

i am trying to bring a japanese pop theatre show here with 30 students from the okinawa actors school, do you have any suggestions?

jami gina olsen-Black Pearl Productions

Mr Laurence Hoskin Hi,

Quite by accident I happened across your "England Plus Paris" travel review. I found your reference to Tile Ovens, which you described as quite garish & awful. Perhaps you are not aware that they are in fact wood burning heat storage stoves, the original central heating unit. Yes, they may appear to lack some asthetic appeal to the uninformed, until you realise that with a tile oven and just one sackful of dry wood, you can heat your home for 24 hours. Therin lies the appeal of tile ovens. The ones you saw are probably over a century old. I have just had a modern type of heat storing stove fitted in my home and I never needed the oil fired heating on all through last winter. If you read this and would like to know more about these wonder stoves then feel free to email me at- [email address removed]

Kind regards
Mr Philip Court.

PS If you make your next trip to Germany or Austria or even to Finland, or Scandinavia you will find that tile ovens are big business you have to wait for a year or more to have one built in your home.

Hi Larry,

I have only recently become aware of the Game and other puzzle hunt activities and am very anxious to make up for lost time. I was able to participate in the Shinteki: Decathlon II event (as Better Late Than Never) and in BANG 16: The Amazing BANG (as Total Perspective Vortex Survivors) however I was much too late to sign up for the upcoming Hogwarts Game.

In my search for all things Game-related, I came across your web site and have enjoyed many of your puzzle hunt stories but it was your first such tale that has sparked this email. In it, you described your own beginnings in puzzlehunting and how a fellow Gamer took pity on you and allowed you to join their team. In the spirit of karmic rebalancing, I was hoping that you might be willing to help me catch such a break.

I have subscribed to both the Orkut and Yahoo! Game groups but my membership is still pending and so I cannot read or send any messages. I realize that the Hogwarts Game starts in less than a week and that there is only the slimmest chance that a team will have an opening, much less be willing to chance a newbie, but it pains me to think that I am missing some opportunity. Has any team posted about having room? And do you have any advice on how I might best put out some feelers without being rude?

Thank you,

Jonathan McCue

I have an eerie feeling that J. Heath mentioned in your piece "Theremin Party" is the same Josh Putnam I'm trying to track down (very innocent, nostalgia ... not stalking). I knew him when he was a mere district as well, we met at Cloyne Court (UC Berkeley co-op housing at 2600 Ridge Road) in 1989 ("Twin Peaks", every week) and remained in touch until he moved to Austin quite some time ago. I have since crossed the country to and from New Orleans and lost touch. Any chance you'd have an e-mail address to which you could forward this message? Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated! By the way, I really enjoyed your website!

In total unfamiliarity and with trepidacious gratitude,

Amy Hernandez

Hey Larry,

Maybe we've met, maybe not.

I've met a number of Heath's friends over the couple of years that we pal'ed around but time is a whirlwind in the miasma and I only remember pieces of things.

Like parts of sentences, a span of floor between two shoes, the crookedness of teeth, a laugh not connected to a face, the bridge of a nose, the existence of a cat, the smell in a car.

And of course, Raymond and Peter.

Heath and I both listened to their rants repeatedly, like other people listened to their favorite bands.

We had each discovered Shut Up LM and indulged ourselves this way before we had even met.

We bonded over rancor and weirdness but I guess Heath touched many people in that way.

He touched them in other ways too I know, I remember the prof from Berkeley that he was touching for a while; I don't remember her name though.

Anyway, I've lost track of him over the years and I think of him often.

Do you still have contact with him?

What about the guy with the theremin?

help

Suzette McGrand

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/anecdotal/hunt/15/signs-times-seatback-window.html

JPT called this one "cobra milking," but I thought a better caption would have been "blowing the question."

Thanks for another great writeup!

~CKL

There have been a few puzzle hunts run here in the past. Matt Stephens ran them as an initiation for his fraternity while he was at the University of Texas. After graduating, he began a company (www.compunltd.com) and ran a handful of Puzzle Hunts here, calling them Midnight Madness. He has not done one in over a year though, and I am unsure as to whether or not he plans on doing any in the future. I, on the other hand, am looking into putting one together. I would love to be able to create a puzzling community similar to the one you enjoy on the west coast.

-Phil

"Maybe this one Seattlite was so glad to escape the drizzle that they reacted to this heat with joy instead of lethargy."

Nah, we were busy escaping the 90+ degree heat up north. I think it was hot everywhere that weekend. But hey, free ice cream - who wouldn't react with joy?

Hiya, Larry,

What I actually said at the Rose Garden was something like, "pay no attention to this time sheet", because I was sitting there recording arrival times. The Shinteki time sheet was highly inconsistent with my professed coincidental presence, so I thought I'd throw you off the trail, see.

I enjoyed the writeup, as always. I had even talked with Darcy about deliberately doing something wacky when you showed up, just so I would go down in the annals of Game history.

- Ian

I'm assuming that the "true value of pi" story is serious, not some sort of highly oblique allusion to Ramanujan or something. I may be wrong.

The proofs that
(1) pi is transcendental and
(b) all transcendental numbers are noneuclidean,
while ironclad, aren't particularly easy. The Wikipedia entry on "Proof of impossibility" gives page numbers in Hardy & Wright's number-theory textbook---I had a course out of that book when I was a junior, but I screwed off pretty badly in that class, so I don't know if I should have understood that part or not. I doubt if the proof can be framed in terms that make it accessible to the typical squaring-the-circle kook.

After touring with Balzac I think its the sing-a-long Misfits-esque choruses that really hook people. Personally, I like the bass lines AND the devil's locks! Any tips on finding Cd's or mp3s of The Blue Hearts other than Linda Linda? Thanks!

"Hello Kittastrophe" #53rd/3rd
DC Rollergirls

Thank you for all your photos of old St. Louis. I stopped there on my return from Ohio June 9, 2006 as I too am quite curious about that old building. It is absolutely Gothic in appearance, dark and old and massive. I thank one of your readers, also, for the exact idenity and date of construction.

I then drove along the river to the north, along the rail line, and found a large area of abandoned warehouses. I stopped to explore, feeling a little out of place and vulnerable on foot after parking my shiny new 2007 Winnebago. But I chanced upon some friendly squatters, living inside an old rail warehouse, and they helped me finish off my remaining supply of Steel Reserve beer. It turns out they were harmless, and I was delighted to get a local history update from them.

I was somewhat amazed, however, to find that old industrial area in the about the same shape as when I lived there 37 years ago. If any readers to this site know any more about large old abandoned buildings in St. Louis, or other parts of the country, I would appreciate their input. Perhaps we could buy one, and retire in style on the river in an historic area full of flavor like old St. Louis!

Ed Moore

Ms. Pastrick,

I am working on a story for KUNM concerning your former boss being ousted from the International Space Hall of Fame.

I am looking for someone who will speak up for him. You seem supportive based on the comments on your site. Would you be willing to take a short call that I could record?

Thank you,
Renée Blake

Hi,
I saw your comment about sailing vessels gerring under the bridges of Paris. I spent many years a Captain of British Ships mv Normandy and mv Anjou which travelled from London to Paris wit fourteen day round trips carrying 2000 tons of general cargo -- Whisky Gin and everything from small packets which could go into your pocket to excavators and parts for Concorde. Return trips were mostly barrels of wine Brandy cheese and veneers, for the Paris London Line. They even made the bateau mouches look small as you can see in the first picture.

I thought you might like to see a couple of pictures of how we did it too. Note that not only the mast is lowered but also the radar and wheelhouse and lifeboat davits. The highest part of the ship became the steering wheel.

When containers came in they and their sister mv Seine, were sold to Iran where they still work.

Regards
Capt Ken Appleby

Hi Larry,

Here is another picture. Of a caterpillar tracked digger vehicle being offloaded in Paris.

Our berth in Paris was at Quai d'Austerlitz, just across the road from Austerlitz train station. To turn around we put a rope out from the bow and around to the starboard side. We would then start the engines with the rudder hard to starboard and go around 180* with the bow touching the quay on a fender all the way round until it led down the port side. There was about ten feet to spare at the stern when she was at right angles to the river. It was tricky in winter to Spring time when the water from the Alps was melting and running fast

My son on one of the thirty tractors we carried on deck, going under Tancarville bridge en route between Le Havre and Rouen..... The last essential item going on board and always first off. My car -- an Austin Mini Cooper S. :o)

Regards
Capt Ken Appleby

Ms. Pastrick,

I am working on a story for KUNM concerning your former boss being ousted from the International Space Hall of Fame.

I am looking for someone who will speak up for him. You seem supportive based on the comments on your site. Would you be willing to take a short call that I could record?

Thank you,
Renée Blake

Hey, Larry,

Thanks for forwarding the Mystic Fish e-mail, and for honoring us with one of your great write-ups. I was glad to see that my reference to you in the hints didn't weird you out or anything (apparently Wei-Hwa wasn't particularly amused by the existence of a Wei-Hwa module in the Sudoku puzzle), and that you weren't too spooked by the state of our house (we thought of putting a simple puzzle on the ducks on our shower curtain that would have resolved to "SORRY OUR BATHROOM IS JANKY".)

It's also hilarious that you were the one who ended up getting the one Palm that was displaying the end location. I had literally just finished programming the master Palm, and in my sleep-deprived state, I said, "OK, we're about ready to start handing out Palms", which Darcy reasonably took as a signal to actually start handing out the other Palms, many of which were blank or had been used in playtesting or contained a silly fake Game that I had been using to amuse Darcy. (It was one puzzle long, and the answer was "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!", a reference to a Saturday Night Live skit that had been in vogue in our household. As we left that clue site, I was still worrying that some team might end up typing in AMBIDEXTROUSLY to no avail, give up in frustration, and then be told that the answer was actually "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!")

- Ian, for Get on a Ferry with Kerry (Darcy and I tried for like 10 minutes to come up with another one involving a real President, and our hat is off to you. I decided that it would have been too crass to invoke Get on a Steamer with Cleveland yet again.)

Hi Larry!
On your web site you mention a mexican restaurant in Paris that serves Inca Kola. Maybe you are not the biggest fan of Inca Kola, as you write, but I am. Is there a way to find out were you enjoyed it?
thanks and bregs!
Georg from Paris

This was very successful at putting us to sleep. A review on his latest book complains about his digressions about his geology trek to some icy place--Greenland? Over many listenings I learned a fair amount about what happened with the volcano and about the Dutch and trade in general. But I imagine sitting and reading the book would have been a far less pleasant experience.

I liked your photos of St. Louis, I feel we have a similar interest in the city. I found your site through Google Image searches while looking for old photos of the St. Louis landing and steamships.

I arrived in the city in June of 2000 to restore my player piano in the old Buster Brown Shoe warehouse on Washington Ave. It's now been turned into something. The city museum was in the bottom of the building and I think they've taken over a few more floors. I was 18 then, just out of high school. I returned to Michigan to start and finish college. I also lived in St. Louis in the summer of 2001 for three months, working at the player piano shop again and living on Hartford St. in the old Tower Grove neighborhoods built between the 1870s and 1920s. Block after block are neat old brick city row houses. I now live in a 1910s 4-unit apartment building on Wyoming St., same neighborhood.

The reason I moved here was becuase I could buy some awesome old properties, cheap, and I hoped I could find a job that matched my skill level (I have a BA in economics), though that hasn't happened yet. I've been here since Sept. and I'm still looking. I work at the mall currently.

There are so many awesome sights in St. Louis you didn't see and so much more to know about the city. The Union Power and Light building you saw was built to provide electric power for the 1904 World's Fair in Forest Park and is still used today to generate power for some downtown buildings.

Didn't you see Union Station mall and hotel?

