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Some Cluff NW Canal Preliminary Field Notes has just been
posted here with its sourcecode here.

This seems to be a twice refurbed historical rework of a
prehistoric original.

Present field notes include...

Cluffnw Canal
Smith Canal
Veech Canal
Lefthand Canyon West
Minor Webster Ditch
Freeman Canal
Sand Canal
Tugood Canal

Some of these need further improvement. Eight down, fifty seven
to go. Org.

More Hanging Canals: https://www.tinaja.com/tinsamp1.shtml
New Developments: https://www.tinaja.com/whtnu15.shtml

Once again expanded and updated our Gila Valley 
Dayhikes page. We are now up to 441 main entries,
most of which now include GPS location links.

Please email me with anything I missed or needs
further updating.

RED HORSE TOURS - Free guided tours of the combined wind
and pv facility northwest of Willcox is offered by Mallory Safety
Management Services. Contact Aubyn Avery at (205) 919-7936.

While somewhat obvious as the tallest structures in all of Southern
Arizona, they still do not show up yet on Acme Mapper. Start at the
junction of Warbonnet and Hooker Hot Springs roads. Northeast
of Allen Flat.

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. Figures that 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.

My favorite rule of thumb applies to any Hazmat situation: Hold your
thumb up at arm's length and close one eye. If you can still see the
scene, you are too close.

A reminder that my favorite bed and breakfast of all
time remains the Black Range Lodge, cleverly hidden
in the part of New Mexico that you cannot get to.

Their Kingston Frisbee Festival runs from January 1st
to December 31st this year. And the Percha Creek
Salmon run remains as spectacular as ever.

One other place of interest are Casitas De Gila outside
of Cliff ( Check out their real time planetarium simulator
above the hot tub. And the art gallery. ) 

Some Smith Canal Preliminary Field Notes has just been
posted here with its sourcecode here.

This abandoned historical canal in the Ash Creek area
appears to have indirect evidence of a prehistoric origin,
as do other near to Cluff Ranch.

Present field notes are...

Smith Canal
Veech Canal
Lefthand Canyon West
Minor Webster Ditch
Freeman Canal
Sand Canal
Tugood Canal

Some of these need further improvement. Seven down, fifty eight
to go. Org.

More Hanging Canals: https://www.tinaja.com/tinsamp1.shtml
New Developments: https://www.tinaja.com/whtnu15.shtml

New Developments: https://www.tinaja.com/whtnu15.shtml

Some random reminders of neat stuff:

Its been a while since we mentioned Animusic and its
related hoax. My own hoax stuff here.

As any beginning FFA student could tell you, no way
could this have been John Deere parts. They were not
even green! But, amazingly, Intel took the hoax and
built a real one, using bunches of computers and
paint ball guns at a cost of $160,000. 

Our favorite online weaving store remains Cotton Clouds.
Amazingly, this is likely the only weaving store that
has a prehistoric hanging canal going through the 
middle of it!

And we remain enthused over Fat Cow, our ISP 
provider. They also have a new ultra low cost service.

One of the other eBay items we once did quite well on
were our tinfoil hat liners. These were second only to our
water soluble swimsuits.

These were genuine Cho-seal from Chomerics and we got them
declassified from Holloman Air force Base. Normal cost new was
outrageously expensive.

And they flew on outta here.

As any multiple abductee will gladly tell you, there is an 
important use consideration. The Cho-Sealf material should
go on the inside of the tin foil hat if you want to stop them
from reading your mind. 

And on the outside if you want to keep them from controlling 
your thoughts.

Each layer provides up to 120 decibels of attenuation.

We used the same stuff years ago when we were first exploring
low cost keyboards.

I "sort of" have a blog which you are reading here.

The name changes yearly such as whtnu97.sthml,
through whtnu16.shtm and beyond. These are easily
reached by clicking through the green ?NEW? on our
home page.

Use of our deeplink clickthrough lets you access any
specific date entry rather than having to sort through
an entire year.

The respond clickthrough goes through the usual email links.

This, of course, is my blog and I edit any and all third party
responses in any manner I damn well please. But all
comments are certainly welcome and all are carefully
read.

Drawing a cubic spline through four points can be tricky
as this tutorial shows us.

Actually, an infinite number of cubic splines can be drawn
through four points. Finding the "best" curve involves
some horrible elliptic function math, so the above tutorial
uses a sneaky simplified approximation instead.

An additional tutorial here And much more on cubic splines
here.

Just realized my Gonzo.ps utilities were pretty much buried
on my website. Added an additional clickthru here.

And the tutorial remains here.

Managed to buy a copy of Place Magazine and hope to
have my caving story reprint up soon.

Other classic reprints can be found here.

There's a shiny new pv installation just down the street.
I seem to be appalled by the apparent utter lack of
sane economics involved.

In Arizona, we can assume 1000 peak watts per square
meter incoming, and a dime per kilowatt hour is places
like this one that already has utility power available.

While arguable, I feel that present dimes and present
kilowatt hours are largely interchangeable energy or
economic commodities. You verify this every time you
look at your nearest gas station sign or power bill.

The individual panels seem somewhat shy of a square
meter and have dead areas. It seems reasonable to
me to assume a 10 percent efficiency at the output
of the inverter. Combined, 100 watts per fixed
orientation panel on a peak clear day seems more
than reasonable. Assuming the panels are cleaned
often enough..

There are five panels per strip, six ranks, and
two structures that suggest 6000 watts at noon
on a good day. The usual production assumption
is five kilowatt hours per day per peak kilowatt hour.

This gives us 30 kilowatt hours per day worth $3.00
per day incoming energy income. Using this amortization
schedule, and ten percent interest for ten years ( this
system is certain to be obsolete far earlier ), you can
finance up to $7570 for the project to break even.

Or about one half or less of an average household
needs.

Which, of course, would be in no manner renewable
nor sustainable. Wait - it gets worse. The system
was almost certainly subsidized or grant funded
in some manner.

Any subsidy has a horrific "iceberg" hidden cost in
that the true energy and dollars going in plus admin
will almost always grossly exceed the net benefit.

I'd guess 5 dollars have to go into creating a
subsidy to get 1 dollar back. Thus. there would
seem to be a 5:1 net energy penalty for any subsidy
use at all.

Another obvious problem is that the system uses
off the shelf electrics and synchronous inverters.
Whose prices and sub-optimal installations clearly
far exceed the "learning curve" economics of scale
needed to make net energy pv feasible.

Eventually, of course, each panel should have its
own synchronous inverter, possibly adding something
like four dollars to the beyond-learning-curve cost.

Yes, we are ridiculously closer to net energy pv
than we ever have been. But the beast down
the street sure looks like a gasoline destroying
net energy sink to me.

Much more on energy topics here, and a
monthly report of how far we have to go to reach
the magic net energy number of a quarter per
peak panel watt here.

Once again expanded and updated our Gila Valley 
Dayhikes page. We are now up to 438 main entries,
most of which now include GPS location links.

Also included our latest hanging canal directory
along with many dozens of third party links of
local outdoor interest. Plus several new Arizona
historical book downloads.

Please email me with anything I missed or needs
further updating.

And my own movies can be found here and here.

My other favorite, obscure, and vastly underrated flicks:

Certainly A Trip to the Moon and its recent restorations
for stunningly exceptional innovation on all fronts.

Of course Safety Last with its utter lack of CGI. By an
actor missing fingers and a thumb.. The initial check of the
safety setup plummeted seven stories to the ground.

Virtually unknown and grossly underrated: Putney Swope.
Decades ahead of its time.

Anything by legendary actor Peter Sellers, but most especially
The Mouse that Roared.

But my favorite of all is the tapioca pudding scene in the
cross-genre classic Godzilla versus the Night Nurses.

Thought I'd start my end of year predictions a little earlier
than usual this year...

Commodity pricing of 100 watt equivalent class LED residence
lighting and car headlights. Obsoleting CCFL's .

A controversial but credible detection of extra-terrestrial
mid-level intelligence "real soon now". Perhaps a planet
full of asparagus.

A catastrophic drop in marijuana pricing, caused by the
inevitable total elimination of mj federal crop subsidies
and farm price supports that were cleverly and diabolically
labeled as "prohibition" laws. More here.

Dramatic close in breakthroughs in ev related battery
technology, possibly involving lithium air technology.

A major increase in building destroying butane explosions
from utterly clueless processors of herb upgrading.

Full width inkjet print heads for ridiculously improved speed,
complexity, and ultimately, cost.

Strong sales of ultra resolution smart tv's despite zero
available content. Driven mostly by computer users.

Further improvements in the KML language. Particularly for
use with our hanging canals. Plus blendable images and topos.

The price of utility grade solar panels finally dropping under 
twenty five cents per peak panel watt and eventually leading 
to true net energy generation, renewablility, and sustainability.

A resurgence in traditional electronic hacking, driven by Arduino, 
Raspberry Pi, C.H.I.P. Beagle Bone, the Basic Stamp and derivatives, 
magazines such as Circuit Cellar or Make, and such suppliers as 
Sparkfun, Marlin Jones, American Science & Surplus, and even 
( should they last a few more weeks ) Radio Shack.

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

"Free Energy" nuts and other members of the Church of the Latter
Day Crackpots fiasco continuing "business as usual". Failing to
realize that finding an unlimited source of free energy would be
the most unimaginably heinous crime against humanity.

Nanostructures dramatically improving both photovoltaics and
conventional  HVAC air conditioning.

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.

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

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

Major breakthroughs in understanding human brain architecture and 
functionality,  combined with significant new I/O capability..

Craig's list finally coming to Safford. Right after the Ayatollahs bar
Mitzvah.

No matter where you go, there you are.

From Confucius, via Buckaroo Banzai.

Which was by far the finest medical, science fiction, rockumentary
love story, comedy, racing, comic book, quantum mechanical,
musical, watermelon ode, survivalist, intergalactic war documentary
movie of all time.

But, then again...

The script can be found here.

November pv prices remain nearly flat at double the 25 cents
peak panel watt price demanded for eventual net energy
re Renewability or sustainability.

More on similar topics here.

Got a curious email about someone wanting to Arduoinize
my ancient Digiviewer.

Well, firstoff, there since has been a new and improved
Digiviewer, but while very few uses still exist for classic
DIPS today, I don't really see the point. Although these
could still be useful for video game repair and such.

If there were some market for new Digiviewers, it
would be more interesting to use a Raspberry Pi with
a real HDTV display. This would slash construction
costs and completely eliminate the need for all of
the snap on overlays.

Even more interesting would be making the unit super
smart enough to identify the integrated circuit it was
clipped onto.

Assuming a "pure" digital device, any 16 pin device
would only have 65,536 possible states. Of which only
256 would be valid for, say, a quad logic gate. Changing
inputs from the unit under test could then create an
array of possible states that often could pin down the
actual chip in use.

Brief "superpower" supply and ground signals of, say one
amp for one millisecond could overwhelm normal system
pin values to further isolate the chip under study.

Some interesting new steel developments can be found here and here.
They seem to have the potential to dramatically improve strength and
significantly lower cost.

On the other hand, to me these have a slight "too good to be true"
aura about them. I'd recommend waiting for more evidence before
getting too excited about this development.

Some random factoids: Cable One now has a new high speedtlo
service they force on you that may require a new modem.

