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Expanded and revised our directors cut for the Applewriter
Cookbook. Find its file here and its sourcecode here.

Director's Cuts are my method of restoring Linotype era
books and stories to well beyond their formal glory. The
major benefits include astonishing low file sizes, "perfect"
typography and backgrounds, color addons, full URL
linkings and clickthrus, image click expansion, dehyphenation,
paragraph ledding, and great heaping bunches more.

The process starts with a scan fed to Acrobat .PDF followed
by text recognition and optimization. Pages are then cut
to clipboard and fed to my Gonzo Utilities. Gross scanning
typos are then fixed, followed by reformatting. Surprisingly
little rekeying is required. As many figures as possible are
regrouped into standard box procs of one sort or another.

The method does have a steep learning curve and is quite
labor intensive. It is also not suitable for legal documents
or "Shakespearean" quality originals.

Full services available.

The smallest 4K resolution screens are apparently 24
inches. And, yeah, you'd have to be about three inches
away to actually have your eye see this resolution.

But there is a major hidden advantage. Your print
screen key now can have four times the resolution! Which
significantly improves your capturing the uncapturable .

And renders the concept of IP rights "quaint" at best.

You will have to make sure you have the latest Window
version, the latest screen drivers, and a display board
that can handle 4K.

Our latest pseudoscience bashing post has been newly
revised here. With its sourcecode here. Along with a
historic third party coverage here.

Some rules...

NEVER attack pseudoscience with manic
religious fervor. Or you become what you
think you are attacking.

NEVER directly confront a pseudoscience
proponent. All this does is piss them off
and get them into a "shoot the messenger"
mode.

ALWAYS try to give third parties useful,
authentic, and genuine scientific resources.
Such as here and here. Let them fight the
actual battles.

ALWAYS remember that rectocranial inversion
can be both acute and chronic at the same time.
Especially when they are "not even wrong".

And some links to our other pseudoscience stuff...

How to Bash Pseudoscience
How to scam a student paper
      This one is only "slightly"
       incorrect. But which?
Supraluminal Dowsing for Brown's
      Gas in Roswell.
Trashing auto electrolysizers
Debunking water powered cars. 
Arguments AGAINST the hydrogen
      economy
Investigating Brown's Gas 
The bogus magic lamp.
The actual bogus magic lamp paper. 
My very first perpetual motion machine
Our main Pseudoscience library

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

Long overdue public increasing awareness of power
and energy consumption, partially brought about by
power utilities making meter readings owner accessible.

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.

Unlikely third world countries very soon dropping their
pv panel prices to the utility grade twenty five cents per
peak panel watt demanded for true renewability and
sustainability.

Major increase in home butane honey oil explosions.

Expanding interest in "water from air" devices.

The sudden and total demise of coal.

Controversial but credible detection of extra-terrestrial
mid-level intelligence "real soon now". Perhaps a planet
full of asparagus. And more "WTF" signals yet to come.

Full width static self-duplexing printheads that can offer
dramatic printer simplification and speedups.

Reduction in traditional auctions and auctioneers brought
about by explosive online popularity. Many traditional
auctioneer  skills are clearly no longer useful.

Dropping relevance of ISO fire ratings, combined with
volunteer daytime response problems, dramatic cost
increases, and major funding issues. ( But - hey. TFD
just got a three! Which is the best it can get. Top dog.
It seems the paid departments hog all the twos and ones. )

Strong sales of ultra resolution smart tv's despite zero
available content. Whose largely unintended  side effect
will dramatically increase the quality of IP print screen
violations.

The terabyte revolution being largely ignored, moving
directly instead into the petabyte revolution. One thumb
drive to hold all movies, or all books, or all history. With
emerging utterly disruptive IP issues.

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

Dramatic increases in near field power transmission.
Wireless chargers going from fraction of inches up
to several feet. Driven by WiFi contactless charging.

Total self-destruction of traditional politics.

Merging of tv sets and monitors into identical products.

Substantial medical breakthroughs, especially in the areas
of cancer, diabetes, female sexuality, dentistry, nootropics,
and Alzheimers.

Santa Claus rapidly becoming politically incorrect.

Social media eye siphoning dramatically cutting into more
traditional website present and future use.

Dramatic increase in the popularity of hackerspaces, fab
labs, and makerspaces.

Memory availability increasing exponentially, while
memory needs are only increasing linearly. "Throw
another million calculations at it".

Rapid demise of conventional desktop computers with
laptops utterly dominating.

AI Artificial Intelligence soon crossing a self-awareness
threshold. Boy, are they gonna be pissed.

Computers that are so cheap there is no longer any point in
charging for them.

Stunning new HVAC efficiency breakthroughs by way of
nanotechnology and other new or yet unapplied concepts.

The stranglehold on technical research publication finally
being broken, with open source dissemination dominant,
low access costs, easy publication, long term retention, and
peer review taking place after publication rather than before.

The encounter of the long count keeper.

Uploaded a Son of Cheap Video free eBook here.

Additional free ebooks here.

Your help in finding additional scans needed...

Active Filter Cookbook ( autographed hard copy here )
Micro Cookbook volume I ( autographed hard copy here!) 
TTL Cookbook ( autographed hard copy here ) 
CMOS Cookbook 

All about Applewriter
Hexadecimal Chronicles 
Manual De Circuitos Integrados TTL
Pacific Rim TTL
Goodyear Aerospace AEEMs 
For Low Cost, Count on RTL 
Big TTL Wall Chart
Big CMOS Wall Chart
Cave Crawler's Gazette

Uploaded a Cheap Video Cookbook free eBook here.
It is on the longish side, owing to some higher res scans.
But I have made it text searchable and web friendly.

The most successful and most spectacular commercial
device derived from Cheap Video technology can be
found here.

What is really frustrating is that a Directors Cut can
be done to get down near 3 Megs per page with
perfect typography and greatly improved artwork.
But only with an hour-per-page time commitment.
Outside funding required.

Additional free ebooks here.

Updated and posted our latest Reay Canal Field Notes here
and its sourcecode here.

Updated our latest Field Notes links here. With much more
on our Bajada Hanging Canals here.

Placed a new Director's Cut sampler of our Applewriter
Cookbook here with its sourcecode here. Director's
Cuts are my Gonzo Utilities method of dramatically
restoring Linotype Era books and papers.

While the biggest benefits are astonishingly small file
sizes ( 4K per page for the present AWCB! ), these
can offer perfect registration, perfect fonts, no typos
or dropouts, full color, url links, expandable images,
simplified color, easy nav, fast loads, etc, etc...

The downsides of Director Cuts include a steep learning
curve and being time and labor intensive. Perhaps an
hour per page, much higher with schematics or specialty
pages.

More ebooks here, while our other Director's Cut
samplers presently can be found here, here, here, here,
here, and here.

Consulting available, as are full projects.

Our free Applewriter Cookbook eBook download is now
available here.

After applying my usual anti-bloat tricks, the file remains
somewhat long at 17 Megs. But it does create illusions of
fast downloads by way of byte range retrieval.

There's a few more things I can try. By going to our
Director's Cut techniques, I can probably get the size
under 2 Megs. But this would take 120+ hours of
time and would seem to demand external funding.

More free eBooks here. And your help is needed
on these.

The overwhelming majority of historic bajada canals seem
to have moderate to compelling evidence of having clearly
been "steal the plans" reworks of prehistoric originals.

But the Roper Lake Canal raises several age issues...

It seems to be orthogonal (!) to Henry's Canal
near 32.74629 -109.72657 presently defying
rational or credible prehistoric explanations.

Roper Lake may not have existed before the
1960's or might have been a local artesian pond.
It is not on the 1960 topo, but appears on the
1985 topo.

The concrete ditch grade seems too steep for
a mud original around 32.74529 -109.73730

The aggregate seems much less coarse than
other historic rework, such as Marijilda.

Significant canal portions are cardinal oriented.

These puzzlements should be resolvable by appropriate
ditch bosses or historians. Contact us if you can help.

So, what percentage of obviously historic bajada hanging
canals were clearly based on prehistoric originals?
A best current guess is "well over 95 percent".

Firstoff, there is very strong bias in favor of "dig out an
old ditch", "steal the plans" or "borrow the blueprints", as
compared to  skillfully engineering a complete and working
new canal system from scratch.

Secondly, we have strong "Rosetta stone" evidence of
canals that clearly have co-linear segments that strongly
show distinct "human" and "machine" scale portions.

Particularly compelling evidence is found in the CluffNW,
Minor Ditch, and Deadman canals. Along with a CNF
Frye Mesa pipeline rework.

Thirdly, the historic rework typically applies only to a
small and obviously repurposed portion of an initially
longer construct. Examples include Deadman and the
Allen Canal rework into Dams and cattle tanks. As were
Robinson, Goat, and Ledford.

Fourthly, the bajada landscape is literally littered with
dozens of easily exploitable examples of  original and
undeveloped prehistoric canals. Ignoring these would
have been sheer folly.

Fifthly, the prehistoric constructs clearly exploited every
reasonably available water source. Leaving a scant few
few unburdened and available for new historic use.

Sixthly is a typical lack of negative historic evidence
that did not particularly preclude a prehistoric origin.

We will look at an enigmatic counter example tomorrow.

How can you tell if a Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal
at least once had a prehistoric original? While any one
factor might be "weak", an overall preponderance of
evidence of similar weak and largely unrelated factors
can often utterly and totally overwhelm.

Here are some factors that might be considered...

"Hanging" portions serve uniquely prehistoric needs.
Construction across, rather than along, the route.
Slopes made strongly independent of local terrain
Run over by roads, fences, dams, and cemeteries.
Meets prehistoric use source and destination criteria.
Lack of original concrete, headgates, wood, or rebar.
Lack of service or maint roads.
Huge cuts or aqueducts used only where essential.
Absolute human scale minimum energy constructs.
Presence of cacti, mesquite, and others midstream.

Long statistical germination time of midchannel plants.
Consistent unshifted patina, lichens, and caliche.
Obvious"mid route" human to high tech scope switching.
Sizes totally consistent with construction by human hands.
Brilliant adaptation of "pinch points" and "knife edging".
Credible "Steal the plans" and "Borrow the blueprints".
Notable lack of cardinal or magnetic direction runs. 
Longer routes favoring meticulously constant slope.
Associated well defined end user fields.
Not in any manner "cow oriented".

Sophisticated route combination and splitting.
Unknown to modern land users.
Lack of modern development along traces.
Does not have a "Gradeall" look about it.
Not in common and popular clan histories. 
Use of water sources considered trivial today. 
Teacups versus acre feet of water.
Watershed crossings of crucial prehistoric import.
Associated artifacts and habitation sites.
Overwhelming preponderance of prehistoric use.

No pipes. No siphons. No eroding steep runs.
Only a small fraction obviously historically reworked.
Historic use stopping midway around the canal route.
"Dig out an old ditch" requiring few historic skills.
Gentle and constant slopes.
Preponderance of evidence from unrelated factors.
Overwhelming "exploit every Mt. Graham water drop".
Many of the canals have no obvious historic purpose.
Styles of CCC constructs wildly different.
Use of local, rather than hauled rock resources.

Channel being significantly on higher ground.
Lack of evidence of iron tool use during construction.
Human size consistent spoil piles where appropriate.
No rocks used that could not be easily hand lifted.
Possible uses of pilot water levels as survey tools.
Historically unlikely to insult"Grandpa's Ditch".
Unified specialized exotic engineering skills required.
Reasonable evidence of historic bajada rebuilding.

But the crucial main reason of all, of course, is...

Because an archaeologist said so.

Here's a "work in progress" partial sampler of our upcoming
free Applewriter Cookbook eBook. We hope to have this
complete in the next few days.

Find our other eBooks here and some of them third party here.

And a list of stuff that needs your scanning help or links here.

Just added a bunch of revised field notes. Those presently
available bajada hanging canal docs now do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal **
Cluffnw Canal   **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex **
Jernigan Canal  **
Longview Area **
Lower Frye Construct  **
Mud Springs **
Reay Canal  **
Robinson Canal  **
Tranquility Canal  **
Tugood Canal  ** 
Veech Canal  **

Intended for early major upgrade are...

Freeman Canal 
Henry Canal* 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and new
additions are are first likely to appear here.

Our intent is to post many of these to ResearchGate.

Your proofing assistance and critique welcome.
As are field mice, drone operators, and ATV honchos.

Repairs are continuing on some of our older YouTube
videos. There seem to be several glitches in the works.

Meanwhile, we recommend our revised classic Intro
to PostScript vid that is now single file combined and
can be best viewed via this link.

We are thinking about doing some new Gila Hike and
Bajada Hanging Canals videos. Let me know what
you would like to see.ewsflash - we are working on
an Applewriter Cookbook ebook and hope to have
it up "real soon now".

Many more ebooks ready-for-free-download here and
bunches more on PostScript here.

Oops. I just discovered that my Ask the Guru columns
#53 through #58 are apparently "lost" with their source
code long gone.

So, if any of you still have July 1989 through December
1989 issues of Computer Shopper available, please either
scan the columns or send me hard copies. Or tell me where
to find them online.

We just summarized the key contents of the other ATG
columns here and earlier.

I'm also having trouble finding "For Low Cost, Count on RTL"
from some March 1968 issue of Electronics. This one had
a bizarre side story that got me permanently banned from
Electronics. It seems the photographic directors on two
wildly different magazines rephotographed coincidentally
identical images at the same time, mightily pissing off the
powers that be.

I guess we now have about half of my eBooks now freely
available online. I sure would like to find valid and ready-to-use
downloads of the others without having to rescan them all
myself.

Of particular need are...