Damon
http://www.msu.edu/~atchiso5 - my website

Hi,

Sitting in my sunny flat (apartment) on top of a hill in South London (England) I found your site by accident and have just spent the past 3 hours reading. I should be working but you are far more entertaining. Great read, sorry you had some unfortunate episodes but it's all part of the experience. Next visit you should try Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham . I'd love to read more when you travel again.
Thanks

Rob McEwan

The Tidy Bowl Man would have loved this, if he ever had fantasies of being Liberace.

'Lene

She is a very bright woman whose books vary a lot. She also writes about water in the west. We saw her once at City Arts and Lectures but she was sick that night and should have been in bed.

About the Chess Queen. I think it was a situation where the book review was perhaps better than the book. She is also a good talker. I think I heard someone interview her and got the ideas more efficiently than she might have presented them in her book. Maybe it would have been better shorter?

Linda H

I had a flashback to a student-hating middle school teacher when I read this. She gave us an assignment: it was to translate the following into English: "Mairzey doats 'n' dozey doats 'n' liddlelamzeydivey, akiddlydivey too, wouldn't you?"

I thought there was something wrong with her (which, it was later proven, there was, but that's not relevant to this discussion). Finally, someone told me it already WAS in English. And that the first word was... Mares.

Mares...eat oats?

Oh.

This same teacher later made us make massive construction paper collages using only whole punch dots.

Did I mention that she hated us?

I enjoyed your NZ report. I especially loved the bug poop comments. I will now use this information to 'double dog dare' a friend traveling in SE Asia to be even bolder in her, um, tasting experiments.

lene
who remembers that "surf ski" (narrow, open kayak) mis/adventure vividly and got lots of (unearned) cred with a sea kayak instructor for having tried that on the open ocean

Your correction from Mr Diel regarding the Telcan Home Video correction is actually wrong. I interviewed Norman Rutherford for an article on Telcan (see www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk/ acatalog/EPE_online_catalog_2000_11.html ) back in 1999, both Telcan and Wesgrove were the same company and produced not only reel to reel TV mounted units but also separate pre-built and home-kit models. For a time they were reasonably successful. Wesgrove was a re-start-up after Telcan financial support dried up. Suggest you get article for full background.

Barrie Blake-Coleman

Larry,

Wei-Hwa Huang told me about your description of going through the Registration maze. I thought it was fantastic, so I added a pointer to it from my Bureaucratic Maze page.

By the way, your pointer to the Bureaucratic Maze is set up wrong. It should point here:

http://logicmazes.com/bur.html

Best,

Bob Abbott

Just came across your comments on St. Louis. Just to note, your original feeling about Lafayette Square was correct. The development in the square has had a huge effect on the surrounding areas in the last two years. New condo buildings are starting to go up all around the neighborhood. St. Louis as a whole is just starting to come out of its 50-year slump. The population has finally stabilized, and 1000's of new units of housing are being built, or are planned in the downtown area. Massive new developments are planned for north and south of downtown including a 6-block stretch that is being designed by Daniel Libeskind. This six-block stretch will be an area that you have pictured in the section you devote to your 2000 visit. The photo called "Old Factory", is this area. The Central West End has at least four new highrises that are either under construction or in the works, and even more rehab work being done. In terms of new restaurants, dozens of new restaurants have opened in the last 2 years. While St. Louis is not New York or San Francisco, it is coming out of its slump and is reforming its image to just be St. Louis. You should come back in a year or two and things will be even better.

You wrote...

> They say "nikochin san amido" is Japanese for niacinamide. Whew! (Of
> course, this still begs the question--why did this gum make my face 
> itch?)

Actually, it's probably precisely the niacinamide -- vitamin b3 -- that made your face itch; the effect is called a niacin flush. A lot of niacin supplements are buffered to stop this happening (the bottle'll say if it is or not), but you can still get a flush if you find unbuffered niacin or if you eat enough of it.

[I used to do this as a kid, along with using vit C tablets to chemically score the roof of my mouth. It's probably a good thing those were the most active substances within my reach...]

Niacin/niacinamide (B3) is also sometimes referred to as nicotinic acid/nicotinamide since it was first discovered as a nicotine oxidation product -- hence the nomenclatory confusion. Niacin and nicotine are totally different things, though. OTOH, imagine the get-your-vitamins-through-smoking campaign that Phillip-Morris could indulge in on the basis of this...

Speaking of freaky candy, there's an Icelandic licorice called Opal which, in some flavors (they all taste like anisette but they come in different colored boxes; the one I'm thinking of is Opal Blue), contains *chloroform*. (Like licorice? Knock yourself out.) It makes your mouth buzz, a little like weak Sucrets might, and who knows what else.

Cheers,

Rosemary (who surfed over from Lene's blog at http://www.teahousehome.com/blog/blogger.html)

Your book review doesn't make WTMWK sound as clever and labor-history-filled as someone made it sound on the radio.

One book in the political theory category that I think is scary-brilliant is George Lakoff's "Don't Think of an Elephant," which I'm only about 20 pages into, but which I'm still boggled by. I've heard him speak: he's a very clever linguist, and presents ideas very well. I'm stumbling over some very basic stuff that is key to understanding how the right wing co opts language, such as right wing, born again Christian-capitalist ideology insisting that god hates poor people, so we need to give tax breaks to the rich people that god loves, and hoard things, and use violence because god says so, etc. It explains A LOT, along with some of the other summaries he's made of capitalist-evangelical thinking, but it's still out of whack with anything I'd think of as reality, or even the stuff I learned in religious school.

I'm not spending my time trying to live my life based on principles outlined in a bronze age book in which everyone had thousands of kids, even virgins (well, okay, she had one), detailed instructions on whether or not to execute animal victims of human molestation, etc., so my reality is different from the the general evangelical one anyway. But still.

lene
who smells suspiciously like photo chemicals again

Please help me :
I am looking for a C.D. on how to improve Pronouncing Words at a College Level..

Can you suggest the name of a C. D .so I can hear the words . and not make any error's Please help. I need help..

Thank You very much.

I just read about your walk. The blossoms are about ready if not yet opened on the stairs. That mansion you show had a story about an elderly woman who lived in maybe 5 years ago. She was taken advantage of by a gay fellow who had her taking him and his boyfriend out to a lot of expensive places and she was buying him expensive stuff. Finally, before she gave everything to this swindler, the family stepped in and got a court order to stop the drain. Then it was a decorator showcase and we got to see it inside. I don't know who lives there now.

Hello,
On this page here: http://www.lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/departures/euro0/1368_telcan.html you show an early video recorder, but identify the machine incorrectly. The names of the inventors is correct. And it is likely that they did go on to produce the Telcan VTR later. but, the machine you have on display is a Wesgrove VKR-500 kit VTR. Trust me on this, I know the mechanical engineer who worked on it personally. I also own a few spare parts for that machine. See my Telcan and Wesgrove pages here:

http://www.labguysworld.com/Cat_Telcan.htm & http://www.labguysworld.com/Cat_Wesgrove.htm

The two machines may be very similar technologically, but their styling is individually unique. May I use your photo on my site? With full credit and a link back to your site of course.

Best regards,
Richard Diehl

I checked your website and I would like to link to it. My website is KwBrowse.com and it represents a network of keywords and concepts as they logically relate to each other, on various topics. Under each keyword I list relevant websites and resources.

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Thank you.

Regards,
A.Rieger

Hey Larry, just read your account of your Seattle trip up in 2003. I am absolutely certain that if you ever visit Kirkland again we could find someplace better to eat. Now I have to run. Seems Eli, who was barely walking when you visited in 2003, still poops in the bath tub once in a while. Fortunately, he now describes these events with a half intelligible "Daddy I go poop in da batdub" and gets out of the tub on his own, instead of playing in it until I notice. We call it progress.

Larry,

I just ran into your website and wanted to drop you a friendly line and extend my sincerest thanks for the very kind words about your visit to the Isotope for Free Comic Book Day 2004. So, "Thanks!" I'm glad you enjoyed my little piece of comic book heaven and found yourself some good books to read.

Also, I dug your write-up on the SFMOMA Video Walk, sounds like a surreal good time!

James Sime
Isotope - the comic book lounge
San Francisco
415-753-3037
http://isotopecomics.com

Several of your photos, but especially those of the salt rising from the water, the red earth, and the immobile boat at the waste dump near your old job are quite lovely. Great light, great composition... It almost makes Redwood City look interesting! Though I suspect most of your readers will wisely avoid this interpretation.

Good work!

lene

Salty water alright, but where are the crystals?

Subject violins - don't have frets.

anyway, liked your blog about japan.

Hi,

Sorry for bothering you - would you know where I could get my hands on Nokia 9110 SDK?

Thanks,
Antoni -- http://www.tenox.tc/

Dear Sir,

I worked as an administrative assistant for Dr. Strughold at Brooks AFB School of Aerospace Medicine from 1980-81. Dr. Strughold was elderly and walked with the aid of a cane, but he still had his wonderful sense of humor and playfulness. He was a kind and generous man and I remember him with great affection.

Sincerly,

Jennifer Pastrick

Great poem! I really liked that tribute to a fellow 'kindred spirit' of the armadillo...I first saw a pangolin in the dictionary and found them to be on my list of most favorite of exotic critters (next to armadillos and hedgehogs, of course). I wish Animal Planet would spend more time covering some of these and other critters, instead of their regular banter on snakes, alligators, lions, tigers and bears.

The only times I saw a pangolin on TV was when they had a documentary on some indigenous tribes in Camaroon and they briefly showed a pangolin taking a nap on a tree, all coiled up. This one family had built a house of leaves and brush in an over-lapping shingle style, like the pangolin's scales...it sheltered them from heavy rains and strong winds! So much to be learned from such a humble critter!

The other time was a nature program hosted by Avery Brooks and it showed a pangolin climbing up a tree to get a night snack of termites and running into a bird that was well-perched. (Lesson: Never get in the way of a hungry pangolin!) After he had his fill he coiled up inside the trunk for a nice after-dinner nap...after all, any nap is a good nap!

Again, they need to show more exotic critters such as pangolins and 'dillers!

"Angel"

Hi Larry, Are you familiar with the late Shel Silverstein? He wrote a most cute ditty about armadillos...as well as collaborate with Johnny Cash on the song 'A Boy Named Sue'.

Instructions

If you should ever choose to bathe an armadillo,
Use one bar of soap
And plenty of hope,
Plus 72 pads of Brillo!

I also came up with something outrageous...perhaps you could work on this one...

LOOK OUT, GODZILLA!

"THE PANGOLIN THAT PULVERIZED PNENOMH PENH!" (or some other similar title) The story of a pangolin (a nuclear accident victim in some-odd lab) who sought revenge against his poachers and captors...this time it's personal! Using his claws to 'uproot' his prey and laps them up with his sticky tongue, like an armadillo or Komodo dragon! His belch and his growling stomach (when hungry)...not to mention his other bodily functions) can be heard hundreds of +miles off....RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! NOBODY IS SAFE! Who knows? It might work to be a mega-blockbuster for B-grade horror flick fans and other enthusiasts! Tell me what you think!

"Angel"

I'm sure that might make a big hit in the Orient and other places

"No-name sushi" restaurant... ..is actually called "Nippon" and shows up in a hidden SF book I have floating around somewhere. I'd recognize those symmetrical platters of sushi anywhere.

What size sox did you pick up for your ears? They appear to me to be much too large.

The caption on the last photo is accurate but incomplete. The fellow standing in the next room, coveting the brunch, is my brother-in-law Tony Dominiak. He has been married to Judy's sister, Mary Ann, for roughly 44 years.

I came across your site in a search involving Dr. Hubertus Hoffman. I believe he's associated with the World Security Network. Due to his unusual name, I noticed that there are 2 men who were "ex-Nazi war criminals" brought to the US after WW2; Friedrich Hoffman and Hubertus Strughold. Not that I believe in conspiracies, but you might find a story somewhere in this. Probably just a coincidence......

The song Nuclear Waste is by my youngest brother, Brian. I asked him about it and he vaguely remembers writing it. These days he a math professor in Iowa.

