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These files provide excerpts from our Guru's Lair Blogs
mostly to provide a historic time line and discovery record
for our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canals. Some other
outdoor stuff has also been included.

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

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

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

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

Please report any other 404 issues.

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

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

The back story on the series author remains amazing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eventually many years later, the CIA involvement
was admitted.

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

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

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

Hangnails readily becoming a qualifying condition for
medical marijuana.

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

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

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

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

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

New but still misunderstood developments in phase
change memory.

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

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

Major new improvements in axial flux motors.

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

Vacuum Metal Deposition significantly altering
fingerprint forensics.

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

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

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

A collection of tens of thousands of of free university
online courses can be found here.

A reminder that the DOAJ or Directory of open Access
Journals has been readily linkable on our home page.

I just discovered arXiv and socarXiv. These are Cornell
University related open access publications. The former for
"hard" science such as physics, and the latter for "soft"
stuff like archaeology. I hope to provide them with a few
examples of our hanging canal resources.

I have lots of papers already in Research Gate and WeSrch.
An "also ran" is Academia, but I don't care for their vibes.

Here's a list of some other random open source stuff...

Crossref
DeepDyve
Doug's Archaeology
eLife
Hubmed
Innocentive
Lifewire
Mendeley
Peerlibrary
Publishing Archaeology
Pubmed.gov
PubSci
Selected Works
Slashdot
Sourcefabric
Wikipedia

Please let me know any that I missed.

Just revised and updated some long overdue changes
and relevancy checks to our home page offsite web
resources links.

These are my selection of "best of web". And are
based on most everything I personally need or use.

I'd like to add at least nine more links. What do you
suggest?

Started an image cross reference and directory for our
Bajada Hanging canals found here and here.

Go to https://www.tinaja.com/hang01.shtml#imgs
Then go down four lines and click on "click here
to open".

Completion will take a while as the images themselves
and the field notes obviously should have a higher
priority. And there are great heaping bunches of  them
remaining to be created or updated.

Your help and support welcome. Tours and lectures
are available. A major pub is imminent but remains
super secret.

Several of you have asked about Bruno. Bruno is the attitude
relaterization facilitator for a major eBay newsgroup. Since
he is very big on multitasking, he also combines this with his
role of being a product durability tester for a major New Jersey
baseball bat manufacturer.

Bruno also does trucking for Norfolk & Waay. Norfolk and
Waay, of course, is the only reputable dropshipper for eBay 
sellers. This week only, they are offering free sample pallets 
( limit five ) with free shipping. From their choice of Neiman 
Marcus, Land's End, Eddie Bauer, or Bruno's Trucking.

Norfolk & Waay in a Kilgore Trout sort of focus are NOT me 
and NOT my website. I have no idea who their webmaster is.

The Bruno pallets may occasionally include an odd body part or
two. Naturally, this is normal and expected.

More details here.

A website to convert legal land descriptions to lat-lon,
GPS, UTM, and more can be found here.

Our spectacularly engineered prehistoric Bajada
Hanging Canals now are rapidly approaching 100
study areas with a total length exceeding 150 miles!

They now newly surround Mount Graham as well!

Even so, they only represent a tiny portion of the
woefully understudied prehistoric Safford basin.

Here's some of the also rans...    

1. Spectacularly engineered bajada canals.
2. Plain old riverine canals.
3. Thousands of "booze factory" grids.
4. Ubiquitous mulch rings.
5. Aproned check dams.
6. Severely endangered petroglyphs.
7. The usual habitations and field houses.
8. Exceptional evidence of trade patterns.
9. Unusually widespread tradeware shards.
10. Numerous other rock alignments.

You are welcome to participate or contribute to this
world class research. Talks and tours also available.

I'm not supposed to mention that a really major
scientific publication on the canals is imminent. So,
email me if you want to get in ahead of the hoarders.

We newly have two versions of the latest ongoing revisions
of our prehistoric bajada hanging canals. Find the .SHTML
version here and the .PDF version here.

Please keep checking back as the major upgrades to our
image documentation is taking a lot longer than expected.

We also think we are about to see a major new scientific
paper released, but we are not allowed to talk about it yet.

We are in the process of adding a whole new layer
of detail to our prehistoric bajada hanging canal
images. With lots more info on titles, origins, names
lat-lons, accesses, and significances.

This will take a while as there are many hundreds
of images so far, with lots more expected. So,
please keep checking here for ongoing progress.

Meanwhile, here is a sampler....

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But my very favorite is the hazmat rule of thumb:

Hold your arm extended with your thumb up. Then
close one eye.

If you can still see the scene, you are too close.

One of the handier "rules of thumb" that
sometimes apply some of the time and can be
enormously useful is this:

Very often, one percent of what happens 
nationally happens in Arizona. And one percent
of what happens in Arizona happens in the Gila
Valley.

Thus, roughly, there are 300 million people in
the US, 3 million in AZ, and 30,000 locally.

While not super accurate, this rule can quickly
give you a rough estimate of an amazing variety
of events or tasks. Where you otherwise may
not have the faintest clue as to scale. 

Naturally, the "rule" does not apply to anything
with a regional bias. I suspect Thatcher has
more cotton module fires than Bangor, Maine
does. And that walrus attacks may be rare in
Nebraska.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
Hikes. We are now up to 559 primary entries!

Added are a CNF road directory, a new backcountry
wonderment, and a bajada hanging canal update.

The latter is updating almost daily, so be sure to check back.
For the .shtml version here and the .pdf version here.

Linking and posting to appropriate Gnu Public License sites
welcome.

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

Welcome to hell. Here is your accordion.

Managed to find what may be a missing 1000 foot
middle piece of the Mud Springs Canal. Which, as
usual, raises more questions than it resolves.

Find the new map here and a few photos here, here,
here, here, and here. Connections at either end
remain unproven, and there's a two meter deep cut
into a possibly natural channel. While maintaining
an apparently optimal canal grade.

Mud Springs may have been an early prototype as
it is one of the very few where almost its entire
route can be easily viewed from several points.

The big picture here. Visitors welcome. USB's of
nearly everything done to date are newly available.

Were there any prehistoric hanging canals along
Aravaipa Creek? This paper and this one do not
mention any, and this search hit is likely bogus.

Any canal examples would more likely be riverine
instead of hanging. And easily destroyed by the
area's spectacular 100 year floods.

But with hanging canals now proven to completely
surround Mt. Graham, ignoring such a major water
resource would seem highly unlikely.

There's this historic canal at N 32.64517 W 110.15639
that still needs visited. As does landowner contact.

Your help welcome.

Pico De Gallo : A very small parrot.

Details on autorunning a USB drive can be found here.
All that is involved is a four line textfile called, of all
things autorun.inf.

A newsgroup denizen apparently had the audacity to
challenge my Guru status.

To clarify,  I do remain a card carrying member of the
International Brotherhood of Gurus and Swamis Unions
Hulapai County local #357. And have just newly been
recertified to MIL-TFD-41.

I did have to upgrade from local #427 because of the
Tapioca Pudding Institute's restraining order over that
Godzilla versus the Night Nurses definitive scene.

More here.

A directory of free online university tech courses can
be found here..

Once again updated and revised the .PDF version of
our new bajada hanging canal resources.

As we have seen, there can be some rude surprises
when you try to convert a .SHTML file into .PDF.

A web page is normally continuous without breaks,
while an Acrobat file is based on printer sized sheets,
initially with possibly unwanted headers and footers.

Yes, you can crop out unwanted headers or footers,
and sometimes downgrade black bar page breaks
into dashed ones. But the breaks can end up in wildly
wrong places, such as the middle of a table or a too
small boundary.

The rule is this: If you know you are going to want
a .PDF output, make sure it gets involved as early
as possible.

You can use ledding and rearrangement to try and
have pleasant .SHTML and .PDF results. But
note that early doc changes can easily pile up
you sequentially. And return to haunt you later.

The "anvil test" for camp coffee...

If the anvil sinks, it it too weak.
If the anvil floats, it is just right.
If the anvil dissolves, it is too strong.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
Hikes. We are now up to 555 primary entries!

New are links to the Sunny Flat Canal, a major
SCS dam blowout, and our new prehistoric canal
directory. Details on a second dam blowout can
be found here.

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

No, I am not making this up.

The Lawrence Welk version of One Toke Over the Line
can be linked here.

I am wondering if this could not have exclusively been the
defining moment for the birth of "WTF?"

Much more ( 100 million entries per day! ) here, a detailed
analysis  here, and the curious origin of the analysis here.

Managed to find a few details on the Sunny Flat historic
canal here and here.

This dated from 1922 and failed after three years. It is
one of very few local modern canals that were not based
upon prehistoric originals.

Very little remains today. The canal was unusual in that
it included a long and high flume, a tunnel, a siphon, some
wooden supports, and a mystery structure reminiscent of
an underground silo. Seven mile length was north of Bear
Springs Flat.

Much more on our prehistoric canals here. Or here for
the Acrobat .PDF version.

Evidence is strong and compelling that most, if not all,
historic  canal rework were adaption of prehistoric originals. 

First, because it is is infinitely easier to "dig out an old ditch"
or "steal the plans" or "borrow the blueprints" than to engineer 
a new canal from scratch. And second , because nearly all of
the decent canal locations were already and nearly exclusively
prehistorically taken. And third, because historic rework often
only applied to a smaller portion of the entire canal reach.

Key historically related bajada canal issues include...

(A) Finding out who did the Bear Springs Canal and when,
whether it was an investment scam, and whether it had
a prehistoric origin. Almost certainly, such a prehistoric
resource could not have been in any manner ignored.
But the construct was grossly and obscenely oversized.

(B) Proving that the Roper Lake Canal was in fact very
recent and uniquely historic. It is presently cardinal and
orthogonal (!) to Henry's Canal.

(C) Resolving who did what to whom from an artesian lake
near the Aravapia Road turnoff. Bandelier first mentioned
it, with obvious historic rework.

Your assistance welcome.

The latest new .PDF conversion of our Prehistoric
Bajada "Hanging" Canals can be found here.

We have also added this to ResearchGate and Wesrch.

The original .SHTML web version is still found here.

Amazingly, rectocranial inversion can easily be both 
chronic and acute at the same time. 

I've long been mystified by this #45 Mystery Tank
from our Bajada Hanging Canals at N 32.82766
W 109.81896.

A newly discovered and remarkably similar tank
has just been located at N 32.83148 W 109.81419.