Required is a DOCSIS 3 Cable modem or WiFi. Compatible
third party devices are listed here. The Arris SBG 6580 is one
such unit.

Some Netflix issues that came up around the changeover time
apparently were related to a Vizio smart tv needing reset.

Resetting is done via the remote using these details. A new
Netflix account linking may also be needed.

When issues like these crop up, it is important to isolate the
blame to the actual cause. This could have been a Cable One
problem, an incompatible modem problem, the modem needing
reset, a wireless problem, a security pass code problem, or a
smart tv reset problem.

There's a new Brew Ha Ha drink that combines beer with
Nitrous Oxide.

There sure seem to be a lot of low "delta T" energy schemes
kicking around. Ocean thermal and bunches of others. Uh, it 
turns out that there are some very fundamental thermodynamic
and engineering laws that guarantee these flat out ain't gonna
happen.

Firstoff, Carnot efficiency is limited to [1 - (Tlow/Thigh) ] in
absolute degrees. A 20 degree Fahrenheit difference at its
very best can only approach a theoretical FOUR PERCENT
or so best efficiency. And, of course, the real world never
gets anywhere near Carnot.

Secondoff, low efficiencies have to move a lot more heat than
than they can convert. At four percent efficiency, TWENTY
FIVE times the heat has to be moved from source to sink.

Thirdoff, it is enormously difficult to get heat exchangers with
very low Delta-T's across them. A heat exchanger, of course,
MUST have a Delta-T across it to transfer any heat at all.
You can easily end up with ALL of the Delta-T across the
source and sink exchangers leaving NOTHING for the process
to work with. Further trashing a dismal efficiency.

Ferinstance, it is trivially easy to build a Peltier "cooler" that has
twenty degrees of cooling across the device and fourty degrees of
heating across its heatsink. For net heating rather than cooling.

The need to move many times more heat than recoverable energy
at low Delta-T's very much magnifies this problem. To which
such realities as imperfect insulation on long pipes compounds the
problem.

More in our Energy Fundamentals tutorial.

( revised May 2018 )

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

Price has been reduced to $8475 per acre. This is the last
remaining large developable property immediately adjacent
to the northern Gold Hill city limits.

We have secured a new full access easement for these 20
acres. Power and cable on the property. A land use planner
is available and we professional land use planner and we
fully expect Jackson County homesite approval.

Legal description is T36 R3W S16 Tax Lot 400.

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

Here's a newer group of photos...

You can click expand these. Then click again.

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

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

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

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

The "local blend" version ( the one with the broken thermometer
on the label ) of the El Fumarole Salsa de Mucho Caliente has been
banned in all civilized nations of the world and even parts of Texas.

Naturally, when El Fumarole goes out to hunt, the Habanaros and
Scotch Bonnets have to stay on the porch.

Some possible substitutes appear here.

There are two operating modes in our newly revised Magic
Sinewave calculator, normal and quantized. For valid results,
it is super important to know how you got to what you are
viewing.

In the normal mode, you first select a type and size of
magic sinewave, and then usually click on Instacalc.
The correct amplitudes and angles should appear along
with the "by pulse widths" and "by angles" reporting boxes.

The blue "by clock pulses" reporting would not be meaningful
because no attempt at quantization was made. But this reporting
was purposely left active just in case you want a previews of
possible counts per cycle. Ferinstance, if only three clock pulses
were available for a given width or position, only 33% accuracy
could result. Along with near certain degradation. Such errors
would increase the strength of unwanted harmonics and shift
the desired amplitude.

For quantization to work, it alway must immediately restart with
a valid normal result. Only one quantization button may be activated
at a time.

Always reset to a normal result before continuing.

Earlier versions of our Magic Sinewaves used PIC and similar
micoprocessors that only had limited memory capabilities.
Because of this, the frequency was made independent of the
amplitude. Frequency was intended to be set by changing
the clock value of the chip, while amplitude was internally
generated.

Newer Raspberry Pi and C.H.I.P. computers have insanely
huge memories, which now let us set both frequency and
amplitude together internally. These chips also let us
do 16-bit timing to greatly simplify the code complexity.

How much memory is needed? Let's assume a seven
pulse per quadrant magic sinewave. Each quadrant
would need thirty one different 16-bit timing values in table
lookup storage. If desired, the other quadrants could
use symmetry instead of actual lookup values.

Lets assume a hundred desired amplitudes. These
could be linear or log spaced. Thus a minimum
storage of 3200 bytes of 8 bits each would be needed
for one medium resolution magic sinewave set.

Thus, tens of thousands of magic sinewave instances could
easily be internally stored.

Given the insane amounts of memory available, it might
even be possible to brute force each magic sinewave
with no data table lookup at all!

Writing such a huge amount of code might prove daunting.
but a PostScript program to generate the code itself might
add up rather trivial.

Consulting services available.

I still get occasional emails over the "shaft encoder"
problem. It takes two channels of incremental
encoding if you need both direction and speed.

The two channels are spaced half a pulse apart and
are called the Inphase and Quadrature outputs.

Consider these typical waveforms:

                   0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0    I      Forward
                   1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0   Q

                   0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0    I      Reverse
                   0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1   Q

To extract the speed, simply use the I output leading
edges. Now for the tricky part: To extract the direction,
EXCLUSIVE OR the present I with the previous Q.

And that's all there is to it!

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

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

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

All in one swell foop. Provided there's no oint in the flyment
An unauthorized autobiography. A jerk of all trades. The
local hysterical society.  A wine that "pours well". The caver's
wrist sundial. Godzilla versus the Night Nurses.

Letting the cows come home to roost. So long as they are
elected by acrimination. That little dip between the winter slump
and the spring slack period. Sort of the qualm before the scorn.
Geranium transistors. Godzilla versus the night nurses.

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

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

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

Or confusing "cannabis" and "cannibal" tasting tours.

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

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

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

Because Opporknockity tunes but once.

Discovered yet another long forgotten CCC field camp in
the Canador Peak area.

There are literally thousands of nearby local CCC projects.
The overwhelming majority of which were totally and utterly
worthless boondoggles.

But largely made up for by a few unique and surviving
structures and the overall societal program goals.

Much more of the same on our Gila Dayhikes page.

Seldom discussed is the fact that a pv energy farm 
needs very little water. Which makes them a near
perfect use for government and indian lands in
the arid southwest. 

If you start doing an economic analysis based 
on highest and best use, a case can be made that
any site with adequate water is an inappropriate
location for a pv energy panel.

More here.

Boo. Hiss #3.

Here is yet another blatant example of how to lie with  statistics.

The obscene "truncating the graph" trick was not quite as bad
at only 61.5 percent.   But it still makes a minor increase
appear to be a catastrophic trend.

Color coding "blue is good; red is bad" to identical data values
is yet another sneakily obscene stunt.

Once again, ignoring of course, correlation is not causation!

Even if it was, the sample size is too small, and their same
graph also shows a significant reduction in post mj crime.

A much more likely ( although not yet proven ) reason for
any correllation is that mj in fact was reducing the crime
rate, while at the same time the greatly expanded federal
law demanding that great heaping quantities of cash must
now be continuously placed in obvious locations just might
have something to do with the problem.

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

With a tenth of a billion entry stunning daily coverage here.

A preliminary major revision of our Magic Sinewave Calculator
can be found here. With its automatically towed along javascript
here.

For proper appearance in Chrome, several other files also have to
be present in the same folder. These are also auto provided.

The quantization problems have likely been fixed, along with
a new Clocks Per Quardant selector and a new reporting
by clock pulses in additional to angles.

Some minor pretty printing and cleaner code issues remain.
Despits its blinding speed, a few speedup tricks remain,
some of which are related to excesive reporting on instacalc..

I'll try to get to them soon. While code has been independently
third party verified, please report any problems.

More on Magic Sinewaves here. Seminars and consulting
available here. Full IP rights for sale.

Beyond amazing.

There is noww a $5 Raspberry Pi computer and a $9 C.H.I.P
computer

Both in the 1 GHz speed class and half a Gig of SDRAM.
And both in the "ain't half bad" class.

Being argued over both here and here.

"True" costs only slightly higher but include memory
cards, cables, mice, keyboards, etc.

Either one should make a dandy Magic Sinewave
generator that combines amplitude and frequency
data settings.

Farm sibling explaining why he kept feeding raw
pork to city slickers: "Its the only trick I know, Sis.".

One of the more maddengly infuriating features of JavaScript
is that every once in a while it will throw something at you
like 2 + 2 = 4.000000000000002.

While there are all sorts of math.Round workarounds, these
three functions can greatly improve any pretty printing...

 toFixed(4) - Converts a number value to a
                      string of the selected number
                      of decimal points. Particular useful
                      for pricing.

 parseFloat(4) - Attempts to convert a string
                     into a floating point number.

 parseInt() - Attempts to convert a string
                     into an integer.       

The usual use would be youstr.parseFloat

A comparision between JavaScript and PostScript
can be found here. The two are pretty much
opposites.

A quite serious problem arises whenever you use
4-point barbed wire for premium audio speaker
connections: The barb points are all sharp and will 
thus raise the pitch of any music.

The usual workaround is to make an equalizer out
of a carefully chosen length of flat ribbon cable.

Additional details are found here.

As we've recently seen, pv pricing is around double the
twenty five cents per peak panel watt neded for true
renewability and sustainability. And thus still remains a
gasoline destroying net energy sink. Albeit one that
is not nearly as bad as before.

As we've seen, much of this year's pricing has been heading the
wrong way but once again has begaun inching download.

Curiously, actually hitting the quarter per peak watt value will
in itself create a major new setback in time to renewability
and sustainability. Because of the zillions of new investement
dollars that all at once will be thrown at a sure thing.

About an eight year breakeven glitch sounds about right.

In many valid energy considerations, a current dime can
be considered pretty much the same as a current kilowatt
hour of electricity. And thus the two are largely fungible
equivalents.

More here.

Never store carbide in a non-locking carabiner!

A now even more famous media newscaster has just
inadvertently confused "canabis" with "cannibal" in
describing a tasting tour.

The definitive video on all this appears here.

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.

All you need to know about sailing:

The binnacle goes on the top and the barnicle goes on the
bottom.

Interchanging the two is a serious breech of maritime etiquette.

The "next big thing" in battery technology will almost certainly
involve lithium-air.

Which has superb energy density because one of the reactants
is not part of the battery. Unfortunately, there have been many
very nasty problems involved in developing this technology.

The 30 October 2015 issue of Science reports some major
new lithium air developments that appear to be a significant
leap forward in this technology. A summary is on page 524
and the story itself on page 530.

Meanwhile, a potentially interesting but unrelated battery
development can be found here.

And more on energy topics here.

Many decades back, there was a superb but short lived magazine
called "Place" that may or may not have somehow been Whole
Earth related.

There does not seem to be the slightest trace of it on the web.

I'm in the process of reprinting most of my stories and columns at
https://www.tinaja.com/crsamp1.shtml Two of my WER copies
already appear there.

I did a really obscure caving story for Place in their third or fourth
issue. Do you know of any copies available anywhere in any form?

PDF scans would be nice. Better yet, I'd like to provide free online
access to all of Place.

An update to our Magic Sinewave Calculator is almost
ready to be released. Quantization errors are believed
to have been corrected, along with a new Clocks per
Quadrant quantizer feature. A new reporting option
now features clock counts rather than trig angles.