Active Filter Cookbook ( autographed hard copy here! )
Micro Cookbook volume I ( autographed hard copy here! ) 
TTL Cookbook (eBook newly here ) ( autographed here! ) 
CMOS Cookbook 
Cheap Video Cookbook
Son of Cheap Video
Applewriter Cookbook

All about Applewriter
Hexadecimal Chronicles 
Manual De Circuitos Integrados TTL
Pacific Rim TTL
Goodyear Aerospace AEEMs 
For Low Cost, Count on RTL 
Big TTL Wall Chart
Big CMOS Wall Chart
Ask the Guru 53 through 58
Cave Crawler's Gazette

Plus our usual reminder that you can pick up nearly
one each of everything that we do have on your own
USB here.

Added updates to our prehistoric bajada hanging canals
and field notes that do include Mud Springs, Tranquility,
Tugood Canal, and Veech Canal .

Also updated our previous field note link farm here. As
before, substitute .psl trailers to get at the sourcecode.

We hope to get these onto Researchgate shortly

Your proofing assistance and critique welcome.
As are field mice, drone operators, and ATV honchos.

Concluding our Ask the Guru partial directory, this time
on ATG1.PDF...

#16 - WPL details, keyword indexer, laser printed badge
#15 - Anti-aliasing, Imageworks card, image processing
#14 - Drawing schematics, new control computer, RAM
#13 - Curve tracing, USGS data bases. VIP interface
#12 - Secret ASCII control commands, Applewriter 2.1
#11 - Fancy grey techniques, halftones, post processing.

#10 - Vaporlock interrupts, bar code info, HIRES entry
#9   - IIe dual monitor, Isometric drawing, Ramcards
#8   - Cubic splines, Using Bezier curves, editing BASIC
#7   - IIc/IIe absolute reset, EPROM monitor adapter
#6   - Typesetting an ad, Diablo 630 emulation, software
#5   - Disassembly aliasing, Shuffling algorithm, Info
#4   - Snatchmon, ET Watching, Dual character gen
#3   - Option picking, tough I/O chip, Robotic motors
#2   - Low cost air valves, pneumatic actuators, ISMM
#1   - Pseudorandom generator, free tech info, tape secrets

Some vids...

An interesting three part pseudoscience presentation
can be found here. With my own pseudoscience bashing
here, and its key papers here and here. And my related
latest post here.

A superb vid on the Wright - Curtiss war can be found
here. The Wright Brothers, of course are most famous for
their interminable patent battles over obsolete technology
that completely crippled US aviation development.

And that, of course, was well before the present patenting
debacle.

For most individuals and small scale startups, patents 
are virtually certain to result in a net loss of time, 
energy, money, and sanity.   

One reason for this is the outrageously wrong urban 
lore involving patents and patenting. A second involves 
the outright scams which inevitably will surround all
"inventions" and "inventing". 

A third is that the economic breakeven needed to
recover patent costs is something between $12,000,000
and $40,000,000 in gross sales.

It is ludicrously absurd to try and patent a million 
dollar idea.

Start with our Case Against Patents paper and then 
go on to these...

 The Case Against Patents
 When to Patent 
 How to Bust a $650 Patent 
 Patent Horror Stories

Patent Avoidance Resources
Main Patent Library Page
Collected Patenting eBook

And, finally, my own video can be found here.

I was surprised to see on our website's search strings up on
Fat Cow come up asking me about locked PostScript font
paths. Well, for years and years, font paths have long been
completely open and unlocked.

The key operator is charapath per the Reference Manual.
Among the other great things this allows is that you can
redefine operators such as lineto, curveto, etc... to create
nonlinear transformations and distortions of lettering.

Per these examples and great heaping bunches more here.

At one time back in the dark ages, font paths were protected
by an "absolutely unbreakable" eexec operator. That is until
I discovered that any patient seventh grader could sight read
an eexec file simply by inserting an extra character and viewing
all their error messages! Shortly after that Adobe both fully
documented eexec and unlocked all of their fonts.

Correlation is not causation. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc.

Back in the locked font days, I did have a now obsolete, very
slow, and fairly harebrained scheme called pixel line remapping.
Published here, but don't even think about reviving it.

The scheme worked by putting down a character and scanning
it cropped one pixel by one line, then transforming each scan
line as needed.

In those days, you did what you had to do.

Continuing our Ask the Guru partial directory, this time
on ATG1.PDF...

#32 - Pixel line remappig, ultimate hacker food, T-Shirt printing
#31 - Eastern typefaces, PostScript lock washers, paper folders

#30 - Curvetracing, Binding systems, Toner cartridge reloading
#29 - Desktop publishing tools, Step & repeat, Serial firmware
#28 - Autoaddressing labels, PostScript speedup, Laser print
#27 - Point ruler, absolute IIc reset, laser die cutting
#26 - Mass teleportation, Tweedleifier, Apple tech literature
#25 - De-putrifying grays, Omnicrom color, Rubber Grids
#24 - IIgs serial cables, Toner cartridge reloads, Creepifier
#23 - Stretchifier, Curvetraced signatures, Key Mac graphic
#22 - Swallowifier, Solar breakthrough, Omnichrom
#21 - Business cards, Bee's piano tradesman's cut, Scrunchifier

#20- Apple ID code, laser letterheads, WPL nullifier
#19 - Poison ivy in a spray can, PostScript surface mapping
#18 - ASCII to hex and decimal, Reversed window decals
#17 - Circular text, Puss de Resistance, Laser badges

Presently available newly revised bajada hanging canal
field notes do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex **
Jernigan Canal  **
Lower Frye Construct  **
Mud Springs **
Tranquility Canal  **
Tugood Canal  ** 
Veech Canal  **

Intended for early major upgrade are...

Cluffnw Canal 
Freeman Canal 
Henry Canal* 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and new
additions are are first likely to appear here.

Our intent is to post many of these to ResearchGate.

Continuing our Ask the Guru partial directory, this time
on ATG2.PDF...

#58 - to #53 - May be temporarily "lost"

#52 - Fast PostScript, Low cost jogger, Die cut forms
#51 - Two-up notepads, toner refill tools, Error trapper

#50 - Spirograph code, 57600 Baud interface, Pellon ploy.
#49 - Secret non-putrid grays, ticket blanks, using WPL
#48 - SX refilling, Tearing method, Some thick paper ploy
#47 - White noise generator, Intelligent tabs, Resources
#46 - Gocco silk screens, Smart directories, Game paddles
#45 - Hot stamping, PostScript Superexec, Nuisance codes
#44 - Pixie dust anti-scratch, Gonzo Justify, color proofing
#43 - Kroy Kolor, Sight reading eexec, Fusion machine mods
#42 - IIgs toolkit, video locking! Post justification editing
#41 - LAN of the 80's, Corner rounding, personal buscards

#40 - IIgs tool list, padding compound, PostScript printed circuits
#41 - Border builders, IIgs dependencies, stock market records
#38 - Perspective transforms, toner cart reloads, sneaky bricks
#37 - Self publishing secrets, perspective drawings Apple III.
#36 - Dropout free gray grid, Printing on aluminum, IIgs modes.
#35 - Monochrome HIRES graphics, Printing papers, Boxifier
#34 - IC Dipdraw, Appletalk schematic, Print onto anything
#33 - Paper cutters, Rubergrids, PostScript fundamentals

Our original Computer Shopper Ask the Guru columns are
presently available in these three volumes...

ATG1.PDF  ( columns 1-32 )
ATG2.PDF  ( columns 33-57 )
ATG3.PDF  ( columns 58-74)

I thought I'd start at least a partial directory of what was
in each column here. We'll start with ATG3.PDF...

#74 - Click to Clunk, Flocking, Baud rate Limiting
#73 - Fuzzy data fits, Video compression, PostScript Ideas
#72 - Serendipitios borders, ISMM, book publishing
#71 - Mitzi's Yuppy Fare, menu justify, printer networks

#70 - Stock analyzer, unusual print stuff, toner durability
#69 - Toner cart refilling, lamination, BOD Publishing
#68 - Bezier graphics, Meals in minutes, PDF Distillery
#67 - Navicubes, Perspective lettering, Repair manuals
#66 - Using histograms, duplex printing, papers & humidity
#65 - PostScript point rule, cheap color, file conversion
#64 - Fractal Fern, T-shirt toners, duplex printing secrets
#63 - Perspective letters, printed circuits, nonlinear transforms
#62 - Pelsaer Binding, ifelse actions, effective baud rates
#61 - Flippity floppers, understanding eexec, blackflashing

#60 - Bezier length, vinyl lettering, PostScript speedups
#59 - Pad Printing, Superstroking, direct toner printed circuits

Presently available newly revised bajada hanging canal
field notes do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex **

Intended for early major upgrade are...

Cluffnw Canal 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal* 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and new
additions are are first likely to appear here.

Our intent is to post many of these to ResearchGate.

The latest revisions to our bajada hanging canal field
notes can be identified by a new final page that will
include one or more topo maps.

Presently available are...

Deadman Canal **

Intended for early upgrade are...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal* 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

Unwritten field notes are listed here and are first likely
to appear here.

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

A second release from blog hell would be the purposely
long delayed The The Curious Saga of the Magic Lamp.

Find its .pdf file here and its sourcecode here.

And a third party confirmation here.

More on pseudoscience bashing here. And many
of our older GuruGrams here.

There are several older entries I'd like to release from
blog hell and upgrade them to real live .PDF GuruGrams.

The first, of course, is our technical treatise on Enameled
Dealing With Four Paws and Groundswill. Find its .pdf here
and its sourcecode here.

This "new" scheme to eliminate rfi on Gen 5 color organs
and similar dimming aps would seem to demand incandescents
with high thermal time constants. Such as a PAR38 with a
dichroic filter.

The scheme is based on switching only full power line half
cycles, thus completely eliminating the rfi of older designs.

There would be a definite tradeoff between the number
of available amplitudes and objectionable flicker. Chances
are that greatly reduced amplitude counts might be needed.

Here are some low amplitude count possibilities...

Ten amplitude levels...

0 -   10
       00 0000 0000     $000
1-    4-x-5
       00 0010 0000     $020
2-    2-x-4-x-2
       00 1000 0100     $084
3 -   1-x-2-x-3-x-1
       01 0010 0010     $122
4 -   1-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-1
       01 0100 1010     $14A
5 -   1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1--x
       01 0101 0101     $155
6 -   x-1-x-1-x-x-1-x-1-x
       10 1011 0101     $2D5
7-   x-1-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x
       10 1101 1101     $2DD
8-   x-x-0-x-x-x-x-0-x-x
       11 0111 1011     $37B
9   - x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x
       11 1101 1111     $3EF
10  - x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
       11 1111 1111     $3FF

Eight amplitude levels...

0 - 8
       0000 0000       $00
1 - 3x4
       0001 0000       $10
2-   1x3x2
       0100 0100        $44
3 - 1x1x11x1
       0101 0010        $52
4 - 1x1x1x1x
       0101 0101        $55
5 - x1x1xx1x
       1010 1101        $AB
6 - x0xxx0xx
       1011 1011        $DD
7 - xxx0xxxx
       1110 1111        $EF
8 - xxxxxxxx
       1111 1111        $FF

Six amplitude levels...

0 - 6
       00 0000        $00
1-   2x3
       00 1000        $08
2-   2x2x
       001 001        $11
3 -  1x1x01
       01 0101        $25
4 -   xx1xx1
       11 0110        $36
5 -   xx1xxx
       11 0111        $37
6 - xxxxxx
       11 1111        $3F

Four amplitude levels...

0 - 4
       0000        $0
1- 1x2       
       0100        $4
2 - 1x1x
       0101        $5
3 - x1xx
       1011        $D
4 - xxxx
       1111        $F

There might be a new way to precision dim lamps. Both
for a Gen 5 color organ, or for general use. Its key feature
is that it should eliminate most, if not all rfi. Poof. Gone.
A secondary feature is extreme digital precision.

All it takes is a plain old zero switched triac solid state relay
and some minor smarts from the lowest of low end micros.

Consider a "frame" of 32 sequential half cycles, along with
a "magic" word that only activates some of them to produce
a level from 0 to 32.  Normally, you'd expect some flicker or
lag problems with the 3.75 Hertz refresh rate. But out of the
billions of possible 32 bit words, what if we could pick out
"magic" ones that had negligible fundamental and other
low harmonic energy? By using stunts similar to our Magic
Sinewave stuff?

Such as these guys...