The new discovery is clearly historic only, has nothing to
do with the canals, was built to "Gradeall" specs, used
only marginal seasonal water, was built by damming, and
even includes a USGS survey marker.

A newly credible explanation could be the mystery tank
was a "steal  the plans" failed historic attempt at using
SCS dam water, but never did so because the dam blew
out. A branching Jernigan canal was likely never blocked.

Meanwhile, a nearby "Troll House" or "Adena Embassy"
"tank" remains clearly prehistoric, apparently"hand" built,
and excavated from the bottom up into rising terrain. Find
this as #43 Troll House or N 32.82538 W 109.82281

WARNING: Do not attempt to internally explore the dam!

Chemistry 101: If you are not part of the solution,
then you are part of the precipitate.

Many years ago, a certain New York editor who had
never been off the block at Lawn Guiland visited a
Texas ranch. He was amazed at how greasy the sheep
were and asked why they greased their sheep.

The ranch hands had a big laugh over this and tried
to explain lanolin. Then they moseyed up the draw to 
the cow oiler.

How many mathematicians does it take to change a
light bulb?

Only one. Who hands the bulb to six Californians. Thus 
reducing the problem to a previously solved riddle.

The next planned projects in our Bajada Hanging
Canal work are to expand the photos on our main
directory and add a new resources center.

This will likely take a few weeks. You can follow
the progress here. And above.

There seems to be a glitch or two in the latest Acme Mapper
marker options revisions. In which markers keep piling up even
when they have been option disabled.

To presently and properly view our new Hanging Canal Index,
please always clear all previous markers. Note that your markers
always should start with "A" and always should be relevant.

Just completed a second pass on our Bajada Hanging
Canal index page.

It should now be complete and accurate and 404 free.
Please report any and all issues.

Acme Mapper has added a new option feature that lets
you turn your markers on and off selectively.

We recommend turning the markers off when viewing
our Bajada Canal index and directory.   This way, you'll
only see the relevant current view markers that we
want you to, rather than accumulating any marks from
previous viewings or your other previous projects.

An excerpt of the Safford Basin of the Arizona Water
Atlas can be found here. It also includes a map of
the major area land ownerships.

Here's an opportunity for you to help us by doing some
new world class research on our bajada hanging canals:

The Tripp Canyon Canal has only had a short portion
discovered at N 32.80207 W 110.05129 to N 32.81256
W 110.04597 to date. It is significant in that it closes
the loop of canal development nearly all the way around
Mount Graham, besides being long, having a possible
hanging portion, and a likely watershed crossing.

Needed are verification of its source and destination,
more photos, and GPS notes. Dronework would also
be really nice. Location is an hour's drive by using a
backcountry vehicle. Trivial foot access to the already
explored part, but longer hikes for the rest.

More details here.

The latest bajada hanging canal index and directory can
now be found at https://www.tinaja.com/hang01.shtml

As part of https://www.tinaja.com/hang01.shtml.

Please report any or all omissions and corrections.

Just discovered the hard way that the Nikon Coolpix
L22 has an incredibly bad flaw. In that the battery
compartment lid latch will self-destruct if you so much
as think about looking at it sideways.

There's apparently no reasonable fix, and this
would seem utterly incomprehensible for Nikon.

Partial repairs can sometimes be done by taping
the lid shut, by a repair made by a paper clip but
requiring machine shop skills, or by keeping your
tripod permanently attached.

Needless to say, beware of used eBay sales. And
this might be one time to buy a protection policy.

Certainly some of the most spectacular features of our
prehistoric bajada hanging canals are the apparent
presence of watershed crossings. In which canal water
is routed "up" out of a wet drainage, across a very
carefully chosen saddle, and then "down" into a much
drier one.

Whose side effect is to demonstrate an absolute and
utterly total mastery of hydraulic engineering.

The best studied and most convincing of these takes
water out of Ash Creek, crosses a saddle, and then
discharges into Mud Springs Canyon. Eventually
becoming the Deadman and the Mud Springs canals.

The saddle is six feet wide and has a three foot wide
canal centered on it. All the while maintaining a
perfectly correct slope.

Find its location here and a crossover photo here.

There is also a candidate watershed crossing here
that would go "up" out of Frye Creek and "down"
into Spring Canyon. While not quite yet proven,
its presence would greatly simplify explanations for
sourcing of Robinson, Golf Course, Allen, and
Freeman Canals. Ockham's Razor at its best.

The absence of a watershed crossing here would
demand "their" completely ignoring a major water
resource. As in "no way!".

A third watershed crossing seems to be involved
with the Tripp Canyon Canal found at N 32.80207
W 110.05129 to N 32.81256 W 110.04597 This is
still under study as only a tiny fraction of the canal
has yet been explored and its  destination still
remains unverified.

While crossover candidates are rare, there is yet
another possibility here in Nuttall Canyon. But
the alternate routing they chose makes more sense.

A new index of the known hanging canals can be
found here.

Your help is needed on all levels.

Managed to verify that Acme Mapper did in fact switch
from Google to Leaflet and that this has dramatically
trashed our ability to view many prehistoric bajada
canals and CCC water spreaders.

You can use 32.84831 W 109.93414 as a "resolution
tester" that shows or omits five water spreaders.

Apparently the very best of satellites offer 0.3 meter
resolution, while more typical ones 0.5 meters.

The solution would appear to be to switch to drones.
Which, of course, would required support and funding.

How to speak Tucsoneese ( aka "Nogales Junction" ):

R.O.B.'s ---> Regular Old Brownies

I am mystified by what appears to be a historic cattle
tank at N 32.82776 W 109.81894. It is clearly fed by and
associated with the Mud Springs prehistoric canal.

Yet, I have yet to find any evidence that any part of
this canal was ever used historically.

Best current thinking is that the tank was built at the time
the SCS dam was, intending only a shorter segment of this
canal to actually see historic reuse. But the poor quality
of the SCS dam construction promptly blew itself out.

Your theories on this are more than welcome.

Work is slowly progressing on our new master
prehistoric bajada hanging canal index and
directory. We are now almost half way there.

You can follow the daily progress here. Please
report any omissions and corrections.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
Hikes. We are now up to 551 primary entries!

New are links to remaining lookout towers, some
improvements to the Columbine visitor center,
new satellite imaging problems, and reaching
the halfway point on our new hanging canal
indexes.

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. And much more on the canals here 
and here.

Go to 32.84831 W 109.93414, first on Acme Mapper
and then on Google Earth.

Google clearly shows five CCC water diversion channels,
while Acme Mapper gives only the faintest hint of one
of them.

I suspect Acme has switched to a lower resolution or
a more highly filtered satellite source. Possibly to work
around new Google fees.

This, of course, is very bad news for our hanging canals.
Many of which have similarly vanished. Or at least have
become much harder to identify.

The obvious solution is to drone everything. Your
funding and assistance is sorely needed.

The most recent satellite images on Acme Mapper and
others seem to be totally unable to show CCC water
spreaders or many of our prehistoric canals!

I am not at all sure why. These sites once were glaringly
obvious and still ground truth just fine. Surely they will
return with the next generation of imagery. Meanwhile,
I'll try to focus on what we definitely have verified.

Follow the latest postings to our evolving index here.

Our most favorite tapas lounge and winery seems to be
up for sale at an astonishing low price.

Meanwhile, we personally have the very last remaining
developable view acreage immediately north of Gold
Hill Oregon up for sale. 20 acres.

More details here. Or phone Chris at (541) 664-9200.

There have been some ongoing reports of Chrome
substituting blank screens for a very few odd .PDF
Acrobat files.

I managed to find an apparently older .PDF example
which I seem to have repaired here.

Repair was done by going into Acrobat Pro and first
substituting text recognition for bitmaps. And then
using several features of their optimize bar.

File size was also significantly reduced with these mods.

eBay sales to New Mexico aren't quite as bad as they
once were. Yeah, there's still the language barrier and
the hassles at customs.

The main problem was that New Mexico truck tires
were a different size and spacing, so everything needed
reloaded at the ports of entry.

Thankfully, there are now reversible truck tires that
can be simply get insided out at the border.

Much more eBay help here. And similar stuff here.

Several visitors have asked what the back story was
on Poison Ivy in a Spray Can and Mitzi's Yuppy Fare.

The spray can was intended to show how to nonlinearly
transform lettering onto a cylindrical surface.

Back in its heyday of our PostScript Show and Tell,
all font paths were locked. I came up with a hairy and
inane scheme called pixel line remapping as a klutzy
workaround. Whose details are best left unmolested
here.

These days, many PostScript fonts are unlocked and
accessible via the charpath operator. For a nonlinear
transform, you simply redefine moveto, lineto, curveto,
and closepath to do your intended distortion.

Full details here.

One reason for Mitzi was to show off a super sneaky
and compact border technique found in PostScript
Secrets #45. Some of these still might not work
properly in GhostScript. So, email me your fixes.

But the main purpose of Mitzi was to show how you
can solve the ultra subtle "menu dots" problem. First,
you put down an entire set of fixed pitch dots. Do so
wall to wall and top to bottom. Next, measure all the
widths of your left and right proportional font entries
and rewrite your background over any unwanted dots
they cover. Then put the actual fonts down.

Forest fire lookout towers are rapidly becoming an
endangered species. Locally, Barfoot has burned,
Silver Peak torn down, Miller Peak is gone, and
Webb Peak appears to be on a hit list.

These days, just about everybody has GPS and
uses cellphones. And scanning IR detectors are
now cheap enough and small enough and unattended
enough to hang on any old radio tower, telephone
pole, drone, or even a large tree.

A two part summary of preservation candidates can
be reached here, while preservation enthusiasts
can be found here. And restoration docs here.

A directory here. And, amazingly, full sets of tower
construction plans are web available here. With
this sample here. And previous sites here.

A few remaining lookouts include Heliograph at
N 32.65065 W 109.84970, West Peak found at
N 32.73830 W 110.03827, Sugarloaf found at
N 32.01506 W 109.32416, and Monte Vista at
N 31.82583 W 109.31489 .

More on similar topics on our Gila Hikes Web Page.

For years, I've found http://mapper.acme.com/ to be a
superbly useful tool. Most especially in its ability to
mix and match satellite images and topo maps.

Apparently they have resolved some recent Google
API issues, and the mysterious dim "research only"
message screens are thankfully now gone.