Judy Birgen, SP
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology

Hello,
I would like to release a limited edition of sampler of japanese ska for presentation japanese ska bands here in the Czech republic (Europe). Can you recommend me some japanese ska bands witth links please?

thank you very much

cernoch

I found your site from a Google search for Pacific Shores; I'd seen a mention on http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/80/neweconomy.html and was trying to figure out which buildings they were. (I drive down 101 every day..)

Nice pictures, thanks.

I'm amused by the salt evaporation ponds. I wandered around some of them one day when I started at Shoreline Park (mountain view) and just kept wandering. Those companies own a *lot* of land .. there are big no-tresspassing signs that mention that some of the land has been leased to hunting clubs, but they're adamant about keeping ownership and control. (And some of the land is strongly fenced off .. dunno if that's to keep the hunting good, or to just assert ownership.) I can only imagine that the salt companies are just waiting for the land to become valuable. If you can look to a century or more out, maybe it's a good investment.

> In his book Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky writes
> "In western Nevada [...] was found [...] the richest vein of silver
> ever discovered [...] and it required mountains of salt."

Aha! Those flats make a lot more sense now.

I'll have to go read that book; thanks for the mention.

Cheers,
Frederick.

Hi total stranger,

your time in England seemed unfortunate in some respects, though nothing is wasted.

Found you whilst looking up stuff for my students about Icons, and thought the Bechers convert things into icons, for some reason linked to and started reading your Paris London diary and read it right through. Your enthusiasm for conveyors is warming. I am beginning to photograph roundabouts (where lots of roads meet) at night by lying down on the middle of wet roads to get their sodium light black and white chevron Stonehenge drama. Some of your comments made me laugh.

Do email me before you come to UK again - I can guide you to some more interesting places (though interestingness has long worried me as to its sufficiency being such a malleable thing. As a student I spent time studying boredom and waiting (as did some of my arty friends). Then I discovered photographer Martin Parr who published his personal collection of "Boring Postcards" (e.g. Hendon Shopping Centre, The M1, Hornchurch Underground Station, etc) which has become a best-seller. In a lecture he said he decided early on to make the boring, the normal and the mundane, common and vulgar stuff his subject matter. He has done several books on the English. Interesting border country between anthropological art photos and kitsch. I live near Oxford, married, 3 beautiful children. Visited SF in 1973 saw "Last Tango" with my girlfriend, then went south, but overall my experience there was much like yours in London - cultural alienation, but ever since I've thought of SF as my favourite city in the world (well equal with Vancouver and Amsterdam.) - saw a string quartet in tails playing Beethoven in the street and bought a gram of chewing gum for 15 dollars. Went in search of Richard Brautigan and Ken Kesey, but didn't meet Kesey till the 2001 Total Eclipse in Cornwall, then he died soon after. I have some excellent pictures of Further Mark ll.

You're wrong about English Ska - my friend Erin has produced some CDs of retro and contemporary ska. He's a lovely bloke, never went to school but a great musician.

NEWS
'The Erin Bardwell Collective Volume One' has been made 'Ska/Reggae album of the month' in Scootering Magazine. On sale in all high street newsagents (like WHSmith etc).

Pop-A-Top releases currently receiving airplay in Belgium............... For more info go to : www.reggaeconnection.be.tf

My friend Mahesh may be able to advise you about English comics.

Nice to meet you,

Alex Eve

Hi Larry,

Glad you think it's good too. Erin's the son of some old old friends: he's been collecting ska since he was ten - didn't go to school (parents are street theatre performance artists) - but learnt to play music and be a truly gentle person. His previous very fast ska band played for my 40th birthday party and nearly caused some premature deaths through exhsustion, infarction etc.

Alex

I have enjoyed your forthright comments and scratched off a few places but kept others. I understand some suffering is necessary in order to have something to compare the better places with.

I grew up 4 blocks from a Radio and Television station and was always detouring by after school the station engineers took to me and I became the give to kid for all the old chassis and hardware. As a geek myself built my first radio at 9 a telescope at 12 vacuum tube stereo preamp and power amplifier at 14 and a 16 element yag backyard steerable radio telescope at 16. Home brewed from scratch a computer in 1975 internet access since 1991. Consulted for a few years then worked on improving consumer communications devices until a few years ago. Owned and ran a bookstore for a while and am now selling nonfiction and technical books on line. Will return to consulting after the trip or possibly move into teaching.

We will be in London the last two weeks in April then again later in the trip. The trip logs found on line have really helped in getting first hand information on what to see during the trip and many of the local people I have emailed have sent me their phone number to call when in the area so they can personally point out their favorite places. We will leave London in late April by bike using the extensive cycle routes that are being built we will travel east and then along the coast using National Cycle Routes 1 and 2 then use backroads to get inland and eventually to Cornwall and Land's End. Since I will have my books on vacation we will return when we get ready. Always wanted to see Wales and then Hadrian's Wall and Scotland and what ever else seems interesting.

Saw your note concerning your sister and the Stanford Linear I was in charge of the Global Timing Lab at the Superconducting Supercollider Lab here in Texas. I had designed and built a working prototype of a laser timing system for the Linear at the SSC when the axe came from congress. Lots of benefits could have been had but the MTV masses need instant gratification.

If you have not read it the book Green Beach is a good wartime story about the early days of radar do not remember the author [James Leasor]. It is in part the story of a radar engineer sent with a group of Canadian Rangers on a raid to find out information on the German aircraft detection system. Since the Germans did not have the magnetron and it was so simple a concept the rangers were there to make sure he was not captured alive.

bill

Your travelogues are legit; they're the shit.

Hello there,

I was looking over your Japanese punk/ska reviews page (which was awesome) and I kept seeing a certain collection, called Youth Against Humbugs. I tried searching for it for a good 15 minutes, got frusterated, then decided to email you. Could you tell me who released it so I could buy a copy?

Thanks
Nolan

Hello-
I just read your website on your visit to St. Louis. Actually, I didn't read all of it, I cached to Shu Feng because they are one of my clients. I work for the Riverfront Times and wanted to offer you a suggestion, please revisit Shu Feng. No, In Soo no longer owns it, which is for the best. Leling is the new owner and her food is absolutely amazing (and I'm not just saing that because she is my client, she has no idea I am writing you this). Next time you visit St. Louis, please, revisit Shu Feng and update your website. You will be more than pleasantly surprised!

Sarah E. Purdy
Retail Account Executive, St. Louis Riverfront Times
(314) 754-5980 direct
(314) 807-2729 mobil
(314) 754-5955 fax

doesnt this guy know about realultimatepower.net?

hello,
i ' m alwin from PCM recordst. I like to know more about musicbusiness in japan, recordlabels / music promoter , bookingagencys , and stuff like that.

I am over each reference and tip much grateful. are you a musician and have interest in German gig, then contact me and send to me a demotape with your Band biografie and place of origin.

thanks of all
best regards from Berlin

cu

Alwin

dear sir,

i'm karmegam from madurai. I joined in a private company in embedded systems. Now, i am a newer to this. So, our friends do not help me in this area. So, i am studying in my own.

Now i have taken a challange to do the following projects. Because my co-workers cheated me in developing the proejects. Now, i am in urgent situation to develope the projects in the following topics. Please help me by giving suitable methods and description for the following.

1. Device driver developement for ethernet
2. protocol conversion(tcp to ip)
3. temparature controller data logger
4. speed and distance measurement of train

Please help me.

don't forget to mail me.

Regarding H. Strughold.

It is easy to undrestand, that one of "paper clip" operation results, was saving nazi. This was a kind of trade - their lifes for knowledge.

H. Strughold research in Dachau was concentred on estimating human response at high altitude flight conditions. All experiments were conducted on Dachau camp prisoners. Stages of experiments were as follow:
1) elevation of prisoner at certain height (is special vaccum chamber mounted on the track)
2) killing of prisoner
3) post mortem obduction

As human reaction were really Strughold's main point of interest, he continued his research in Ksiaz Castle, estimating influence of wibrations on human body.

All information about his activity can be easily obtained (his publications, post war interviews).

Sincerely,

Andre

Hello, I was wondering if you are able to send me any information you might have about ninjas, I have searched many websites including the CIA world fact book... But I have been un-able to find information good enough to use in a small book that I am writing, well Thank you for your valuable time....Bye

Balzac are good because of their beatifully harmonic and haunting 'whoa'ing. They make me shivvery... and they have some great samples in their songs, and they make a good noise, and i don't like danzig, but i do like the misfits very much.

Sorry that isn't better constructed, but hey.

To be honest, i think the blue hearts sound more like Japanese merseybeat. Don't get me wrong, i like merseybeat, but sometimes you need something a bit rowdyer. Am i listening to their later stuff?

Your STL essay was funny as hell. How ironic too, that you have proven yourself to be about as ignorant and sheltered as you consider St. Louisans to be. St. Louis is a metropolitan area of nearly 2.8 million people. You couldn't possibly explore everything in a single weekend. It's a shame you missed the bustle of Soulard Market on Saturday morning and the wonderfully historic neighborhoods that surround it. Sorry you passed up the ethnic melting pot of South Grand and the stately Victorians of Lafayette Square. Sucks for you that you didn't get to sample some of the finest Italian cuisine in North America in our beloved Hill neighborhood. Basically you did the typical touristy crap with a sorry-ass detour through some blighted neighborhoods in between (as if every major city doesn't have crappy, abandoned neighborhoods).

Nonetheless, it is ultimately your loss that you didn't explore and enjoy STL to the fullest. We St. Louisans aren't impressed because you come from a more popular city than we do. We love our well-kept secret. It may do you some good to keep an open mind when visiting other cities. After all, it's you who sounds like a snotty "yuppie" when you pompously assume that you experienced all there is to do in St. Louis in one visit. There's a bigger world out there, you should come out of your West Coast-minded bubble. And come on-- how ridiculous is it that you poke fun of the Central West End as being overrun with yuppies when you hail from San Francisco-- Ground Zero for yuppie, SUV-driving, trend-seekers.

It's also funny that apparently unbeknownst to you, St. Louis was a huge thriving city at the turn of the 20th Century when San Francisco was a little bump in the road where the horses stopped to take a piss. Respect your elders!

Randy V.

From: Randy Vines
Date: 2003 Sep 15
Subj: Re: St. Louis

Larry, once more you have amused me with your responses to my comments about your STL diary. To tell you the truth, it didn't take me very long to read through your condescending bullshit. I love the way you talk about how St. Louis actually has "lawns," as if you've never seen them before. I've been to San Fran, and I know you have lawns there too.

Your positive comments about STL seem rather patronizing, and I think your tone sounds as if you think you're holier-than-thou because you're not a Midwesterner.

What was that comment about white trash and stretch fabric prints on the Metro? I'm disappointed. I'm sure if you're looking to insult, you can do better than that. St. Louis is rugged and raw, moreso than many cities, and we don't give a shit if you or your snooty "cosmopolitan" counterparts think we're behind the times when it comes to fashion. In fact, even bringing it up makes you sound incredibly superficial.

Glad you "liked" St. Louis, but you only experienced a tiny fraction of it.

Picked up long-forgotten candy cigarettes thread today. Ran into this page: http://www.jestersact.hpg.ig.com.br/Conspiracao_pan.htm

Just read your online story about your June visit to Seattle. I had completely forgotten about the name "Splorktap". Should we have named Paul that? It would've been more distinctive.

Paul had a lot of colic recently, but other than that he's doing great. Despite the colic, Nancy is enjoying her maternity leave. In October she flies down to San Luis Obispo to give her mother another dose of grandmothering. (Have you ever seen grandmothering in action? Charlotte spent a week with us helping out just after Paul was born. She was invaluable! At the end of the week, it was so difficult for her to separate herself from Paul that she sniffled all the way to the airport.)

You've visited Seattle how many times and you don't know about the Kalakala? Check out http://www.kalakala.org/.

Hi,

I came across your site and thought you'd enjoy these pictures I took in Jan. 1986.