Is can be tricky to make minor changes to a major
JavaScript program, and I seemed to have all sorts
of instances where code reverted to previous copies.

Hence this list of possibly excessive guidelines...

Make sure you in fact save each change.
Save often to new filenames.
Clear Chrome history continuously.
Make sure your editor can undo.
Keep screen clear of clutter.
Reboot your FTP program each time.
Reboot the entire machine occasionally.
Verify subdirectories each and every time.
Delete identical previous web files.
Never overwrite irrecoverable code.
Never delete previous diskfile work.

The old calculator can still be found here.

PV panel pricing was pretty much flat for October and  
seems stuck around 48 cents per peak panel watt or
higher. And remains up for the year by a few percent.

True renewabilty and sustainability can reasonably be
expected a few years after the price drops below twenty
five cents per peak panel watt. Thus, recent pricing clearly
has been headed the wrong way, but seems to be easing.

Many analsists mistakenly assume a subsidy is a
1X asset, rather than a 7X liability. And thus fail
to take their true net energy costs into account.

Note also that the prices are shown in Euros. Dollars
currently would be a few percent higher. Per
this converter.

Much more here.

Free eBook downloads of two of the most significant early
Arizona History records are newly available.

Find Hodge's Arizona as it is here.

And Hinton's Handbook to Arizona here.

Similar resources here.

The USGS now have made all of their older versions of historic
maps available for free download. Just dial the year!

Some interesting observations from the Thatcher 1960
fifteen minute quad:

Their last mention of the "white house"
seems to still be viewable as a roofless
Anglo ruin on Acme Mapper.

The long abandoned Bigler Canal is also
traceable  on Acme Mapper. While still
unproven, an underlying prehistoric precedent
would be highly conspicuous  by its absence,
with proven old canals nearby. Including
several other artesian sourced ones.

Somewhere I seem to remember a map reference in
Coottonwood wash of the "Lamb Hotel Ruins" .

While I tried to find it adjacent to Pima International
Airport many years ago, it seems to remain a mystery.
There is also a findable Lamb Tank further west.

Speaking of which, Pima International is likely the
only place you will find a C119G Flying Boxcar that
is being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Rumors of nightly DC3 Service to Columbia remaining
available at Thatcher International Airport appear to be
largely unverified. Sharp eyed pilots flying into Thatcher
International may note very minor debris on the runway,
such as refrigerators or evaporative coolers.

Similar topics here.

Links to one hundred university libraries that have free and
largely unlimited public access can be found here.

We have a new exoplanet. That's earth sized, rocky and
close enough for more detailed study. But a tad warm
to be habitable.

Counting candidates, this is exoplanet #5425 and potentially
habitable exoplanet #31.

In a totally meaningless extrapolation, this suggests that
one out of every 175 exoplanets may be potentially habitable.

More here and here.

Boo. Hiss. #2.

This one may not be quite as bad as the underlying research
does appear credible and ( eventually ) potentially useful.

But the title claims a 100X improvement in solar energy
efficiency. In reality, the efficiency still misses by a
country mile and the product remains useless.

Except for suggesting that further work may prove worthwhile.

All that happened was that the efficiency sharply went from
mesmerizingly awful clear on up to just plain terrible.

More on pv and energy issues here.

Boo. Hiss. #1.

How to lie with statistics. Start with this truncated plot that
suggests a skyrocketing crime rate instead of a modestly
increasing one.

By leaving the bottom SEVENTY SEVEN percent of
the graph off! All the while providing an obscenely
misleading title.

Then claim that, contrary to most other studies, that
mj is the exact and total and immediate cause of the
somewhat increasing crime rate. Ignoring of course,
that correlation is not causation!

Most other unbiased studies show many areas where
mj is in fact reducing crime. And should any actual
correlations show up, it would seem likely ( although
not certain ) that mj was slightly reducing the crime rate,
while federal mj "cash only" regulations and restrictions
were sharply increasing it.

A somewhat related item of interest appears here.

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

2 + 2 = 4.

Except for very large values of two.

Once again expanded and updated our Gila Valley 
Dayhikes page. We are now up to 437 main entries,
most of which now include GPS location links.

Also included our latest hanging canal directory
along with many dozens of third party links of
local outdoor interest.

Please email me with anything I missed or needs
further updating.

Just got an email asking about the quantization buttons in
our Magic Sinewave Calculator.

These are only approximate guidelines. Ferinstance, a
.001 "zero" result translates to -60 decibels of relative
harmonic rejection.

To find your "real" quantization, you have to decide
what the ratio of your clock frequency is to a quarter
cycle of your present fundamental. This determines the
number of allowable angles. These angles can then be
reentered into your calculator for the exact suppression
values.

The calculation buttons just give you a quick and dirty
way to estimate what you can expect in any given
quantization range clock to fundamental quarter ratio..

Alternately and probably simpler, you can build the magic
sinewave in hardware and view the actual suppression
on a spectrum analyzer.

There is a sneaky trick you can use to further suppress
your zeros. Otherwise known as "shake the box".

Recalculate the magic sinewave over and over again
with each angle start and end shifted by -3, -2, -1, 0, 1,
2, or 3 clocks. This typically can give you a further
reduction of two to ten decibels for most values.

Insult for a really bad wine - "Pours well".

Surprisingly, I could not find any others on the web.
Please let me know your favorites.

Watch out for the cliff! "What CLIFFFFFFFFF?"

There's obsession and then there's OBSESSION!

Another benefit of yesterday's Magic Sinewave
Closure  was that some solutions of the equations
were in fact zeros to beyond FIFTY decimal places.

This strongly suggests that the calculator solutions
are in fact true zeros rather than minor dips in
the response.

Practically, while there was ( and sort of remains ) no
absolute proof, the result was not seriously in doubt.

After quantization, a Magic Sinewave zero will
rarely get lower than -70 decibels. Possibly
a little less with "shake the box" stunts or
higher clock frequencies. Thus a four or five
decimal point zero is all that's really needed.

Zero accuracy was a really big deal way back
when while using 32 bit math PostScript. The
first attempt was to somewhat stretch the PS
reporting accuracy. When this was not good
enough, we went to JavaScript and its 64 bit
math.

The present calculators easily and routinely
provide zeros out to eleven decimal points.
Amazingly, these also now provide "instant"
results.

But are the zero solutions real?

We have closure!

A fully independent and highly qualified third party has now used
some fourth party polynomial tools to completely validate our
Magic Sinewaves!

See the perfect matches here  and here.

The significance lies in the polynomial method, while glacial even on
a supercomputer, requires no "seed" or preconceived notion of what
a magic sinewave solution is supposed to look like. Yet perfectly
converges on identical solutions.

These results also strongly suggest that these magic sinewaes
are in fact switching efficiency optimal.

The three phase solutions might remain possibly suboptimal, but have
a big advantage of needing only one half the coefficient storage.

Next steps are the Raspberry Pi reference examples.

More here and the ultra fast ms calculator here.

Always be prompt. 

No matter how long it takes.

We are sometimes criticised for using the term "hanging canal".

A historic Utah precedence for largely identical hanging structure
references can be found here. And once you have seen our prehistoric
ones, there is not the slightest doubt that they are hung.

Sometimes only a few feet above the base terrain.. Other times many
hundreds. And often leading to spectacular "water flows uphill" illusions.

We define a hanging canal as a portion that goes midway high along
the steep sided edge of a mesa. Done to first make its slope largely
independent of terrain, and secondly to allow most construction to
take place across, raather than along the route.

Both of which energy efficiency considerations are essential with
stone age tools and a lack of beasts of burden. Depending on the
terrain, a typical canal usually ends up a mix of hanging and flatland
portions.

A somewhat less than stunning third party U-Tube video on our
hanging canals can be found here.

A reminder that we have 20 spectacular view acres that are
the only remaining developable property immediately
north of Gold Hill Oregon in the Rogue River Country.

Full access easements have now been secured and there
is cable and power on the property which has some outstanding
development opportunties.

More info here.

I was asked for my views on the latest free energy fiasco.
Which apparently consists of a film on the inside of a pop
bottle.

The obvious answer is "Boy, a whole flock of 'em flew over
that time". But a more polite one would be to "Wait a year and
check back".

At that time, if the free energy was real, you would expect to
find several independent papers in Science, Nature, and in the
Proceedings of the IEEE.

The U-Tube demo seems to consist of a brief and high
impedance measurement of contact potential. Instead,
rerun the measurements into a realistically low load
for a realistically long time to see how much power you
can actually measure for how long.

Possible resons for any voltage at all could be a battery-
like electrolytic coating or the contact potential ( thermocouple
style ) between dissimilar conductors.

Or, of course, an outright hoax.

Some third party responses here and here.

My faorite free energy fiasco remains the magic lamp,
which I commented on here.

As we have seen before, finding an unlimited source of free
energy would be the most unimaginably heneious crime against
humanity. Making Hitler look like Mother Teresa.

Much more on bashing pseudoscience here and here.

And on the dark side, here.

One of the tenants that made discovering Magic Sinewaves
possible was ( and remains ) the unproven Minimum Visual
Polltion Theorem.

Which tells us that any low harmonic binary sequence waveform
should also "look" both attractive and unjarring.

Figure nine of this older alternate paper though, shows a
waveform whose narrowest pulses are nearest the peak
portions of their waveform. It is not clear, then, whether there
are whole classes of useful Magic Sinewaves that blatantly
violate the Minimum Vsual Pollution theorem.

Nor how you would find at least one working example you
could use as a "seed" for our sneaky trig identity stunt.
Nor whether the amplitude range for such seeds would be
acceptable.

This particular pulse sequence does have a uselessly high
third harmonic, so it may not be relevant.

Present Magic Sinewae research is aimed at minimizing
the first two uncontrolled harmonics.

More here.

The Hell's Angel hoax has apparently gone viral, and very few
so far seem to have the faintest clue. Already taken in has
been Google Search, a major midwest newspaper, and a large
handfull of blogs and bloggers!

What happened with this for real: With no malice or intent,
the Canadian Hell's Angels and leading Canadian politicians
just happened to check into the same hotel at the same time.

A minor and barely newsworthy item here legitimately reported
some minor security adjustments. Published were some Hell's
Angels images in full regalia.

A site noted for its bogus news entries changed this into a
stunning report that the Hell's Angels were petitioning the
government to drop its promise of leagilizing cannabis
because they would lose too many jobs and too much money.

Several major websites seem to have remarkably toned down
and adjusted their bogus reporting. At least one now with an
"oops" admission.

Always remember that "net" is an acronym for "not entirely
true".

Much as I love hoaxes, I had nothing to do with this one. Mine
can be found here or on many April 1st blog entries. Along with
some random ones just to keep you on your toes.

My favorite remains the Tapioca Pudding scene in the cross genre
flick Godzilla versus the Night Nurses. Because of the restraining
order from the Tapioca Pudding Institute, the movie had to be
released directly to eight track.

Here is one example of an apparently new and probably largely
useless class of Magic Sinewaves. Which suggests that there are
great heaping bunches of other unexplored waveforms remaining.

This particular one zeros out only harmonics 5, 7, 11, and 13.

Properties include...