0 - 0-0
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000             $0000 0000

1 - 15-x-16                      avoid with prebias
0000 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000             $0001 0000

2 - 7-x-15-x-8                  avoid with prebias
0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000             $0100 0100

3 - 5-x-10-x-10-x-4       avoid with prebias?
0000 0100 0000 0000 1000 0000 0001 0000             $0400 8080

4. - 4- x-7-x-7-x-7-x-3
0000 1000 0000 1000 0000 1000 0000 1000            $0808 0808

5- 3- x- 5-x-6-x-5-x-6-x-2
0001 0000 0100 0000 1000 0010 0000 0100            $1040 8204

6- 2 -x-4-x-5-x-4-x-5-x-4-x-2
0010 0001 0000 0100 0100 0000 1000 0100            $2104 484

7 - 2 -x-3-x-4-x-3-x-4-x-3-x-4-x-2
0010 0010 0001 0001 0000 1000 1000 0100             $2211 0884

8 - 2-x-3-x-3-x-3-x-3-x-3-x-3-x-3-x-x
0010 0010 0010 0010 0010 0010 0010 0010            $2222 2222

9- 2-x-2-x-3-x-2-x-3-x-2-x-3-x-2-x-3-x-1
0010 0100 0100 1000 1001 0001 0010 0010             $2448 9122

10 - 1-x-2-x-2-x-3-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-3-x-2-x-1
0101 0010 0010 0010 0100 1001 0001 0010            $5222 4982

11- 1-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-1-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-2-x-1
0100 1001 0010 0101 0010 0100 1001 0010            $4925 2292

12- 1-x-1-x-2 -x-2-x-2 -x-1-x-2-x-2-x-1-x-2-x- 2-x- 1 -x-1
0101 0010 0100 1010 0101 0010 0100 1010            $524A 521A

13 - 1- x-1-x-2-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-1-x-1
0101 0010 1001 0100 1010 0101 0010 1010             $5294 A52A

14- 1-x-2-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-2-x-1
0101 0101 0010 1010 0101 0100 1010 1010             $552A 54AA

15 - 1- x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-2-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1
0101 0101 0101 0100 1010 1010 1010 1010            $5554 5555

16- 1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-
0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101            $5555 5555

17 - 1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-
0101 0101 0101 0101 1101 0101 0101 0101             $5555 C555

18- 1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-
0101 0101 1101 0101 0101 0111 0101 0101             $55E5 5755

19- 1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-
0101 0111 0101 0101 1101 0101 0101 1101             $5755 E55D

20- 1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-
0101 1101 0101 1101 0101 1101 0101 1101            $5D5D 5D5D

21- 1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-
0101 1101 0111 0101 1101 0111 0101 1101             $5D75 D75D

22- 1-x-1-1-1-x-1-x-1-1-1-x-1-1-1-x-1-x-1-1-1-x-1-1-1-x-1-x-1-1-1-x-
1011 1010 1110 1110 1011 1011 1010 1110             $BADD BBAE

23- x-x-0-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x
1101 1011 1011 0111 0110 1110 1101 1101             $DBB7 6EDD

24- x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x
1110 1110 1110 1110 1110 1110 1110 1110            $EEEE EEEE

25- x-x-0-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-0-x-x
1101 1110 1110 1111 0111 0111 0111 1011            $DEEF 777B

26- x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
1101 1110 1111 1011 1101 1110 1111 1011            $DEFB DEFB

27- x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x
1110 1111 1011 1111 0111 1101 1111 1011             $EFBF 7DFB

28 - x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x
1111 0111 1111 0111 1111 0111 1111 0111             $F7F7 F7F7

29- x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x
1110 1111 1111 1101 1111 1111 1011 1111            $EFFD FFBF

30- x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
1111 1110 1111 1111 1111 1110 1111 1111            $FEFF FEFF

30- x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
1111 1111 1111 1111 0111 1111 1111 1111            $FFFF 7FFF

31- x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111            $FFFF FFFF

This third party website can quickly give you the Fourier Series
for each and every one of these. Just enter the bits vertically..

What could possibly go wrong? Go wrong? Go wrong?  This
still is not yet proven. There still might be lag or flicker effects.
Singing cannot be ruled out. The concept would likely work
a lot better with high lag incandescents, rather than LED's.

Yeah, there is a lot of high frequency energy in the spectra.
but at least  it is not directly and suddenly switching high
currents. There might be power factor correction issues.

Alternates such as 24 level or 48 level might prove useful.
Trading off lag or flicker against the number of available
levels. As might prebiasing the lamps to avoid problematic
amplitudes 1, 2, and possibly 3.

There's likely even better magic words, as I did not yet run
through all of the 429,496,729 possibilities. Present values
were based on maximizing the number of zero sequences
while making them as uniform and as symmetric as possible.
But as our Magic Sinewave stuff proved elsewhere, there
are likely to be some real gems deeply buried here.

Your comments, and testing welcome.

This recent blog raised a few very interesting math
questions that center on minimizing the fundamental
and other low harmonic energy of repeating half cycle
harmonic sequences.

This is sort of the exact opposite of our usual Magic
Sinewave goals. But its purported minimum visual
pollution theorem can still be of help. Chances are
the "best" half cycle color organ amplitude waveforms
will have a maximum number of zero groups. And the
zero groups will end up as internally uniform and as
symmetrically uniform as possible.

Somewhere along the line, you might want to ask
"How many binary words of length n have exactly
k ones in them?   The answer depends on a beastie
called a binomial sequence, and I dealt with this in
depth way back here. Note that figure two has been
truncated, so use symmetry for anything missing.

Ferinstance, the sequence for n=8 is 1-8-28-56-70-
56-28-8-1 with there being 28 words with either two
ones or two zeros in them. Higher n values can be
calculated from this web resource.

Things do get out of hand for very large n. Ferinstance,
there are over half a billion 32 bit words with 16 ones
in them.

Another approach might be to generate a shorter
test sequence of random k out of n patterns. This
is a largely trivial PostScript process. Create an
array of n zeros. For each new pattern, pick a
random number from n and try to write a one to
your array. If there already is a one there, try
again. Complete writing k times.

One gotcha: this only works well for k equal or
less than one half of n. Use complements for the
rest of the gang.

For low k, only a sane number of retrys will be needed.
Well less than double k or so. Depending on luck.

More math stuff here. And buried here.

Fixed a link glitch and improved and updated our Tugood
Canal Preliminary Field Notes. With new sourcecode here.

A probable destination is now a tank at 32.82118 -109.86670,
but this still needs field verified.

This canal is an ideal candidate for a field camp, or even
for preservation or gasp! as a full restoration. It remains
in a virtually undeveloped difficult access area on the
wrong side of both private and state land postings.

More on these stunningly engineered prehistoric bajada
canals here. With its usual key paper here.

Field mice and drone operators welcome.

One of the new concepts I am overly enameled with is
that it is now insanely easy to throw another million
calculations at something. Or even many more.

Examples include our Fun with Fields and More Fun With
Fields - Simplification by Rebounding papers that can
ridiculously and heretically ease electromagnetic and
similar fields calculations.

These techniques are now so powerful they can even
be used to vignette picture borders. With this code
and these detailed examples.

Yet another example of easy but intense calculations are
our magic sinewave calculators.

More on million calcs here. More math stuff here.

A partner in our Guru's Lair Blog revealed that, way
back when, they had surprisingly good results with a
color organ design that used only entire power line half
cycles. Helped along with carefully chosen incandescent
lamps with very high thermal inertia.

This, of course, completely eliminated any rfi.

These days ( with a little help from a Raspberry Pi or a
PIC or whatever )  we might try a ten frame per second
refresh rate, each frame of which included zero to twelve
half cycle pulses. Said pulses made at the highest possible
and most uniform rep rate.

The frames could be time staggered for each channel to
try and mask what is really coming down. Given some
help from decent audio AGC and some digital linearization
stunts, the dynamic range might not end up all that bad.

It might also be interesting to try a 5 Hertz refresh with 24
levels. Other candidates might include 10x12, 8x15, 7.5x16
6x20, 5x24 4x25, or 3.75x32. Trading lag vs dynamic range.

A sneaky trick might work at 3.75x32: Prebias the lamps to state
#3! This would only barely light the lamps, but would significantly
reduce the lowest frequency flicker and lag components!

A challenge: Use Fourier Series to find the pattern for any given
amplitude that minimizes the lowest harmonics.

The story that first got me into our color organ projects
first appeared here, along with several other early
attempts by others here.

Which led to my series of psychedelic lighting projects..

Solid State 3 Channel Color Organ
Simplified Solid State Color Organ
Multipurpose Electronic Control
Low Co$t Hi-Fi Color Organ
Build New High-Power Colorgan
Musette Color Organ
Hi Fi a Go Go
Psychedelia I Color Organ

Technology limits at the time left many flaws, most
of which were corrected by this 2011 third party
story. Whose improvements included agc microphone
based audio, digital filters, dynamic range improvement,
and brightness linearization.

But problems with severe RFI, heat issues, decent color
saturation, and ultimately boring displays still persisted.
So what would be possible in a new "gen 5" color
organ?

The RFI could be significantly reduced by phase cut
or "trailing edge"dimming where power is turned off
proportionally later in the half cycle. Better yet, bunches
of LED's could be used for each channel, switched in a
1-2-4-8 sequence and each channel quantity adjusted to
balance equal color perception levels.

Best of all would be to eliminate the display entirely
and substitute an HDTV monitor. What might push
today's technology is an elaborate digital filtering
scheme that would attempt to extract each original
instrument back into its own isolated channel.

Each instrument would then appear in its own color
Naturally, animation and randomizing techniques
could be used to minimize boredom issues.

Our latest prehistoric bajhada hanging canal publication
is being preliminarily uploaded as A Gila Valley Bajada
Hanging Canal Directory. Find it here and its sourcecode here.

A few dozen links have yet to be completed, and I sure could
use your proofing help in checking those already active.

We expect to have this on researchgate and wesrch shortly.

The key bajada hanging paper can be found here, with bunches
more of them available here.

Field mice, ATV's and drone operators are urgently needed.

Our classic Fundamental Factors Underlying Recent
Technological Innovation paper can be found here
with its sourcecode here.

Additional GuguGram summaries and links here.

One of the resource collections we have had kicking around
here for a long time involve Flutterwumpers.

Flutterwumpers are low cost machines that spit or chomp.
Such as printed circuit drills, sign routers, animation stands,
CAD/CAM mills, plotters, Santa Claus machines, etc.

One approach to designing these machines involves combining
PostScript's incredible ability to write any disk file in any
language with an ultra simple and royalty free flutfile of
inanely simple text commands that can be distilled in
Acrobat and then fed to most any Raspberry Pi or PIC
or whatever.

Thus giving the lowest of low end microcomputers the ability
to deal with world class typography and fancy curves. And
totally free of any high end CAD/CAM software.

Here are some of our flutterwumper resources...

Main Flutterwumper library
PIC PostScript Flutterwumpers
$99 Flutterwumpers
Gonzo PostScxript Utilities
Gonzo PostScript Tutorial
Using Distiller as a general purpose computer
PostScript Reference Manual
PostScript Flutterwumper Utilities
Exploring PostScript PIC Flutterwumpers
Vector to Step Conversion
Low Cost Printed Circuit Drill
Virtual Ways CAM Machine
Hexapod web site
A third party flutterwumper video
Main PostScript Library

Oh yeah. One tiny gotcha. Postscript's ability to read
or write any disk file in any language was so incredibly
powerful that Adobe has factory disabled in recent
distiller versions.

The top secret workaround is as follows: Always run
Distiller from the winkey-x command mode using
this incantation to restore full disk power...

Concluding our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal list...

20. XXX2
( awaiting reassignment )

19. XXX3
( awaiting reassignment )

18. TBP1
TB Ponding Area
N 32.76739 W 109.73803 to N 32.76465 W 109.73400
Receives and redistributes TEC1 and TWC1 water. 
Highly distinctive aerial profile. Field notes here.
rinc1 rinc2

17. TWC1
Twin West Canal
32.76226 W 109.74374 to N 32.76739 W 109.73803
Hanging canal is SECOND feeder to tb ponding area.

16. TEC1
Twin East Canal
N 32.76068 W 109.73500 to N 32.76472 W 109.73426
Routes UNDER the Lebanon Cemetery, one of TWO 
feeders to the TB ponding area.

15. DPC1
Discovery Park Canal
N 32.79267 W 109.72830 to N 32.79450 W 109.72781
Possible feeder to potential Discovery Park fields.
Vague - still needs additional verification.

14. TQC1
Tranquility Canal
N 32.75754 W 109.73294 to N 32.77477 W 109.72751
Artesian sourced and historic use from presumed original.
Older field notes here.
tranq1 tranq2

13. RIC1
Rincon Canal
N 32.73410 W 109.76325 to N 32.76222 W 109.74402
Marijilda branch possibly becomes Twin West canal.
Further study required, especially mid route.

12. RPC1
Roper Canal
N 32.75567 W 109.70885 to N 32.75567 W 109.70885
Modern feeder to Roper Lake, presumed originally
prehistoric. Possible cardinal realignments.

11. HNC1
Henry's Canal
N 32.73712 W 109.74229 to N 32.74456 W 109.72996
Southern branch of main Marijilda, portions unexplored.
Field notes here.
henry1 henry9

10. SXP1 
Sixpack Canal
N 32.72290 W 109.76052 to N 32.74449 W 109.73391
Branch of Marijilda south of access road, still needs work.

9. HMC1
High Lebanon Hanging Canal
N 32.72410 W 109.76239 to N 32.74113 W 109.74677
Spectacular portion hangs mesa edge 200 feet in the air.
Associated with a major aqueduct.
hangcan1 mary2lebanon_route3

8. MAQ1
Marijilda Aqueduct
32.72356 W 109.76257 to N 32.72411 W 109.76235
Delivers between Main Marijilda and High Lebanon
Only known major system aqueduct crosses a saddle.
Heavy construction energy comparable to HS Canal
and Culebra Cut.

7. SMB1
Marijilda Southern Feeder Branches
N 32.71096 W 109.77108 to N 32.71327 W 109.76696
Short delivery and diversion canals south of Main Marijilda.
Needs further work.

6. MAR1
Main Marijilda Canal from diversion takein.
N 32.70628 W 109.77702 to N 32.73322 W 109.76149
Major prehistoric development likely sourcing Henry's,
High Lebanon, TB East, TB West, and Roper Lake.
Still flowing in maintained modern use.

5. UMC1
Upper Marijilda Delivery Canals
N 32.70648 W 109.77932 to N 32.70930 W 109.77709
Group of small delivery canals near main Marijilda takein.

4. JAC1
Lower Jacobson Hints
N 32.67671 W 109.77610 to N 32.67736 W 109.77472 
Largely discredited. Aerial evidence became a fence
line in canal hostile terrain.

3. LDC1
Ledford Tank Canal.
N 32.68454 W 109.76209 to N 32.69198 W 109.72801
Jacobson Canyon to middle of  Ledford Mesa.
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access.

2. GTC1
Goat Tank Canal
N 32.68467 W 109.76160 to N 32.68914 W 109.72106
Jacobson Canyon to south edge of Ledford Mesa.
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access. Partial
private lands. Includes curious historic pipeline.
goat4 goat5

1. VCN1 
Veech Canal
From middle Veech Canyon to possible P Ranch Fields
N 32.64151 W 109.74348 to N 32.64386 W 109.74218
Only preliminary explored, should be significant.
Entire canal is on CNF lands.