Best regards,
Nate

Hi Larry,

Here's three more shots, one from the dock, a view of the gallery from the top of the Head House and one from Magnolia Hill. I know I have several more around here somewhere, I'll pass them on when I locate them. If you have any questions about the elevator, I'd be happy to answer them.

Nate

I just found your website. I have lived in Loudon all of my life. I do agree that the scenery ( on the outskirts of town ) is very pretty. I grew up on a farm w/ beautiful rolling fields and old oak trees that seemed to almost touch the sky. While there are things to do in other areas of East TN, there is nothing to do in Loudon. It's one of those small towns that if you blinked while driving through, you would miss the whole thing. There's just not much to mention about Loudon besides the scenery. If you never came back no one could blame you.

It's me again. Ijust wanted to clarify some things about my previous statements about Loudon. XvindictivechicX (who I think I know, by the way) was right about one thing. Drinking And screwing around are very popular past-times in Loudon,especially for the teenage crowd. That's because there's NOTHING else to do. You went to visit family, aside from that, was there anything else in Loudon that you would travel across the country for? In your reply you mentioned you talked to the cows and looked at some construction(sounds like you're a wild and crazy guy from way back). Is that something you'd like to do more than once in your life? Or was that all you found to do in Loudon? Most people would choose the second reason, but after reading some of your other comments, it may be the first for you. But hey, if you enjoyed it, who am I to judge? Aside from the power lines and the dead tree, it doesn't sound like you saw much in Loudon anyway.(not there's much to see anyway) You talked more about Oak Ridge and the lack of bookstores in Knoxville.(by the way if you do come back you really should go to a UT football game. I'm not a big football fan,but you can always sit back and make fun of the die-hard fans who make complete asses out of themselves.) I guess that's all I've got to say for now, if anything else comes to mind I'll let you know.(I'm sure you'll be looking forward to it)

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I discovered that you had posted your Seattle trip and started to read...

Is Sidney Harbor in Victoria? I remember those flower holders from there I think. It was maybe 30 years ago.

We have seen fish hoses. I don't know if you were with us when we visited Standard Fisheries. Before we planted the asparagus, we went to their fish cleaning operation. we brought buckets, a baby bathtub, and other containers and they were willing to let us load up on their garbage: fish bones they had after filleting fresh fish for market. I had read about the Indians planting fish under their corn. I figured it would also be good for asparagus. Standard Fisheries has long since gone. Anyway there were hoses at about eye level for the people doing the filleting. They wore rubber gloves and had sharp knives. The fillets go in one container and the not-wanted parts go into large plastic garbage cans. The hoses are covered with what slop is on the hands of the workers. Everything is wet. We may have gone back for another load. Great recycling no? ...

well you had a very interesting site. I'am 13 and have been deeply studying the ninja arts and the ninja history. I have always dreamed of seeing that museum. You were very lucky. Please note ninjas werent anything in the movies, and
they werent bad people. Your dictionary will tell you they were mercenaries. They werent. Only one clan to my knowlrdge was a group of mercs. They later turned into a band of pirates. The majority were rebels. Patriots. They fought to keep the samurai warlords out of thier province. They had an extensive honor code and morals. I just wanted to get that point across. They werent cold blooded murderers. They were heroes in thier own right. Sincerely, your local ninja obsessed freak.

all over the web. find any good search engine, and you'll find all sorts of stuff. theyve been an interest of mine for the past several years. just go to google.com and type in any search on them. they are very interesting people indeed. not all of thier inventions were for warfare though. they made many different advances in medicine, and even came up with a food thats basically the miracle diet. it satisfies the body, but virtually makes you gain no weight.

I use to live in Loudon, and you may think its a small town where nothing is happening and the outskirts are plain and boring but you're wrong. We partied and drank. We had sex and got ripped on them "outskirts" I had my best time and my worst times there. so think what you want but you lay there on your portch one time and watch the sun go down over the hill and you'll love it too.

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Ah, I believe this might be the home of Larry Hosken. Anyways, I ?noticed? your contact information on a web site dealing with ?the? Dental Health Theatre in St Louis, and apparently I want to find out some information about this.

In reality, I want to find out where I can locate a very large toothbrush, 'cause I'm doing some things overseas, and teaching dental care. I want to develop a puppet ?next?to? the toothbrush. If you have information about where that can be found, [his contact information].

Hi!

Are you North American born, or like me did you come from your ancestral Britain?

My father Leonard Hosken was born in Hayle Cornwall England.Although not born in Cornwall, my first memories are of living with my Hosken grandparents in Truro, Cornwall.

When I was 13 we all moved to Canada. It'spretty rare to hear of one of our species, so Iwould appreciate hearing from anyone out there blessed with the name Hosken--eg Who? Where from originally? How long since self or ancestor left Cornwall? If ancestor--name and part of county born in.Is anyone reading this related to William Hosken who emigrated to South Africa in 1874?He was my Great Grandfather's brother

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Quit yer complaining, the non-In Soo Shu Feng is quite good, actually, especially if you consider the fact that its main focus is Taiwanese rather than Korean food. If you ask for the House Special Chicken, I guarantee you that if you don't enjoy it, it's your problem, not theirs. With all due respect to Jill (her bands rocked and her writing tends to be really funny), she's going way overboard here, as she did in her Riverfront Times review of it - just because Shu Feng isn't this same restaurant she apparently deified doesn't make it a bad restaurant by ANY means.

Hey, I just stumbled across your site and I was gonna post on it, but i'm not good with technology and I couldn't work out how to I'm into some Japanese bands like the overflow and last target and I was wondering if u could recomend me any more,
thanx

Would you mind to try their 2nd album, named 'Mood for Freedom (DDCS-1002-is this information available for foreign people? I don't know.), please? I think 'challenger' is nothing more than their challenge to enter SKA-or something MUSIC-world. I don't know 'who asked them' to challenge, but in Japan, I live in, it seems their debut barely managed. The fact they could release the 2nd is the evidence.

In this album, I suppose, ska rockets made great strides expressing how do they feel about playing their 'own' music. Their original tempo, puzzled you ("what is this, Reggae, or something other?"), remains nearly as it was-so what? 'No-categorizing-attitude' is the way to enjoy music even when the name of the band gives suggestions about what their music are, I think.

Their music vary from tune to tune in this album. It contains a fast-jazzlike-tune, some passionate-or-delightful-classical-ska, a bossanovalike-music, a reggae-or-dub-tune, a cover of Japanese old song and so on. And ska rockets' skill is extremely progressed enough to give you some of contentment. Listening to these tunes, you can't feel sleepy.

Please try it and let me know how you feel about this album.

I'm afraid you can't understand what I want to say in this article because of my unskillful English, sorry.

Daisuke Kawahara, a Japanese who like music of ska rockets.

It never ceases to amuse me that people who live in San Francisco somehow correlate the beauty of the typography with their own value.? St. Louis isn't, never was, and never will be San Francisco or New York ... even when it was the fourth largest city in the U.S.

I grew up in St. Louis, lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas (presently)?and all are fine.? I've visited San Francisco at least 8 to 10 days a month for a few years and many other times and found it delightful ... in spite of the attitudes of the inhabitants. ? New York is the center of the world. ? It's pulse is invigorating. What I like about New?Yorkers is their wit and their ultimate confidence ... they?wouldn't take the time to knock?another place; they just accept it or ignore it. ? Chicago is like New York except the people are nicer (Midwestern) and the city more manageable in size. In addition to those cities. ? I've also lived in Topeka Kansas ... small, insular ... and it was also fine. ? In all cases, I enjoyed myself both as a visitor and as a resident. ? Why? ? Because?all of the locations had positives .. and negatives. ? I?didn't try desperately to prove how "cool" (is that still used?) I am.? I just enjoyed it. ? People who don't look for the good and try soon hard to find the negative to?reinforce?their desire to be whatever - I live?(in San Francisco)?therfore I am (cool?) .. need to just enjoy.

When people ask me where I'm from, I always say, "I'm from St. Louis ... but I presently live in (fill in blank)."? You see, I'm very proud to be from a nice, midsize city with good values?and good people, some good restaurants, some cultural facilities .. in other words a little of a lot.? In those other cities mentioned above, you get?a lot of a lot. ? But it's like when a New Yorker asked me how I could possibly live in a city with only ONE MAJOR LEAGUE TEAM (not being a good enough fan to even know about the St. Louis Browns and the St. Louis Cardinals being in the city for close to 70 years and playing in the 1944 World Series).? I asked him, who do you root for the Yankees or the METS.? He said "The Yankees!"? I asked if he ever went to a Mets game.? He said "No!"? Then I wondered what was the difference.? He only had one team.? It's like having 10,000 restaurants in San Francisco. How many do you tend to frequent.? Probably 5 or 6 ... over and over again.

?If you don't like?St. Louis, we understand ... but then?St. Louisans?live here, you don't.? Hope you come back ... but only if your attitude changes.? Otherwise, you need to stay and enjoy San Francisco ... please!

It sounds to me like you did your best to avoid the great areas of St. Louis & did a lot of "vacationing" in questionable areas. That's like me going to San Francisco, seeing the Golden Gate Bridge, riding a street car, taking a long walk through the slums of the city while being annoyed with all of the homeless people in downtown SF, and then complaining about food when I obviously didn't choose a good restaurant to begin with. Don't get me wrong: San Francisco is a decent city, but comparing it to New York? Give me a break. America's older cities like St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York have a longer history than SF does<<<Look it up. St. Louis was the 4th largest city in the United States at the turn of the 20th Century and boasts some of the greatest architecture in the United States from that time period. It amuses me that you didn't even visit downtown Clayton, Forest Park, the Botanical Gardens, the St. Louis History Museum, or other interesting St. Louis area places like the Great River Road that highlights the Mississippi River. And by the way, I've been to almost every one of the 50 largest cities in the United States, including San Francisco, so I know a good deal about what I'm talking about.

Noah

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i came across your quotes about the record of dr. strughold relating to the new mexico space museum. As one of his pupils in flight surgeon's school in 1958 i feel compelled to say that he was the best professor we had, a quiet thoughtful man. i still remember the day he wrote on the chalkboard the remaining 6 or 8 problems to be solved before man could go into space.

obviously the anti-defamation league has done a lot of research on him, but i wonder how much was guilt by "just being there."

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Hiya Larry

I stumbled across your site whilst searching for info on Japanese punk and metal... I'm not entirely sure what the point of your site is...sorry. I was wondering if you could direct me to any sites which cater solely for Japanese alternative music. Either in English or Romaji. Thanks for your time.
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Hi Larry

This is Craig Mah.

I saw the page on Megabrooce. It made me remember things I had not thought of in years. What are you doing in SF? I no barely remember where the name came from. Actually,I'll tell you the rest of the story some time, what I remember of it, anyway. Not now. It's late gotta go to bed. Write. It's been a long time since I heard from any friends from Berkeley.

Craig

hey man, can you give me a list of what other bands in japan that also make great fucking music similar to mongol 800?! and what about hardcore bands in japan? is there one who makes loud noises similar to slipknot, hatebreed, etc.? can you give me some lists? thanks for the infos in your site!

I went to your page looking for info about the proximity fuse

it sickens me how disrespectful you speak of soldiers who died in war. Men with families and children..

the meatball analogy for instance when you spoke of the effectiveness of the proximity fuse.

Well... As a grad of Wash-U, I have to say that you missed the beauty of the place. Before you judge, you should check out Graham Chapel and the buildings of the quad. It takes time to learn a place well enough to know its "secrets" and obviously you missed them. Wash-U's buildings are from the 1904 world's fair and an even older Seminary. Did you go to Forest Park? See the Art Museum? The Jewel Box? Hear a concert or opera at Powell Hall, Riverport or the Muny (home of the free seats for major Broadway productions!)? Did you visit the Science Center? The best art galleries are in Clayton and Ladue.

St. Louis has a great deal of culture, but it is spread out. You have to look for the fun. I really recommend that you find a couple of NATIVE Saint Louisians to take you around the city. It is a cool place.