Amplitude of 0.7

pls = 15.391545952288
ple = 51.848888749493
p2s = 59 . 536691563741
p2e = 72.326388953187
p3s = 89.374314177479
p3e = 90.0

The third harmonic of the above waveform seems to be an outrageously
excessive 81.9 percent of the fundamental.

More on tested and proven three phase magsine solutions here.

It is not at all clear that solutions exist to crate any arbitrary collection of
zeroed harmonics. Nor how the "seed" candidates for them could be
found for optimization using our sneaky trig identity trick. Nor what
their amplitude ranges would be.

Seminars and consulting services available here.

Magic Sinewaves are recently discovered long binary unipolar
or bipolar sequences that allow digital synthesis of power sinewaves
having ANY chosen arbitrary number of low harmonics zero in
amplitude in theory and extremely low in practice.

And thus should prove extremely useful for industrial motor
controls, solar panel inverters, uninterrupt1ble power supplies,
and electric automobiles.

Magic sinewaves are unique in that the fewest possible
switching events are required for the highest possible number
of zero harmonic results.

Both Single Phase and Three phase variations are available.

Our Magic Sinewave resource page can be found here and its
ultra fast calculator here. Third party analysis related work
can be found here with an older and largely obsolete paper here.

Seminars and consulting services available here.

We saw here how Acrobat Distiller locks out most disk access
as a default and how the magic command line incantation of...

"C:\Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Acrobat 11.0/Acrobat/acrodist.exe" /F /R run

 ... can easily run our Gonzo Utilities or most any PostScript program
needing disk access.

But it turns out there is yet another detail. In recent Windows, the
magic incantation MUST be run in ADMINISTRATIVE MODE!

Often you will do this automatically on boot up. More details
on administrative mode here and similar links.

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

We last looked at some remarkably promising improvements
in the WWVB time standard format here.

Sadly, nobody seems to care and these developments seem to
have been largely stillborn to date. While a few chips have
been offered, their crucial Raspberry Pi or Arduino reference
designs have yet to appear.

At one time, always super accurate and self resetting clocks
were a really big deal, and WWVB was largely their main source.
Sadly, industrial and terrestrial noise at 60 kHz made their reliable
reception exceptionally difficult prior to their recent upgrades.

But these days, any phone and any GPS receiver provides continuous
and nearly accurate time, as does most any personal computer. Even
plain old digital clocks now recover gracefully from power outages,
especially brief ones.

Which might have left us with too little too late.

Some early WWVB stuff of mine appears here and here and here.

Sincerity is everything!

Once you have that faked, all else follows.

This older paper shows some independent studies related to
my magic sineaves. It takes a polynomial approach compared
to our "sneaky trig identity convergence" technique.

Its figure nine shows a wildly non-intuitive waveform that
has separately been verified here.

Which suggests that many hundreds of new magic sinewave
waveforms may exist and remain totally unstudied.

Whether such waveforms have findable "seeds" for their
solution convergence and whether they have any use at all
remains to be explored.

Our current math would seem easily extended to reject
any chosen group of harmonics instead of strictly
sequential low ones of the present ultra fast calculator.

Seminars and consulting services available here.

Well done. Also medium rare. More here.

Apparently the real and somewhat less newsworthy
story appeared here.

The legendary similar source here. And my stuff here.

Just spent a bunch or time and money on finding out exactly
why only one of our computers suddenly ceased all internet traffic,
yet clearly showed incoming and outgoing traffic counts
properly advancing.

Turns out the culprit was Norton Internet Secuitry. A
wayward routine apperently related to 5k:p3 apparently
started making bogus reads or writes to an illegal memory
location. Possibly related to an Application Blocking Config
situation.

This was enormously difficult to find, since the only clue was
a vague error message on system reboot.

But it did drive home how important finding where a problem is
NOT can be a powerful limiting technique for any serious problem.

More on degubbing here.

The cure was to flush Norton entirely.

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 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.

We have been getting spikes in our website of thousands
and even tens of thousands of bogus hits each day. Which may
suggest a new web crisis we might call "admin munching".

Wherein a great heaping bunch of web traffic is likely totally
unneeded. And whose intent is nowhere near the traffic load
or ISP maint time hassles and expense it  clearly causes.

Ferinstance, apparently any time anybody tries to acces our
website on a tablet, they first demand an apple-touch-icon.png.
Even after providing this request, they still continue to demand icon
variations in alternate forms. Greatly adding to unnecessary web trafic.

An even worse offender is Wordpress. We have nothing whatsoever
to do with them, but they keep demanding thousands of bogus 404
responses daily. To files that flat out ain't us.

Worse yet, at least one wp user keeps lengthening their url and
retrying on every 404. Leading to mind boggling and unending traffic.

Present strategy is to monitor log traffic several times a day and then
block any spiking offender.

Meanwhile, both Apple and Wordpress should be staked to the
nearest anthill. There surely is a better solution than repeated
404 high traffic web attacks.

Many thanks to all of you who attended my Gila Watershed
Alliance talk yesterday. As typical, the "what good is archaeology?"
question came up.

My two co speakers came up with the usual "whoever ignores history
is destined to repeat it" and "all of science is based on standing on
the shoulders of giants."

I guess my answer is differnt. It does not matter in the least what good
archaeology is. For all of science and much of engineering, "IT" is
what we do.

Because "IT" is there and resolving "IT" is obsesivaly our mission.
End of story.

Amazingly, Heathkit is once again attempting to reincarnate.

But I cannot tell if this is real or an elaborate hoax. Their
product obviously is overpriced by a factor of at least ten,
Obviouly has mesmerizingly awful selectivity, obviously
lacks a calibrated dial, and obviously comes with a defective
front panel.

Meanwhile, the previous copyright debacle seems to be easing,
leaving these active schematic and manual free web resources...

http://www.vintage-radio.info/heathkit/
http://www.mods.dk/manual.php?brand=heathkit
http://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/heath/heathkit.html
http://www.ebaman.com/
http://www.schematicsunlimited.com/h/heathkit
http://www.ko4bb.com/manuals/index.php?dir=Heathkit
http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1300866

The KML language in Google Earth would seem to have the  
ability to completely blow awway GIS mapping. Among its
many possibilities is the ability to "fly" your custom map.

When I looked at this a while back, I could not find a way
to do splines in KML. Splines would be particularly useful
on our hanging canals to eliminate the need for hundreds
or thousands of points per single wandering canal path.

Apparently kml splines are now routine per these details.
More on this when I get a chance to look further.

It also s still not obvious to me how to do slanty lettering
in KML.

Additional KML support here.

The Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter 
when they come at you rapidly.

It is usually very easy to tell the difference between a
genuine prehistoric canal and its later rework. But
absolutely "proving" that a historic rework in fact has
a prehistoric precedence is another matter entirely.

Energy efficiency was absolutely crucial in any prehistoric
original, owing to the lack of metal tools, significant
instruments, and beasts of burden. Each teaspoon of
dirt and each rock had to be painstakingly moved by
hand.

Canals were strictly only the size and ( especially ) the
depth needed to get the job done. When and where
appropriate, "hanging" portions were used to make the
slope independent of the terrain. And to allow primary
construction across, rather than along, the canal route.

Modern or historic rework had no similar restrictions, with
mule scrapers, gradealls, and even bulldozers readily
available. Thus, there was a total and wanton disregard
for energy efficiency during conruction.

Yet a modern rebuild occasionally would include a low
energy and low profile short segment. The most credible
explanation for this is that the entire modern canal was in
fact a rebuild of a prehistoric original.

                 ( three links below still in process )

Such low profile segments appear in the Webster Ditch
and the Cluff NW canals. While this does not in and of itself
constitute "proof" of a prehistoric origin, it very stongly
suggests so.

Sadly, no srong rebuild evidence exists for the Smith
Canal. But indirect evidence includes it being such an
obvious location for a prehistoric origin that its absence
would be highly conspicuous. In addition, there is a large
habitatin site and numerous potsherds in the immediate
area and the Smith tanks would appear to have been highly
reasonable areas for prehistoric fields.

In addition, several canals seem to have prehistoric
extensions well beyond their historic rebuilt uses. This
typically happens then the historic rebuild terminates
in a cattle tank. Hawk Hollow is one example.

No convincing evidence has been found to date of any
historic bajada canal having been an original.

My premise remains that virtully all of the historic use
bajada cana;s were "steal the plans" or "borrow the
blueprints' from underlying prehistoric originals. If for
no other rason that it is much easier to "dig out an old
ditch" than it is to fully design and develop a successfully
working canal from scratch in a difficult terrain.

Much more here.

I guess the "opposite" of a color organ would be one of
these image to sound converters from Photosounder.

Classic reprints of most of my color organ construction
projects are now up here and include...

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

Problems with even the best of these included vary strong
RFI, limited dynamic range, and displays that lacked color
saturation, were hot, expensive, and in the end, boring.

Today, a monitor or LCD TV or a projector would be
an infinitely better display choice. And it would sure end
up interesting to apply advanced DSP techniques to
isolate each instrument as a separate actor.

There will be a professional tour of our local hanging canals
involving some name brand archaeologists and hydrologists
next Tuesday and Wednesday October 13th and 14th.

A very limited number of additional guests can be accommodated
on these free tours, particularly if you can provide a SUV and a driver.

Please contact don@tinaja.com or call 928-428-4073 if you want
to participate .

We are sharply scaling back on our slower selling or more
bulky or otherwise problematic eBay offerings and our
Alvin Pile is now sorely overflowing.

You are welcome to pick up any of this stuff absolutely
free, subject only to "take any, take all". Naturally,
shipping is unavailable.

I will be lecturing on our Prehistoric Hanging Canals at
the Gila Watershed Alliance meeting on Wednesday October
14th at 7 to 9 PM in the GSA Services building at 931 Thatcher
Blvd (aka US 70) in Safford.

Anyone with an interest in hydrology, environment, or
archaeology is welcome to attend this free talk.

Here is yet another variation on our latest hanging canal papers.

Your ISP may make a file available to you called .htaccess.

To prevent malware, only a few filename extensions are permitted
by exactly spelling them out. You also have a choice of how these
files will be processed for downloading.

Ferinstance, "they" would not download my ".psl" files, short for
"PostScript Lancaster" and pretty much plain old textfiles. Until
this line was added...

 AddType text/plain .psl

How an extension is dealt with is determined by ....

AddType text/html
AddType text/plain or
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html

Among its other features, .htaccess can also block any
website. Perhaps because they are attempting to overlaod
your site. Or consistently asking for stuff that is not there.
Or just because you are mad at them...

# Begin IP blocking #
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from 154.76.15.235
Deny from 170.250.47.196
Deny from 55.204.148.136
Deny from 63.241.74.92
Deny from 202.134.114.89
Deny from 67.171.30.253
Allow from all
# End IP blocking

Names above have been randomized to protect the guilty.

Excerpts fom our latest hanging canal paper can be newly
found in this Southwest Archaeology blog.

Preliminary Field Notes for the Veech Canal are newly  
available here. And its sourcecode here.

This long sought after canal seems to define the
easternmost limits of our present hanging canal study
area. It has not yet been field verified but the Acme
Mapper and the Google Earth evidence is quite
compelling.

Previous field notes are...

Lefthand Canyon West
Minor Webster Ditch
Freeman Canal
Sand Canal
Tugood Canal

Six down, fifty nine to go. Org.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

Some significant but incremental developments in pv solar enrgy
can be found here. And talked about here.