While mostly improved, their latest satellite imagery
does not seem to show our Bajada Hanging Canals
as well as it previously did. These always were subtle,
but somehow they now seem more so. I'm not sure why.

Acme has now added some new options, but to best
activate them be sure to use always open on their
layers control.

If you newly seem unable to click on the US Topo
option, try reducing the scale to its best available
topo resolution. I'd expect this to be a fixable glitch.

Their marker feature may not work quite the way
you might expect it to. Markers are personalized to
your web site and get added to all of your screens.

The rule is to always "police" your markers. Any
time you start a new project or download somebody
else's maps, be sure to clear all old markers first.

Above all, any time you use the "chain" generate
URL for this image feature, be sure only the marks
you really want to keep with this screen remain.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
Hikes. We are now up to 547 primary entries!

New are links to Frieborn Hot Spring, Black Jack
Cave, and a mystery West Layton structure.

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. And much more on the canals here 
and here.

Shocking.

Nearly FIFTY PERCENT of North Dakota school  
children are below average!

I guess it is time for a summary on all our hanging
canals. We shortly expect a major paper to appear
in a significant "old school" scientific journal. The
status of free preprints are not yet resolved.

Our new web page is not quite yet finished. It is
missing lots of images, emails, and blog excerpts.
Sorry about the image 404's.

The immediate problem is that we are woefully
behind in creating and updating our preliminary
field note series.

Recent discoveries desperately needing further
work include Taylor Canyon, Tripp Canyon,
and a still to be verified Hog Canyon. These
dramatically extend the range of the bajada
canal system.

Your help and assistance is needed, most
especially for gonzo hiking, photography,
and GPS work. Many projects are found here.

Obvious longer term things that need done are
one or more You Tube videos, getting into
drone work, and somehow involving a few of
the heavy hitters to get into this unique and
utterly spectacular find.

I guess my first clue that major man caused climate
change was clearly and unquestionably now in process
took place long before any of the denialists emerged.

In those days, a reasonable 4WD track ran far up
the Blue River. Somewhat above the XXX ranch
were a series of rare and spectacular historic oxbow
lakes (!), all having many hundreds of years old trees
on their banks. Impressively riparian.

The river itself, though, had moved to the west and
its channel was now utterly and totally scoured.

Lately, though, all of the oxbow lakes and all of
the trees have vanished without a trace. And the
whole canyon has been wall-to-wall obliterated by
spectacular floods.

Somewhere around the same time, I was attending
a talk on overgrazing. When they asked what the
indicator species were for overgrazing, they got real
upset when I answered "cows".

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
hikes. We are now up to 542 primary entries!

New are links to the Little Blue Box and some
rare ( at least for AZ ) hex columnar Basalt.

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. And much more on the canals here 
and here.

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

In response to an ever diminishing number of requests,
I've just colorized the Mitzi Menu. Find its demo here
and its software here.

To colorize anything else, put this code early in your
program...

/webtintmat [
0 1 5 { /a exch store
0 1 5 { /b exch store
0 1 5 { 5 div b 5 div a 5 div
} for } for } for ] def

% setwebtint accepts a color number 0 to 215 and
% sets the Post Script color generator for later use...

/setwebtint { abs cvi 216 cvi mod % restrict range
webtintmat exch 3 mul 3 getinterval % get values
aload pop setrgbcolor} def % and set them

And then place something like this immediately before
each target stroke or fill...

137 setwebtint

To get a pair of colors that seem to be shades of
each other, keep two of the three optional hex css
values constant.

Complete webtint code here and its demo here.
The demo is also useful for simplified CSS.

Much more Beginner Stuff here.

Most of the map links on our Gila Valley Dayhikes
have now been improved. Many thanks to Acme
Mapper's Jef Poskanzer for his superb help.

Note particularly Acme's Options choices. We do
recommend using layers always open and disabling
their mark on find. And "policing" excess marks.

When last checked, all of the map links are now css
compatible, but many are not yet ssl. We will fix
these as time permits. If you store these links
elsewhere, please prefix them with an https://

Meanwhile, if you spot a map or other link that
is misbehaving or not going where you think it
should, please tell us.

Some interesting hikes that can greatly help our
Hanging Canal research can be found here.

Although Gila Hikes is supposed to be the definitive
outdoorsey "things to do" guide for the Greater
Bonita-Eden-Sanchez Metropolitan Area, I
have a hollow feeling that I missed something
obvious. Again, your feedback welcome.

Acme Mapper behavior seems to have just gotten
even worse. The latest symptom is that new screens
are only rarely shown. and clearing markers may
only help sometimes.

We have signed up for Google API and they do
recognize us. The problem also shows up on the
Internet Exploder, so we can rule out anything
Chrome cache related. It also is not related
to a single PC host machine.

So far, no charges. But if significant ones show
up, we will be forced to downgrade all lat lons
to print only. And Google does not presently
offer topo maps, just satellite imagery.

Strangely, there is not the slightest peep of others
having similar problems. Except for this. I am sorry
for how this severely affects our website, and most
especially Gila Dayhikes.

As a temporary workaround, try copying the lat
lon links somewhere else, perhaps Google Earth
or some too map showing site.

Can you shed any light on this?

My favorite pseudoscience yarn is the Saga of the
Magic Lamp. With How to Trash a Vehicle Hydrogen
Electrolysizer a close second.

And my first very own perpetual motion machine here.

More on bashing pseudoscience here. And lots of
related links here.

A news anchor recently gained even more than usual
fame by confusing cannabis and cannibal tasting tours.

HINT: Only one of these is vegetarian!

The definitive video on all this appears here. 
And, curiously, its rather obscure origin here.

It is interesting to compare and contrast the concepts
of "proof" and "evidence" between an engineer and
an archaeologist. At first glance, the mindsets seem
distinctly different.

In my early magic sinewave work, lack of bobble in
the tenth decimal place convinced me that I found
true harmonic nulls rather than a slight dip. But the
Mathematicians, of course, were not convinced
with such flimsy evidence. They wanted "proof".

Many of our hanging canals still lack destinations.
Sometimes because they were "steal the plans"
historically trashed. Other times because they
simply had not been found yet.

Yesterday, I found a situation that might be an
extension of the Mud Springs Canal. At best
I can only give it credibility of 37 on a scale of
100. But dozens of explored alternatives could
not remotely approach this figures. Is this proof?

What we have is an obvious and disused vehicle
two-track. But it is amazingly straight with a
perfectly flat and correct slope, exactly where
a Mud Springs extension might be expected.

Adjacent to the road, the terrain is slightly undulated
or "hillocky", and some of these are suggestive of
spoil banks. There is no sign whatsoever of anything
wobbly on the road itself. Nor any sign of modern
road grading. Which suggests there might be a canal
under the road.

Can this be called "proof"? Can Ockham's Razor bail
us out?

Perhaps a check of sediment particle sizes can help
out here. Contact us if you are a seidmentoloogist.

Your comments and your participation welcome. You
are especially needed here.

I don't know if this is a feature, a bug, or just some
localized cache glitch, but Acme Mapper seems to
newly have sometimes returned to a previous screen
rather than to an intended new site click through.

This is especially aggravating on our Gila Valley
Dayhikes.

A possible workaround is to clear your markers,
exit, and reload the new link. This usually works.

A second reason to aggressively "police" your
markers is that too many unneeded markers can
make any links you create excessively long.

A third reason is that marker lettering can differ
between you and your user. Your "H" marker
could end up their "F" marker or worse.

The only partial fix I have found so far is to use
alt-print screen, get into Imageviewer or whoever,
and save it as a .JPEG. This  "freezes" the marker
letters at the cost of losing all pan or zoom.

Most of the dust seems to have settled over your now
needing a Google API account to be able to reasonably
use Acme Mapper.

Please let me know if you have any older or current
issues with our Guru's Lair map images.

Separately, Acme just made a minor but non-obvious
improvement: That "stack of papers" upper right
is how you access the now hidden boxes to click
between topos, satellite images, and the rest of the
gang.

Did you know that Paul McCartney had a group
before Wings?

There appear to be some big time problems emerging
with Acme Mapper as the Google Satellite imaging
folks now want you you have an account with them as
well. Many Acme images have newly degraded into
low contrast "development" screens.

A third party explanation can be found here and
the Google dashboard here. Supposedly there is
no present charge for a sane number of accesses.

I thought I had jumped through all the hoops, but
the restored Acme stuff reverted back into the
useless screens again this morning.

I can't even seem to look at my own older images
Stay tuned while the dust settles.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
hikes. We are now up to 540 primary entries!

Included are links to our new Hanging Canals web
page. details on the Corona cold war memorabilia,
and new availability of a USB canal reference.

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. And much more on the canals here 
and here.

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

I see something enormously distressing taking place on
the web. Completely ignored and of profound significance:

Only history that has a champion survives the web!

Ferinstance, you can easily find the rules for Mad
Magazine's 43 Man Squamish from their June 1965
issue.

But Sallen and Key's crucial 1955 paper defining the entire
world of Active Filters is not freely available anywhere!
Heathkit schematics are readily available from dozens 
of web sources, while details on automotive diagnostic
interfaces are few and far between.

In other words, trivialities survive while essential defining 
documents go begging.

One obvious solution: MANDATE that all scientific papers
older than three years have free web access from multiple
sources! It is way past time to stake the gatekeepers to an
anthill.

Note that most published scientific and quite a few technical
documents are paid for with your tax dollars. YOU own
these and should have every right to freely access them. 

A second obvious solution: Restrict copyright to 36 months
renewable once upon careful review to an individual, and
to 18 months nonrenewable to any corporation or heir. With
mandatory free web conversion afterwards.

Yeah, I am trying to not be part of the problem. Many of
my free ebooks can be found here, classic reprints here,
and open sourcecode here.

At least one eBay seller firmly believes in truth in
advertising...

"Fright arrangements to be made by Buyer."

Here's the two insider secrets to getting Typekit
and Distiller to play nice together: First, add a
new link to Distiller's Font Locations.

And secondly, after picking up new fonts via
Typekit or Creative Cloud, find their correct
PostScript font names.

A valid PS fontname consists of a forward
slash and a name with no spaces. Traditionally,
there would be one or more hyphens present
but some new Typekit entries simply jumble all
the name elements together space free.

Words like std or .regular are sometimes
included or omitted.