Jeanne

Well due to your vast knowledge of Japanese music, one might think you had an opinion worth noting with regard to The Blue Hearts. However, since you seem to be unaware (by comparison) of The Blue Hearts' place historically, it is hard to take you seriously when you advise people to go to their local (i.e. American) music store.

This is not a flame - just a bit harsh in utterance

Just another (Toshiba)EMI advocate are you?....do you know which label The Blue Hearts are on? Blue Hearts have (punk-) rocked since mid-80's

Chill brother

Sorry if I misunderstood who was talking about what. Indeed I was only talking about The Blue Hearts. For anyone interested in Japanese Punk, The Blue Hearts are a little mainstream - their second album is excellent though. The Blue Hearts have split up now, though the two singers are in another outfit.

No need really to forward information to anyone/Spitfire1k who wasn't talking about The Blue Hearts.

Christine

This is a band that has going since mid-80's now defunct, from Hana-kogane in/near Tokyo.

Very good clean - almost melodic - tracks

Kind of sad that a band going for this long has to put up with "modern" commentary.

"Boku Punk Rock-ga suki-da"

Hiroto-san and Maashi-san (? spelling) are doing OK....I have to say that Hiroto had the vocal feeling...something special there - I think the videos show this.

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6. Hot sticks, ground sticks, soft ground sticks; can't I just use a hot stick for everything a still be safe?

Each of the different "sticks" has a very specific purpose. Hot sticks are used to remotely manipulate items that you have de-energized but have not performed LOTO on. The important aspect of using a hot stick is that YOU never come in contact with the equipment. If you need to physically touch the equipment a ground stick connecting the equipment directly to ground will discharge any residual energy after you have performed LOTO. If there is the potential for the equipment to contain a large amount of stored energy (like the Linac modulator capacitor banks) you will need to discharge the energy very carefully to prevent sparks and arcing. In this situation you need to use a soft ground stick. A soft ground stick has a resistor in the ground line. This limits the current flow to ground to prevent excessive discharge. The problem with a soft ground stick is that it takes a while to fully discharge the stored energy based on the size of the resistor and the capacitance or inductance of the equipment ( remember the L C R time constant?). For this reason we don't usually use soft ground sticks. Experts familiar with the equipment and the soft ground stick in use will take care of those situations.

7. After securing an enclosure and putting the keys back in the key tree the electrical safey system would not whoop. The safey techs came in and reset the interlocked rad detectors and everything worked fine. We didn't have rad trip, and rad trips shouldn't hold off the ESS. What happened?

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I went to your site from Inpassing and I know what that cow lick thingy is. If you had managed to get the belt to go all the way around, you would have tasted molasses. It's a molasses lick for cows. Actually, you were lucky you could get nothing from it. It's rather icky, trust me.

Not sure if anyone ever told you yet but there you go.

...and cows have VERY strong tongues, just have a calf suck on your finger and wonder if you'll ever get it back.

Well Larry, you have it right... being out it in the open, in a field, bugs and dirt and whatever sticking to the belt, being rolled by a thick cud covered tongue which is all used to clean themselves and never really being emptied and cleaned... well you can imagine the horror of it all. *L* Were there any 1 foot squared blocks around in the field too? Ours were bright blue but I have heard they come in red and other colours too. Those are salt licks because cows need salt in their diet. Whatever farm you were on, those people know how to take care of their animals because most farmers who have only a few cows don't bother with the little details like that.

Well I'm happy to help you out. I'm a city clicker too but I ended up on a pure bred cattle ranch for 5 years in my youth. IMagine going from a huge city like Toronto of 3+ million people and moving to a farm 20 minutes out of a town of only 5 thousand. Ugh. *L*

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Read your little old piece on Bette's Diner. You're a good writer. Keep it up!

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My father worked on the proximity fuse during WWII. I'm trying to get ahold of Christman to talk to him.

It's power was in bringing down the kamikazes, since "close counted" when you had a blast radius of more than 500'. You no longer had to score a direct hit.

An airburst, with its sphere of shrapnel is 1000% more effective against ground troops than a bomb which must hit the ground before going off in an upward cone of shrapnel. Any 3' deep foxhole will protect you from that; an airburst requires you build a serious roof on your foxhole.

Patton apparently used them against 700 Germans trying to cross a river. My father said he was shown nauseating pictures of North Koreans & Chinese soldiers cut to hamburger by proximity-fuse equipped mortar and cannon shells.

A gunnery officer from the Helena I talked to said they would march proximity-fuse-equipped 5" shells across Japanese occupied islands and when they were done, not a palm tree was left standing, so effective were the 20-50' airbursts.

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I am in a quiet sidestreet in Manchester Uk, inbetween the hangover and the kids making a racket on the street outside. A great place to be.

So, well done for nearing of books you've read and their plots. like the sound of those welding shop diaries. Not enough books about shopfloor chaos. (There was a BBC tv-only film from the 70s starring Billy Connelly, it was called Elephant's Graveyard and featured two guys forgoing shifts in the shipyards to go drinking cheap wine in a nearby glen. Baffle an old Scot with this, should you meet one)

Tokio huh? (Are you there now, or in SF? RTFM, I suppose) Never been. Must find wealthy racey Japanese woman. (er, Yoko, fancy a date?)

Only left the UK 4 times in my life. Paris. Amsterdam. Barcelona. (Bit of a city theme there) and Nu Zillun's South Island. Does four hours in old Hong Kong airport count? I spent a while working in Manchester's Chinese quarter as a carpark grunt. Very very funny times, usually in broken English.

I used to hang about sometimes in Oxford, initially with an optemitrist(?) chick, 84-, The best time to visit the college exteriors/cloisters was very +early morn. Hauntingly beautiful. Especially after a night dodging downtown beer monsters +and Italian school parties.

Aaah. Back to the here and now. Between McJobs. Just finished on Commonwealth +Games. 72 nations. What a hoot. Especially the woman who sculpted a table sized replica of the stadium made from chocolate. Ho-hum. Gee, grandad, what did you do in the infoglut wars? I knew when to stop, son. Sometimes.

A couple of phrases I loved in your travelogue so far were Hurry and slurry and a barrel of brandy handy. ...

It was funny seeing myself quoted in the section about laundry.

A tile oven is like a furnace. I don't think anyone cooked on them or maybe you know that.

I loved the idea of the guys in green fatigues and bearskin hats passing for bears peaking out of bushes.

In my class we are reading a book in which one of the characters read a LOT about Scott and the Franklin expedition. He was obsessed with wanting to have gone.

Your web page says:

"A piece by Duchamp included a miniature urinal. I assumed that the urinal had been specially made for the piece, yet referred to the ready-made "Fountain." Was this mini-urinal supposed to be interesting because it wasn't ready-made? If I'd been French, I could have shrugged and said, "Absurd," and been done with it. Being an American, I instead said, "Screw this," and walked away."

And thus you missed out on the punch line of one of the biggest jokes of modern art.

> I shrugged. I left.

So you missed out on the mummified bones with icky bits of flesh stuck to them in the lavish, velvet-lined boxes, and a reflection on how morbid Catholics can be.

> But what else was I going to do with myself?
> It dawned on me that I'd come to France for no good reason.
> It didn't entertain me.
> The ferry ride wasn't very interesting. It took most of the day, and much of the time we were too far from land to see much.

The fact that I perform research tasks professionally may bias me, but it seems you bumbled through your trip without any foreknowledge of where you were going. You didn't study French, or prioritize your time based on available information, or read about the significance of what you would be looking at in English while you were back home. The world is difficult enough to interpret without going out of your way to avoid knowing about it.

If you go to a cathedral, it just looks like a big building made of stone, with fancy windows. Is there more to it than that? Hell yes, but no one is going to grab you by the throat and force you to know that people you've read about are buried there; that it took 500 years to build and collapsed twice, killing dozens; that it was the scene of a conspiracy to overthrow the monarchy in 1568; that what is believe to be Jesus' thumb bone is in the box behind the altar; that Joan of Arc had a vision here that led to a bloody victory the next week; that there's a secret passage in the tower; that your cousin is named after its patron saint; or that your parents visited in the 1960s and decided then and there to get married.

You PREFER to see it simply as a big building made of stone, with fancy windows. Which is fine, but sad to read about.

If you like ska you have to listen to the Ska Ska Club, The are very down to earth ska but they are very good.

how can you not like a band promoted by jerry only? i have balzac's cd and it kicks serious ass. kim

I'm not going to blast you for your opinion on Balzac. I do think you need to open up and notice the profound differences in their music. I don't think they're "listless" in any way. They combine straight ahead punk rock with unheard of melodies and a catchiness to shame other bands into early retirement. Just like every other Japanese band, they took the best elements of a lot of bands, discarded the crap and invented something amazing. I don't know what album you heard, possibly Zennou-naru, but you need to have another listen. I can't think of a better band in the world than them.....and I listen to almost every genre conceivable. Balzac are the complete package. But like I said, I'm not going to be juvenile and slander you for not liking them. I just think you should give them a few more listens.

Hi!! do you have the address for the Hosken in Brazil? I wrote to him over 4 years ago, and lost touch when we quit using the web for awhile. I am Merilly Hosken, and was glad to find out I had a distant relative in Brazil, and would like to get back in touch with him.

And you?? Are we related too? My grandmother swears that all Hosken's are related, since few of us still spell it that way. Are you from a hispanic origin? I grew up in Mexico, and wondered if you were from Mexico too, or maybe your parents just like the name Luis Eduardo! Never know, I married a guy from Brazil, and we made up one of our kids' name, so you can't always tell, right?

I'd like to hear from you, see if we can figure out whose great uncle married whose great gramma or whatever! Take care, and thanx.

Good news for St. Louis. I just got back from visiting my sister all of last week.

The woman who used to run Shu Feng has opened a new restaurant in the same strip mall. The food is just like the old Shu Feng. Tell your St. Louis friends! It was delicious.

Shu Feng is open once again, but with new owners. The food is okay, but not nearly as excellent as before.

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In Soo Restaurant
8423 Olive Blvd.
St. Louis

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The card says they serve "Oriental Food". Hmm. Not sure what they mean exactly but it's damn tasty.

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I see you went back to St. Louis in March and went to the City Museum. I went for the first time two Decembers ago. I loved it!

It's funny you took the pic of the ugly Natural Sport shoe boxes in the shoe room. Nope, I didn't design that box (yuck) -- but that is where I worked, Brown Shoe.

I NOTICED A CHANGE IN MEXICO'S ECONOMY DURING MY LAST VISIT TO EL PASO IN MAY 2002. I DIDN'T SEE ANY AMERICANS IN THE HOTELS AND NIGHT CLUBS. ALL THE FUN THINGS THAT I ONCE ENJOYED LIKE THE DOG RACES AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL ARE CLOSED. WE WERE THE ONLY AMERICAN'S AT THE MARKET PLACE. THE TAXI TO THE MARKET PLACE WAS $ 14.00 FOR WHAT USED TO BE 50 CENTS. THE MERCHANTS AT THE MARKET PLACE WON'T JEW, WON'T JEW, WON'T JEW.

I WENT TO A FAVORITE OLD RESTAURANT AND PAYED 54 AMERICAN DOLLARS FOR A MEAL THAT RAN 14 DOLLARS LAST TIME WITH ABOUT 2 HOURS OF DRINKING. THE HOTEL WAS 74 DOLLARS A NIGHT AND RUM AND COKE AT THE BAR WAS FIVE BUCKS A DRINK.

HELL, I CAN'T AFFORD OLD MEXICO ANYMORE. THE REALLY BAD THING WAS THAT I COULDN'T FIND ANY DRUGS OR WHORES.

GUESS WE WILL HAVE TO START GOING TO L.A.

nowlintexas

You may be interested to know that Shu Feng, the Chinese/Korean restaurant many of us St. Louisans hold in higher regard than our grandmas, has been reincarnated--in a storefront 2 doors down--as a place called Insoo. It is better than ever. The sinister entity currently known as Shu Feng still exists, however, and is to be avoided at all costs.