Best pv panel pricing today seems stuck around 60 cents per peak watt.
Sustainability and renewability will not happen till several years after
this pricing reaches a quarter per peak watt.

More on pv fundamentals and energy fundamentals here.

Org. Got yet another email from someone about to
revolutionize electrolysis and would I please recommend
a highly qualified yet low cost electrochemist within six 
blocks of Holt County, Nebraska.

One more time: There is a profound and fundamental
first principle of thermodynamics called "exergy" that
absolutely and positively GUARANTEES that electrolysis
from high value sources such as grid, pv, wind, or alternator
flat out ain't gonna happen.

The process would be exactly the same as 1:1 exchanging US
dollars for Mexican Pesos. There ALWAYS will be more
intelligent things to do with the electricity than immediately
and irrevocably destroying most of its value.

Just for kicks, try finding an electrolysizer manufacturer
sometime. Even if you find one, they certainly will not tell
you how much their products cost, and absolutely will not
sell one to an individual because of safety and liability
issues. The reason being that exergy limits such devices
to highly unique, specialized, and obscure industrial uses.

Virtually all bulk hydrogen gas is produced from hydrocarbons.
The amount produced by electrolysis is utterly negligible and
limited to exceptionally specific needs where system efficiency
and costs are not major design factors. 

Exergy is a measure of the present quality and value of an
energy source. You measure exergy by converting that 
source to another form, converting it back, and seeing how
much you have left. Resistance room heat is a classic 
example of horribly wasted exergy. 

Electricity is about the highest exergy stuff available. Unstored
hydrogen gas has exceptionally low exergy. Electrolysis is the
process of converting many high value kilowatt hours of energy
into fewer very low value kilowatt hours of energy. 

And, thus, is normally and monumentally stupid. 

As such, electrolysis clearly will forever remain totally incompatible
with efficient and sensible alternate energy solutions. 

And that is before abysmal system efficiencies, amortization, or
stupidities ( such as stainless steel electrodes with its hydrogen
overvoltage of iron ). "Real" electrolysizers demand platinized
platinum electrodes that are regularly renewed.

Does exergy mean that solar to hydrogen via Faraday's Law 
is never gonna happen? Not al all. But it does GUARANTEE 
that conventional high value electricity will definitely NOT be 
a mid process energy state.

Once again, our bottom line summary:

    If you do not understand exergy, you SHOULD NOT be 
    pissing around with electrolysis.

    If you do understand exergy, you WILL NOT be
    pissing around with electrolysis.

Either way, the outcome is not the least in doubt. More can be
found here, here, and here.

I'll be doing a free lecture on our Prehistoric Hanging Canals
this Saturday October 3rd at 6 PM in the Discovery Park
Jupiter Room.

Discovery Park is near the corner of Discovery Park Blvd and
20th Avenue in Safford Arizona. To reach the Jupiter room,
just follow the main pathway all the way South.

There tentatively will be a free tour of the Sand Canal on Sunday
morning. It will involve about half a mile of very easy hiking
with desert compatible footware and reasonable clearance
dirt road friendly vehicles. Lunch at Juanitas might also be
a possibility.

Here is what some of the pr sort of was supposed to look like...

====================================

"Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canals subject of Saturday's free
Discovery Park lecture"

The ongoing Discovery Park lecture series welcomes back local
researcher and author Don Lancaster this Saturday October 3rd
at 6 PM in the Jupiter room on the Discovery Park campus.

Don will be speaking on the latest discoveries involving a
spectacular series of previously unknown and newly world class
"hanging" canals that literally exploited every drop of Northeastern
Mount Graham stream water in the 1250 CE to 1450 CE time frame.

Astonishingly, there are over 65 known canals whose currently
explored length exceeds 70 miles. Their engineering and hydrology
is clearly and unquestionably beyond brilliant. Many of the canals
remain well preserved and a few actually flow to this day.

The talk can be previewed through links at
https://www.tinaja.com/tinsamp1.shtml

Tours can be arranged. Additional researchers are more than
welcome. The only skills needed as a researcher are an
enthusiasm for hiking, a genuine avocational interest in
prehistory, and knowing how to take notes and use a camera
and a GPS receiver. Drone, video, and ATV operators are
particularly needed.

Discovery Park is located near the junction of Discovery Park
Boulevard and 20th Avenue in Safford, Arizona. To reach the
Jupiter Room, just follow the main walkway south.

For additional info, please contact Paul Anger or Jackie Madsen
at (928) 428-6260. Don's website is www.tinaja.com .

Preliminary Field Notes for the Lefthand West Canal are newly  
available here. And its sourcecode here.

Previous field notes are...

Minor Webster Ditch
Freeman Canal
Sand Canal
Tugood Canal

Five down, sixty to go. Org.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

A KIM-1 emulator can be found here and a COSMAC
emulator  here. And an ET3400 emulator here. With
related details here.

And an 8085 phone emulator here. And 8086 here.

And some excellent 6502 references here.

There seem to be major problems with the Panda exhibit
at the Chicago Aquaraium. They appear to be mostly
related to the masks and regulators.

A summary of the Acme Corporation versus Wiley Coyote
lawsuit can be found here.

This site and others tell us that there is a US marijuana arrest
every 45 seconds and each arrest costs around $2000 to
process.

There is an obvious way these costs can be reduced by
75 percent. Simply give each suspect $500 cash instead
of further processing them. This, of course, makes much
more sense than present policies.

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

Preliminary Field Notes for the Minor Webster Ditch are newly  
available here. And its sourcecode here.

Previous field notes are...

Freeman Canal
Sand Canal
Tugood Canal

Four down, sixty one to go. Org.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

A reminder that Apple Assembly Line reprints can still be
found here.

Am I the only one to still notice that, despite stunning
developments in CGI and incredible advances in computer
animation, that movie stagecoach wheels still turn backwards?

We looked at a popular Acrobat Javascript navigation button
generator here, with one of its many use examples here.

Sometimes your document content may want the buttons  
moved slightly to prevent collisions, as per here.

The adjustment is easily made. Just go to the part of the code
that says...

var aRect = this.getPageBox( { nPage: nPageNum} );

aRect[0] += x * inch;
aRect[1] -= y * inch;

And modify it like so...

var aRect = this.getPageBox( { nPage: nPageNum} );

aRect[1] += 0.40 * inch ;
aRect[0] -= 0.10 * inch ;

aRect[0] += x * inch;
aRect[1] -= y * inch;

aRect[0] is the vertical position. We have moved it up here
by a tenth of an inch. aRect[1] is the horizontal position. We
have moved it right here by four tenths of an inch.

To add the buttons to any .PDF file, get in Acrobat XI Pro
and do a Control-J. Overwrite all the console code by pasting
in your new button code. Select all of the button code and click
on the Enter key that is in the lower right part of your numeric
keyboard.

Note that the regular Entry key does not work.

Made some revisions to canaleng1.pdf and to its
canaleng1.psl sourcecode.

We expect this to be published shortly. More on our
hanging canals here.

No survey instruments are known to survive from the design
and construction of our prehistoric bajada hanging canals.

One possible explanation being that they never existed in the 
first place. Or were much simpler or less obvious than expected.

Given the exceptional water management expertise, the canals
may in fact have been larrgely self modifying and self regulating.

Here are some more or less credible possibilities...

WATER LEVELS - Pilot extensions of a canal
under constructions could have been built and
filled with static water, noting the start water 
depth compared against the barely overflowing
end of the current project extension. Such 
water levels remain a popular product to this day. 

A section of the Sand Canal seems "too small"
to be useful between N 32.83186 W 109.92448 and
N 32.83515 W 109.92272.  And inconsistent in size 
with its earlier portions. Possibly being an incomplete
pilot might be one possible explanation .

TWO STICKS - One of two sticks of identical length
could be placed in the bottom of the present end of
a canal being extended. A second could be placed
a hundred feet or so upstream. Sighting between the 
two would give a credible slope extension.

THE POSTHOLE THEORY - A posthole of half its
ultimate depth could be dug a hundred feet or so 
beyond a canal being extended. Three identical
sticks could then be used to verify slope alignment.
The posthole could then be deepened as needed
to become a survey construction marker. 

A much larger and completely unresolved question is how the routes
( up to six or more miles! ) were picked in the first place. Finding a 
credible constant slope route between point A and point B in a Basin
and Range province bajada is clearly no trivial matter.

Of all the known canals, only the Mud Springs canal has points where
it can more or less be viewed in its entirity. Which suggests that this
may have been an original or at least a very early construct.

Part of the solution may lie in critical locations or pinch points that 
any canal had to go through. These locations would then subdivide
the total canal length into somewhat more manageable segments.

The most stunning example here is the Mud Springs watershed 
crossing that could only possibly take place at N 32.79166
W 109.85388

Other examples include "knife edge" mesas where the route
clearly must be placed. Exaamples include N 32.75828 W 109.82097
on the main Frye Mesa Canal, N 32.76080 W 109.78125 on the main 
Deadman Canal and possibly N 32.75513 W 109.78034 on the still
unexplored East Deadman canal. Or possibly N 32.83567 W 109.79793 at
the beginning of the Culebra Cut. 

Your thoughts welcome.

I do have a sledgehammer cure for some glyphs buried in
my Gonzo Utilities. And that is to use our |o overstrike.  

This is particularly useful for adding umlauts for words
such as "canyon" or "Pinalino" . Or adding a complement
bar ab\ove a logic callout. And it works with most any font,
regardless of whther it has unicode glyphs available or even
of they are coded in unexpected places.

What the |o overstrike does is whap a second character on
top of the last one you used, with only the advance of the
first character. The overstrike character does not even have
to be the same font, and it can be arbitrarily above or below
the previous font baseline.

You do need predefinitions of /overstrikechar and /overstrikeht
To wander down the canyon, just use...

xpos ypos ( . . . can|oyon . . . ) cl

In this case, the overstrikechar would be "~" and raised four points
or so above a normal unscaled font baseline.

I've long been a fan of the ITC Stone font. Owing to its great
vibes and its ability to still look good in reduced resolution
displays. Per this example and bunches more.

The only little problem is thaat the version I have is so old
that many of the unicode glyph characters are either missing
or in the wrong place. This creates all sorts of problems when
the stories are republished elsewhere.

For some reason, my opening quote glyph is missing or hidden,
While I intiially did a workaround by substituting a backwards font,
I realized  that this would cause major problems for future editors.

The simplest workaround, of course, is to just use plain old quotes
instead. Another would be to change the fonts of the opening and
closing quotes so they seem to work as Unicode glyphs and still
appear to be Stone compatible.

Some commens on fonts in general...

Most fonts these days consist of a mix of letters, numbers, and glyphs.
And most fonts are now Unicode coded in an attempt to standardize
the glyph locations.

Glyphs are noted in PostScript and elsewhere by their octal notation.
Some of the more popular and originally standard ones are ...

\274 ellipsis
\267 bullet
\320 emdash
\261 endash

Other ways to access glyphs are with the "Glyphs" panel in illustrator or the
"Open Type" panel in Photoshop. Or the "Insert Special Character" in Indesign.
Or the "More Symbols" panel in Microsoft word.

The original Adobe STD font encoding can be found here.