If you end up with Courier and a warning, either
you have not properly accessed the font or else
you have the required PS name wrong

Here's a sneaky way to find a problem filename:
Load any old .PDF program and then enter
a watermark with the target font. Then do a

File --> Properties --> Fonts

A list of many older PostScript font names can be
found here. And this program includes a more up
to date ( but still incomplete ) list and can find which
of your fonts are available, properly named, and
correctly linked.

A font snooper demo can be found here.

Farm sibling when asked why he kept feeding raw
pork to city slickers...

"Its the only trick I know, Sis."

I predict the price of marijuana is about to suddenly, precipitously,
ignominiously, and catastrophically collapse. Yet nobody seems to
be paying any attention.

Any reasonable commodity price is based on supply and demand.
Instead, US marijuana pricing is clearly based instead solely on
fear versus reward. The classic approach-avoidance conflict.

Because of the law of the unintended consequence, virtually 
every penny of federal or state anti-marijuana expense can
clearly be viewed instead as a farm subsidy or price support.

Price supports outrageously higher than on ANY other 
agricultural commodity. As these supports are very likely
to soon vanish, mj pricing can be reasonably expected to
revert to a supply and demand pricing model.

It is interesting to compare mj to cotton. Since the ginning
is simpler but the growing is pretty much the same, a reasonable
post subsidy mj pricing would appear to likely be somewhere 
around fifty nine cents per pound.

Thus, the state tax income projections could easily be a tad off.
But perhaps only by three or four orders of magnitude.

As with cotton, much of the processing could be fairly similar, 
with the standard commodity item being the five hundred pound
bale. Partial bales, of course, should clearly be considered 
personal use only.

The definitive video on all this appears here. 
And, curiously, its rather obscure origin here.

OK. It is not quite ready for prime time as there are
hundreds of links to still be entered and probably a
few typos. But here is an advanced preliminary look
at our brand new hanging canals feature page.

Find this one at https://www.tinaja.com/hang01.shtml

This one should now also be fully CSS and HTML5
compatible. You should also be able to click through
on the yellow bajada canals box on the new menus.

Please report any and all issues. The missing URL's
should go up in a few days. As should any "empty"
menus and correct images.

As always, you are welcome to participate in this
unique and world class research. Details here.

The older sources for this new page do remain
available here and here.

Repeated averaging can be a useful way of smoothing noisy
multiple data points, and eventually can approach something
like a Gaussian low pass filter.

Consider points a through h. Averaging the first two will give
you...

( a + b ) / 2

And averaging the average of the first three gives...

( a + 2b + c ) / 4

Averaging the average of the average gives...

( a + 3b +3c + d ) / 8

And again and again...

      ( a + 4b + 6c + 4d + e  ) / 16
      ( a + 5b + 10c + 10d + 5 e + f ) / 32

And our result seems to be approaching a Gaussian
smoothing. You can repeat this as much as you 
want or have the patience for..

Note that this works best with lots of points, because
the beginning and ending values will not be smoothed
quite as much as the midrange ones.

More on filtering here.

Got an email asking whether two point or four point barbed
wire was a better choice for speaker connections, compared
to the usual gold plated and oxygen free wire.

Little known is that either type of barbed wire gives a
much better soundstaging, reduced midrange granularity 
and better bass speed. 

But because they are sharp, barbed wire connections
tend to raise the pitch of your music. This can often be 
compensated by placing a flat ribbon cable in parallel.

Full details here. 

The encounter of the long count keeper.

And here is a typical .htaccess file...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}
                    %{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

# Begin cache control #
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresActive off
<FilesMatch ".*">
Header unset Cache-Control
Header unset Expires
Header unset Last-Modified
FileETag None
Header unset Pragma
</FilesMatch>
# End cache control #
# Begin IP blocking #
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from 144.76.135.235
Deny from 186.250.47.196
Allow from all
# End IP blocking #

DirectoryIndex default.shtml index.shtml

AddType text/html .asp .shtml .aspx
AddType text/plain .psl
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm .html .shtml .asp .js

AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
AddType application/octet-stream .psl
AddType application/postscript .psl

There is an obscure document likely called .htaccess by
your ISP and buried in a strange place. It is difficult
to understand and critical on format, but it is extremely
useful to customize your website.

If wrong, it can totally trash your website!

Among other uses, it lets you block any unwanted or
otherwise bad guy users. It lets you customize which
files can and can not be offered. In my case, allowing
both my .psl PostScript files and my JavaScript banner
rotator include files. Plus allowing includes.

And, these days, it is crucially important to upgrade
older http: files to newer and more secure https:
My favorite Fatcow includes a fairly easy to use
.htaccess editor. But support on this file is limited.

You can always spot the pioneers by all of the
arrows in their backs. Um, that's the other right.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
hikes. We are now up to 537 primary entries!

Included are a favorite "remote" areas entry and a
San Carlos Mineral Resources reprint.

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. And much more on the canals here 
and here.

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

Just uploaded a brand new Director's Cut of
Poison Ivy in a Spray Can.

Find the original here and more Marcia here.

WARNING: Be absolutely certain the nozzle is
pointing forward during use!

More on graphical nonlinear transforms here. And
bunches of other classic reprints here.

A slowdown in your comm speeds over time can usually
be traced to Ethernet Tokens that are either corroded or
grime covered.

The usual treatment is to use Brasso. But a better long
term solution is to gold plate the tokens and then flash
overplate them with a few microinches of rhodium.

More here.

What are my favorite "remote" parts of Arizona?

The easiest reachable would be Portal with its superb
caves, birds, hamburgers, and accommodations. Truly
remote is the Blue Post office that serves a very few
distant ranches. The Blue River itself offers such
"out west" locations as Hannah Hot Springs or
the Fish Barrier. But the most prototypical of all
"out west" location is, of course, Midnight Mesa.

There's still dirt access only to ranch community
Young with its great Sierra Anchas and Cherry
Creek trips.

Supai combines outstanding scenery and waterfalls
with horrific animal abuse. You literally cannot sanely get
to Littlefield without a long drive through adjacent states.
And a humongous parallel universe time warp is demanded
to try and access Colorado City. Other Arizona Strip and
many of the res destinations are even more obtuse. As is
the Cibola fishing and farm community. Or the Swansea
ghost town.

Barely missing the above cut would be Camp Wood,
Redfield Canyon, and West Clear Creek. East Clear
Creek, of course, is considerably past the far side of
back of beyond. Or those Table Mountain mines off of
the Rug Road. Or the Peloncillos with their fire agate,
Bighorn sheep, and zeolites.

Then there's this found here. You can't get there from
here. Sigh.

Much more here and here.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Day
hikes. We are now up to 536 primary entries!

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. And much more on the canals here 
and here.

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

Then there was the agnostic dyslectic insomniac who stayed
up all night wondering if there was a dog. 

A Gila Day Hikes user emailed me to ask where
the Phillips Mine Road was.

There is a totally trashed "resort" called Seneca
( I think they really meant "cienega" ) that is
just North of Salt River Canyon on US 77 on the
San Carlos Res. Their lake remains useful and
there is a spectacular but seasonal and difficult
to visit ultra high waterfall downstream. Plus
very challenging climbing and canyoneering.

At any rate, the Phillips Mine road starts here and
heads west to an interesting group of mines. A
res recreation permit is required.

33.77331 -110.51662 to its end near 33.78900
-110.54700 where it splits off into a number of
dead end challenging 4WD traces and tracks.

Some of the mines are literally cliffhangers,
and all MUST be assumed highly dangerous.

When they marionette shrimp, how do they tie all
those little strings on?

As noted yesterday, some new discoveries relating to
the Jernigan Canal have recently been found. This
branch of the Mud Springs Canal starts at 32.83115
-109.81729 crosses West Layton Road at 32.83690
-109.81491, swings significantly north to 32.84280
-109.81415 and ends near 32.83616 -109.81514.

Maintaining a required grade in exceptionally hostile
terrain suggests world class engineering.

It has a possible enigmatic branch dumping into a
wash. Along with a strange possible dam structure
or aqueduct of indeterminate age near 32.83898
-109.81415

It is on state land and is proximately two  miles long.
Portions are quire easy to each, while others remain
unknown and unexplored. Estimated age is 1350 CE.

Hallmarks include a possible headgate, a significant
hanging portion, three (!) U-turns, trees mid channel,
a well defined end use area, a French drain, an
associated ruin, and a counterflow wash crossing.

An older set of field notes in need of revision can be
found here, while some of the more recent photos are
found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
here, and here.

Three short segments remain unknown and possibly
unknowable. Despite extensive visitation.

We are working on making a nearly complete USB
based set of all the hanging canal resources. Please
email me if you want to get in ahead of the hoarders.

Much more here and here. Your participation in this
world class research is welcome. We especially need
drone operators and GPS aware gonzo hikers.

Managed to find a key missing portion of the Jernigan
Canal. It likely runs from 32.83115 -109.81729 to
32.83616 -109.81514.

Sort of. The problem is that it pretty much looks like
a plain old sandy wash. But (1) it is exactly where it
should be, (2) has proper slope, (3) areas "protected"
by trees definitely look more canal like. (4) a similar
and proven reach can be found further north. (5) it
is straight, uniform width, unbraded and long reach
consistent. And (6) nothing else nearby looks remotely
suggestive.

The original might in fact have adapted an existing
natural wash. This example photo is less than stunning.

Much more here and here. Your participation in this
world class research is welcome. We especially need
drone operators and GPS aware gonzo hikers.

There appear to be four "flavors" of prehistoric canals
in the Gila Valley...

Classic low level riverine canals similar to
the Hohokam versions in Phoenix.

"Hanging" mountain stream bajada canals
highly uniquely engineered and apparently
entirely locally developed in the Gila Valley.

Largely historic artesian sourced canals that
were more than likely to have seen extensive
prehistoric use.

A "hybrid" Bandelier canal that appears to
have been artesian lake sourced but ultimately
driven by underground Mt. Graham snowmelt.

Much more here and here. Your participation in this
world class research is welcome. We especially need
drone operators and GPS aware gonzo hikers.

There is more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline than there is
in a gallon of liquid hydrogen.

More hydrogen ludicrosities here.

If you use the Insert Hyperlink pulldown, then any URL
that has proper %20's in it will get entered correctly.

BUT - If you use the "normal" ctrl-F3 Link box, then
any URL that has proper %20's in it will auto substitute
"real" spaces and generate validation errors!

The obvious rule is to use Insert Hyperlink any time your
links demand $20's.

