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An Early trilobite around 515,000,000 years old. Olenellus fremonti from the Lower Cambrian Latham Shale, Marble Mountains, NE of Chambless Store, San Bernardino County, CA
Looking at the changes since July 1, there simply isn't that much new content ready. Doing an update requires many hours of overhead and provides a number of opportunities for breaking things that are working, So, I'm skipping the October update. Next Update January 1, 2012 ... probably.
This update is nothing all that special. I've redone the home page and a couple of other pages and added a few sites to the fossil site list. I've pretty much finished cleaning up the names of the fossil taxa. There are about 275 names that I will continue to research on a low priority basis, but I think most are at least somewhat valid and most of the ones that aren't valid are not going to be resolvable.
I've also spent a great deal of time looking into what site profiles might look like. Nothing is yet settled, but this has most of the features I've looked into in one form or another
For more info, see Plans and History.
Welcome to my website: You'll find several different collections of stuff here:
| Lists of over 15000 fossil sites in the US and Canada - Discussion and links to files. | A copy of the The Sepkoski data base of fossil genera. | Some site profiles | Some pictures of my fossil collection. |
Articles and Essays Articles and Essays on various topics -- mostly computer related. Whenever I have to spend an inordinate amount of time researching something, I try to write up and article in hopes that I can save some effort for others.
I envision these as a set of articles on current and future American energy usage. My reason for writing them is simply to educate myself on the subject. I think that the series will end up as about half a dozen articles. Only one is complete, four others are in various stages of production. Barring death, crippling disease, or an attack of lack of interest, I would expect the completed articles to creep onto the web site over the next few years.
| PER CAPITA ENERGY USAGE FOR VARIOUS COUNTRIES | WHAT THE US USES ENERGY FOR | WHERE US ENERGY COMES FROM |
An analysis of flying cars and Personal Air Vehicles (PAVs). I'm not quite sure why I undertook this as it was quite time consuming and I really don't much care about PAVs one way or the other. I'm not sure that I'd own one even were they widely available and cheap. Anyway, here's the discussion. Bottom Line: There are huge technical problems. Also, broken cars mostly stop. Broken aircraft mostly drop. That leads to very large and quite intractable liability and maintenance issues. There are also major security issues because of the ease with which a PAV could be converted into a homemade cruise missile.
Personal Air Vehicles for everyman probably aren't happening any time soon.
For now, A brief synopsis
The published stories were written for Datamation back around 1970. There are a couple of others that I'll reenter someday. (Note, I'm the author of the pieces, not the copyright holder. I don't think it's likely that whoever holds the copyright nowadays will want them taken down, but they have only to ask ...). Unlike the rest of the material on the site, these are not published under the Creative Commons License. The copyright holder can, if they choose, restrict your access to and use of them. The unpublished stuff is just that -- unpublished and, in many cases, unfinished.
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| 'Report from the Psychlab' | 'The Alabtross Project' | ||
| UNPUBLISHED (Creative Commons License) | |||
| 'Ode to a 1995 Dodge Neon' | 'Cheech and the Bridge' | Pangloss Lives! (Fragments of a Novel) | Det-Rot Story (Fragments of a Juvenile Novel) |
Some fragments of a novel that will never be written. The original plan was to retrace Dante's path to Hell in reverse with lots of hopefully entertaining satire and social commentary. The problem turned out to be that I am a deeply flawed individual who finds Dante to be terminally boring. I'm quite sure that is my fault, not that of Signor Dante or his translators.
What does the working title -- Pangloss Lives! -- have to do with the content of the story? Nothing whatsoever. But it is a really fantastic title, No? (At least for those who have read Candide).
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| Liz | [Dintro | Charon | Charon2 | Noah | Finale | ||
Links to sites I find interesting for one reason or another. Maybe you will also. I have many more, but the list needs to be examined in detail, and I won't have time for that for a while:
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