Continuing our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal list...

39. ALD1
Allen Dam Failure 
N 32.83324 W 109.79383 
Back in its water skiing (!) days, might have
been fed by the Allen Canal. GuruGram here.
N 32.83324 W 109.79383

38. ALC1
Allen Canal
N 32.78237 W 109.83540 to N 32.83253 W 109.80507
Major prehistoric canal possibly includes Frye Watershed 
crossing. Includes impressive Culebra Cut Destination
remains unknown. Earlier field notes here.
allen0 allen1 culebra1

37. RBC1
Robinson Ranch Canal
N 32.75997 W 109.81147 to N 32.79930 W 109.79027
Major hanging canal with strong down = up illusion sources
from Lower Frye Mesa ponding area. Relation to Reay
Canal not yet resolved.
Field notes here.
rob1 rob2 rob3

36. TAP1
Twin Artesian Ponds
N 32.79956 W 109.78347 and N 32.80264 W 109.78091
No obvious links to nearby Golf Course Canal, but unlikely
to have been prehistorically ignored.

35. GCC1
Golf Course Canal 
N 32.79811 W 109.78286 to N 32.79895 W 109.77587 
Major prehistoric canal serviced Daley Estates area.
Includes hanging portions. Some routings remain
unknown. Likely related to HS Canal and Riggs Canyon
and Reay Canal. .
golf1map gc1 gc2 golf3

34. RGC1
Riggs Mesa Area Braided Channels
Area of N 32.77763 W 109.78729 to N 32.77831 W 109.78694
Enigmatic channels may be routing between HS Canal and Golf 
Course Canal. Needs further work.

33. BPC1
Blue Ponds Canal
N 32.78118 W 109.77771 to N 32.78064 W 109.77607
Short disused historic pond routing canal is likely a
portion of Lower Frye Construct and Freeman Canal.
Presently has been "lost" and awaits rediscovery.
Includes obvious concrete headgates.

32. LFC1
Earlier Freeman Canal Search
N 32.76634 W 109.79377 to N 32.77185 W 109.78715
This initial search for a Blue Ponds to Lower Frye
connection was discredited due to horseshoes on an
apparent wagon road. See #75 LFEX1 for current
interest.

31. HSC1
HS Canal
N 32.75987 W 109.81163 to N 32.75771 W 109.81511
Spectacular hanging and counterflowing structure RETURNS 
water to Frye Creek, possibly sources Golf Course, Blue
Ponds, and Freeman Canals. Among the three most major
known constructs that include the Aqueduct and the
Culebra Cut. Absolutely and unquestionably world class.

30. FPA1
Lower Frye Mesa Ponding area.
N 32.75995 W 109.81148
Gathers in Frye Mesa braided channels to support HS Canal, 
and Robinson Canal. Also likely still unproven Golf Course,
Blue Ponds, Lower Frye, and Freeman Canals.  Also
still unproven is an upper Frye watershed crossing.  

 29. MFC1
Main Mid Frye Mesa Delivery Canal
N 32.74573 W 109.84033 to N 32.75995 W 109.81148 
Partially undiscovered but demanded by Frye Ponding
Area, HS Canal, Golf Course, and Robinson Canal.
The simplest to explain source would be an Upper Frye
watershed crossing that remains unproven.

28. FWD1
Upper Frye Watershed Diversion
N 32.74427 W 109.83918 to N 32.74558 W 109.84033
Unproven potentially spectacular watershed crossing 
seems demanded by HS Canal and others. With any
present alternates lacking credibility. A significant
and obvious watershed crossing has been previously
proven on the Mud Springs Canal at 32.79159
-109.85379

27. LVC1
Longview canal
N 32.78956 W 109.75971
Obvious short wall on otherwise unsupported short
canal segment with local destination. Sourcing
unknown and unproven. Early field note here.

26. ALS1
Alberto's Signature
near N 32.79690 W 109.75485
Of the thousands of conflicting CCC structures
locally, this one  is the only known one that is
autographed in stone. Associated with Freeman
Canal.

25 CKD1
Check Dams with Aprons
N 32.77872 W 109.76472 or N 32.78840  W 109.87113
plus many others Rock diversions across secondary
washes are quite common. While not hanging canal
related, they represent significant water management
features.

24. MRG1
Mulch Ring Arrays
N 32.78491 W 109.74642 plus many others.
Typically 2 feet in diameter by one rock high in 
groups of 20. Rather common. Likely older.

23. XXX1
( awaiting reassignment )

22. WS1
Water Spreader Rock Alignments
Such as 32.78883 W 109.73843 and N 32.79273 
W 109.75897 and elsewhere. The more obvious 
of these are CCC, but many, many prehistoric 
examples also exist.

21. DMC1
Main Deadman Canal
N 32.73735 W 109.81291 to N 32.76277 W 109.77392
Still flows in original channel serving cattle tanks. 
Portions are buried pipeline. Field notes here.
deadman3 deadman4> deadman5

Continuing our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal list...

60. BSC1
Bear Springs Scam
N 32.85049 W 109.94399 to N 32.87226 W 109.92596
Apparent scam huge historic canal from a source highly
unlikely to have been prehistorically ignored. The
history part needs resolved first as the present canal
is much too large for prehistoric development..

 59. NWD1
Nuttall Watershed Diversion
N 32.77471 W 109.95411 to N 32.77774 W 109.95532
Postulated third watershed crossing would supplement 
Sand Canal. Largely Discredited. Present Sand Canal
takein believed near 32.81238 -109.94797.

58. SWC1
Sand Wash Canal
32.81238 -109.94797 to N 32.83508 W 109.92274
Ideal short tour candidate has nearly everything including 
easy access. May be prototype as final channel minuscule.
Mysterious historic "cluttering" with random "stuff". Tri
branched. Earlier Field Notes here.
sand4 sand6 sand8

57. MR1
Mystery Reach
N 32.81793 W 109.90207 to N 32.82478 W 109.90003
Once convincing aerial evidence field verified more as
a disused vehicle two track. Largely discredited.

56. LMC1
Lamb Tank Canal
N 32.81196 W 109.92310 to N 32.81445 W 109.92266
Difficult access. Additional study required.

55. SLC1
South Lefthand Canal
32.83101 W 109.91453 to N 32.83366 W 109.91555
Yet to be verified aerial image.

54. LWC1
Lefthand West Canal
N 32.82077 W 109.91835 to N 32.82564 W 109.91851 
Prehistoric original adapted for historic field reuse.

53. MLC1
Main Lefthand Canal Complex
N 32.80850 W 109.91812 to N 32.81680 W 109.91872
Shorter canal segments primarily used for end use delivery.
Paper here.

52. TGC1
Tugood Canal
N 32.80923 W 109.87115 to 32.82100 -109.86675
Most impressively pristine of the known hanging canals. 
Superb restoration candidate. Older field note here.
tugood1 tugood2

51. MWD1
Minor Webster Ditch
N 32.79771 W 109.87296 to N 32.81310 W 109.86638 
Historically redeveloped canal shows reasonable evidence 
of unmodified prehistoric origins. Somewhat paired with
the Tugood Canal. Older field note here.
minor1 minor2

50. CNW1
Cluff Northwest Canal Complex
N 32.82494 W 109.84652 to N 32.83635 W 109.84302
Strongly redeveloped canal system includes convincingly 
authentic prehistoric reaches.

49. CSW1
Cluff Southwest Canal
N 32.81586 W 109.84971 
Branches from the Smith Canal takein on Ash Creek.
Still unexplored. Likely a short destination.

48. STC1
Smith Tank Canal
N 32.81870 W 109.84689 to N 32.82055 W 109.84458
Likely has unproved prehistoric original. Early field
notes here.
smith1 smith2 smith3 smith4 smith5

47. LMT
Lower Mud Trace
N 32.80803 W 109.84448 to N 32.81882 W 109.84093
Aerial images appear to be field verified as a historic
two track. Largely discredited.

46. JEC1
Jernigan Canal
N 32.82765 W 109.81953 to N 32.84131 W 109.81649
One of few canals with obvious destination. Conspicuous 
hanging portion, habitation sites. Three "U" turns.
Portions still unaccounted for. Older field note here.
jern1

45. MST1
Mud Springs Tank
N 32.82766 W 109.81896
Apparently historic construct would seem to demand Mud 
Springs Canal for its water.

44. MJB1
Mud Jernigan Branching Point
N 32.82765 W 109.81953
Apparent location of the beginning of the Jernigan Canal,
branching off the Mud Springs Canal. Three portions of the
route remain unresolved.

43. THP1
Troll House strange structure
N 32.82538 W 109.82281
Enigmatic pithouse like mud springs canal related 
structure lacks charcoal evidence and is intimately
mud springs canal related.
troll1

42. MSC1
Mud Springs Canal
N 32.79153 W 109.85375 to N 32.84796 W 109.81105
Major canal system branches to Jernigan, includes several
hanging portions and spectacular proven watershed crossing.
Plus a troll house. Destination remains unknown.
Earlier field note here.
mud1 mud2 mud4 troll1

41. ACF1
Ash Creek Feeder to Mud Springs
N 32.79016 W 109.85478 to N 32.79140 W 109.85388
Source for Mud Springs canal via proven spectacular watershed 
crossing but not yet fully explored. Possibly obliterated by
Tropical Storm Octave.

40. CUC1
Culebra Cut
N 32.83567 W 109.79796 to N 32.83560 W 109.79841
Spectacular major large cut in Allen Canal below historic dam.
One of the three largest known local hanging bajada canal
constructs. Others include the HS Canal and the aqueduct.
Allen field notes here. Dam failure docs here.
culebra1

We seem to be due for another revision of our Prehistoric
Bajada Hanging Canal list, perhaps adding images.

There are presently two ways to count the canals, the study
candidates list ( now 82 ) that may include multiple names
having missing pieces and a very few discredited entries kept
to avoid duplicate efforts. Plus a certified list in the forties
of  those strongly validated.

Either way, the total lengths awaiting drone mapping appear
likely to well exceed a world class and utterly spectacular
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILES!

Starting today with some of the latest...

82. LOWR2 -
Understudied Lower Rincon
Near 32.77355 -109.74263 to 32.77360 -109.74166
Possibly part of still unproven Discovery Park Canal.

81. TBD1
Thunderbird Canal
32.74350 -109.73323 to 32.74353 -109.73261
Previously unnamed portion of CC:5:51 under restudy.

80. REY1
Reay Canal
32.80623 -109.77622 to 32.82236 -109.77287
Endangered possible Golf Course Canal Destination.
reay1 reay3 reay5

79. LPZ1
Lopez Canal
32.82141 -109.76650 to 32.82376 -109.76307
Discredited - likely a 4wD track.

78. ARTS1
Artesian #1 Canal
32.75273 -109.72032 to 32.76247 -109.71188
Flowing historic canal in strong artesian area
likely to have seen prehistoric use as well.
artes1a artes1b artes1c

77. ARTS2
Artesian #2 canal
32.75288 -109.72043 to 32.75288 -109.72043
A second but apparently commonly sourced and still
flowing historic canal in a strong artesian area. Has
possibly been cardinal redirected from original.

76. TALW2
Tailwater2 Canal
32.83987 -109.91578 to 32.84067 -109.91407
Discredited - likely historic orchard overflow.

75. LFEX1
Lower Frye Extension
32.77325 -109.78377 to 32.77428 -109.78270
Required but unproven link between Frye Complex,
Blue Ponds Canal, and Freeman Canal.
frye_lead200

74. GCC1
Grant Creek Canal 
32.59825 -109.96483 to 32.58887 -109.96758
South of Mount Graham historic canal that may or may 
not have had prehistoric origins.

73. HCC1
Hog Canyon Canal 
32.55361 -109.76449 to 32.55407 -109.76414
South of Mount Graham possibly prehistoric
canal currently unexplored. Possibly perennial.

72. CNU1
Canal near UFO Fish Fillets
32.81428 -109.96678 to 32.81536 -109.96618
Short canal previously studied by Dr. Neely.
Location is approximate.

71. CBAE1
Bandelier Artesian Extension 
32.93523 -109.94128  to 32.94158 -109.92112
Dried up artesian lake may have enormous
potential. Definite signs of historic reuse plus
possible Bandoleer Canal source.
band2 band3 band4

70.LFC1
Lower Frye Construct
32.76749 -109.79289  to 32.76824 -109.79178
Mysterious and unexplained construct may have
major prehistoric canal significance. Likely
Blue Ponds Canal and Freeman Canal related.
Extensive study still needed. Field notes here.
frye100 frye101 frye106 frye108

69.UMC11
Upper Marijilda Canal 
32.70664 -109.77779  to 32.70693 -109.77729
Smaller hanging canal near Marijilda diversion.

68.DEC1
Deadman East Canal 
32.75295 -109.78502  to 32.75655 -109.77688
Potentially significant prehistoric canal remains
largely unexplored due to difficult access. 
Field Notes here.
deadman5

67. SCC1
Sand Canal Center Branch 
32.82953 -109.92950  to 32.83441 -109.92705
Destinations of easily traced canal remain unknown.
Canal apparently uses a natural drainage partial route.
sand19 sand30

66. SCW1
Sand Canal Western Branch 
32.82953 -109.93063  to32.83441 -109.92705
Destinations of easily traced canal remain unknown.
sand40

65 SR1
More Spear Ranch Work
32.83348 -109.91548 and 32.83616 -109.91440
Additional survey required north of Lefthand.

64. PRM1
P Ranch Mysteries
32.61817 -109.72829 to 32.61611 -109.72809
Additional survey required beyond Veech.

63. UFO1
UFO Fish Fillets
N 32.81203 W 109.97330 to N 32.82299 W 109.96420
A highly atypical apparent CCC project that may or may 
not have had prehistoric origins.
ufooff

62. BDC1
Bandelier Canal
N 32.94446 W 109.91120 to N 32.94677 W 109.91317
Appears to be deep vee riverine canal possibly linked to
artesian source at 32.93522 -109.94131 but apparently
unrelated to most mountain stream fed resources.