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

And we shortly hope to have a similar USB newly released
on our Bajada Hanging Canals. Please email me if you want
to get in ahead of the hoarders.

Our new Gila Hikes is now live and is fully CSS compliant
along with better nav and improved layout!

Please report any suggestions, issues, or comments.

Making our older Gila Hikes paper fully CSS and HTML5
compatible and improving its nav and appearance is taking
a lot longer than I expected. Many hundreds of URL's
still need adjustment to work around the CSS "no spaces
in URL's" rule.

This is our third most popular download, behind only our
already CSS compatibilized home page and this What's New?

Meanwhile, you can sample the new code and monitor our
progress here. Please report any comments and issues.

In response to an ever diminishing groundswill of popular
demand, here is an upload of my one and only patent.

Recent Nebraska research seems to demonstrate that
framing your patent and placing it on an east facing wall
eliminates outright or significantly reduces the severity
of walrus attacks.

And here is more on what I think of patents and patenting
in general.

One of my most fiendish columns anytime ever was
A painless way to Scam a Student Paper.

Twelve of the topics are absolutely guaranteed to get
you an instant "A".  But one of them gets you an "F".

But which?

More fiendishness here.

There had to be a cache to it.

I was getting these infuriating "missed the last change"
updates. Much of the problem was traced to a hidden
cache in Filezilla. Which normally dramatically speeds up
the reuse of a previous listing.

The cache only lasts session only, so your workaround
is to always reload Filezilla each and every time during
critical rework.

Other cache problems can happen in different programs.
In Chrome, check "tripledot" history every now and then
to get rid of the usual suspects. The "show source" click
box here may also raise cache issues.

A good policy is to reboot often during critical rework.

An impressive map of the Heliograph stations can
be found here.

Similar stuff here.

Someone asked me when my YouTube Video was made.
I'll answer here because of an email response issue.

I'm no longer sure of the exact dates, but it likely was
winter of 1990. It was produced in Showlow AZ by Boyd
Baron of Rodeo Video and done in Betamax, the best
high end consumer format available at the time.

An epsilon minus forgot to promote the shooting,
so it was made with only three people in the audience!

Later, an entire English class was hijacked and conned
into showing interest in what they did not have even the
faintest clue over.

Related info here and here.

Speaking of secret Arizona insider stuff, there's this (!)

Sadly, you can't get there from here, and access is
strictly limited to the most gonzo of rope and swim
qualified canyoneering teams.

Found near  33.25668 -111.02144. And, of course, to
find any GPS thingy anywhere, use Acme Mapper.

Some less challenging things to do here and here.

While by far the biggest and most utterly spectacularly
engineered best Mount Graham secret involves are our
Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canals, the over-a-mile-height-
difference, seven mile long lumber tramway going from
Columbine to Pima would seem to qualify as a solid second.

Here are our key papers...

https://www.tinaja.com/glib/tramshow.pdf
https://www.tinaja.com/glib/gramtram.pdf
https://www.tinaja.com/glib/tramhist.pdf

And more details appear in our Little Known Gila Hikes
story or as entries in our Gila Dayhikes web page entries #06,
#93, #105, #140, #177, #198, #205, #251, #282, #295, #300,
#329, and #476.

The tramway only lasted a year and thus would appear to
have been an abysmal failure. Very little remains today, while
much of it remains very difficult access.

Easiest to view and find is the first tension station found at   
N 32.80700 W 109.88106 and Detailed as Gila Hike #06. 
Minimal 4WD required.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes.
We are now up to 530 primary entries!

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. And much
more on the canals here and here.

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

Today's gonzo "Holy Shit!" image can be found here.
With a few more details here.

Here and Here are our two latest images of the Jernigan
Prehistoric Bajada Hanging canal.

It seems there are 400 or so feet of compatible terrain
between the two. That, after many trips, does not show
the slightest evidence of the two being linked.

But Ockham's Razor makes the two being one in the
same highly likely.

More on Jernigan here and other canals here and here.

Your participation in this genuine world class research
is sorely needed.

Whenever you "almost" have a technological solution, or
"almost" have gotten your research completed, there is a
tenancy to go full speed ahead anyway.

Which will "almost" always will cost you bunches in the
long run.

Make sure that what you need to continue gets fully
 completed before committing yourself to stuff that may
prove expensive or embarrassing when ( not if ) things
inevitably go wrong.

go wrong.
go wrong.
GO WRONG!

The problem of unwanted email spam has been eliminated
completely with today's long awaited passage of House
Bill 27-234. Which places a tax on anyone admitting to
receiving any unwanted email. Initially 35 cents per email
on a sliding scale up to $4.37 in June of 2021.

Because it would place an unfair burden on the spammers
themselves and because of ISP considerations, the tax
was placed on the sendee rather than the sender. The
number of admitted unwanted emails is now expected to
shortly and dramatically drop.

Thus eliminating unwanted reported spam once and for all.
Additional details can be found here.

Our >projection of a possible Central Dump Pond canal may
have been wildly premature. Especially since yesterday's
Jernigan extensions cross an apparent trail bike route at
right angles. Good old orthogonal.

We have surprisingly few "not even wrong" canal misses,
but I prefer to keep them in the active lists to record
them. And thus limit possible future explorations.

Likely loosers possibly include...

4. JAC1 -
Lower Jacobson Hints N 32.67671 W 109.77610

12. RPC1 -
Roper Lake Canal N 32.75567 W 109.70885

47. LMT1 -
Lower Mud Trace N 32.80803 W 109.84448

57. MR1-
Mystery Reach N 32.81793 W 109.90207

59. NWD1 -
Nuttall Watershed Diversion N 32.77471 W 109.95411

64. PRM1 -
P Ranch Enigma at 32.61817 -109.72829

76. TALW2 -
Tailwater2 Canal area at 32.83987 -109.91578

79. LPZ1
Lopez Canal area at 32.82141 -109.76650

83. DVM1 -
Deep Vee Mystery area at 32.81888-109.76930

91. CDC1 -
Central Dump Pond area at 32.84438 -109.81619

With a more credible list here and here. And more on the
prehistoric bajada hanging canals here, here, and here.

Managed to find a few hundred feet more of the Jernigan
Canal. With a map here and new photos here, here, and here.

There are still three gaps, but the general route has now been
reasonably defined. An earlier set of field notes can be found
here and here.

Unique characteristics of this particular Bajada Hanging Canal
include its three (!) major "U" turns, a counterflow portion where
it crosses a wash, and a large Mesquite tree mid channel. Unlike
many canal candidates, Jernigan has both a well defined source
and destination.

Besides being otherwise part of a world class unique complex.
Preservation and engineering quality varies from exceptional
to missing entirely.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes.
We are now up to 525 primary entries!

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. And much
more on the canals here and here.

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

An Open Archaeology Search Engine can be found here.

This free site gives you instant conversion between legal
land description, lat & lon, GPS and meridians.

The worst nightmare of any Southwestern Art Gallery: 
A De Grazia macramé howling coyote.

In teal.

More eBay help here.

A reminder that there is an absolutely outstanding collection of
radio, television, and other technical reprints can be found at 
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/

Of particular interest are the tech lab sources such as the
RCA Review, Bell Laboratories Record, Tele Tech, and
such. Amazingly, the content keeps expanding. Many of
the .PDF files are fully searchable. 

They also have backup copies of many of my free eBooks.

Watch out for the cliff!
        What CLIFFFFFfffffffff?

Watch out for the ping pong ball!
         What ping pong gloulckkk?

Watch our for the ladder!
         What ladder dedadder dedadder dedadder?

Watch out for the revolving door!
         What revolving door .. ing door .. ing door?

Curiously, there does not seem to be the faintest hint
of these on the web.

I'd like to try and find the rest of these and give them
a long missing home on the web. Please email me
with your candidates and suggestions.

It is always darkest just before it gets completely black.

We long ago posted a PostScript simulation of the "Gambler's
Ruin" in our Tech Musings column #144. I never did get around
to split out the actual code, but you can easily extract it from
figure 5, save it as a .psl file and then send it to your Acrobat
Distiller or GhostScript.

Suppose you and I start with ten coins each and run a "fair"
and vig free coin flipping game till somebody has all the coins.
Who wins? On the average, you would reasonably expect to
win half of the time.

Now, we will make a seemingly minor and innocuous change.
The house starts with 100 coins and the mark has only 10.
Now who wins? Surprisingly, the mark now wins less than
ten percent of the time!

If the house starts with 10,000 coins, the mark never wins!
At least not so as you’d ever notice. Yes, the mark may
temporarily get way ahead, but they never win!

The point being that any mark who bets against everything
that can be gambled on is absolutely certain to lose big time.

This model plays out two million games. Every thousand games,
your mark’s winnings are reported to your PS log file as a
percentage. You can easily change each side’s coin starts or
the number of games.

BTW, the term "mark"comes from the carnival midway. Where
any losing sucker got patted on the back with chalk.

More Tech Musings here, more PostScript here, a collection
of .psl procs here, and the main .psl catalog here.

How to spot an extroverted engineer...

They stare at your shoes, rather than their own.

Some neat and off-the-wall stuff to play with include
this Fibonacci's Sunflower and this Sierpinski Triangle.

The latter of which can be found as sourcecode here
and as a demo here.

Or for some really weird marbelous stacks of pancakes
that do not even remotely look like they were done on
a computer, you can start here.

These open a whole new concept of non-self-similar or
"self-dissimilar" replications. All done with astoundingly
few bytes of code! An instant master's thesis.

Much more on PostScript here, a classic video here,
its reference manual here, and great heaping bunches
more items crammed into this USB.

The Windows 10 Powershell is an extremely interesting and
useful scripting tool.

Here is how to use it to extract the contents of a directory for
a textfile or printing...

1. Select target directory and open it.
2. Do a shift then mouse rightclick.
3. Click on Open Powershell Window.
4. Enter dir after the > prompt
5. Select lines of interest by click and drag
6. Enter control-c
7. control-x save to Wordpad or elsewhere.

If you are just after filenames, delete any other columns.
Save as any other textfile. Print as any textfile.

Alternately, you can do a dir > thisdirectoryfilename.txt
as step 4 and it will create and store a new file for you.

The directory does have to be in its list or other text mode.

A reminder that this Xylophone Duet is eminently watchable,
while its hard to find original source can be found here.

And that this "must review" related web resource usually 
has well over one million daily changing entries.

Here are some possible defenses against adblockers
adversely impacting your website...

