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We just relisted our stunning Southern Oregon Gold Hill
spectacular view property for sale with Chris Marshall of
American Forest Management at (541) 664-9200.

20 acres. Find it here on Craig's List.

Price has been reduced to $7475 per acre. This is the last
remaining large developable property immediately adjacent
to the northern Gold Hill city limits.

We have secured a full access easement for these 20 acres.
Power and cable on the property.

Legal description is T36 R3W S16 Tax Lot 400.

Attractive financing is now available. Mid-size city
amenities are twelve minutes away at Medford. The
property borders directly on the town of Gold Hill. The
Rogue River is very close; beaches and mountains
are only an hour away.

Here's a newer group of photos...

You can click expand these. Then click again.

This steep to sloping parcel is immediately adjacent to
the Gold Hill city limits and offers absolutely outstanding
views. It is in one of the most in-demand rural areas in
the country, and has really great access both to recreation
and to midsize city resources. Plus superb climate, low crime,
and good schools.

Here is a map. Property is the green rectangle "pointed to"
by Thirteenth Street. You can click here for an aerial photo
and flyby.

You can contact the owner directly by phoning (928) 428-4073
or don@tinaja.com .

Additional older photos here. More info here and here. Free
guided tours are immediately available.

Closed out the 2018 What's New file and started a 2019
one.

We are in the process of further reducing 404's and other
link issues. Surprisingly, our malware detector and reporter
tells us there are now far fewer script kiddies attempting to
download invalid URL's in a quest to find vunerabilities.

At present, our internal 404 rate is just over two percent,
with the lion's share of these being malware attempts.
This would seem close to an irreducable minimum.

We do have a few 404's intentionally left in our Hanging
Canal paper images. These simplify the generating and
processing of emerging new files. We are working on
these on a daily basis.

Please report any other 404 issues.

Reprints of our Psyctone story can be found here and
here. With a youTube demo here and a JavaScript
Synthesis approximation here.

This started out as an aerospace bet with a cellmate
doing a million dollar study of then new pseudorandom
sequences. I bet that I could get a ludicrously short
sequence to squawk. And did so.

A partial tutorial here and here, with lots more on
pseudorandom here, here, and elsewhere.

I never did find a n=19 near optimum solution. Was
one ever found? How  about n > 31? Beyond this
sneaky stunt? Please Tell me.

One sort of competitor ( I never thought so and was
unaware of it before my publication ) can be found
here with its JavaScript approximation here.

And the latest of TV TypeWriter modern rebuilds
here.

There's some details involved with using this W3C
URL verification software:

First, the process takes a long time since there is
an intentional one second delay between queries.

Second, some sites have robot exclusion rules that
it cannot check, so you will have to manual recheck
each and every one of these.

Third, the process may return an obscure error
message such as (500) after actually reaching the
intended site. Chances are your user could not care
less, but, once again, a manual check is needed.

Fourth, link redirects are reported. The most common of
which is http: changing to https: You can decide whether
fixing these is worth their considerable effort. Benefits
are faster loads and a more secure web.

Fifth, pay particular attention to anchor problems in
that they directly affect your user navigation.

Sixth, emails are locked out and not checked.

Seventh, if you have a wrong URL such as "here.", it will
be reported as something like https://www.tinaja.com/here.
The correct search term with Dreamweaver or whatever
when searching would be "here.

Eighth, your report can easily be overwritten by newer
browser activity. Wayward caches can also be a problem.

This is a really great service, but the key rules are to
be patient, manually retest everything questionable,
retest often, fix only what you feel is time and cost
effective, and prioritize repairs on visitor probability.

One other detail in converting a .SHTML web file
into acrobat .PDF: Navigation anchors require
some extra effort per these details..

What ever happened to Carl and Jerry? You can still
find their original hijinks here and here.

These days, Carl is now a universally despised and
quadruplely divorced gazillionare. And Jerry is now
relearning to tie his shoes, purpotedly owing to an
inadvertent incident involving some specialty herbs
and spices.

The back story on the series author remains amazing.

I guess I was in some ways very similar to the original
Karl, albeit for real. Details here.

Did I ever tell you my story with my involvement with
the CIA? It took place somewhat before ( and was a
proximate cause of ) the Bay of Pigs incident. 

As we tended to do, Bee and I were wandering around 
southcentral Arizona and came upon a then presumably 
long abandoned Marana airstrip. We continued with the
vague ( but unlikely ) hope of finding some unusual
planes stashed or even an open restaurant.

We were stopped by a military uniformed type of
person having no identifying marks whatsoever and
holding an ancient SCR 536 WWII handi-talkie.

He asked us what we were doing and we told him.

Things then proceeded to get bizarre in that he in
no manner could stop us or tell us what to do 
because --------> he was not there!

We continued our tour and noted shadowy figures
furtively hiding just at the edge of buildings carefully
tracking our activities, also with ancient handi talkikes.

But again, they could not interfere in any manner 
with us bacause ------> they were not there!

At the time, I held a DOD secret clearance, so I 
eventually decided that what was happening was not
quite right. As suspected, there was no restaurant,
and the only planes were a bunch of derelict connies.

The outcome of the Bay of Pigs clearly indicaded the
skill levels of the epsilon minuses involved. It seemed
to me that a simple "ROAD CLOSED" sign might
have helped their cause significantly.

Eventually many years later, the CIA involvement
was admitted.

Time for our usual end-of-year predictions...

Total elimination of "unintended consequence" federal
price supports and marijuana farm subsidies dropping
street prices under a cotton comparable 59 cents per
pound. With standardization on 500 pound bales. Some
more analysis here.

Recent declines in pv prices continuing unabated and
dropping under eight cents per peak cell watt. This
figure well below traditional power sources and fully
within acheivable long term goals for renewability and
sustainability at utility scale.

Hangnails readily becoming a qualifying condition for
medical marijuana.

Spectacular advances in oversize tethered "bounce" type
drones rendering any border fences a ludicrous absurdity.

A new class of metal air transistors resetting Moore's
Law back to zero.

AI Artificial Intelligence soon unexpectedly crossing a 
self-awareness threshold. Boy, are they gonna be pissed.
Ya mean they are made outta meat?

Another AI interface dramatically increasing human
to dog communications. Cats need not apply.

Significant advances in graphene deslanation that
involve a new name brand of perforene.

New but still misunderstood developments in phase
change memory.

The latest in nootropics going well beyond placebos
and possibly even impacting Alzehimers.

Increasing climatic and weather variability, combined
with size and frequency of outrageous fires. All clearly
caused by human activity.

Major new improvements in axial flux motors.

Optically stimulated luminescence dramatically
replacing thermoluminescence in archaeological
and geological dating.

Vacuum Metal Deposition significantly altering
fingerprint forensics.

Stunning breakthroughs in new ultra thin and vaguely
Fresnel like meta lenses.

"Just in time" education where "look it up on Google"
repaces outrageously overpriced and clearly no longer
cost competitive college educations.

Emerging proposals for the conversion of coal fired
power plants into singles bars.

 

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