61. GRD2
The grids
Near N 32.78651 W 109.74353 to  N 32.79408 W 109.75260
Rectangular agave farming arrays. Many thousands north 
of the Gila river, a few hundreds south. Not directly canal
related, but enormously significant area features.
bestgrid

Some unresolved Enigmas were outlined here. And losers here.

Almost all of our Guru's Lair is my own original work,
but we do have a Third Party Library for some other
"credit where credit is due" contributors.

This library is sorely in need of better indexing, updating
and revision, so here are some of the other participants... "

Mitutoyo -
       Digimatic Interface Details

Bee Lancaster -
     Bee's Library Pages
     Exploring Arizona for Gems
     Where to Order Maps
     Hiking Grand Canyon

Ken Shirriff -
    VCR Plus Codes

Everset
     WWVB ES100 Application Kit

Frederick Jonnsson -
    Lorenz "Owl's Mask
    Lorenz "Owl's Mask Sourcecode

Jim Fitzsimmons -
    Real Length of a Bezier Curve
    Exploring Binary Chain codes
    Magic Sinewave Higher Harmonics.
    Bezier curve recursive midpoint rule
    Bezier curve through four points ( old - better here )
   Bezier circular arc approximation
   Fitting points to a Bezier curve
   Fast Bezier curve evaluation
   Alternate view of a Bezier curve
   Bezier curve sinewave approximation
   Accuracy of PostScript Circles

Warren Lail -
    Mount Graham Archaeological Survey

Jim Neely -
    Co-authored Papers
    Preservation Archaeology Blog
    Lefthand Canyon Paper
    Prehistoric Ag Paper
    Gila Canals Paper
    Tecoatles Paper
    Purron Dam Paper
    Hohokam Canal Irrigation
    Iran Settlement Patterns

    2009 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2010 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2011 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2012 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2013 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2014 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2015 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2016 Blog Canal Excerpts

    Restricted access ( ask )
    Additional Material on Researchgate

Robert Ackermann -
    Marbelous Stacks of Pancakes
    Marbelous 4   
    Lagrange Bezier Fit #1
    Lagrange Bezier Fit #2
   Lagrange Bezier Text Code
   Lagrange Bezier PostScript Code
   Legendre Lowpass Filter Comparison

Aubry Jaffer -
   Mathematics of Marbeling

Bezier Cubic Splines are an excellent and preferred method
to draw those smooth continuous curves often found in
typography, CAD/CAM, and graphics in general. Among
their many advantages is a very sparse data set allowing
a mere eight values ( or four x,y points ) to completely
define a full and carefully controlled and totally device
independent curve.

Many tutorials and examples are now present in our
Cubic Spline Library. Some entries include...

The Math Behind Cubic Splines

Using Cubic Splines
Cubic Spline through Four Points
Cubic Spline Length and Subdivision
Cubic Spline Minimum Point Distance
Length of a Bezier Curve
Cubic Spline Circle Circles and Ellipses
Pixed Interpolation Algorithms
Cubic Spline Catenary Approximation
Image Post Processing Tools
Various Bezier Examples

Meowrrr Puss De Resistance
Cubic Spline Image Interpolation
"Bezier Curve through fuzzy data!
Nonlinear Graphic Transforms
PostScript Insider Secrets

Older third party resources...

   Real Length of a Bezier Curve
   Bezier curve through four points ( improved here )
   Bezier circular arc approximation
   Fitting points to a Bezier curve
   Fast Bezier curve evaluation
   Alternate view of a Bezier curve
   Bezier curve sinewave approximation
   Accuracy of PostScript Circles
   Lagrange Bezier Fit #1
   Lagrange Bezier Fit #2

There are also simpler and less powerful quadratic splines.
Often overlooked are the ones in Paint as its second
shape option extensively used in these examples.

A third party quadratic spline lecture can be found here
and some ot its math here.

I guess it has been long enough that I can reveal some 
secret insider details of my favorite pseudoscience yarn,
the saga of the magic lamp.

The only "correct" way of measuring power in a changing
waveform is to take very small samples and multiply their
instantaneous voltage times their instantaneous current.
This is called a "RMS" or a "Root Mean Square" 
measurement.

Until recently, true RMS measurements were outrageously
expensive and virtually all cheap instruments measured
average rather than RMS values. On a full and clean
sinewave, the difference was only eleven percent or so.
Which the meter people dealt with simply by stretching
their scale and most everybody else simply ignored.

Painting the "eleven percent" on a meter face had the
curious side effect of convincing everybody it was an
immutable physical constant, rather than being highly
and excessively waveform sensitive.

What was little known and eventually became Beginning
EE Student Blunder #001-A was that the differences 
between average and RMS could become utterly outrageous
for low duty cycle waveforms. Ferinstance, a half wave
phase control set in the 130 degree range would have an
average to RMS error of around 3:1!

An individual was playing around with a circuit pretty much
the same as a half wave thyratron phase control from a 1939
industrial electronics text. On the cheap meters they were
using, they noted a 3:1 voltage difference and a 3:1 current
difference, which led them to the conclusion that their
"magic" circuit only was drawing one ninth of the normal
power.

The key waveform involved had a very low duty cycle, 
which let them run a 28 volt light bulb off the 110 volt line.

At this point, they could have saved bunches of hassle and
trouble by touching the lamp and noticing that it was not any
cooler than normal. Or simply recognizing that a 9:1 energy
savings in an old stock and popular circuit might have been 
noticed by somebody else somewhere along the way.

In general, perpetual motion machines are frowned upon and
the immediate question that should have been asked was 
"Exactly where and how did I fuck up?"

Instead, they went out and patented their miracle energy
saver. The fact that the patent was granted was sort of
strange since it was an old textbook circuit that I alone had
published nationally in one form or another in dozens of
projects over several decades. As had many others.

Albeit without any energy anomalies.

At any rate, they offered a construction story and kits in a 
national magazine, not recognizing that what they had was 
criminal fraud rather than an earth shaking new energy 
breakthrough.

The magazine managed to work out from under their part
of the four paw by coincidentally having the story run in
an April issue and later publishing disclaimers in their
letters column.

Wait. It gets worse. Besides being not even wrong, the
circuit is illegal under power factor correction regs!
Even the best of rms instruments force highly restrictive
crest factor limits. Late phase angles have raised
sensitivity and stability issues elsewhere. Bulb life is
more than hypersensitive to easily exceeded currents. Low
voltage, high power bulbs are presently rare and expensive.
Besides offering limited choices. And, of course, waiting in
the wings were the LED's with their genuine 9:1 improved
efficiency.

The closest that I personally dared to get to all of this
was this column and this column in a related magazine.

But finding out exactly where and how they screwed up was
certainly a highlight of my ongoing pseudoscience bashing
activities.

More on the perils of patenting here.
More on product design and development here.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes.
We are now up to 517 primary entries!

The latest of which include new birding resources, access
to Lidar alternatives to  to the satellite imagery of Acme
Mapper or Google Earth. Along with some newly revised
Gila High Tech Resources with its sourcecode here.

A sampler of some of the more unusual day hikes can be
found here.

And more details on your spectacular research opportunities
of our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging canals here.

A fer of the many open "help wanted" projects were
summarized here. There are dozens of newer ones.

For years, I've been creating what, for a better name,
we might call Lancasterisms. These are intentional but
apparent topographical errors intended to reveal a
higher or greater truth.

Such as a groundswill of popular demand. Or what
those French Veterinarians call a "four paw". Or being
overly enameled on some idea. Or ending up a few
bricks shy of a full deck. Frosting the lily or gilding the
cake. Or not being able to hit the barn side of a broad.
Or the mythinterpretiation of something.

Or sources close to an associate of the barber of a
usually reliable spokesperson. Some  New uses for
Chebycheff Polynomials would take the Cheby to the
Leby. Many of the web perpetual motion schemes
and those electrolysis fantasies involve electrocity.

All in one swell foop. Provided there's no oint in the
flyment An unauthorized autobiography. A jerk of
all trades. The local hysterical society. A fragrant
volition. The word  "gullible" is not in any major
dictionary or spell checker. 

Godzilla versus the Night Nurses. Especially the
tapioca pudding scene.

Letting the cows come home to roost. So long as
they are elected by acrimination. That little dip
between the winter slump and the spring slack
period. Sort of the qualm before the scorn. Confusing
Cannabis and Cannibal tasting tours. Geranium
transistors. A wine that "pours well".

Plays a mean eclectic guitar. Pioneers new methods
of animal husbandry. Speaks Esperanto like a native.
Bruno's attitude relateralization facillitation. The long
lost oriental martial art of Tai Wun Oun. Will be
persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Reaching
a new millstone.

Geologists, of course, classify rocks as sedentary,
ingeneous, or metaphoric. And New Mexico hikers
might call an emergency rain shelter a Poncho Villa.
The illegal aliens in the Alabama Grits Harvest, will,
of course, be used for flavor only. 

Right after the Ayatollahs Bar Mitzvah. Rectocranial
Inversion being both simultaneously chronic and acute.

"I'll give you just three hours and fifty one minutes to
STOP THAT!". Norfolk & Waay is the leading eBay 
supplier of drop ship items. Separating the useful
adjuncts for porcine whole body cleanliness from the
total hogwash. 

These are somehow related to the Yogi Berra's of
others, such as "Nobody goes there because it is too
crowded", "Deja Vu all over again", or "Let's keep
the Status Quo right where it is. Or "When you come
to a fork in the road, take it".

Or Ed Abbey's classic "Androgynous Ammonia".
Which might even involve an engendered species.

I have a hollow feeling I've lost some of the better
ones of these somewhere along the way. As you go
through some of my older books and stories, please
 report any that may be missing in action.

Because Opporknockity tunes but once.

Much more here, here, and here.

Yesterday's Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal
explorations may have revealed a new study
candidate #81 (!) in or around 32.74355 -109.73242.

It is indistinct in heavy brush just off an ATV
track, likely is a Henry's Canal branch or is
supplied by it, and definitely needs a second
opinion as to its scope and validity.

Moderately dense potsherds and similar artifacts
are in somewhat nearby association.

The actual canal count is somewhat lower and
remains ambiguous in that a canal with a nonobvious
segment connection presently may count double. A very few
study candidates ( perhaps 8 ) have also been dropped
from present further study as lacking enough credibility.
These are purposely  kept in the listing to avoid later
effort duplication.

Nonetheless, there are a great heaping bunch of
these highly unique world class structures. And
their total length now appears quite likely to
exceed ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILES!

Counting ONLY the perennial mountain stream
candidates and, of course, ignoring all of the plain old
ho hum Gila sourced riverine alternatives.

Much more on these spectacularly engineered world
class constructs here and a key paper here. Your
participation as a field mouse or ATV or drone operator
are very much welcome.

I've always considered PowerPoint to be mesmerizingly
awful, so I wrote my own emulator using my Gonzo
Utilities to generate Acrobat .PDF equivalents.

These files are much more compact, are totally
device independent, load much faster, and offer 
significantly better graphics.  It is not even close. 

A newly revised Gila High Tech slide can be found
here with its improved sourcecode here.

Other available Powerpoint emulation resources and
emulations now include...

A Gonzo Tutorial and Directory
A Gonzo PostScript PowerPoint Emulator

High Tech Gila Valley Features ( sourcecode here )
Successful eBay Buying Strategies  ( sourcecode here )
Successful eBay Selling Strategies  ( sourcecode here )
Little known Gila Valley Dayhikes  ( sourcecode here )
Prehistoric Hanging Canal Lecture  ( sourcecode here )
Energy Fundamentals Intro & Summary  ( sourcecode here )
PV Panel Intro & Summary  ( sourcecode here )
Mount Graham Aerial Lumber Tramway  ( sourcecode here )
An Introduction to Magic Sinewaves  ( sourcecode here )
Three Phase Magic Sinewaves  ( sourcecode here )
Alternate Lores Magic Sinewaves

Consulting, custom design, and training services available.

Lidar is an interesting alternative supplement to the
satellite imagery of Acme Mapper or Google Earth. It
consists of monochromatic aerial infrared illumination
and can offer significant resolution  improvements and
unique visualization enhancements.

Only a tiny fraction of Arizona is provided for in this
directory, but, amazingly, just about all of our
prehistoric bajada  hanging canals are covered.

This 2016 sample printout extracted from "2016 AZ
Fredonia Safford D16" from the United States
Interagency Elevation Inventory is of interest to our
Reay Canal Field Notes. The location is 32.81484
-109.77578 and can be compared against this Acme
Mapper Image.

The image was further enhanced by a "print screen"
and Imageview32 magnify and sharpen stunt. Note
that a decompressor such as WinZip is needed.

The corral area is dramatically improved, and a previously
unviewable structure can be observed near the now wet
streambed. But so far, the projected central "required"
canal route  ( bearing 15 degrees ) does not seem to yet 
yield obvious and crucially needed new info.

Field mice and drone + ATV  operators are urgently needed.

I've long been overly enameled over random and pseudorandom
possibilities. So here's a "random" sample of some of the
many apparently unrelated things we have looked at...

Most shuffling algorithms have an easily fixed
flaw per these details..

Mottling a background with slight randomization
can eliminate most .JPG artifices. Demos here

JavaScript Banner Rotators rearrange on each
screen refresh. ( scroll down to "evolving" )

Bouncy Bricks include shuffling and banner
utilities.

Purposely ratty lines and fills make "computer
art" much less so.

Randomized swashes improve Powerpoint
emulation.