Jill Posey-Smith
Restaurant critic, St. Louis Riverfront Times

I enjoyed reading your adventure to Mexico. Why did you not mention the drugs and whores?

nowlintexas

Hi, is the GEOS-SC SDK still available? Where may I get a copy?

--
Ravin' Ray
your friendly neighborhood paleontologist
http://www.geocities.com/originalravinray
"I'm a geologist who uses Geos and has a Geocities website!"

where's the story about the spiritualized show where you farted constantly? If you haven't written it, you should, I'd be your number one fan.
dan

Just finished reading your web page about St Louis...and not really sure that your description of St Louis is accurate. I have lived there all of my life and no one I have ever met has ever referred to U-City as the next Greenwich Village or a So-Ho wannabe. U-City is just U-City home of Wash U and Fontbonne.

St Louis has a lot of wonderful restaurants perhaps your friends should have taken you down to the Hill to get some wonderful Italian food. Besides eating there are plenty of things to do and to visit. For the record...St Louis pizza is awesome. You should have tried the pizza before you said anything negative. St. Louis pizza has a very thin crust...but we like it that way!

Our Art & History Museum, Zoo both located in Forest Park are FREE...Bet you can't say that about many local Art Museums and Zoo's...free to visit works of art every day a year and not pay a dime. We have world class sports, universities, symphonies, gardens and many other attributes you failed to list. Do you have anything positive to say at all.

I guess if you wanted to see the city, perhaps you should have done a little less reading and found the real St. Louis yourself. Oh and the reason for the lawns is that the businesses were torn down and the City wanted to keep some natural areas for people to congregate in. There are a few outdoor malls that they hold events in like Kiener Plaza,

There are many more areas to visit that you missed...The Science Center, The Planetarium, The New and Old Cathedral(The New Cathedral houses that largest collection of Mosaics in the World), Union Station, Laumeir Sculpture Park, Powell Hall and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, St Louis Blues and Jazz music, and the list goes on and on.

Here is the web to a park page in St. Louis http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/parks/parks_div/descript.html#kiener

By the way the grassy area in front of the Old Courthouse that you have pictured on your web page (the view from the arch) is called Kiener Plaza...it is not a lawn. It was created as a park for the citizens and there are many functions held on "the lawn" as you identify it. They have sport rally's, races, music and lots of other events are held there. In fact the Old Courthouse is where the "Dred Scott" case was held. Lots of National History there. St Louis has many parks and the people of St Louis love them. In fact in many of the city parks they have free concerts in the parks on the weekends and on Monday nights. In Tower Grove Park, Francis Park and Carondelet Park to name a few.

I am sure St Louis was not your cup of tea. But if least if you are going to write about it...get the facts straight and from a person who has the facts.

Did you at least get to Ted Drewes???????

Well I am glad St Louis does not measure up to San Francisco, NY or any of the other larger cities...because then it just wouldn't be home.

peacefully living in a provel state of mind,
Carol

Thanks for the response!

The local's just call University City...U-City or the "Loop" I think people have a hard time describing U-City as it is different...:)

I would never call San Francisco "Frisco", as we get the same sort of thing with "St . Lou."...Ack!

Italian Food on the hill....If your friends want really good Italian Food...tell them to go to Charlie Gitto's House of Pasta and there is Cunnetto's House of Pasta. I had really good Carbonarasomewhere and I can't remember where. The local "Pasta House" Chain of Italian restaurants is sort of like Olive Garden with a provel cheese twist...I can see where some people would not like the overall provel cheese factor. At "Schnucks" and all the grocery stores you can get provel cheese that is put through a grinder to create a rope effect. People love this cheese on everything, you can find this cheese in all of the deli cases at the stores. It is used as a main staple in Italian Salads in STL. Just go to the deli counter-they will give ya a free sample. But really there are a lot of reasonable local restaurants that have decent food...Just remembered a few Italian places... Mama Campisi's House of Spaghetti and Zia's.

Pizza, if you like thick crusts...St Louis is not the place and like I said earlier...I could see where this would disappoint people. My entire family loves St Louis Pizza and there are a lot of us.

I will tell you a secret, I have relocated to Florida and I miss St. Louis pizza the most of all. I lived in STL for 33 years... and I miss my family.

I guess what I meant is experience it more first hand instead of relying on a travel book. I bought a guide for New Orleans two years ago and it was not up to date and the recommendations, well they make you wonder. I just ask the locals at every shop and place I visit -"What is it about your city that I should experience before I leave?"....and many times I get great leads...things that are off the beaten path so to speak.

Thanks for liking St Louis...I am not the official Cheerleader for the city or anything...I know St Louis has its problems just like any major city...but we try. But it makes me happy to know you enjoyed your stay...:)

You have to go to Ted Drewes while you are in town...the best frozen custard in all the land...Ever have a concrete? It is this really thick frozen custard ice cream...they can actually turn it over and no ice cream will fall out. The place is on Chippewa and open all year round, they also have a place on S. Grand. You have to get a Flying Dutchman...for more info... www.teddrewes.com

I love the Botanical Gardens-one of my fav places to visit. On Sunday's they usually have some sort of classical ensemble that plays...tickets are free via the local npr/classical station.

Oh and Mexican Food...St Louis has nothing like they have out west...We have the chain Mexican restaurants...but two local restaurants are Hacienda on Manchester in Rock Hill and Casa Gallardo(many locations) are all local in nature. Hacienda has a wonderful dessert called "empenadas"<sp> and they are tiny pies filled with strawberries and cream cheese...really tasty!. The best place for Mexican food that I have found has been in Phoenix/Scottsdale AZ...great stuff....had a white chocolate tamale...it was so nice.

Didn't mean to sound offensive in my earlier letter...I welcomed your views... but just enjoy St. Louis so much as it will always be home...and I miss it.

I have never been to San Francisco....But it is on my list! Can you give me some tips?

Thanks!
Carol

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Is the game in production? Can you give me some yet-undisclosed details about it? How about sending me a free alpha version of the game? Answer the last question first.

Lightheartedly,
Isaac

je vous ecrit pour avoir l'adresse e mail de querquemon forletta car q'elle fut ma surprise en voyant le message dans ma boite au lettre au sujet de sa fille rhonda forletta dans la page NM99partH de plus je n'ait jamais ecrit cela ce qui m'a fait plaisir c'est que m querquemon forletta a ecrit ca le jour de mon anniversaire ouff mon nom est forletta cesar

merci de me repondre
ps je ne parle pas anglais

Hey, I know you probably don't know me, but I'm from Taiwan, and there's so much mintia there I got addicted during three weeks. I've been looking for them ever since; I've written the pres. of the company, I've written about a million places; searching. Is there any way you could give me the address of that store from which you bought Mintia? Did they have peach or Lychee flavor? Is there any way you could double-check? I'm willing to buy Mintia from you, and pay for the shipping and handling, if there is peach or Lychee.

Thanks!

Regards,
Sarah Wu

Hey Larry,

in case you missed it, there's an interesting article in Business Week Online from August 6 of last year that goes into some interesting detail. I keep looking for news of the asshole getting indicted, but it seems the world doesn't work that way.

a

Hi Lawrence,

The tutorial you wrote is great!!
Do you know where I can download SDK for GEOS 3.0 from.

Thanks for your time.
Regards, Ognian

You have the SDK, don't you. Would you please put it somewhere for download. Please!

I'm Tired to find Nokia 9110 SDK, i have the phone and i ana create some appz, can you help me?

So who do you have some interest in Geos (Documentation), and not have the SDK explain me? please.

i'm mostly into punk, but i once stumbled onto this japanese speed metal band called X Japan. they have a lot of cheesy ballad songs, but also lots of amazing speed metal songs. i don't even like metal, but these guys are so amazing!

songs to check out:
Art Of Life
Blueblood
Break the Darkness
Dahlia
Desperate Angel
Drain L
I'll Kill You
Kurenai (jap version is better than english version)
Miscast
No Connexion
Orgasm
Rusty Nail
Sadistic Desire
Silent Jealousy
Stab Me In The Back
Standing Sex
Weekend
X

spread the joy!

-p.

Hi!

I'm looking for GeOS, and fortunately I found your page with good documentation. But, do you know where can I download the SDK from? It isn't stored in the nokia WEB page for longer :-(. If you have got it, could you pass me a copy? I'd be very grateful.

Thank you very much.

Yours faithfully,
Alvaro.

PS. Sorry for my English :-)

looking for a reference to the blade runner quote concerning attack ships on fire, which i was using as a sample on this past summer tour with ohGr ( http://www.ohgr.org ), i instead came across the revCo reference on your web site.. then i navigated to the home page -- saw your picture, thought 'hmmm, i recognize him - isn't that the guy living a couple door down the hallway?', then my eyes did the big 7 degree shift and saw the address to confirm..

odd.. wouldn't have thought you'd heard of revCo... (though the wife apparently would have (though she also thought you worked at ucsf: net score == 0))...

anyway, bored some time? we should chat about nothing, or commonality.

loki
(206)
(the one wearing the arctic parka or the kmfdm parka)

Are all these bands singing in Japanese?That`s one part that I didn`t see(or maybe I`m just blind!).

Thanx for the web sit!

Thanks for the revisions in your article about Shepherd College/Shepherdstown and also for the links provided for both! Come back for a visit anytime!

hello there! was desperatly searching the net for some info on where i could get my hands on some blue hearts music...was hoping you might know..any info would greatly be appreciated!
Thank you!
christine

i really enjoyed reading your japan-trip-log. i'm planning to do a trip there somewhen during the next 6 months or so.. ;-)

really nice log.

well.. hope you're well and bush gets wiped out asap. :-)

greets outta rainy switzerland

oliver

Well it's like you give a baby the power to destroy the world with a finger-tip. that's what makes me scary. you know.. the leader of luxembourg doesn't has this much power, nor leaders of switzerland (even whole europe..) do. but your leader is in fact the most powerful (and most stupid, imho, sorry if i hurt your feelings ;)) leader of the world!

so why shouldn't i care more about him than about a little ant in luxembourg? "Fear the bear, the ant can't hurt you.."

no i'm not paranoid, just watching the world getting mad from an objective perpective.

Hello, my name is Leigh Ann Bright, I read your version of Loudon. I disagree, Loudon is a wonderful place to live. People are friendly, respectful. The town is a beautiful place. I have traveled, I have seen other cities, and outskirts of cities. I would not live any where else in the world.

As a St. Louisan, I found your comments on St. Louis interesting (and I thought I'd point out that the picture of the bridge you have, the one whose color you liked, is if I'm not mistaken the Eads Bridge, although I'd check that with your friends at SLU).

And I have a picture that I took from the Arch that you're more than welcome to use if you'd like, provided that appropriate credit is provided. (And either way, you're more than welcome to look at it to see what you missed by not going up in the Arch).. it's at http://www.umr.edu/~mjr/stlouis.jpg

Anyway, I hope you get the chance to visit St. Louis again sometime.

Best wishes,
Matt "umrguy" Ryan

I was searching the web for the string 'you're a dickhead' and, interestingly, your page came up first in all search engines. I assume that you are from the US (judging by the email address) but the term 'dickhead' is most widely used in england - more so than in the US. I think we have a case of net induced globalisation here.

Nice hair, by the way :-)

I love the poem about winzip - very original concept :-)

> I don't think Chris hooked up with [Tom].
> I think Tom had moved to Brooklyn.

Indeed. Too bad for Chris.

-Tom

P.S. Rather distressing that approximately 50% of the hits for "(Tom | Thomas) & Manshreck" are on your site.

you're a dickhead.

mcm and the monster and dead milkmen and saw this flyer online later

thought it might bring back fond memories ;-)

smitty

I tried doing a search on Google for "Jimmy Minjung" for the hell of it and your page on our party in Tokyo came up. I had not seen this page before and enjoyed your account of the party!