When using glyphs, it is super important to make sure your font has the
glyph available and that it is in the same address as any fonts a futher
editor may use.

One example of finding glyphs for a particular font can be found here.

The main fonts available on a PC can usually be found by going to
the control panel and selecting "Fonts". Clicking on any available
font should give you a sample printout of the main characters.

But it will not give you a list of fonts in your own or Adobe directories
and it will not show you any glyphs or their locations.

The available fonts for use in Acrobat Distiller can be found by
going to "Settings" and then "Font Locations" Should you have
any special favorite fonts in your own directories, you must add
their directories to this list. Or disiller will not recognize them.

Should you be editing a .PDF document, a sneaky trick can generate
a list of your available fonts. Simply start a watermark entry, then
Add Watrmark, then click on text . Scrolling down on Font Name should
give you a list of all available fonts to you.

These will typically be a mix of Acobe and Windows fonts. Any fonts in
a custom folder of yours likely will not be listed. Any font can be sampled
by typing it in a large size. Be sure, of course, to not save your document
when you are done exploring your available fonts.

Many years ago, I was attending a folk concert. The opening act
was a single and an unknown flute player, performing in front of the
closed stage curtains. His job was to warm up the audience for the
high priced help that was soon to follow.

He was good. Very good.

But as he went along, the music started getting strange and finally
downright weird. He was playing chords on his flute, along with notes
with unbelievably strong tonal structures. Eventually, the music turned
into bunches of impossible sounding and god-awful squawks.

Almost all of the audience got bored and restless as the music
seemed to deteriorate. Just then, I happened to notice a friend beside
me who had played in and had taught concert band. He was literally
on the edge of his chair with his mouth open.

He briefly turned to me and said very slowly, ''You can't do that with
a flute. It is not possible."

Of the thousands of people in the audience, at the most only five
realized they were now witnessing a once-in-a-lifetlme performance
involving the absolute mastery of a very difficult musical instrument. To
nearly everyone else, It sounded like a bunch of god-awful squawks.

Always play for those five.

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is intolerance.

I find those innane surveys needed to access some web
stories to be maddeningly infuriating. An obvious defense
is to make their results utterly useless by ALWAYS
lying like a rug and ALWAYS generating the most
wildly improbable responses.

Ferinstance, when asked for your favorite brand of
Smoke Detector, you reply "Pepsi".

When asked what products you associate with the
Acme Veeblefeltzer company, you reply "ketchup".

And otherwise generate the most mesmerizingly awful
responses that you can possibly dream up.

Added a Kilobaud TVT Hardware_pt1 story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Kilobaud TVT Hardware_pt2 story to our Classic Reprints  
Added a Kilobaud H8_Cheap_Video story to our Classic Reprints  
Added a Kilobaud Ap_Inverted_Dec_Code story to our Classic Reprints.

Added a "Director's Cut" fully restored New_Winning story to our
Classic Reprints. Based on Thiis Original.

Just uploaded a "Director's Cut" full restoration of Winning the
Micro Game. You'll find the story here and the sourcecode here.
And the JS nav button code here.

This was a rathr major paper in Kilobaud, along with the basis of
several talks. After you factor out the quaintocities, very little
of it changed, and I only made some very minor additions.

Much of the story would seem to still apply to the laatest of
Raspberry Pi or Beagle Bone developments.

Use of my Gonzo Utilities kept the file sizes under 7K per page.
Including all built in fonts. Until dramatically increased by the
new Acrobat JavaScript Nav blocks.

Note the super secret hyphenation algorithm!

More on classic reprints here.

Here and here are detailed examples of our /jpegimageprocwithlink
automated image placer that places in-pdf and remote clickable url JPG
images programatically inside our Gonzo Utilities for use with Acrobat
Distiller.

The code works directly in GhostScript and will work in Acrobat when
it is properly /F activated.

Helped along by /setareaurl auto click sizer and /inurllink.

The code can be activated by ...

hoffset
voffset
hpixels
vpixels
scale
pcurllink
weburllink
jpegimageprocwithlink

It is extremely important to get /hpixels precisely correct. Otherwise, the image
will smear badly. A local pc available image copy and a web available image copy
are required. These can be identical resolution, or the local can be reduced.

Preliminary Field Notes for the Tugood Canal are newly  
available here. And its sourcecode here.

Note that you can click thru to larger and higher resolution
images. And that there are JavaScript page-to-page nav
buttons. Thanks to /F, all figures are now auto inserted
using the Gonzo utilities routed to Distiller. Only the JS
nav needs done after distillation.

This is intended to be the third of many ( possibly 65 sets )
of updated and revised field notes.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

Here and here are detailed examples of our /surl and /eurl
automated url placer that fully tracks any changes in underlying
text size and position. With the actual heavy lifting done by /makeurl.

All done programatically and before distilling!

The code works directly in GhostScript and will work in Acrobat when
it is properly /F activated.

A list of related url's can be created with..

<<
/url1 (http.whoever1.com)
/url2 (http.whoever2.com)
/url3 (http.whoever3.com)
>> {mark exch /eurl cvx ] cvx def} forall

I did just discover a minor gotcha that I should have noticed a very
long time ago: The url generator only works inside callout left or cl
and does not work on callout center or cc. The workaround is to
use a shifted cl any time you really need a cc with a url in it.

After many months of price increases, pv panel pricing finally showed
a slight decline for the month. But still is up six percent for the yaar.

At present, the peak panel watt pricing is around double that needed
to eventually become a renewable and sustainable net energy resource.

The magic figure is twenty five cents per peak panel watt and is derived
here. Note that subsidies are a 7X liabality, rather than a 1X asset when
their fully burdened true energy costs are honestly considered.

One minor gotcha: These charts are in euros. Dollars would presently be
around 13 percnt higher. A useful converter here.

Some additional energy stuff here.

One of the routines in our Gonzo Utilities thaat we have not
looked at for quite a while is roundbox. Which draws a box with
rounded edges that's useful for all sorts of stuff.

You call it like this...

xoffset
yoffset
xwidth
ywidth
radius
roundbox

and, when finished using it, you return with...

grestore

Outlining and coloring might go something like...

gsave 0.7 0.90 0.98 setrgbcolor fill grestore
line3 0 0.75 0.84 setrgbcolor stroke

And adding text goes like...

         xpos ypos (message) cc

Making radius much larger than normal produces all sorts of
interesting "inverse" effects.

A detailed example can be found here with results here .
With many similiar stunts here.

Added a Kilobaud Clocked Logic I story to our Classic Reprints.  
Added a Kilobaud Clocked Logic II story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Kilobaud Clocked Logic III story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Kilobaud TVT for KIM story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Kilobaud Lower_Case_Apple_pt1 story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Kilobaud Lower_Case_Apple_pt2 story to our Classic Reprints.

Added a Byte TV Color Graphics story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Byte ROM_Technology story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Byte Volatile_Memories story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Byte Television_Interface story to our Classic Reprints.
Added a Byte Build a PC memory card story to our Classic Reprints.

Preliminary Field Notes for the Freeman Canal are newly  
available here. And its sourcecode here.

Note that you can click thru to larger and higher resolution
images. And that there are JavaScript page-to-page nav
buttons. Thanks to /F, all figures are now auto inserted
using the Gonzo utilities routed to Distiller. Only the JS
nav needs done after distillation.

This is intended to be the second of many ( possibly 65 sets )
of updated and revised field notes.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

What appears to be a potentially major cost reduction in 
Lithium batteries can be found here. And its discussion
here.

Much more on energy topics here.

Field Notes for the Sand Canal are newly available here.
And its sourcecode here.

Note that you can click thru to larger and higher resolution
images. And that there are JavaScript page-to-page nav
buttons. Thanks to -F, all figures are now auto inserted
using the Gonzo utilities routed to Distiller. Only the JS
nav needs done after distillation.

This is intended to be the first of many ( possibly 65 sets )
of updated and revised field notes.

Much more on our prehistoric hanging canals here.

The original phone phreaking paper can be found here.

You will also need a whistle out of a box of Captain Crunch
cereal.

This was not BSTJ's finest moment.

Several of you have asked about Bruno. Bruno is the attitude
relaterization facillitator 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 
buyers. 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.

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

More details here.

Some or our recent prehistoric bajada hanging canal developments
would be...

Strong new evidence that many if not all historic bajada canals do in
fact have prehistoric origins. Especially the Minor Webster Ditch
and the Cluff NW Canal complex. Based on remnant low energy
profiles.

The shorter new Sand Canal that features a sampler of most hanging
canal features combined with easy foot and vehicle access.

An enigmatic new Golf Course Canal with a significant hanging portion
and a possible destination for the spectacular counterflowing HS Canal.

A new possible nursery site apparently Freeman Canal canal fed.

Discovery of a near pristine Tugood Canal, possibly many miles in length.

Discovery of the potential route of the long sought Veech Canal.

There are apparently two flavors of Walmart auctions. They
run their own merchandise auctions here. Typical pallet
lot prices are in the $800 to $2000 range. Locaations vary
all over the US, and you have to arrange your own shipping.

On the other hand, sixteen pallets of $58,000 worth of broken
tv sets currently have a single bidder of one dollar. Three
hours to close.

While store closing fixture auctions vary with the location,
with examples here and here. Easiest and most current
access is to Google "Walmart store closing auctions"

Much more auction stuff here.

Golly Gee Mister Science.

Here's the top few "gee whiz" features of our prehistoric
bajada hanging canals...

1. The sheer scope and magnitude of a world class total
exploitation of every recoverable drop of northeastern
Mt. Graham water through 65 exceptionally engineered
canals of 70+ total miles.

2. The high Marijilda hanging canal portion that is hung
200 feet above its adjacent drainage.

3. Many other hanging canal portions of variable offset,
clearly done to make slope independent of terrain and
clearly done to optomize construction across, rather than
along the canal route. But only present where needed.

4. The spectacular counterflowing HS canal returning Frye
Mesa water to Frye Creek. Perhaps an eighth mile long,
seven feet wide, and dropping a highly controlled 200 feet.

5. The Culebra Cut below Allen Dam 20 feet wide by seven feet
deep and extending for 300 feet. No signs whatsoever of
historic rework.

6. The Marijilda aqueduct, perhaps 300 feet long by 4 feet high.

7. The optimal watershed crossing of the Mud Springs Canal
from the Ash Creek Drainage to the Mud Springs Drainage.

8. The still unproven watershed crossing between Frye Creek
and Spring Canyon, required as the most reasonable explanation
for many canals to be suitably sourced. A third possible
watershed crossing might also be in Nuttall canyon.

9. The nearly pristine and still largely unexplored Tugood Canal,
potentially several miles long.

10. Examples of counterflow structures that work against the
prevailling terrain. Especially for wash crossings and the
spectacular HS Canal.

11. Rather strong proof that many if not all historic bajada canals
were in fact adapted from prehistoric originals. Based on
remnant low energy profiles.

ISP mail servers and Thunderbird may not work the way
you might expect them to. I recntly ended up with  huge
amounts of ISP memory use for no obvious reason.

If you have several people and several email addresses
where any one of them may respond, it pays to leave
all email messages on the host until you purposely
remove them. But it also definitely pays to click an
erase after 100 daya or whatever box to prevent
unwanted accumulation.

Apparently changing an <remove after> box is NOT
retroactive.