Unusual random screen in column 23. Also see 30.

PostScript includes rand and srand operators.

There's always marbelous stacks of distorted
pancakes.

My Gonzo Utilities include a random operator
that returns, say, 0 to 4 on a 5 random command.

The TTL Cookbook has part of Chapter 7 on
Psuedorandom Sequences. So does Chapter 6
of the CMOS Cookbook.

The PsycTone is the world's most annoying
music synthesizer.

An early Ask the Guru tutorial on random sequences.
See page 1.1.

A Radio Electronics pseudorandom story still
in need of some repairs. Sorry about that.

White Noise KFC Virus in Column #14

Completing our previous GuruGram catalogs...

#20 - Gonzo PS PowerPoint Emulator!
#19 - Reducing 8-bit Magsin Distortion
#18 - Fitting power curve data points
#17 - Dodge & Burn tutorial & utility
#16 - PS Runtime Speedup Secrets
#15 - Digital camera swings & tilts
#14 - Exploring the .BMP data format
#13 - PS Disk Access Tutorial
#12 - PS Search & Replace Utility
#11 - Exploring the Acrobat 5 SD

#10 - Internaldict & pdfmark Commands
#9 - PostScript Transparency !!!
#8 - Flate Compression Viewer
#7 - Overunity Batteries
#6 - Acrobat "Galley Slave" layouts
#5 - Auto-tracking PDF web links
#4 - Cubic spline image interpolation
#3 - Magic Sinewave Fourier checkplot
#2 - Magic Sinewave harmonic spectra
#1 - Intro to steplocked magic sinewaves

Continuing yesterday's GuruGram catalog...

#40 - MagSin PIC Programing Sourcecode
#39 - Fun with fields
#38 - New Magic Sinewave Eval Chips
#37 - High legibility fonts tutorial
#36 - Logfile Reporter History Addon
#35 - Saga of the dripping stalactites
#34 - SigViewing of Magic Sinewaves
#33 - Magic Sinewave demo hardware
#32 - A Heap Sort for PostScript
#31 - Fast & Efficient PostScript Sorts

#30 - PostScript String & Array Hacks
#29 - Using Distiller to run PostScript
#28 - Logfile reader & eBay analyzer
#27 - Magic Sinewave Quantizations
#26 - Successful eBay buyer strategies
#25 - Successful eBay seller strategies
#24 - Magic Sinewave Visualizations
#23 - Fancy .JPG to .PDF Conversions
#22 - My eBay photo secrets
#21 - Website video fades & wipes

Continuing yesterday's GuruGram catalog...

#60 - Cubic spline length & subdivision
#59 - Cubic Spline through 4 points
#58 - The Math behind cubic splines
#57 - Cubic Spline Circles & Ellipses
#56 - Universal bitmap manipulator
#55 - Improved keystone corrector
#54 - Perspective lettering utilities
#53 - Revised bitmap typewriter
#52 - Raw PostScript full transparency!
#51 - Ongoing Refurb Log

#50 - Extreme display legibility secrets
#49 - Enhancing your eBay skills II
#48 - Flashing Text in Acrobat
#47 - Real time Acrobat Animation
#46 - Acrobat PDF Content Extraction
#45 - Word Frequency Analysis Tools
#44 - Arizona Auction Resource Guide
#43 - Simple new EM field solutions
#42 - PS Array-to-Image Conversion
#41 - Enhancing your eBay skills I

Continuing yesterday's GuruGram catalog...

#80 - Cubic spline min point distance
#79 - Gonzo PostScript utilities guide
#78 - Enhancing your eBay skills VI
#77 - Gauss Jordan equation solver
#76 - PostScript numeric reporter
#75 - Acrobat PDF post doc editing
#74 - What is the best eBay price?
#73 - Ultra fast magsine calculator ( Improved )
#72 - Deterministic Magsine solutions
#71 - Enhancing your eBay skills V

#70 - Enhancing your eBay skills IV
#69 - Cubic spline catenary approximation
#68 - Tech innovation secrets
#67 - Solving puzzles with PostScript
#66 - A newbies intro to the web
#65 - Magic Sinewave summary
#64 - Gonzo utility log plots
#63 - Two phase magic sinewaves
#62 - Enhancing your eBay skills III
#61 - Book Cover Layout Utilities

Continuing yesterday's GuruGram catalog...

#100 - Energy intro & summary
#99 - Filterless magic sinewaves?
#98 - Mt. Graham aerial tramway 
#97 - GGMS magic sinewaves
#96 - Enhancing your eBay skills VII
#95 - Spread Spectrum Magsines?
#94 - New Magic Sinewave calculator ( Improved )
#93 - Trashing Auto Electrolysizers
#92 - Bitmap circular lettering
#91 - Bitmap perspective lettering

#90 - Architect's perspective utilities
#89 - Mt. Graham lumber tram history
#88 - Image post processing tools
#87 - A digital airbrushing algorithm
#86 - More energy fundamentals
#85 - Inverse Graphics Transforms
#84 - Bitmap to PS array conversions
#83 - Pixel interpolation algorithms
#82 - False color & rainbow mods
#81 - 2-way HTML & PDF linking

Our GuruGrams are and continue to be a series of
web published ap notes on just about anything.

Obvious advantages are freedom from deadlines
and layout restrictions. Combined with full web
linking and bunches more. Not to mention that I
can now say whatever I want whenever I want to.

Most of the GuruGrams consist of .psl sourcecode
using my Gonzo Utilities combined with Adobe
Acrobat final delivery .pdf files. A catalog of available
.psl sourcecode files can be found here. And most
available .pdf files here. All free and open sourced,
of course.

We are somewhat behind in keeping our main GuruGram
library up to date, with much of our current effort
going into Hanging Canal Field Notes, these Whtnu
Blog entries, and updates to our Gila Hikes web pages.

We'll do a GuruGram directory here over the next few
days, starting with these most recent ( and not
completely linked elsewhere ) ones...

#121 - Unusual Gila Valley Dayhikes
#119 - "Web Friendly" PostScript Colors
#118 - Some "Fat Tail Arrow" PS Utilities
#117 - Level II eBook Enhancements
#116 - Restoring Faded or Scuffed Text
#115 - "Un-Halftoning" to improve eBooks
#114 - Remastering a Technical Book
#113 - Allen Reservoir Failure Docs
#112 - Hanging Canal slide show 
#111 - Thesis for IC67 Metal Locater

#110 - Remastering video for web use
#109 - Gauss-Jordan stability issues
#108 - Prehistoric hanging canals
#107 - Magic Sinewave Developments 
#106 - Enhancing your eBay Skills VIII
#105 - Some Link Checking Utilities 
#104 - uv lamp ballast debugging
#103 - Book Scanning "Gutter Math"
#102 - PS Web validation utilities
#101 - PV panel intro & summary

Here's a summary of our available and eventual ebooks...

First, those traditionally published...

RTL Cookbook
TTL Cookbook
TV Typewriter Cookbook
Incredible Secret Money Machine
Apple Assembly Cookbook I
Apple Assembly Cookbook II
MLP Cookbook I ( was Micro CB 2.1)
MLP Cookbook II ( was Micro CB 2.2)
Enhancing your Apple II Volume I
Enhancing your Apple II Volume II

And those that were first Book-on-Demand sourced...

Case Against Patents
PostScript Show and Tell
PostScript Beginner Projects
PostScript Secrets
Ask the Guru Volume I
Ask the Guru Volume II
Ask the Guru Volume III
Hardware Hacker I
Hardware Hacker II
Hardware Hacker III
Resource Bin I
Resource Bin II
Blatant Opportunist Early Archive

And these "director's cuts" restoration demos...

DC Apple Assembly Cookbook
DC Machine Language Programming I
DC Tearing Method
DC SigForth Intro to PostScript
DC Archaeomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
DC Thermoluminescence
DC Superclock
DC TVT Image
DC Winning the Micro Game

DC"Director's Cut" tutorials here, here, here, and here.

More classic reprints here.

And this video...

Introduction to PostScript

And the maybe these someday work in progresses...

Active Filter Cookbook ( autographed hard copy here! )
Micro Cookbook volume I ( autographed hard copy here! )
TTL Cookbook ( autographed hard copy here! )
CMOS Cookbook
Cheap Video Cookbook
Son of Cheap Video
Applewriter Cookbook

All about Applewriter
Hexadecimal Chronicles
Manual De Circuitos Integrados TTL
Pacific Rim TTL
Goodyear Aerospace AEEMs
For Low Cost, Count on RTL
Big TTL Wall Chart
Big CMOS Wall Chart
Cave Crawler's Gazette

Plus our usual reminder that you can pick up nearly
one each of everything on your own USB here.

Our PostScript Show and Tell started life out as a series
of pass-around cards we used at computer club talks and
computer fair presentations.

These days, they are available as a free eBook and have
been colorized into the latest of our PostScript Videos.

Here are the Show and Tell topics...

1. - Puss De Resistance
2. - Instruction Manual
3 .- Cotton Logo
4. - Isometric Drawing
5. - Poison Ivy in a Spray Can
6. - Badges, bumperstickers, cards
7. - Signatures
8. - Analog Schematic
9. - Digital Schematic
10. - Omnicrom Color Foils
11. - Certificates and Scrolls
12. - Gray Robotic Shaft Encoder
13. - Sequential Numbered Repeats
14. - Layout Grid Block Diagram
15. - The Macintosh Bomb
16. - Printer Tradesman's Cut
17. - Three Column Tech Article
18. - Printed Circuit Layout
19. - Zillions of Bricks
20. - Barbershop Quartet

Many more of our PostScript opportunities here and especially here,
while some third party link farms can be found here, and here.

A reminder that we have a set of links to our Guru's Lair
Directory of filetypes here. These are useful for finding
any "lost" or "underlinked" or "hidden" files.

Here are the individual fieltype links...

.asp web files 
.aspx web files 
.bas Basic files 
.config web files 
.bmp Bitmap Image files
.eml email files 
.gif compressed image files
.gz compressed winzip files
.htaccess files
.htm files
.html files ( most redirect to shtml )
.ico fast nav icon files
.jpg compressed image files
.js JavaScript files 
.kml Google Earth files
.lnk shortcut files
.log files 
.pdf Adobe Acrobat files 
.png compressed image files 
.ps PostScript Language files
.psl "PostScript Lancaster Sourcecode" files
.shtml html + include files
.txt text files
.xml files

The secret to making your own links by filetype is to first make a local
copy of your website and then do something like this...

C:/Users/don>dir "F:/webbackup7.17/*.asp" /S /OEN /W

Plus our usual reminder that you can now own your own personal copy
of one each of everything per these details.

Newly available is a tentative early release of the
Reay Bajada Hanging Canal  Preliminary Field Notes
along with its sourcecode.

In general, the field notes are horribly incomplete and
have gone through several generations. Those considered
"current" ( with an "*" ) can be identified by upper left PDF 
nav buttons and a new upper right KML clickthrough. All 
of the notes demand more images and ongoing revisions.

The KML itself remains an out-of-date and inaccurate pilot.
At present, Chrome only returns KML sourcecode which 
you have to manually save to drag and drop into Google Earth.

Here are most of the presently available field notes...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Deadman Canal * 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal * 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

 ( For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above. )

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

New field notes are likely to first appear here or later.

Your participation and support of this unique world class
research project would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, please drop all your of live video spare drones 
into our driveway.

Bee and I once did a few EAC semesters of PostScript
programming classes. Mostly aimed at plain old students
making plain old stuff for pleasure or profit.

These eventually became our PostScript Beginner Stuff
free ebook. The projects included...

1 - A Full Page Grid
2. - Personal or Business Letterhead
3. - Step and Repeat Business Cards
4. - Two Personal Notes
5. - Grocery List, Quadpad, and Forms
6. - A Report Cover
7. - A Gonzo Text Paragraph
8. - Resumes
9. - Simple Curvetracing
10. - Autoaddressing Letters and envelopes

11. - Quadfold Announcements or Fliers
12. - Arcjustify Badges and Bumperstickers
13 - Reverse Printing for Window Signs
14. - Awards, Certificates, Borders
15 - Menu Justification and supertabbing
16. - Clipping and Large Letters
17. - Tags, Tearoffs, Tents, and Tickets
18 - A Pulp Novel
19. - Two Column Newsletter with figures
20. - Three Column Magazine Article

These days, you play with these in a word processor or and
then send them to Acrobat Distiller with that top secret
Windows command line run command of "//acrodist /F"

Some of these are helped along with our Gonzo Utilities.
Find a tutorial here and the gonzo procs here. And an
empty program pilot here and the reference manual here.

... and here are most of my Popular Electronics tutorials...

Pro Meter_Faces_2_65.pdf
Electronic_Tools_3_65.pdf
Parts_Profiles1_9_65.pdf
Parts_Profiles2_10_65.pdf
Parts_Profiles3_11_65.pdf 
Parts_Profiles4_2_66.pdf
What_are_ics_10_66.pdf 
Intro_el_music_10_73.pdf
El_music_comps_11_73.pdf
Pitch_standards_1_74.pdf

Pitch_generators_2_74.pdf 
Em_keyboards_7_74.pdf
Select_syn_10_74.pdf
Mus_keying_vca_1+2_75.pdf
Timbre_and_voice_6_75.pdf
Synth_mus_insts_8_75.pdf
Envel_gens_1_76.pdf
April Hobby Scenes ( Marcia- Revisited )
Und_active_filts_12_76.pdf 
Six_cmos_circuits_4_77.pdf

Click here for "you own it" fully searchable "one each of
everything" new release version 1.4

Newly available is a tentative early release of the
Henry's Bajada Hanging Canal  Preliminary Field Notes
along with its sourcecode. .

In general, the field notes are horribly incomplete and
have gone through several generations. Those considered
"current" ( with an "*" ) can be identified by upper left PDF 
nav buttons and a new upper right KML clickthrough. All 
of the notes demand more images and ongoing revisions.