1. Do not use ANY third party ad placement!

2. Locally host any and all ad src= requests.

3. ALWAYS be in TOTAL personal ad control.

4. Make sure ALL your src= ad requests have NO
    obvious ad keywords or big player names. Any
    /ads/  subdirectories are clearly a no-no. Instead,
    substitute a /cute_cats_in_the_sink/ subdirectory.
    And, of course, name your ads Puss, Kitty, etc.

5. Ask what keywords would go into your phrase
    src search list IF you were writing an ad blocker.

6. Make sure any JavaScript ad placement aides
   have no obvious ad keywords or comment hints.

7. Make sure there are no "red flag" ad warnings
   anytime a user selects "view page source".

8. Make sure no ad in any manner interferes with
   your user's flowing website access.

9. Use a banner rotator to make a game out of
    repeated refreshing. Try it.

10. Make sure all ads are unlikely to piss off any
    viewer in any way at any time.

Managed to verify that the Tripp Canal on West Peak
is real and is markedly self-similar to nearly all of the
more northeasterly prehistoric bajada hanging canals.

The canal is about 2 miles or 3 kilometers long and
sources at a major corral on the West Peak Road at
32.80368 -110.05083, does an actual road crossing
near 32.81143 -110.04589, then routes along the
highest available terrain in the vicinity of 32.81280
-110.03848, and apparently delivered water to a pair of
end user fields in Tunnel Canyon near 32.81608
-110.02228. Minor braiding appears evident.

A partial map can be found here with a typical reach
here.

The canal is somewhat less in cross section than
most, being something like half a meter across and
only a few centimeters deep.

Features include a significant hanging portion,
fairly well defined edge spoil banks, an apparent
watershed crossing, routings along the highest
of local terrain, a possible steep delivery section,
possible use of partial natural channels, and some
delivery to what are now apparent tanks.

It is somewhat higher and drier than most, which
suggests climatic conditions possibly much wetter
than today. It is also the westernmost known
canal and seems to "close the loop" with canals
now found on nearly every aspect "all the way
around" the Grahams.

Construction is to obviously prehistoric standards
and needs. While clearly in cow country, there is
no way in hell this is in any way, shape, or form
a cow path. Nor any evidence of historic needs or
reuse being met.

Much more on our hanging canals here.
Field mice are sorely needed.

There is a new speed reading ap that can let you read
War and Peace in twelve minutes!

It's about Russia.

Once again, a summary of many of our currently available
free eBooks...

Apple Assembly Cookbook I 
Apple Assembly Cookbook II 
Applewriter Cookbook 
Cheap Video Cookbook 
Enhancing your Apple II Volume I
Enhancing your Apple II Volume II 
Incredible Secret Money Machine 
Machine Language Programming Cookbook I 
Machine Language Programming Cookbook II 
RTL Cookbook 
Son of Cheap Video 
TTL Cookbook   
TV Typewriter Cookbook

We also have these "Director's Cut" demos of our 
"Linotype Era" eBook restoration services...

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

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

And this "one each of everything" USB...

Lancaster Classics USB Library

But we still could very much use your help in finding
new or improved scans of...

Micro Cookbook I ( autographed copy here )
CMOS Cookbook ( regular copy here )
Active Filter Cookbook ( autographed copy here )

Manual De Circuitos Integrados TTL
( Also the Chinese TTL Cookbook )

Plus hard to find Electronics 41:3 with my RTL story in it.

Google Earth has recently suggested a Tripp Canyon
Canal in the western Grahams that still remains field 
unverified. If valid, it would rather strongly suggest 
prehistoric climatic conditions significantly wetter 
than today.

The canal is long and linear and seems to have just
exactly the right slope. But a today credible water
source is less than apparent.

Your help as a field mouse is needed to determine
if this is real and where its water came from.
Some end field destinations would also be nice.

BTW, the way you get Google Earth to tilt is to use
the mouse roller in windows, or else shift-downarrow
on a Mac.

Much more on the spectacular prehistoric bajada
hanging canals here and here.

Our present bajada hanging canal docs on researchgate 
now do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal ** 
Cluffnw Canal   **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex ** 
Henry Canal **
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 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area*

And many of the rest of the gang appear here.
Or are mentioned in passing here or earlier.  

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and
a recent supplement here. New additions are are first
likely to appear here.

Leave it to the Military to point out to me via email
that a Epiphany is usually overwhelmingly positive,
while a "Holy Shit Moment" can end up either
very bad or very good.

Some personal examples...

Way back when I was first developing our
curvetracing routines, I decided to use
Mickey Mouse as a subject. Halfway
in the development process, about 2:15
AM, I entered ONE wrong coordinate.
And Mickey instantly got an appropriate
sized and positioned erection! Sorry, but
for obvious reasons, code ( with or without )
is not available.

I witnessed a tanker rollover in Phoenix 
that created the usual movie-style fifty
foot fireball. In the length of time it took
to say "Holy Shit", the fireball blew itself
out, leaving the rest of the zillion gallons
of diesel fuel below its flash point. 

For decades I had been finding tantalizing
hints that Magic Sinewaves were in fact 
real. Sure enough, at 3:15 AM a waveform
popped up with all low harmonics precisely
zero. The Holy Grail was found! 

Finding a continuance of the prehistoric Allen
Canal in an unexpected place, superb 
preservation, and world class size was a 
recent example. 

And I named an earlier discovery the HS Canal
because it was literally a lifetime find.

But the most recent "Holy Shit Moment" was
realizing exactly WHY the prehistoric obsession with 
hanging canals halfway up the sides of mesas:
This made their slope INDEPENDENT of the terrain!
And, factoring in the available technology, makes
the LBT look like a Tinkertoy set.

Managed to re-find the "lost" Blue Ponds Canal.
It is right where it always was, about 150 feet
south and 350 feet east of the Lower Frye road
crossing fence a mile south of the big tank..

This is believed to be part of the Freeman Prehistoric
Bajada Hanging canal, which is in turn is believed
to be part of a gonzo "supercanal" that involves the
unproven Upper Frye watershed crossing, various
32.78070 -109.77915mid Frye Mesa routes, the spectacular HS Canal,
and the equally spectacular Lower Frye Construct.

Newly discovered are some apparent end use fields
at 32.78087 -109.77840 and shown here. Typical  
canal photos can be seen here and here.

The Blue Ponds Canal was historically modified by
adding a headgate to allow "switching" between
the No Name pond and the Blue Pond. Located
at and shown here and here.

Since there is no evidence of historic Lower Frye
Construct water use, it is believed that a pipeline was
redirected to supply this short canal portion. Fragments
of long broken pipelines are nearby. But any actual
connection still remains enigmatic.

Note that a non-leaking pipeline can deliver water
uphill given enough initial head. As per the usual
0.434 PSI per foot of initial height. Provided the
flow is unrestricted. Uphill flow in an open canal is
normally not possible.

Your assistance as a field mouse is requested in
(1) Finding the missing route between the Blue
Ponds Canal and the Lower Frye Construct; and
(2) Showing how historic water ended up by being
redirected into the Blue Ponds Canal.

The overwhelming amount of Mount Graham runoff
is clearly to the northeast via a dozen riparian canyons
These include Veech, Jacobson, Marijilda, Deadman,
Frye, Spring, Ash, Shingle Mill, Nuttall, Carter, North
Taylor, and Tripp.

But a reasonable question might be if any more of
the prehistoric bajada hanging canals exist on any
of its other slopes.

The easternmost known riparian canyon is Veech
and you can find its field notes here. Just south
of Veech, "lost" but somewhere around  32.61416
-109.72804  is a short and deep Vee construct that
may or may not end up canal related and may or
may not have been prehistoric. Stockton Pass Wash
would seem likely as a prehistoric water resource.

Other field notes are here and here..

Near the southeastern mountain slope is Hog Canyon
with a spring and a short canal-like run at 32.55383
-109.76428 This remains unexplored but appears
prehistorically credible.

Grant Creek with its southern runoff has a number
of small canals on the O-BAR-O Ranch just east
of Fort Grant. One canal branch crosses Route 266 at
32.58889 -109.96761

These remain largely unstudied but clearly would
seem to be compatible with prehistoric standards.

The southwestern Grahams are largely dry and only offer
a few smaller springs that would seem unlikely to have
produced significant canals.

Google Earth has recently suggested a Tripp Canyon
Canal in the western Grahams that has now been field
verified. Its characteristics are remarkably similar
to the more eastern examples.

A believed artesian canal first observed by Bandelier
northwest of the Grahams at 32.94551 -109.91158 does
not initially appear to be directly Mount Graham water
sourced. But ultimately was possibly snowmelt driven.

Closing the loop is a newly discovered and apparently
prehistoric canal in North Taylor Canyon at 32.81448
-109.97440 and just west of the UFO Fish Fillets.

A possible prehistoric hanging canal has been newly
observed in the North Taylor Canyon area from
32.81448 -109.97440 to 32.81564 -109.97368 and
can be traced on Acme Mapper for a mile or so.

Photos can be found here and here. As the ground
truth appears both subtle and of a relatively low
quality, third party verification is still needed.

Field mice are welcome to participate.

This find is just west of the UFO Fish Fillets and
would seem to add credibility to their prehistoric
origins. In addition, the presence of this canal
would seem to imply a wetter climate than today.

The area also has extensive CCC involvement, often
in a highly atypical manner. Artifact age separation
presently appears to be a major problem.

More on the fish fillets here.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes.
We are now up to 522 primary entries!

The latest of which include some artesian resources
here, here, and here, additional hanging canal finds,
and volcanic vent and obsidian field details. Plus
a superb Portal B&B.

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.

Can't put one over on her. Nosiree.

Little old lady to her companion at a recent live auction...
Why, that man has been talking all morning!

Here's a link to an "adequate supply" of Pittsburgh Streetcar Photos

WARNING: Attempting to view all of these in one session will result
in yunz guys pronouncing "beer" as "airn". Or makin a mill outta a
chopaam sammitch and Olde Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale in Sliberty.

Fortunately, in regards to this matter, a desert rat like me is immune.
Skooze me while I redd up the website.

Managed to find some of Marcia Swampfelder's "lost"
letters responses...