I just found something on your site that is of great interest to me.

You mention that, until the 1960's, NASA was still using whale oil for a few things. I am looking for that very type of information and was wondering if you may be able to tell me what your source was for that information.

If you are unable to point me directly to the source, any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your effort. Tell you what, if I find out, I'll let you know.

Did a search on Betsy Houghton and came up with your post of her picture of TN. Skipped to Departures and vaguely recalled having read it. Corrections/comments follow.

The pictured lightning struck tree didn't die.

More importantly, your bookstore comments seem far off the mark. Knoxville has at least one Borders and one Barnes & Noble, 2 B Daltons, 2 Waldenbooks plus another 20 + independents. Failure to see a bookstore while visiting might be attributed to failure to look in the Yellow Pages or otherwise ask.

Knoxville is home to University of Tennessee. Where do you suppose all those football players and their fans get their reading material? :)

Dan Hosken, near Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Hello Larry -

I'm here in Cambridge this week, and was thinking about getting together with Tom.
Do you have any contact information (phone, email, etc)?

How've you been?

I'm glad to see you've been keeping your site going - it's the only way I know of to keep in touch with old GeoWorkers!

Hi! I live in Russia. My name is Stas.
I badly speak english, sorry.
Please, help me.
I have very big problems with Nokia 9000i Communicator.
The display appears error message "Internal error" ....... "Reboot".
I press "Reboot" button and error mesage appear again,again,again....
I have very important information in communicator.

Hey people,

Just moved to the bay area. Really missing Pizza from Joe's. Used to live in the village. That story is typical Joe's. Boy would I love to have a slice right now.

take care
Venkat

Stumbled across your website looking for dirt on David Thatcher. What do you think about the Critical Path fiasco? Do you think it possible that Thatcher could have been part of a deliberate misrepresentation of earnings? I know you would have no real knowledge, I just wanted to know if this was the kind of thing he might be capable of based on your experience with him at Geoworks.

i really enjoyed reading your japan-trip-log. i'm planning to do a trip there somewhen during the next 6 months or so.. ;-)

really nice log.

well.. hope you're well and bush gets wiped out asap. :-)

greets outta rainy switzerland

oliver

[It's nice to live in a superpower nation. When the people of Luxemborg have a venal and stupid national leader, do they get condolence letters from people in other nations? No, because non-Luxemborgians couldn't care less. But when the USA's leader is venal and stupid, lots of people care.]

hi lahosken!
how are you doing?
i am goro takaoka of orion. co.in osaka japan
there isn't anyone here who speak engrish very well
i only speak a little engrish.
how are things in san-francisco?
I am happy that you are interested in our product as for me.
I visit your web site.but i don't understand it very well
I am interested about your country.
may i ask you a litte?
what do you do? have you ever been to japan?
looking forward to your reply

mr. goro takaoka

Hi, Mr.. L.A. Hosken
I learn English in an English conversation special school of Nova.

I got around 120 times lessons heretofore but.it's very difficult for me

he is my teacher. his name is will. he is an American.

his favorite song is old rock

I have gone to Hawaii on a honeymoon 13 years ago.but I haven't been to the American Continent.

why have you been in japan? by by

from goro takaoka

Lawrence,
somehow surfed onto your zen koan #956 page. knocked me out. (not for publication).

wonder if you would mind if I copy it and put it on my website ( http://www.peacasso.com ) ??? I will of course link the quotation to your site and give you full credit for it.

what say?

regards,

frank
http://www.studio2357.com

a.k.a. peacasso
http://www.peacasso.com

a.k.a. oobopadoo
http://www.peacasso.com/oobop/

Hello , my name is Ben from Australia and I visited your site not that long ago - I am interested in infomation upon Japanese travel etc. Please help !

I plan to visit Japan soon to see my girlfriend who is staying in Japan - and I would be gratefull to know a few things.

Is Japan expensive ? (to travel to, eat sleep and drink?) How much money do you think I would require for normal expenses for around 1 or 2 weeks in Japan ?(in Yen or $ estimate)

I am a skateboarder , you article upon the "dogs and the skatepark " caught my eye - are you a skateboarder ? Anyway , do or did you see any other skateparks in Japan , especially around Tokyo ?

Ok , this is all I can think of right now . . . Thankyou for your time and I would really appreciate your reply. Thanks.

Hey ! Thankyou very much for the infomation ! It hopefully shall come in handy when I eventually travel to Japan.

Oh yeah , I WILL have fun with my girlfriend AND I will keep on skateboarding . . . Thanks !

Ben Williams .

>> ..."WHat's New" ...longest link
> And it's not even new anymore.

--I know. It's been all I can do to keep up with the daily updates, though there are larger updates waiting in the wings.

> Possible
> re-wordings:
> "News"
> "Announced"
> "IP News"

--Thank you, I may consider one of those.
Then again, if I ever give IP the beauty makeover I'd like to, those might not matter. However, that might not happen until Thanksgiving or later, depending on when I get some time to myself. Right now I'm satisfied with it being functional, I believe, and stylish and snazzy can come later.

Speaking of site appearances, I like yours -- it's unique, and and I like your use of graphics without sacrificing content.

> I can't speak for everyone, but my life got a lot
> saner a couple of years after graduation. I did get
> caught up on a lot of the things I'd wanted to do.
> There's hope.

--I've heard a couple of horror stories from graudated friends, but they were all reporting back from the dot-com trenches. Mostly, folks say life is a little less stressful... which would be nice, given the school-job-job juggling act I've got now. There are things I'd like to do more of, even beyond sleeping, that just aren't feasible right now.

Where did you graduate from?

Also, if I didn't say so earlier, thanks for both your contributions to the site and your suggestions for it. Both are greatly appreciated. (Especially the kerosene comment... eek.)

--ip

Glad to hear you found her [Augusta H. Clawson's] book!

I actually found the author before she died on 13 May 1997 at her home outside Washington, D.C. A fabulous lady, she welcomed me to stay with her while I researched my dissertation (uncompleted) on a history of welding equipment manufacturers in the United States. I was able to put her in touch with some of the historians in Washington, D.C., and that is how her welding mask came to be in a permanent collection there. A Vassar graduate, she was a delight to know.

More than you would ever believe!! I had tons of fun doing research in Washington, DC, as I had to get stuff "de-classified" (fifty years later!) just in order to see it! Most of that stuff was personal correspondence between James F. Lincoln and various naval people. Welding, you see, was used to speed ship production (a la Kaiser) and so was viewed as a real important technology of the time. GE and Westinghouse were the two big corporations involved in welding, but Lincoln Electric was the upstart "single" focus corporation headed by a charismatic man that really helped make welding history. The whole history is fascinating.... the best anecdote comes, actually, from W.W.I when welding was first investigated as a ship building technology. This is one of those wonderful apocryphal stories: J. F. Lincoln was arguing for use of welding in ship construction and the naval powers-that-be argued that they could kick apart any welded piece with their feet. J.F. responded in no uncertain terms that they would have *(&^&*( hurting feet if they even tried! But it took until the next war for welding to become an accepted technology for ship fabrication.

Augusta's role was important as a "spy" because few men were left on the homefront and ships were desperately needed. Women kept being trained as welders, but were then leaving. This was a HUGE problem as ships were DESPERATELY needed. So they recruited her as an undercover "spy" to go into the shipyards and detail what she thought the problems were and why women were leaving. The book is actually a compilation of her reports which were never intended for publication. But, as a well-educated Vassar graduate -- and a woman with a superb sense of humor -- they were so well-written and so persuasive that they fit into another needed commodity -- war-time publications to inspire the home front!

Most of the people within the welding industry were wonderful characters --- and I had the opportunity to meet some of them before they died in the 1980s. Others I only know through their papers -- and some only through what others have written. T. B. Jefferson, Comfort Adams, Niels Miller, E. A. Hobart all have their places in welding history along with C. K. Rickel, and lesser known figures.

I would LOVE to get Augusta's book republished, as few copies exist. A few years ago (ooh... probably ten when I think about it), the Library of Congress had only one copy, as did the Ohio State University. I have one personal copy that I bought off the internet, but since it was only issued in very acidic paper editions, I would love to get an academic press to reprint it before it literally falls to pieces.

Hope this gives you a bit more background,

Meg

ok... i'm dying for japanese punk and ska and was wondering if you knew of some good american sources for finding them.... the bands i already have stuff by is listed below.... i have maybe 30 cds but would really like a source for more

ok.... well, then I can help you out a little....

• www.fatwreck.com: hi-standard albums and whatnot
• www.roadrunnerrecords.com: kemuri full length and ep
• www.moonska.com: rude bones full length, as well as, the compilation you spoke of ["Nihon Ska Dansu (Land of the Rising Ska)"]
• www.toohep.com: mega stink men album
• www.asianmanrecords.com: softball, potshot albums, various asian bands
• www.suburbanhomerecords.com: a series of america/japan band split cds... also, a few compilations heavy on japanese content
• www.tomatoheadrecords.com: young punch 7", nicotine album, culture shock punk rock comp with good japanese content
• www.hopelessrecords.com: skankin' in the pit comp has good japanese coverage
• www.ska-t-boy.com: about ten or so great japanese ska/punk imports (shoulder hopper, balzac, scafull king, etc.).... a little expensive but no worse than shopping at sam goody or somewhere
• other places i don't know the address to.... far out records (fruity 7"), sky records (TONS of japanese pop-punk/ska)...however, it's a japanese label so it took literally ten e-mails to get them to understand that i wanted to buy records from them...heh

that covers most of what i own and all of it i'd recommend.... it's all reasonably priced and good stuff.... also, there are some stores that'll import some japanese punk/ska at exorbitant prices with little variety.... i haven't done that yet but it looks like my next step....sigh

apropos of not much

You visited Juarez. When we lived in the Marin house you listened to Tori Amos. Every now and then I kick myself for missing the concert you invited me to. But that's a sidetrack issue.

Her most recent album has a song called Juarez, which piqued my interest enough to google around (not that that takes very much these days). It's apparently an infamous place. A lot of murders took place there (take place there?).

This is all hard to tell from the song. The song is spooky but also very abstract.

P

PS re: travelogue Among the Yanks part 0 and my comment (of Kelly) "No, there's just the one." It actually turns out there are so many of them in my college chum peer group that they are numbered.

The Kelly I was meeting is Kelly #3. #1 is Bret's now-wife. #2 is an ex-girlfriend of Bret's. I forget who #4 is.

PPS Have you been to Vik's yet? It's just down the street from you guys, on Allston. Allston and 6th street. Drag some of your lazy car-driving coworkers out there one day and give me a call beforehand. It's closed mondays. They have good samosas which are entirely too big to be finished by one person. They have odd things called puri which aren't puri like you get at pasand. They're like big, flat rice crispies. They sell a beverage called "cold coffee".

Yum. I think I'll go tomorrow.

a new friend of mine did some mild web-stalking on me and said she found pictures i had taken. Something about ice caves. I said yup, sounds like me all right and checked it out. I'd forgotten you'd scanned those in! They look better than I remember.

Thank you for serving as a backup memory system. I'd forgotten about much of that trip.

To repay your kindness I will point out a possible error in your text. I've heard writers like that a lot. Kyle Baker says so at the back of Why I Hate Saturn.

> this end of Queen Anne Street was full of sitdowny restaurants
> whose clientele looked to care more about fashion than palette.

Palate? Or perhaps this was a subtle comment on a hip new fashion trend of focusing on form to the exclusion of chroma?

Oddly, I don't know you.
I'm the sort of person who signs petitions proffered outside of supermarkets, though. I wonder if you ever lived across from me and never introduced yourself.

I was surprised it got on so fast after the scanning. I have read up thru #12 and enjoying it. Skipped stuff about ships.

I was curious about the book The N.Y. Mining Disaster. The print gets darker after it is on the monitor for awhile. Who is the Sam re Sam's birthday?