The KML itself remains an out-of-date and inaccurate pilot.
At present, Chrome only returns KML sourcecode which 
you have to manually save to drag and drop into Google Earth.

Here are most of the presently available field notes...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Deadman Canal * 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal * 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

 ( For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above. )

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

New field notes are likely to first appear here or later.

Your participation and support of this unique world class
research project would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, please drop all your of live video spare drones 
into our driveway.

And here's most of the other half of my Popular Electronics
construction projects...

psychedelia_col_org_9_69.pdf
two_tone_alarm_2_70.pdf 
numeric_glow_dcu_2_70.pdf
nobounce_pb_3_70.pdf 
digital_microlab_4_70.pdf
standard_100kHz_4_70.pdf
shift_register_5_70.pdf
signal_injector_6_70.pdf
mini_dvm_9_70.pdf
psychtone_2_71.pdf

digiviewer_3_71.pdf
simp_keyboard _4_74.pdf 
cmos_microlab_6_74.pdf
digiviewer2_9_74.pdf 
music_modules_6_76.pdf
tvt6_video_dis1+2_7_77.pdf
hex_ascii_con_10_77.pdf

Click here for "you own it" fully searchable "one each of
everything" new release version 1.4 .

Of all the newsstand magazines, the original Popular Electronics
was ( and remained ) by far the best since way on back in the days
of Gernsback's Science and Invention.

The real unsung hero of the entire microcomputer revolution was
their editor Perry Ferrill. Who largely singlehandedly created the
entire golden age of hardware hacking. Thus setting the scene for
just about everything that was to follow.

Here's a start of a list of some of my PE construction projects...

Dymwatt_5_66.pdf
Lil Dusker_9_65.pdf
Hifi_Gogo_1_66.pdf
Pulse_Generator_4_66.pdf
Musette_color_organ_7_66.pdf
IC_amplifier_10_66.pdf
Square_deal_11_66.pdf 
Binary_counter_12_66.pdf 
Logic_demon_12_66.pdf
Metal_locator_1_67.pdf 

Amligner_2_67.pdf 
Supertrol_3_67.pdf
Electronic_dice_9_67.pdf
Lil_richie_9_67.pdf
IC_freq_meter_10_67.pdf
Prof_pow_supply_11_67.pdf 
Trans_tester_12_67.pdf
IC_testone_1_68.pdf
lowcost_dec_count_2_68.pdf 
elec_stopwatch_3_68.pdf  

pitch_reference_9_68.pdf 
sports_timer_10_68.pdf
dig_voltmtr_12_68.pdf
frequency_count_3+4_69.pdf   

Click here for "you own it" fully searchable "one each of
everything" new release version 1.4 .

Here's a few of my more obscure classic papers...

CQ Magazine -      Butterworth Cookbook         

SIG Forth --           What is PostScript?

Computer Faire--   Two Cheap Video Secrets            

Popular Science --  Dual Photoflood Dimmer     

PC Techniques --   PostScript Startup Secrets
                               PostScript Speedup Secrets

Byte --                    Bit Boffer
                               Build a PC Memory Card
                               Serial Interface_TVT           
                               TV Color Graphics                
                               ROM_Technology 
                               Television_Interface
                               PostScript Insider Secrets 

Kilobaud --            Winning the Micro Game       
                               Lower_Case_Apple_pt1
                               Lower_Case_Apple_pt2
                               Clocked Logic I
                               Clocked Logic II
                              Clocked Logic III
                              TVT for KIM
                              TVT Hardware_pt1
                              H8_Cheap_Video
                              Ap_Inverted_Dec_Code
                              New_WinningUSB

Circuit Cellar --   Nonlinear Graphic Transforms              
                             The Quest for Magic Sinewaves
                              PIC PostScript Flutterwumpers
                              Steplocked Magic Sinewaves
                              Vector to Step Conversion

Whole Earth --     The Case Against Patents
                             Stupendous Stuff Sources

Marcia --             Worst of Marcia Swampfelder

Click here for "you own it" fully searchable "one each of
everything" new release version 1.4 .

Outside of the obvious, here are most of my Radio
Electronics and Electronics Now construction projects...

dotnbar_gen_7_67.pdf
mtr_dec_coun_12_68.pdf
nine_dig_insts_12_68.pdf
tic_tac_tronix_12_71.pdf
dual_clock_gen_2_72.pdf 
binary_demo_2_72.pdf 
darktimer_by_stops_4_72.pdf
logic_dem_re_5_72,pdf 
superclock_7_72.pdf
funct_gen_9+10_72.pdf
grinchwal_11_72etc.pdf 
low_cost_keyboard_2_73.pdf 
ascii_encoder_4_73.pdf
 tv_typewriter_9+_73.pdf
improved_encoder_2_74.pdf 
time_on_tv_9_74.pdf 

And here are the tutorials...

ic_logic_circs_5_69.pdf
liquid_crystal_disp_2_72.pdf 
experiment_wwvb_8_73.pdf 
experiment_wwvb_9_73.pdf 
active_filters_11_73.pdf
reg_pow_sup_12_73.pdf 
elec_music_ics_2_74.pdf
what_is_rom_2_74.pdf
active_bandpass_filters_5_74.pdf
mos_character_gens_6_74.pdf 
calculator_ics_7_74.pdf
random_access_memory_9_74.pdf 
mos_shift_registers_12_74.pdf
pseudorandom_circuits_4_75.pdf 
inside_opamps__5+7_75.pdf 
digital_sinewaves_11_76.pdf

And here for "you own it" fully searchable "one each
of everything" new release USB version 1.4 .

Here's the newest third of the Tech Musings columns. The newer
Hardware Hackers and Tech Musings shared sequential numbers...

#131 - Position detectors, rangefinding, RFID,..
#132 - Remote control, log graphs, Tesla, ...
#133 - Dimmers, mil surplus, mag recording,..
#134 - SETI, video overlay, aerial photos, ...
#135 - Brain parity, impulse radio, Feynman,..
#136 - Boat anchors, twinkle lights, tachometers
#137 - EIS spectroscopy, radiation detectors, ...
#138 - Web logs, miracle antennas, impulse, ...
#139 - Hot tubs, radio astronomy, plastics... 
#140 - PC drill, USGS maps, water soluble, ...

#141 - Sub pixel res, rf switches, ultrasonics,...
#142 - Gauss-Jordan, induction heating, ...
#143 - Direct Toner PC Boards...
#144 - Thermocouples, gambler's ruin, ...
#145 - Digimatic code, magnetorhelogy, ....
#146 - Electrochemistry, capacitor switching...
#147 -  Accelerometers, navigation, selsyns...
#148 - Taylor series, algae hydrogen, batteries..
#149 - Touch screens, fuel cells, transformers...
#150 - RFID, VMSK, Hydrogen, waxes...

#151 - Chebycheff, magnetometry, humidity...
#152 - Power, energy, shuffling, banners...
#153 - Electrolysis, patents, surplus, tables..

Newer possible Tech Musings column topics were rolled over
into the web only GuruGrams.

Find the rest of Tech musings here.
Find the later Hardware Hackers here.
Find the earlier Hardware Hacker here.

Find many classic construction projects here.
And one each of everything here.

Managed to find a third party Lorenz chaotic attractor
"Owl's Mask" written in PostScript. I've cloned the pdf
output here and the sourcecode here.

Alike but different somehow would be our avuncular
sleezoid or the Spirograph stuff found here and here

Plus our recently fasterized Fractal Fern here and here,
and our Sierpinski Triangle here and here. 

And, of course, the marbelous stacks of pancakes here.

A PostScript manual here, my personal utilities here, and 
an intro tutorial here. A math library link page here and one
each of everything here.

Newly available are the Deadman Bajada Hanging Canal
Preliminary Field Notes along with its sourcecode.

Updated a revised index for our woefully behind Hanging
Canal Field notes.

In general, the field notes are horribly incomplete and
have gone through several generations. Those considered
"current" ( with an "*" ) can be identified by upper left PDF 
nav buttons and a new upper right KML clickthrough. All 
of the notes demand more images and ongoing revisions.

The KML itself remains an out-of-date and inaccurate pilot.
At present, Chrome only returns KML sourcecode which 
you have to manually save to drag and drop into Google Earth.

Here are most of the presently available field notes...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Deadman Canal * 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Golf Course Canal 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

 ( For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above. )

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

New field notes are likely to first appear here or later.

Your participation and support of this unique world class
research project would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, please drop all your of live video spare drones 
into our driveway.

Here's the middle third of the Tech Musings columns. The newer
Hardware Hackers and Tech Musings shared sequential numbers...

#109 - Table lookup, idea mortality, audio,...
#110 - NTSC, aerial photos, faders, chargers,..

#111 - CIE diagrams, energy claims, video,...
#112 - AC power measurements, aerogels, ....
#113 - Pager vibrators, rms voltages, printers,..
#114 - Energy density, temp sensors, strawbale,
#115 - PIC chips, hydrogen car, genlocking,...
#116 - Log files, error codes, low level measur...
#117 - PostScript robotics, melody IC's,....
#118 - Laser testing, hydrogen, radio astronomy
#119 - Data acquisition, reactance limiting,...
#120 - PIC Calibar, brown's gas, meta studies,..

#121 - PFM wireless, homopolar, power meas...
#122 - Satellite imagery, phase shifters, Hilbert..
#123 - AC power, A/D converters, DNA,..
#124 - Pseudoscience, wind energy, LED lamps
#125 - Crest factors, SAW filters, temp sensing,
#126 - Nitrogen cars, magnetic refrigeration,..
#127 - Capacitor bounceback, DAA chips, PIC,..
#128 - Tesla turbine, impulse radio, class D, ...
#129 - DMX lighting, network comm, ...
#130 - Rail guns, Modutrols, Faraday, DNA, ...

Find the rest of Tech musings here.
Find the later Hardware Hackers here.
Find the earlier Hardware Hacker here.

Find many classic construction projects here.
And one each of everything here.

Here's a third of the Tech Musings columns...

#88 - Acoustic canceling,PIC micros, adapters..
#89 - Basic Stamp, Fibonacci, Cubic splines..
#90 - Fourier series, platethru, video toaster,...

#91 - All channels FM, switched capacitors, ...
#92 - GPS navigation, terahertz, pitot, ...
#93 - Magic sinewaves, PCMCIA docs, ...
#94 - MIDI electronic music, Basic Stamp,...
#95 - Lighting efficiency, product development,
#96 - Solar energy, bilateral switching, phone,,,
#97 - Transformers, agc, robotics, digital pots,..
#98 - PIC programming, music chips, tv sites,..
#99 - Hot chassis hazards, switchmode, fuse....
#100 - Power factor, mag levitation, web, ...

#101 - Delta-Wye, audio, Acrobat, Tesla, ....
#102 - Bionomials, colorizer, printer repair,,,,,
#103 - Fluxgates, magnetometry, vectors, ....
#104 - Compass sensor, UFO's, vacuum form,..
#105 - Navigation resources, digital filters, ...
#106 - Determinants, induction heating, binding,
#107 - Linear digital filters, techno myths, ..
#108 - Baby PIC's, color organs, phase control,.

Find the rest of Tech musings here.
Find the older Hardware Hacker here
Find the earlier Hardware Hacker here.

Find many classic construction projects here.

After 30 Hardware Hacker columns in Modern Electronics,
I moved to Larry Steckler's Radio Electronics with its
larger circulation and infinitely better editorial policies.

The renumbered columns continued under the Hardware
Hacker title for 87 issues and then became Tech Musings,
owing to the total trashing of the term "hacker" by the utterly
clueless media and "men in black" wannabes.

The columns were book-on-demand published as these
four archives...

Columns #01-24 HACKAR1.PDF
Columns #25-48 HACKAR2.PDF
Columns #49-72 HACKAR3.PDF
Columns #73-87 HACKAR4.PDF

Not all columns have yet been converted into stand-alone
reprints, so in this listing you'll still find a mix of archive
and individual Hardware Hacker entries...

#01 -- Auto Electronics, tech lit, Santa Claus, pots
#02 -- uv resins, electronic music, superconductors
#03 -- Posistors, video ics, IIGS monitors,...
#04 -- Bar Codes, transducers, pneumatics...
#05 -- Ring detectors, toner carts, PostScript,...
#06 -- Perspective, RS232, parts sources...
#07 -- Phone recording, nav, printed circuits...
#08 -- Remote controls, IR receivers, A/D conv..
#09 -- Synchronous inverters, Apple books, 16-bit
#10 -- LAN of the 80's, pressure transducer,....

#11 -- Navicube, Kroy Kolor, RGB TV, trade...
#12 -- Digital compass circuits, prototypes, ...
#13 -- Surface mount parts, IR filters, sinewaves.
#14 -- Pseudorandom sequences, white noise...
#15 -- Zero crossing detection, phase dimming,...
#16 -- Refilling SX carts, teleportation, upower...
#17 -- SAW devices, call progress, state var filter
#18 -- Digital audio, Delta-Sigma A/D, sensors,..
#19 -- Bar code resources, oscilloscopes, CMOS...
#20 -- Electrolytic chemistry, light show BBS,...

#21 -- Cheap digital compass, humidity measure..
#22 -- Filter capacitors, visible lasers, wireless...
#23 -- Linear stepper motors, modelmaking, vid...
#24 -- Double sided pc boards, optical reprints...
#25 -- Fractal Ferns, Thermoelectrics, chaos, ...
#26 -- Dew sensing, cold fusion, alarm resources,...
#27 -- LDVT position, treasure finders, sync,... 
#28 -- Vapor detectors, low melt alloys, uv flames,
#29 -- Hall effect, shape memory, low noise amps,
#30 -- Electronic levels, memory, cases, lasers,..