We were intrigued with the high efficiency solar
cell described in the April Hobby Scene. Because
the corresponding ketone ( 3,7- dimethylpentadecan -
2 -one ) is available in large quantities, at least in the
midwest, by ether extraction from the saliva of
pregnant sows, this seemed like the logical starting
point. Reduction of the ketone with sodium borohydride
gave the alcohol that, upon treatment with propionyl
chloride in pyridine, gave the desired propionate ester in
good yield. The solar cell was then constructed pretty
much as described, except that a glass spray bottle could
not be used to apply the compound to the sand. This is
because the chemical also reacts with the silica in the
glass and the resulting deoxygenation process is violent.
A plastic bottle, however, works quite well. The cell
actually is more efficient than the one described,by
providing about 87% conversion. -Dr. C. T. C.Creedy
and co- workers, Charles F. Kettering Research
Laboratory, Yellow Springs, OH.

So close. So very close. But he still did not get it. The magic
chemical had been recently published in Science as the sex
pheromone of the pine sawfly. Now, you would normally
use this glop in picoliter quantities, but you wouldn't want
to release all of it at once, instead time delivering it from
wax over half a year or so. Spraying two liters instead
would have the unintended side effect of immediately
attracting every horny male pine sawfly from, perhaps, a
one hundred mile radius.

More letters...

You stated that car radio frequency drift was due to
the Doppler effect and that the problem should be
corrected with a phase locked loop. My God, tell the
fool to slow down! For an audible Doppler shift to
occur in the commercial AM band  ( let's say 5 Hz, to
be conservative ), this person would have to be driving
faster than 5000 mph. By helping him to keep his
radio tuned, you are aiding and abetting this reckless
and unlawful operation of a motor vehicle.- Walter Satre,
Chairman, Electrical & Electronics Technology Dept.,
Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, VT.

In discussing the well known effect of radiation pressure
from car stereo speakers in the April Hobby Scene,
Marcia Swampfelder overlooked the most important
application of them all: swinging the speakers forward to
assist in braking. Such dynamic air braking does not
wear down the tires and has been used effectively for
years in fire engines. When close to the fire, the driver
swings his siren around to hasten the stop. You can
determine the precise moment when he does this from
the change in pitch, caused by the Doppler effect,
provided you are not close to the fire. -Harry E. Stockman,
Arlington, MA.

Particularly intriguing was the problem of working with
MOS circuitry. The geomagnetic aspect is indeed a stickler!
However, after spending considerable time wrestling with
this dilemma, I believe I have come up with a solution. If
the device is housed in a spherical silicate material (now
available at your local quarry) and if it can be kept in motion
(via pushing, kicking, etc.), the result will be a device which
cannot accumulate any MOS difficulties. (P.S. The column
was outstanding!)

In the "April Hobby Scene," you have casually dropped
a scientific bombshell! Marcia Swampfelder describes a
device called the "in situ" solar cell. This story, if true,
is the economic equivalent of "How to Turn Sand Into
Gold for a Few Dollars and a Day's Work." In one fell
swoop, it obsoletes 65 million dollars worth of 1977
ERDA contracts for solar cell research. However, it has
a certain hoax like quality to it. I'm no chemist, but after
diagramming the molecule for the long named reactive
agent described, I get something that looks a lot like  
common motor oil.-Clyde R. Smith, Fort Worth, TX.

Many thanks to American Radio History for their help
in this restoration.

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

The latest update to our Henry Prehistoric Bajada
Hanging canals can be found here with its sourcecode here.

Also will be newly uploaded to  Researchgate. Where it
joins 22 previously updated listings.

Acme Mapper has just revealed a possible prehistoric canal
adjacent to the UFO Fish Fillets!

The situation is, to say the least, confused because of many
dozens of CCC projects also in the immediate area.

More on the canals here. and on ResearchGate.
Field mice urgently needed here.

A reminder that we have a one-each-of-everything USB
of all our Lancaster Classics available here.

Newly revised as version 1.05. Nearly 3 Gigs of code!

Their are some subtle features in HP's and others
"all in one" printer-copier-fax-scanners such as the
8600.

It turns our there is a non-obvious USB "walk-in"
connector lower left, along with a Photo Memory
Card input.

This means you can directly scan from hard copy
to USB in your choice of .PDF, JPG, or other formats.
You can also print directly from USB to paper.

Normal JPG resolution is 600 DPI. Files usually
end up in a HP Scans folder on the USB. And no
PC is actually required!

The only slight negative is the tiny keyboard. But it
is easy enough to rename later on another pc.

Oh yeah, their depth of field is also not all that great.
I prefer a minimum depth of field of three feet.

The latest update to our Golf Course Prehistoric Bajada
Hanging canals can be found here with its sourcecode here.

Also has been newly uploaded to Researchgate. Where it
joins 22 previously updated listings.

Here, here, and here are three of the latest artesian
canal photos. With their locations here. These are
titled ARTES2A, ARTES2B, and ARTES2C.

It is not yet clear whether these have Bajada Hanging
Canal prehistoric origins. They certainly have "prehistoric
class" sizes and construction techniques.

And their purpose as a new historic project is not at all
apparent, compared to the much easier "dig out an old ditch".

These still flow to this day, but clearly are showing drought
stress. While the majority of the bajada canals are mountain
stream sourced, something around fifteen to nineteen
percent of them appear to be artesian related.

Enough Prehistoric Hanging Bajada Canal bits and pieces
have now been field verified to suggest the possibility of
a fully integrated, multi sourced and multi destinated
Gonzo Supercanal of astounding length and complexity.

Such a supercanal would source from a yet unproven
Upper Frye Creek watershed crossing over and into
a presumed large spring in Spring Canyon, combined
with seasonal Spring Canyon runoff.

A similar watershed crossing has been verified in the
nearby Mud Springs canal, and a Forest Service pipeline
still uses a variant on these Spring Canyon sources.

Water would then be selectively routed down the
natural Spring Canyon drainage to become the Allen
Canal, or else routed down upper Frye Mesa to a
ponding area where it would be split into the Robinson
Canal and the spectacular HS Canal. The Robinson
Canal ( aka the historic "Robinson Ditch" ) might in
turn be an unproven source for the Reay Canal.

Meanwhile, the HS canal reach would continue down
Frye Creek proper, either as a natural watercourse
or a presently unknown canal structure. In the vicinity
of the Deadman road turnoff, the route would be split
into a western reach presently believed to underlie a
historic pipeline, and an eastern reach believed to
form the Lower Frye Construct.

This western branch would then become the Riggs
Braidings and proceed northward through the gap
formed by Riggs Canyon to eventually become
the Golf Course Canal. Beyond a rich habitation
area, the Golf Course Canal might or might not
become the Tailwater canal, followed further north
by the Reay Canal.

Returning to the Lower Frye Construct, an unproven
routing is postulated to eventually connect with the
historic Blue Ponds canal, which is presently believed
to be a "steal the plans" adaption of a portion of
the Freeman Canal.

Key issues in proving the Gonzo Supercanal would
involve proving the Frye watershed crossing, verifying
the Golf Course portions presumed underlying the
Frye Pipeline and the Riggs gap, strengthening evidence
of a routing between the HS Canal and the Lower Frye
Construct, and verifying continuity between Lower Frye
and Blue Ponds.

Many more details on the known status of these canals
is found here and on Researchgate. Along with a key
summary here.

Field mice and drone operators are urgently needed.

An intermittent muffled yowling inside a laser printer can
often be cured by opening the lid and letting the cat out.

Links to A Gila Valley Bajada Hanging Canal Directory
can be found here. It is also on Researchgate.

But I thought we'd make a few additions and corrections
here. Firstoff, we will add this to our GuruGrams as #125.

Virtually all of the bajada historic canals were "steal the
plans" or "borrow the blueprints" ripoffs of their prehistoric
originals. In some cases, the proof is very strong. And,
at least in come cases - overwhelming.

 It is obviously much easier to "dig out an old ditch" than it is
to engineer a complete new canal system from scratch.
Especially if all the good canal routes were already taken.

A possible big exception: Evidence is accumulating that the
Roper Lake Canal is in fact modern without a historic or
prehistoric presence. It turns out Roper Lake did not even
exist until the late 1960's. It seems orthogonal to the prehistoric
Henry's Canal and is largely cardinal oriented. Aggregate
appears newer and portions are excessively steep for a mud
original. Present still unverified thinking is...

12. RPC1 - Roper Canal N 32.75567 W 109.70885 to
                   32.74518 -109.74200. Modern feeder
                    to Roper Lake, presently presumed without
                    historic or prehistoric origins

Meanwhile, here are a few list additions...

83. DVM1 - Deep Vee Mystery. Loosely associated with
                     the Reay Canal, it is not yet even clear. Can be
                     found somewhere near 32.81888 -109.76930

84. HFD1 - Henry's Fields. Apparent intermediate destination
                    of Henry's Canal at 32.74319 -109.72803 Includes a
                    ponding area seemingly comparable to TB Ponding.

85. HTR1 - Historic Thunderbird Rework at 32.74350 -109.73386
                     Concrete and rebar deployment would seem to depend
                     on Prehistoric sources for its water access.  

86. GSC1 - Gonzo Supercanal Integrated System - Possible but still
                    unproven multi source, multi destination fully integrated
                    system that combines Upper Frye watershed diversion,
                    Spring Canyon, Allen Canal, Upper Frye Complex,
                    Robinson, Reay, HS Canal, a historical pipeline, Riggs
                    Braidings, Golf Course, Tailwater, Lower Frye Construct,
                    Blue Ponds, and Freeman Canals into a single managed
                    and possibly contemporaneous entity of spectacular length
                    and engineering .

87. CTW1 - Cottontail Artesian Canal - Possible unproven artesian
                    resource. Partially cardinal.

88. LFH1 - Lower Frye Historic Pipeline - Possibly overlies the
                   Prehistoric Golf Course Canal. Believed to be the
                   most credible route but remains unproven. A quite
                  similar overlay is on the Deadman Canal takein route.

89. UFF1 - UFO Fish Fillets Canal - There is apparently a canal in
                  the neighborhood of the UFO Fish Filers. They now
                  appear to further strengthen each other's prehistory.

90. TRP1 - Tripp Canyon Canal - Has recently been suggested
                   by Google Earth but still demands field verification.
                   Might imply a much wetter prehistoric climate.

91. CDC1 - Central Dump Canal - Still needs verification, but
                    seems to be an extension of the Jernigan and Mud
                    Springs complex. ( Became a discredited trail bike route.)

92. SJR1 - San Jose Riverine- An obvious riverine canal of apparent
                   lower engineering standards appears to have a hanging
                   portion.