The kicker is this: If you <save as> an .eml to another folder
on your pc, the ISP knows this and still keeps the email
in its server! Recording it as a subfolder.

EVEN AFTER YOU DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE
IN YOUR INBOX AND ON THE MAIL SERVER!

Which leaves you with lots of space and no obvious record of
why it is still in use! This is particularly a problem with large
attachments.

The workaround is to save your < save as > folder off site
to a website or removable thumb drive or whatever.
Then delete the original < save as > folder. Apparently
the ISP is swift enough to delete its subfolder record if you
do this.

You do have to activate your email reader for the disconnect
to get back to the host. It may take a day or two to settle
the dust. You do also have to empty your recycle bin.

You should be able to return the folder copy, preferably with
a slightly modified name.

To find any .eml files you may have forgotten about, do a
windows-x and search files for ".eml".

BTW: If you view an .eml file in a text editor, you will see the
raw code with images encrypted. If you view the same .eml
file in Thunderbird or another email processor, you will
see only the message and any uncompressed images or
other attachments.

Here's a partial list of our available Bajada Hanging Canal
photos. Those with an "x" in the filedname are reduced
resolution ( typically 500 pixels wide ) suitable for use in
PDF documents...

allen0.jpg
allen0x.jpg
allen1,jpg
allem1x.jpg
allen2.jpg
bestgrid.jpg
bestgridx.jpg
cluffnw1.jpg
cluffnw2.jpg
cluffnw3.jpg

cluffnw4.jpg
cluffnw5.jpg
cluffnw6.jpg
cluffnw7.jpg
cluffnw8.jpg
culebra1.jpg
culebra1x.jpg
culebra2.jpg
culebra2x.jpg
dragan.jpg

draganx.jpg
freeman1.jpg
freeman2.jpg
freeman3.jpg
freeman4.jpg
freeman5.jpg
freeman6.jpg
freeman7.jpg
freeman8.jpg
freeman9.jpg

frye1.jpg
frye1x.jpg
frye2.jpg
frye2x.jpg
gc1.jpg
gc1x.jpg
gc2.jpg
gc2x.jpg
golf3.jpg
golf3x.jpg

hangcan1.jpg
hangcan1x.jpg
hangcan1.pdf
henry1.jpg
henry1x.jpg
jern1.jpg
jern1x.jpg
left1.jpg
levada.jpg
levita.jpg

map2.jpg
map2x.jpg
map2.pdf
mary2.jpg
mary2x.jpg
minor1.jpg
minor2.jpg
minor3.jpg
mud1.jpg
mud1x.jpg

mud2.jpg
mud2x.jpg
mud3.jpg
mud3x.jpg
mud4.jpg
mud4x.jpg
rinc1.jpg
rinc1x.jpg
rinc2.jpg
rinc2x.jpg

rinc2.pdf
rob1.jpg
rob1x.jpg
rob2.jpg
rob2x.jpg
rob3.jpg
rob3x.jpg
rob3.pdf
safcan1.jpg
safcan1x.jpg

safcanmap.kml
sand_tree.jpg
sand1.jpg
sand2.jpg
sand3.jpg
sand4.jpg
sand5.jpg
sand6.jpg
sand7.jpg
sand8.jpg

sand9.jpg
sunziax.jpg
threeswitch.jpg
tranq1.jpg
tranq2.jpg
troll1.jpg
tugood1.jpg
tugood2.jpg
twinb1.jpg
veech1.jpg

veech2.jpg
veech3.jpg

eBook copies of my Enhancing Your Apple II & IIe can be
found here.

And many of my other eBooks here.

It seems to me that the HUNDRED MILLION daily and
ever changing links on this fascinating site are all utterly and
completely missing several key points.

First, virtually all federal govrnment involvement to date
can be viewed as simple price supports and farm subsidies
of this popular and major commodity. Subsidies far and
away higher than on any other agricultural product.

Should these outrageous price supports and farm subsidies
be completely eliminated ( as they certainly will ), the price
could be expected to drop somewhat, perhaps to fifty nine
cents a pound.

This would be comparable to and slightly less than cotton,
because the ginning is simpler. Similar to cotton, the standard
increment would be the five hundred pound bale. Partial
bales should, of course, be considered personal use.

Secondly, it is reasonable to assume that the potential new tax
income on this commonody might be slightly overestimated.
But perhaps only by three or four orders of magnitude.

Thirdly, while there are many proven medical benefits, nobody
seems to be mentioning the most significant and most proven
and most well known one - dealing with motion sickness.

Fourth, any presidental candidate not overwhelmingly and
conspicusouly supportive is guaranteed unelectible.  

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

The traditional US Post Office "dead letter" auctions have
changed quite a bit recently. They are all only in Atlanta,
are online only, and typically have a $2000 opening bid.

I would think inspection is manditory, so any opportunities
would only seem to be in the Atlanta area.

More on auction resources here, Arizona specific links
here, and your own custom regional auction finder here.

Google Maps has a new Google Solar Project Sunroof feature that can
evaluate your home for solar energy suitability. It is swift enough to
calculate the size of your roof and nearby trees.

Some discussion here.

Only some areas are presently covered, and they treat subsidies as
a 1X asset rather than the true cost 6X or 7X liability that they really
are. For you have to consider the true time and energy costs needed
to make the subsidy funds available in the first place. .

As this site shows us, pv still costs double than the twenty five
cents per peak panel watt that will eventually be needed for true
net renewability and sustainability. And the recent pricing trends
have been upward, rather than their traditional long term dramatic
cost reductions

More on energy here and pv here.

I've moved an archive of historic emails involved in our Bajada
Hanging Canal reseaarch to our website. It can be made
available to you on request.

But there are two gotchas. Since it is an uncompressed folder
of .eml files whose size may change, it can be delivered by FTP
only.And you have convince us of a reasonable need to know.

A reprint of the Glyphs Prehistoric Hanging Canal paper can
be found here.

eBook copies of the long lost Apple II "red book" can
be found here.

eBook copies of several of my earlier books can be
found here. And other classic reprints here.

Here is yet another of our Prehistoric Hanging Canal cloud
projects:

Starting the short and enigmatic canal segment found at
N 32.80011 W 109.7507, trace its origin and destination,
possibly as far back as the HS Canal at N 32.75874 W 109.81404

Yeah, that would be quite a stretch. But the canal, if real,
had to come from somewhere. And the HS Canal is
super spectacular, so it had to have a still unknown
destination.

Other cloud projects linked here.

Managed to find yet another prehistoric hanging canal.
As usual, it raises many more issues than it resolves.

The tentative name is the Freeman Canal.

What we have is a hundred foot square very rocky area
in an otherwise flat and sandy desert at N 32.80011 W 109.75075.
There is not the slightest hint of anything on Acme Mapper .

The rocks have obviously been rearranged into alignments of
some sort. Prehistorousity would not seem to be in reasonable doubt,
and there seems to be no obvious CCC handiwork.

There is a small apparent field perhaps 20 feet square. There are a
few small check dams without aprons.

The site seems to be directly fed by a vague and erratic mid sized canal
like structure. The canal can be sort of traced for a few hundred feet.
And then, so far, vanishes.

This would require a major linking system of several MILES to reach
candidate sources such as the HS Canal. So far, there is only one tiny
hint of anything in between.  The between area has been visited many
times.

The terrain is eminently suitable for a canal route. Both slope and
topographically. The location is reasonable  considering the known
canals. This would be #65. A previous list can be found here.

I am totally baffled by what I seem to be looking at. None of it makes much
sense to me so far. The developed area seems much too small for that much
of a canal. IF it is in fact a canal.

I definitely need a second or third opinion. Some preliminary photos now
appear here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

More on other hanging canals here. Your participation welcome.
Field mice, Daddy Warbucks, and drone pilots definitely needed.

Yorg.

No sooner do I pretty much eliminate most of my internal
404's that I start getting hundreds ( and possibly thousands
soon ) of 404's seeking apple-touch-icon.png links.

Apparently ALL websites now MUST include this file!

There's all sorts of arguments over which size to use,
but starting with a 60 x60 bitmap is supposed to work.

So, here is my icon. Easily built as a .bmp file using
my Bitmap Typewriter. And then converted to .png
by using Paint.

Please let me know if you find any use problems.

My initial goal was simply to get rid of the 404's.

A reminder that Acrobat Distiller Pro normally locks out most
diskfile reads or writes. The workaround is to run Distiller
from windows-x-run with a trailing /F. Like so...

"C:\Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Acrobat 11.0/Acrobat/acrodist.exe" /F /R run

This lets you run our Bitmap Typewriter directly from
Acrobat X Pro instead of GhostScript. One advantage of
which is access to a much greater number of fonts.

The Bitmap Typewriter lets you add or improve text
that can be cut and pasted into most any bitmap and is
particularly useful for  delivering the highest possible
resolution to very small type sizes. Short of subpixel
techniques.

You will also need access to a copy of our Gonzo
Utilities. Gonzo can be found here with its turtprial
here. An older Bitmap Typewriter tutorial can be
found here.

You can generate a list of your available fonts by
loading most any .pdf file into Acrobat and starting
to add a text watermark. The fonts box should give
you a list of all available fonts to you with their
correct spellings. The commented font list in the
Bitmap Typewriter is unlikely to exactly match
the fonts available on your computer.

A summary of some of the internal Bitmap
Typewriter commands are...

/targetfilename- Short target filename string
/targetfilenameprefix - full Prefix string.

/yourfontname sf - set font
num gk - set global kern
num mv - mottle background variability

[num num num] or [num] sca - background color
    ( single numeral colors here )

ma - set bottom quarter of bitmap background color
mb - set next higher bitmap background color
mc - set next higher bitmap background color
md -set next higher bitmap background color

[num num num] or [num] sca - set text color
    ( single numeral colors here )

num sy - vertical line spacing
num num ss- font width and height in pixels

h v (yourtext) st - set text in position shown
0 0 (yourtext) st - continue text past previous

writebitmap - add text to work bitmap.

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

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

There are continuing serious problems with wordpad in that it
often will trash linefeeds in Linux originated documents.

Which both runs text together and creates serious
checksum problems.

Better text manipulation strategies would include Word,
Dreamweaver, and Acrobat. Among many others.

Managed to upload a copy of the totally bogus "magic lamp"
perpetual motion machine story. Based apparently on a failure
to appreciate the horrific differences between average
and rms measurements when made on low duty cycle
waveforms .

AKA Beginning EE student blunder #001-A.

More on this fiasco here, with the fundamentals
of rms versus average here and here, and the
magazine admitting they had been had here.

More on bashing pseudoscience here, and on
the utter futility of patents here.

Another month has gone by with increasing pv panel
prices, once again reversiing decades of continuing
dramatic cost reductions.

PV pricing remains around double what will eventually
be required for long term renewability and sustainability,

More on pv fundamentals here, and on energy in
general here.

And here is how you add navigation buttons to a .PDF
file using JavaScript over Acrobat...