A perhaps typo: Sister city Hamburg vs Hanburg? Just to show I have a bit of possible anne f. in me too. But not much.

The water fountain incident got me laughing to make up for the restrained children. I love the non happening that resulted from your having the compass. Do you have a tiny one like Br[y]an?

The lunch went pretty well, but I need to figure out a more elegant way to do coffee. That yellow enamel pot isn't terribly attractive. But more to the point, I want to do all the pouring ahead of time, so I can stop being in the kitchen for so long. I will start asking around for suggestions. I guess you guys use a Mr. Coffee at work?

Elegance suggestions welcome. Love, your m

Wish you had more pictures with yourself in it. What is a scene without the protagonist in its midst? Anyway, just finished chapter one. Will read chapter two tomorrow.

All you need to do is just ask any pretty girl passing by, or an obaasan, even grandpa ojiisan wouldn't mind helping a tall gaijin like you. It's just taking pics for crying out. You could have met a gorgeous gal and maybe have an onsen spa with her, grandpa or grandma thoroughly impressed, inviting you to their home for dinner when you spoke Japanese..toka, etc. Let me tell you something: years from now, looking at your old pics in retrospect, you'd think you look more handsome now than later when your laugh lines and girth are entrenched. But what's the point of telling, you'd just poke fun. Sigh, Zannen desu ne.

hi, i will like to know how can I buy the hm62256, 28 pin. I live in Panamá.
Many Thanks

Regards

Oriel Dominguez

It was fun to read your comments about the MIT Model RR Club and the crossbar switch "system". I'm a member and may have met you at the open house.

The arguability of "first" computers is a thorny one. Certainly, Howard Aiken's initial Mark I efforts were much more prominent than those of his contemporary, George R. Stibitz, but one could argue that between 1939 and 1943, the series of "complex number calculators" developed by Stibitz at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City were considerably more reliable and versatile than anything that came out of Harvard. The Stibitz Models I, II, III, and IV were all implemented with telephone relays. If you search on "Stibitz" you will find several references, including a somewhat belated recognition by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). A visit to the Smithsonian will net you a look at a reconstruction of the first experimental adder built by Stibitz with a couple of relays, a couple of light bulbs, two large dry-cell batteries, some strips of metal cut from a tin can, and an actual kitchen breadboard to mount it all on. From this simple beginning, the idea grew to fill a small room full of relays, and to eventually provide the Navy with a ordinance computer that not only saw service during the war, but continued to operate reliably, well into the 1960's.

Stibitz was a featured lecturer in the first years of the DEC computer museum. Unfortunately, since the museum has moved into Boston, much of the pre-Eniac work has been ignored.

Thought you might enjoy some more perspective on the "relay" computers !

Dick Lord

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I was surfing the net when I came across your page, NM99 Part H. Imagine my surprise to find my daughter, Rhonda Forletta, mentioned in your narrative. You mentioned that you decided against asking her if she knew her name was a "forletta" word. That gave me cause to smile because people usually ask how to pronounce the name and we always say Forletta, like a four letter word. But at least you didn't sing "Help Me Rhonda" when you met her. That would have really made her day! (VBG). Anyway, I'm saving your page to show her next time she comes to visit Mom. Thanks for the smile.

Querquemom Forletta

I saw your review at Amazon for "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing".

ArsDigita, Philip's company, is trying to grow big in 3 California offices: Berkeley, Palo Alto and Los Angeles.

Are you interested in checking us out?
We are building a huge open source toolkit that we hope to make a mark on the world, teach in each office and Universities like MIT, CalTech, Berkeley, and UCLA, and build great websites? We also have an association foundation (http://arsdigita.org) and university (http://arsdigita.org/university). We need smart people who would be excited about our goals. Do you know of anyone that would be a good fit?

We have some pretty nice recruiting incentives if you are willing to help us out down here. ($ and cars) You can find information http://www.arsdigita.com/pages/jobs/recruiting Talking us up in the area and recruiting hints would be very appreciated.

Recruiting/boot camp events in Berkeley:
April 13th (Thursday) - Open House Dinner
April 15-16 - Weekend crash boot camp
April 10 - 3 Week Bootcamp (people may come to part)
April 20th (Thursday) - Open House Dinner
April 12-23 - Weekend crash boot camp

Sign ups are at: tp://www.arsdigita.com/events/

In any case, good luck with things and I'm glad you found the book useful. I hope you find our free software useful as well. We have lots more free information and tools available at http://arsdigita.com and http://photo.net/wtr.

Thank you,
Tracy Adams
VP Operations
ArsDigita

PS - My name is mentioned twice in the book. Once for building the first version of ArsDigita Community System (we've come a long way since then) and again for converting Remind Me) Not quite as famous as Philip, but you did gloss over my name :)

I enjoyed my visit which should be titled "Celestial navigation an anthropic Experinece." Lewis and Clark's diary read differently as the "The Team of Discovery" were busy doing celestial navigation crossing the Northwest Passage as revealed at http://www.litongcs.com click Portneys Ponderables then double click to Brain Games.
Thanks,
Joe Portney, Navsense

I'm an Argentinian student of Ninjutsu, and I read about your experience in Iga Region, did you have any digital photograph about that "magic" place or did you know any place in the internet where I ca get some photos or more detail information that I already have ?

Your fave reads are quite an eclectic (hope the spelling is right) mix, quite masculine. Don't mean to genderize, but, my tastes are more emotional, more toward aethetics. Yep, more gal stuff. May be nauseating to some folks, but that's how we relax. The deepest thing I've ever read that combined beauty and emotion are those metaphysical poems by George Herbert, an Elizabethan scholar. But I'll look into your fave reads, and try to expand the mind. Thanks for being so open.

Just wanted to assure you that "Terror on Flight 789" still lives!

http://www.shunn.net/terror

The old URL for that site was a casualty of a broken relationship. 'Nuff said.

In addition, myagent is shopping the new book-length version of the story (tentatively titled "The Accidental Terrorist") around to various publishers as we speak. I'm always looking for interested folks who might like to offer feedback on portions of the manuscript.

Keep up the good work.

hi, i will like to know how can I buy the hm62256, 28 pin. I live in Panamá.
Many Thanks

Regards

Oriel Dominguez

[My lab partner and I were sure lucky, able to borrow all of those expensive chips for our school electronics project.]

Just read your Seattle sailing trip with your pals: it's amazing that there's poetry in rubber dinghys, undying love, and waves. Oops, " The African Queen" movie comes into mind. And those streams of consciousness: we hardly read someone else's these days, unless you believe in mind melds (Uggh. Frightening.). Perhaps a publisher might be interested in your stories? Who knows.They're funnier than Peter Mayles, who wrote his tales about life in Provence (which, only we francais-deprived folks, who read them, care).

I stumbled onto your web page and laughed at your trip excursions with Angi in NYC. I was from that area a long time ago, and do you know, they do serve dumpling soup in S.F.

Spirited, the tall man went down to the edge of the river in order to purchase a bucket of quarters. In doing so, he forgot his labrador, who was sadly becoming educated by a large group of eastern philosophers. I felt bad for that dog, because i well know the many pitfalls of recent typewriter failings. Anyway, when the man approached the river, he realized that his pants were much too apologetic for the current era. I'm pretty sure at that point he found a small piece of sponge in his pocket, with which he sopped up all of his worthless memories. That was when everything got a little hazy...the one thing that was certain was that photocopies were being run out of town at an alarming rate. No one could stop the mass exodus, save the Wonderful Sporting Pet. This was, obviously, an outdated kitchen appliance whose mother came straight off of the boat from Tulsa. She was a hearty woman, a woman who knew how to cook for her friends. Her most famous dish was a plate with delicate flowers around the edge, but Manuel the Questionable had forsaken his plaintain protocal earlier in the season, and the rains would never compensate his shortcomings. We all realized that friendship wasn't worth the paper it was printed on, and hastily drove to the southern most point of the street, where a lovely group of stool pigeons were singing some song they liked to call "Wake Me Up When the Sun Strikes Thirty-Seven." About half of them tried to convince me that this was a top forty smash hit, while the rest of them assured me that it was nothing but a dirty limirick with sharp edges. Sharp edges will cut you, they asserted. I disagreed, but then i've never been one to agree with anyone who says things to me.

For poetry, that works.

Hi, my name is Alessandro Lucio Hosken Cruz, and live in Brazil. I loock for anyfamily in net. ....and I find you.

What do you do in USA?

My e-mail is

Bye, and nice to meet you.....

Nice page. I'm a bit far from you - Brazil. Anyway, it's nice to contact another Hosken.

You're right, i was afraid- really hate the colours!

You know, we have those [tumbleweed] here. They pile up on the medians near Livermore, and then blow all over the highway, wreaking havoc when big storms finally untangle them.

Damn you Larry! Don't you realize I have presentations to write, schedules to decipher, work to do?! ...I'll get you for this.

...[Your web site's content] is also clever. Possibly pointless here and there, but clever none-the-less.

I couldn't help but notice that the Adam Rich picture on your site's comment page really sucks. The ones on stargalaxy.com rock.

I spoke to you [Friday] about some work I have in Utah. I know that you said that you probably would not be interested, but possibly had some referrals. Like I said on the phone, if you refer someone to us, and we can get them hired, I can pay you up to $1500.00 bonus.

Please forward my contact information to anyone who you know that may be interested.

Thanks,

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This picture was carefully framed at the cul de sac on Dan and Jean's road to show the rural TN landscape and not reveal those wires overhead.

I am another Hosken cousin who has enjoyed your postings.

I checked it out. I was afraid...

Man, did you mean to look so much like Adam Rich as a child?

Bill Hosken just sent me to our site, I am no writer as you will soon learn, but we have the same color eyes. I'm glad I am not the only one that has eyes that change according to my mood...

I did enjoy your site especially the modeling career. It looks like you are into computers rather heavily. I enjoyed the graphics. Well, guess I should leave you wondering who is this person. Ask your Dad who Sharon is. Then if you want to stay in contact, I look forward to getting to know you.

HI
I enjoyed your web site.
Your Dad's Cousin,
Bill

Just had to write, total stranger. Yours is the only web site I've found with a reference to our fav. Japanese potato chips. My wife and I were JETs in Saga-ken.

Thanks for the chuckle. We still laugh at that bag of chips (how pitiful) and the popular chocolate candy "Colon Roll" - yick.

I enjoyed reading your accounts on your website of figuring out how a Curta calculator works. While I was flattered that you chose to use my photograph of a Curta Model I, I am dismayed at your flagrant misuse of someone else's property. Current accepted practice is to link to material on another site, not copy it to your site, rename and use it. I find it especially ironic in that on your site in your "LeGal NicetIes" you admonish anyone who "5teals" anything from your "sit3" to attribute it properly. So, I don't think it's too much to request that you do the same and provide proper attribution to me for my photograph. I grant permission for you to use my photograph on your site, as long as you properly attribute it.

Lawrence Hosken wrote:

> You've made a wonderful thing.  Thank you.

>   Figure out the probability tables for depth-N and depth-N-1.
>   To figure out the next word:
>     flip a coin

That's interesting, I think I'll try that...

Hmm, the unfortunate thing about that is that it makes the *generation*
of the chain be probabilistic.  If you use the same text as input twice
in a row, you don't get the same histogram out.  I'm not sure that sits
well with me...

> This might break down if I started reading in huge amounts
> of text and N became large.  Then again, it might not.

I think that the larger the body of input text, the larger you want N to
be, but it probably maxes out somewhere at (uh) 1/2 * 
length-of-a-typical-sentence or something like that.  
(Or maybe it's "verb phrase"
and not sentence?  I'll bet there's some language-specific constant
about how many words our brains need in order to pull patterns out of
groups of words.  I'll bet it's not a very large number.)


I'm kinda cheating by including this email with comments
     that normal site visitors send me.  Mr. Zawinski never would have
     seen my Markov page if I hadn't sent him some fawning mail
     about his.
     So I kinda solicited this mail.  Anyhow.