January 8, 2018

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Here is an interesting approach to product liability notices.
With many more at http://www.engrish.com/

Meanwhile, a deli owner was unable to collect on his aviary
bill, so they had to take a tern for the wurst.

Well, maybe just the punch lines...

"The koala tea of Mercy is not strained".
"The thong has ended, but the malady lingers on".
"Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?"
"Its a Hickory Daiquiri, Doc."
"Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear".
"Poncho Villa" is an emergency rain shelter for NM hikers.
"It's a knick knack, Patti Whack. Give the frog a loan".
"Its the only trick I know, Sis."
"People in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones"
"Couldn't hit the barn side of a broad"
Geologists recognize sedentary, metaphoric, and ingeneous rocks.
"Old MacDonald Farm computer interface is now an EIE I/O".
"Tarzan stripes forever"
A furry with a syringe on top. 
... handle so long no insect can "Fly above Cayuga's swatter"
"The vet had to charge for the cat scan and the lab tests"
"Crossing a state lion with a gull for immortal porpoises"
"Opporknockity tunes but once."

Plus, of course...

"The sum of the squaw on the hippopotamus hide equals the
   sum of the squaws on the other two hides.

More here. Sort of.

January 6, 2018

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Just added updated our Lower Frye Construct field note
on researchgate.

The other present bajada hanging canal docs now 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*

And many of the rest of the gang appear here. 

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.

Here's a new collection of the most mind blowing and
stunning of our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal
images...

High Lebanon
High Lebanon B/W
Sand Takein
HS Canal ( aka "Holy Shit!" )
Deadman East
Lower Frye Construct

Field mice, ATV drivers, and drone operators needed.

Some of the other stuff that Guru's Lair is into...

Studying spectacular and virtually unknown
Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canals. Whose
engineering is stunningly beyond beyond. The
main link here, a useful summary here, and
ongoing outside posts here.

Having stuff for sale on eBay, mostly very hard
to find surplus electronics and rare collectibles.

A free but US only technical consulting helpline
at (928) 428-4073.

Maintaining a definitive Gila Valley Dayhikes
presence, along with its Lesser Known Denizens.

Offering the classic Lancaster Library on USB.

Being the definitive third party web PostScript resource.

The home of Magic Sinewaves which have negligible low
harmonics. Main page here and calculator here.

Plus fire service training, custom consulting, and caving.
Arizona, of course, has no caves to speak of.

Closed out our 2017 Blog and started this 2018 one.

Here's a few of our published books and related items...

TTL COOKBOOK - Newly an ebook!
Well over a million copies in print. Should be
available at Amazon and technical bookstores.
A very few autographed copies are still available
from Guru's Lair and eBay.

MANUAL DE CIRCUITOS TTL -
Status unknown. Likely very hard to find.

PACIFIC RIM TTL COOKBOOK -
Not even sure anymore which Asian language it was
released in. Status unknown. Likely extinct.

CMOS COOKBOOK-
Approaching a million copies in print. Autographed
copies available from Guru's Lair and eBay.
Also should be available from Amazon

ACTIVE FILTER COOKBOOK-
THE defining reference for the field. Still in print.
Autographed copies available from Guru's Lair and eBay.
Also should be available from Amazon.

RTL COOKBOOK - available as ebook!
Good old number one. Currently available as a free
eBook from Guru's Lair. Amazon usually has new
and used copies.

TV TYPEWRITER COOKBOOK- available as ebook!
The opening shot fired in the personal computer
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Currently available as a free eBook from Guru's Lair.
Amazon usually has new and used copies.

APPLE ASSEMBLY COOKBOOK -
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Restoration Demo is also available. Amazon  has
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MICRO COOKBOOK VOLUME I -
When combined with Volume II, ends up surprisingly
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A very few autographed copies are still available from
Guru's Lair and eBay. Amazon rarely has new and used
copies.

MICRO COOKBOOK VOLUME II -
Currently available as a retitled Volume I and Volume II of
a pair of free eBooks from Guru's Lair. A sample Restoration
Demo is also available. Amazon  sometimes has new and
used copies.

APPLEWRITER COOKBOOK - Newly an ebook!
Insider secrets of the best Apple II word processor.  Out
of print and hard to find. A Director's Cut newly offered
here. Amazon  rarely has new and used book copies.

ALL ABOUT APPLEWRITER -
Rare Call A.P.P.L.E book was a disassembly script that
possibly could be re-excerpted from the AppleWriter Cookbook.
Status unknown. Not sure I still even have a copy.

HEXADECIMAL CHRONICLES -
Book and circular slide rule calculator exclusively for ultra fringe
Apple II machine language programmers. Produced and typeset
largely on a Diablo 630 Daisywheel! Amazon  rarely has new
and used copies.

ENHANCING YOUR APPLE II VOLUME I - new ebook!
Collection of construction projects and programming ploys.
Included the "tearing method" of program disassembly.
Amazon  very rarely has new and used copies. A Director's
Cut of its classic "Tearing Method" can be found here.

ENHANCING YOUR APPLE II VOLUME II - new ebook!
Collection of construction projects and programming ploys.
Included the "vaporlock" field sync technique. Amazon 
sometimes has new and used copies.

CHEAP VIDEO COOKBOOK- Newly an ebook!
Sneaky "Gee whiz" tricks to add ultra low cost video displays
to KIM-1 and similar low end microcomputer trainers.
Amazon  sometimes has new and used copies.

SON OF CHEAP VIDEO- Newly an ebook!
Supplement to the Cheap Video Cookbook covering ultra
low cost video displays. A secondary eBook candidate with
your funding welcome. Amazon  sometimes has new and
used copies, some at outrageous prices.

THE BIG TTL WALL CHART-
Collection of IC data from the TTL Cookbook. Exceptionally
rare and possibly extinct. No eBook plans at present.

THE BIG CMOS WALL CHART-
Collection of IC data from the CMOS Cookbook. Exceptionally
rare and possibly extinct. No eBook plans at present.

BLATANT OPPORTUNIST-
Reprints from Don's Midnight Engineering columns. Once
Book-on-Demand published. Now freely available online as
individual columns.

BOOK-ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING-
The entire concept of low end BOD  publishing largely died
stillborn, owing to the utterly overwhelming advantages of
web distribution. Combined with sanely priced binding
systems and and trimmers never getting available online here.

CAVE CRAWLER'S GAZETTE-
A three year editorial stint for the Central Arizona Grotto.
Very low priority eBook plans at present.

ASK THE GURU I, II, III-
Reprints from Don's Computer Shopper columns. Once
Book-on-Demand published. Now freely available online
as compilations here, here, and here.

HARDWARE HACKER I, II, III, IV -
Reprints from Don's Hardware Hacker columns. Once
Book-on-Demand published. Now freely available online
as compilations here, here, here, and here.

RESOURCE BIN-
A collection of "where to go to get stuff" monthly columns
from Nuts & Volts magazine. Early compilations can be found
found here and here with individual columns available here.

MY THESIS-
One of the first ever developments of low cost analog circuits
to be used for hobby electronics projects. Free copy here.

MY FIRST AND ONLY PATENT -
Can be found here. Good old 3,149,561. And drove home the
utter ludicrosity of the US patent system for virtually all
individuals and small scale startups.

CASE AGAINST PATENTS-
Once Book-on-Demand published compilation of my anti
patent diatribes. Also freely available online as individual
papers.

GILA VALLEY DAY HIKES-
Many hundreds of highly obscure neat places to go and
things  to do in and around the Gila Valley. With the main
free  directory here and images of some of the more obscure
candidates here.

MAGIC SINEWAVES-
Newly discovered obscure math tricks that allow dramatic
low harmonic suppression of digitally generated power
sinewaves for pv panels, power controls, and similar apps.
Find the magic calculator here and lots of support here.

PSEUDOSCIIENCE-
I am very much into disproving such ludicrosities as free
energy, alien abductions, much of cold fusion,antigravity,
UFO's "not even wrong"labwork, perpetual motion, or
outright scams. Find the main resource here and my
special hell reserved for hydrogen here.

POWERPOINT EMULATIONS-
I very strongly feel that Powerpoint is mesmerizingly awful,
so I wrote my own PostScript emulator that complete blows
it away on all counts. A tutorial here and examples here.

POSTSCRIPT SECRETS-
Reprints from Don's Computer Shopper columns. Once
Book-on-Demand published. Now freely available online
as a compilation here.

POSTSCRIPT SHOW AND TELL-
Started out as a flashcard lecture of the underappreciated
wonders of the general purpose PostScript programming
language. Now available as a free web resource.

POSTSCRIPT BEGINNER PROJECTS-
A compendium of projects from our beginning PostScript
community college programming class.

POSTSCRIPT GONZO UTILITIES-
Custom routines that give you exceptional Postscript-as-language
typography, schematics, and great heaping bunches of related stuff.
Find the code here, use guidelines here, and lots of apps here.

VARIOUS OTHER FREE RESOURCES -
Being summarized here, here, and here.

INTRODUCTION TO POSTSCRIPT VIDEO-
Newly improved here.

THE WORST OF MARCIA SWAMPFELDER-
Marcia tended to do my April Fools columns for a number of
years in Popular Electronics and Modern Electronics. The
secrets of how she did the tapioca pudding scene in the cross
genre Godzilla versus the Night  Nurses film classic remains
under strict NDA. A revised and updated free online copy of
Marcia's finest work appears here.

And our very newest...

DON LANCASTER CLASSICS LIBRARY-
A USB crammed full of some 8000+ files spread
over more than 2 Gigs of tight code, along with nearly
a thousand open source and fully unlocked source code
documents. Classics through current. Available from
Guru's Lair and eBay. Newly expanded and revised!

GURUGRAMS-
Published versions of our ongoing projects, papers, and
such have largely been replaced by the GuruGrams on our
Guru's Lair website. Announcements on their availability
can usually be found here and on our similar earlier and
later blogs.

BAJADA HANGING CANAL FIELD NOTES -
A work in progress. See the latest info and updates here.

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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. Ya mean they
are made outta meat?

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.

Updated, expanded, and improved our Gila Day Hikes
library pages.

I'll be presenting an ARA paper on this at U/A Tucson
Saturday January 30th at 2:00 PM. More details here
as they get posted. All are welcome to attend at no charge.

I'll also be doing some eBay papers at Discovery Park
on February 6th. Based on this paper and this one.
In the Jupiter room at 6:30 PM. More details as they
emerge.

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