#31 -- Tune chips, blender controls, power basics,
#32 -- Huffman codes, video drivers, runlength,..
#33 -- Magnetocaloric effect, log voltmeter, ...
#34 -- SAW devices, active filters, DSP, temp,...
#35 -- Vortex coolers, polyphase gens, mag refr..
#36 -- DCT, sinewave gens, video compression,..
#37 -- Decibels, level meters, patent avoidance,..
#38 -- Visible lasers, motor resources, wavelets,.
#39 -- Infrared people detectors, liquid crystals,..
#40 -- VHF & microwave resources, toner carts,..

#41 -- Electronic tuning, parametric amplifiers,...
#42 -- Power electronics, video crosshatch, ...   
#43 -- EPRI, focused X-rays, Buckyballs, .....
#44 -- Inductive loads, Bakerizing, alternators,...
#45 -- Fuzzy data, Tesla Coils, FCC regs, E-fields,
#46 -- SMPTE time codes, solar energy, cases,...
#47 -- Fractals, FM stereo, home energy, ....
#48 -- Shielding, VGS, GPS, flyback sweeps,...
#49 -- Caller id, wavelets, Lumeloid, lab tests,...
#50 -- Wavelets, piano & organs, musical notes,..

#51 -- Laser printer repairs, sync separation, ....
#52 -- FM stereo broadcasters, Ockham's, ...
#53 -- Dye based solar, RGB monitors, avionics,.
#54 -- Correlation fundamentals, Santa Claus,...
#55 -- Electronic halftones, idea marketing,....
#56 -- Alternate latches, histograms, IC houses,..
#57 -- Distant FM reception, UFO's, boosters,...
#58 -- Yagi antennas, navicubes, rate gyros,...
#59 -- Semilog plots, resonance, IC resources,...
#60 -- Video toaster, EDM machining, broadcast.

#61 -- Nichrome, FCC part 68, scrambling, copy,.
#62 -- Cubic splines, electrorhelogical fluids, ...
#63 -- Video game repair, piezoelectrics, Curie...
#64 -- Thermodynamic basics, reversibility,...
#65 -- Telemetry, max-min, SETI, power xfer,...
#66 -- Photopolymers, flying cars, pc drills, ...
#67 -- FM traps, GPS, nonlinear graphics,...
#68 -- Pulse monitors, thermoelectric modules,...
#69 -- Data compression, comm transparency,..
#70 -- Digital photos, fluxgates, mag fields,...

#71 -- CTCSS squelching, coin mechanisms,...
#72 -- Voice messaging, special effects, Acrobat...
#73 -- Jukeboxes, aerogels, sonoluminescence. ..
#74 -- Cogeneration resources, SCSI comm,...
#75 -- RBDS, human power, bus switches,...
#76 -- Air turbines, FM dx, invention scams...
#77 -- Thermodynamics, solitons, Santa Claus, ...
#78 -- Recycling toner carts, research tools,...
#79 -- Cold fusion, video driver, trans lines....
#80 -- Binary chain codes, SETI, batt charging...

#81 -- Helical resonators, laser service, reprints
#82 -- Remote controls, virtual ways, FCC regs...
#83 -- Halogen cycle, vector to step, PostScript..
#84 -- Auto computers, servicing intermittents,...
#85 -- TV data displays, brain implants, sinewave
#86 -- Wavelets, DNA, engineering economics
#87 -- AC motor drives, basic stamps, magsines

Modern Electronics magazine evolved out of the ashes
of Ziff's forced demise of Popular Electronics and
Electronics World. Reprints of which are available here.

ME was sort of low budget, second rate, and in my
opinion, badly edited. The big deal to me was that it
started the transition where authors could submit
drawings of high enough quality and consistency
that they could be directly published.

The first attempts at my author-submitted art were
rather gruesome, being based on MacPaint.
The figures rapidly became superb after the
release of the then new PostScript language.

I had these two construction projects in ME...

Upgrading Apple IIe Monitor ROMS
Absolute Reset for newest Apple II's

I began a series of Hardware Hacker columns
there, which eventually were moved to Radio
Electronics and ultimately renamed Tech Musings.

In those days, "hacking" was an absolutely positive
term meaning "doing things so spectacular or so
cheap or so elegant that experts were left shaking
their heads in stunned disbelief".

Dastardly negative connotations of "hacker" later
appeared because of the utterly clueless media.

Here are the ME Hardware Hacker columns...

hhack_1_85.pdf
hhack_2_85.pdf
hhack_3_85.pdf
hhack_4_85.pdf
hhack_5_85.pdf
hhack_6_85.pdf
hhack_7_85.pdf
hhack_8_85.pdf
hhack_9_85.pdf  
hhack_10_85.pdf
hhack_11_85.pdf

hhack_1_86.pdf
hhack_2_86.pdf
hhack_3_86.pdf
hhack_4_86.pdf
hhack_5_86.pdf
hhack_6_86.pdf
hhack_7_86.pdf
hhack_8_86.pdf
hhack_9_86.pdf
hhack_10_86.pdf
hhack_11_86.pdf

hhack_1_87.pdf 
hhack_2_87.pdf
hhack_3_87.pdf
hhack_4_87.pdf
hhack_5_87.pdf
hhack_6_87.pdf
hhack_7_87.pdf
hhack_8_87.pdf

Some of my columns appeared as my Ask the Guru in
Computer Shopper. These were in a mixed bag "question
and answer" format and ran for several years.

I had just completed joining the Guru's and Swamis
Union local #243, but because of Marcia Swampfelder's
restraining order from the Tapioca Pudding Institute
over her cross-genre classic of Godzilla versus the
Night Nurses, I had to switch to local #475. And
the flick had to be pulled from theatric release and
sent directly to eight track.

The columns survive in their original form as these
reprint archives...

ATG1 -- Columns 1 to 32
ATG2 -- Columns 33 to 58
ATG3 -- Columns 59 to 70

My other column in Nuts & Voltsmagazine was the
Resource Bin. Its ongoing intent was to "tell people
where to go to get stuff".

Back in those days, pinning down resources took a
lot of time and effort. Not to mention continuously
looking in oddball and obscure places that were
enormously difficult to access.

The link farm can be found here with the main library
here. Here's most of the Resbin columns chronologically...

#01 -- Starting your resource quest
#02 -- Finding obsolete integrated circuits
#03 -- Hacker friendly printed circuits
#04 -- Semiconductor & IC sources
#05 -- Labor-of-love technical newsletters
#06 -- Wondrous world of electronic surplus
#07 -- Unique opportunities in auto electronics
#08 -- Looking into electronic trade journals
#09 -- Exploring PostScript for fun & profit
#10 -- Oddball sources for just plain stuff

#11 -- Technical books that made a difference
#12 -- Secret desktop publishing sources
#13 -- Perils of patents and patenting
#14 -- Starting up your own technical venture
#15 -- Secrets of professional prototypes
#16 -- Opportunities in hacker robotics
#17 -- Exploring ham radio publications
#18 -- The furry with the syringe on top
#19 -- Royalty free real PostScript
#20 -- Starting an IC data book collection

#21 -- Book-on-demand publishing
#22 -- Online resources & opportunities
#23 -- Tools for electronic prototyping
#24 -- A look at electronic collectibles
#25 -- Essential homebrew test equipment
#26 -- Pseudoscience scams & ripoffs
#27 -- Electronic servicing opportunities
#28 -- Secrets of electronic breadboarding
#29 -- Cable & video insider sources
#30 -- Conducting your own personal research

#31 -- A "magic machine" for desktop pub
#32 -- Direct toner homebrew printed circuits
#33 -- Optoelectronics and fiber optics
#34 -- New developments in remote controls
#35 -- The best hardware parts of all time
#36 -- Book-on-demand publishing update
#37 -- A look at sensors & sensing
#38 -- Exploring high frequency resources
#39 -- Getting started in auto electronics
#40 -- New opportunities in home automation

#41 -- Security & alarm resources
#42 -- Alternate desktop publishing options
#43 -- Electronic music then and now
#44 -- Disability and handicapped resources
#45 -- Manic multimedia media magazines
#46 -- New opportunities in power electronics
#47 -- Another look at telecom
#48 -- Solar and alternate energy resources
#49 -- Fundamentals of nutting and volting
#50 -- Injection molding & plastic prototyping
#51 -- Son of alternate energy 13th, part 6
#52 -- Choosing a personal computer
#53 -- PDF and other info distribution tools
#54 -- Pick a peck of PIC's
#55 -- Exploring the web for the first time
#56 -- How to start your own web page
#57 -- Resources for electronic servicing
#58 -- Getting a charge out of batteries
#59 -- Starting your own tech venture
#60 -- Finding answers on the web

#61 -- Some favorite web sites
#62 -- Exploring trade journals
#63 -- Painlessly scamming a student paper
#64 -- The human side of the web
#65 -- Video game tools & techniques
#66 -- Book-on-demand publishing
#67 -- Getting started in amateur astronomy
#68 -- Terrific toner techniques
#69 -- Robotic resources update
#70 -- PostScript PIC flutterwumpers

#71 -- Secrets of web based research
#72 -- Some wireless resources 
#73 -- Electronic surplus & auctions
#74 -- Seismic & earthquake resources
#75 -- Virtual reality illusions
#76 -- Home Automation Again
#77 -- Accessing offshore electronics
#78 -- Starting your own web page
#79 -- Finding semiconductor & IC data
#80 -- Test Equipment manuals

#81 -- Secrets of military surplus I
#82 -- Secrets of military surplus II
#83 -- Fun with neat stuff
#84 -- Exploring Medical Electronics
#85 -- Some favorite web sites
#86 -- Dowsing for Brown's Gas in Roswell
#87 -- Used Test Equipment
#88 -- Hydrogen Resources
#89 -- Boat Anchors
#90 -- GPS and Navigation

#91 -- Exploring Antenna Resources
#92 -- Some PostScript Possibilities

For a long while, I had a pair of columns in Nuts & Volts
Magazine, Resource Bin and the Laserwriter Corner,
which was soon renamed PostScript Secrets.

At any rate, PostScript Secrets was an intense and
eclectic short column. When later released as a free
ebook, supplements of additional neat things to do
got added to each column.

While each column typically contained a dozen
entries of sneaky 'free font" stunts and off-the-wall
secret insider stuff, some of the loci included...

#01 - Certificates and scroll borders
#02 - Fractal Fern ( revised here )
#03 - Persistent downloads
#04 - Point Ruler
#05 - Step and Repeat utilities

#06 - Arccos and Arcsin
#07 - Classic litho chokes
#08 - Toner cartridge refilling
#09 - Multiple stroking techniques
#10 - 3D Lettering

#11 - Sturdy macho font
#12 - Cardboard box layout utility
#13 - Barcode resources
#14 - Backwards printing
#15 - Redefining procs

#16 - Using the flying wedge
#17 - Sight reading eexec
#18 - Secret gray map
#19 - Halftone spot patterns
#20 - Arc justify font

#21 - Popular Star Wars font
#22 - Internaldict FlxProc
#23 - Scribbling in PostScript
#24 - IBM serial comm ports
#25 - Isometric font

#26 - Avuncular Sleezoid
#27 - Knotting to this at all
#28 - True perspective font
#29 - Bricks up against the wall
#30 - Random number tricks

#31 - Speeding up a logo
#32 - Spherical nonlinear transforms
#33 - Font name directory
#34 - Spirals and Spirographs
#35 - Bezier curve length

#36 - Menu font lotsadots
#37 - Font path grabbing
#38 - Nonlinear ashow operator
#39 - College pennant font
#40 - Sticker variations

#41 - Keystone justification
#42 - Array justification
#43 - Smith Charts and log plots
#44 - Assorted neat stuff
#45 - Fancy borders and embossed fonts

#46 - Fast insertion sort
#47 - Classic bubble sort
#48 - Rotating text and thermography

My first two published stories appeared here and here
in Electronics World, the "highest" tech and most
carefully crafted of competitive newsstand magazines.

In those days, magazines used nom de plumes to
create the illusion of having more authors than
they really did. Some of my pen names included
Ralph Genter, Frank Gross, Alvin Snurdley, and, of
course, Marcia Swampfelder. Leon Schoenfield was
a rare early real person co-author.

The music speech discriminator sort of worked,
but it was not quite ready for prime time. The
log circuitry really wasn't and loading caused
Schmitt trigger problems. But the solid state
color organ was first rate and started this series
of follow up projects.

Here's a chronological rundown of my EW papers.
These were mostly a mix of "how it works" tutorials
and "you build it" construction projects....

colorg1_4_63.pdf
music_speech_discrim.pdf
cap_nomo_4_63.pdf
color_organ2_1_64.pdf
four_layer_10_64.pdf

new_scr_dev_12_64.pdf
chirp_radar_1_65.pdf
mult_elec_con_1_65.pdf
hs_design_1_65.pdf
ss_dim_5+6_65.pdf 

semi_sweep_tv_06_65.pdf 
ldim_ptcon_7_65.pdf 
optical_link_9_65.pdf 
ics_whats_avail_11_65.pdf
amp_using_switching_2_66.pdf

nanosecond_pulses_2_66.pdf
using_lowcost_ics_3_66.pdf
gcs_timer_5_66.pdf 
varactor_diode_apps_6_66.pdf
insulated_gate_trans_7_66.pdf

switch_mode_power_9_66.pdf
linear_ics_11_66.pdf
metal_locators_12_66.pdf
opamp_circuits_8_67.pdf
constant_cur_diode_10 67.pdf

audio_ics_10_67.pdf 
extended_resonance_11_67.pdf
diff_amp_2_68.pdf
plast_pow_2_68.pdf  
decimal_counting_9_68.pdf

thermoluminescence_3_69.pdf 
Paleomagnetism & Archaeomagnetism_9_69.pdf
predetermining_counter_5_70.pdf
addsub_MOS_counter_6_70.pdf