// Button Nav Generator

// Add navigation buttons to the page
// This script puts 3 buttons on top of every page
// First button "<" : takes to the previous page
// Second button: "1" : takes to the first page
// Third button: ">" : takes to the next pag

var inch = 72;
colLtGray = ["RGB", 0.7 , 0.7, 0.7 ]; // Light Gray
try
{nLastPage = this.numPages - 1;
for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
{
var x = 0.5;
if (p > 0)
{
AddButton(p,x,0.5,0.25,0.25,"PrevPage","<",
        "Previous Page","this.pageNum--;"); // left arrow
x += 0.3;
}
if (p != 0)
{
AddButton(p,x,0.5,0.25,0.25,"StartPage","1","Go To First Page",
    "this.pageNum=0;"); // "1", takes to the first page
x += 0.3;
}
if (p < nLastPage)
{
AddButton(p,x,0.5,0.25,0.25,"NextPage",">","Next Page",
      "this.pageNum++;"); // right arrow, next page
x += 0.3;
}}}
catch (e)
{
app.alert(e);
}

// AddButton function creates a button
function AddButton(nPageNum, x, y, width, height,
       strText, strCaption, strToolTip, strAction)
{
var aRect = this.getPageBox( { nPage: nPageNum} );
aRect[0] += x * inch;
aRect[1] -= y * inch;
aRect[2] = aRect[0] + width * inch;
aRect[3] = aRect[1] - height * inch;

var f = this.addField(strText,"button", nPageNum, aRect);
f.setAction("MouseUp",strAction);
f.userName = strToolTip;
f.delay = true;
f.borderStyle = border.s;
f.highlight = "push";
f.textSize = 0; // autosized
f.textColor = colLtGray;
f.strokeColor = colLtGray;
f.fillColor = color.white;
// you can specify a different font here
//f.textFont = font.ZapfD;
f.buttonSetCaption(strCaption);
f.delay = false;
}

An example can be found here. And a code copy here.

You do have to make sure the .pdf file is unlocked and
not secure. And you do have to make sure you are on
the first page at the start of your document.

More on the Red Horse 2 combined wind and solar project can
be found here. Cost after subsidies and similar scams seems
to approach five cents per kilowatt hour.

Not sure how close you can get to the site, which is near the
junction of Warbonnet road and Hooker Hot Springs roads.
Somewhere around N 32.28581 W 110.13233. They should
not be too hard to find since they are by far the largest
structures in Southern Arizona.

More interesting places to visit here. And more on
energy here.

JavaScript over Acrobat can be incredibly useful but can
also be maddeningly frustrating. Some key references can
be found here, here, here, here, and here.

Such tricks as filling a document with images or adding
nav buttons, or page watermarking are easily done as
are many other tricks. Especially involving forms.

Ferinstance, here is some simple test code to let you
add a watermark to a page...

this.addWatermarkFromText({
cText: "DRAFT\n\nCOPY",
nTextAlign:app.constants.align.center,
cFont: "Helvetica-Bold",
nFontSize:36,
aColor: color.red,
nStart: this.pageNum,
nOpacity: 0.5
});

And here is how you insert an image...

// Image Inserter

this.addWatermarkFromFile({
cDIPath: "/C/Users/image_loc_.jpg",
nStart: 2,
nScale: 0.59,
nVertValue: 131,
nHorizValue: -5,
});

Typically, you activate JavaScript from within a previously
uploaded .PDF doc into Acrobat XI pro. A control-j turns on
the console debugger, while a control-k lets you save some
preferences. Make sure the console window is open.

Copy your code to be executed into the console and highlight
it with your mouse. To execute your highlighted code,
either use the Keyboard Enter or the main Control Enter.

Note that the main enter key will not work by itself!

Extreme attention to detail is needed to get working
code. Acrobat will sometimes save a .js routine into
its internal C:/Program Files(x86)/Adobe/Acrobat11/
Acrobat/Javascro[ts folder. Any new stuff entered
here will automatically execute each and every time
you select a .PDF file, and defective entries can
trash newer atempts and accomplishing anything.

Note that debugger.js should remain in this directory.
Chances are that all other .js files should be deleted
unless you know exactly what you are doing.

Acrobat may also keep older .js routines in an
active .PDF file if it is saved. Should you have
problems, always restart or redistill to a "clean"
and JavaScript free original.

Should your code prove difficult, always try
something simpler first and sneak up on it,
using the error message hints in the console.

There seem to be quite a few presently disused historic
pipelines in the area, some of which would appear to be
prehistoric bajada hanging canal related. Here is a
summary of some of the candidates...

ASH CREEK - Still functional pipeline parallels
Mud Springs Canal but starts higher, routes
directly donstream, and apparently still feeds
Cluff Reservior #3.
N 32.77450 W 109.85976 to N 32.79622 W 109.85764

SAND CANAL - Two mysterious short segments
of terra cotta pipe have been placed near the known
takein of an otherise clearly prehistoric canal.
Who did this and why remains enigmatic.
N 32.83094 W 109.92607 and N 32.83122 W 109.92562

DEADMAN MESA - Original westernmost portion
of prehistoric Deadman Canal has been replaced by
historic pipeline once feeding domestic water. Still
flows but today only serves cattle tanks.
N 32.73878 W 109.81177 to N 32.74493 W 109.80673

BELOW FRYE DAM - Extensive prehistoric canals
instead stayed high on Frye Mesa. Bottom canyon
concrete pipe route appears modern and dam
related. Combined with Deadman pipeline to
route to a chlorinator and domestic water supply.
N 32.75602 W 109.81698 to N 32.76917 W 109.79285

MYSTERY REACH - Fragments of a concrete pipe
line appear to possibly overlay a largely unstudied
and rather vague prehistoric original. Definitely
needs further study. Prehistoric ag structures and
rock alignments are also in the area.
N 32.79087 W 109.76136 to  N 32.79297 W 109.75890 ?

CLUFF NW CANAL - Extensively developed historic
canal shows prehistoric standards portions and
includes several white PVC pipes as feeders and
as siphons.
N 32.82414 W 109.84816 and N 32.82702 W 109.84646

GOAT CANAL DROPOFF - While the topo map shows
three pipelines here, only one remains Acme Mapper
visible. This one might even have had some hydro
potential.
 32.68504 W 109.72947 to N 32.68428 W 109.72924

Field mice and drone pilots needed.

Finally got my Fatcow logfile reporting straightened out.

Logfiles are available by FTP transfer from your FatCow
site stats subdirectory. Filezilla is one example of a suitable
FTP transfer utility.

Use of a browser for transfer is not recommended.

A typical report might be called access_log_20150814.gz.
FTP transfer a copy of this to your local computer in a suitable
subdirectory.

This is a .gz compressed file and you will need a preloaded
copy of a suitable decompressor. WinZip would seem to
be a good choice. WARNING: Make sure you go to
the "real" WinZip site and not on one of the many
malware alternatives!

Drag and drop your local access log copy into WinZip.
It should create a new plaintext file for you named
something like moo.tinajacom or similar. You can
now inspect or modify it using most any text
processor . My Gonzo Utilities are especially superb
for this sort of thing.

Warning: Use of Wordpad will trash your line feeds,
as it does with many Linux originated files. Better
choices for viewing are Word or Dreamweaver. To
use Acrobat, rename a file copy as .txt.

Managed to locate and update the two missing pages of
the classic Lil Richie reprint. A problem still remains on
Pseudorandom Circuits which we are working on.

I've long been a fan of the super slushes by the eeGees chain
in Tucson. Their eight foot long subs also aren't half bad.

Turns out they "sort of" just opened a site in Safford inside
JoBi's across from Bricks on south 191.

Its basically just a freezer full of prepackaged stuff.
To get the drinks to appear "normal", you have to
either microwave them or repeatedly stab them with
a real fork. I prefer the latter.

But, hey, they are here. Also at Pima Freeze.

Some interesting new battery developments can be found
here. I'd predict that incremental advances will be more
the norm than stunning breakthroughts.

At present, lithium batteries are around 300 watthours
per liter. Compared to gasoline at 9600.

More on energy fundamentals here.

Found a few mysterious concrete structures that apparently
were involved in historic water management. Strangely, they do
not appear to be CCC related at first glance.

I've yet to visit them and do not yet know exactly what we
have here.

Check out N 32.77994 W 109.76554 , N 32.80039 W 109.79105,
and N 32.80063 W 109.79055.

More on neat Gila Valley things to explore here.

Just noticed that our product warranty label has been long
missing. Probably because there was some overload or
malware incident many years ago.

I've temporarily replaced it here after retriving it from
the Wayback Machine. More similar items at  engrish.com

Now have a nearly complete set of our classic Modern
Electronics columns...

www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/upg_aII_mon2+3_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/abs_rst_upd_11_85.pdf

www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_1_85.pdf  
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_2_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_3_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_4_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_5_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_6_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_7_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_8_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_9_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_10_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_11_85.pdf

www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_1_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_2_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_3_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_4_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_5_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_6_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_7_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_8_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_9_86.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_10_85.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_11_86.pdf

www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_1_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_2_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_3_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_4_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_5_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_6_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_7_87.pdf
www.tinaja.com/glib/h_hack_me/hhack_8_87.pdf

I'll try and shortly get these into our main Classic Reprints
directory.

Which is now fairly complete, except for bunches of Byte
and Kilobaud column and great heaping piles of really
obscure stuff.

It is always the greasy whistle that gets squeaked.

Once again expanded and updated our Gila Valley 
Dayhikes page. We are now up to 429 main entries,
most of which now include GPS location links.

Also included our latest hanging canal directory
along with many dozens of third party links of
local outdoor interest.

Please email me with anything I missed or needs
further updating.

Managed to get this demo and this sourcecode on using disk files
with Acrobat XI that is -F run to allow disk file access. The PDF and
PSL files are based on a shortened version of this file.

The code is completely rewritten with greatly improved docs. Key
features are the ability to run our Gonzo Utilities rather than having
to embed them; to programatically auto position url links from a .psl
file sent to Distiller; and to also programatically insert both low and
hires click thru images, again within Distiller.

Apparent LORES image resolution also appears somewhat higher

The final .PDF files should also end up significantly shorter than most
other approaches. Size is overwhelmingly determined by the number
and reduction factors of any included images.

You will need to place copies of https://www.tinaja.com/psutils/gonzo.ps  
and https://www.tinaja.com/canal/Reduced_Images/allen0x500x400.jpg
in an appropriate directory to your host machine.

You will also need to special activate Distiller by using a 
"C:\Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Acrobat 11.0/Acrobat/acrodist.exe" /F /R run
from windows-x run from the command line..

Full details should appear in the internal comment docs. Please
email me with any comments or problems.

A technique we might call "lowballing" can produce useful
results both on eBay and Craigs List.

Just hit twice in a row. The normal goal is to hit one in
twenty. Which of course, you make up for by making
twenty times the number of offers you could possibly use.

With lowballing, you make an offer of one fifth to one quarter
of the lowest possible conceivable value to you for the items
listed. The technique works best when a large pile of wildly
divergent items is being offered. Items that you are familiar
with, but not "gottahave" mainstream to you.

For every once in a while, "they" really just want to get rid
of the stuff or must clear the area. Or haven't the faintest
clue what their stuff is worth. Or there are legal or familial
or medical or estate or bankruptcy or divorce issues.

Or, for one reason or another, you end up as the only one
responding to their ads. For some mysterious reason, this
seems to dramatically increase your odds of winning.

You will, of course, receive obscene responses almost of
all of the time and must not re-respond to them in any way.

And certainly never get into a pissing contest. Always do
fully agree that your are an opportunistic bottom feeder.
Its what you do.

Strangely, most loball acceptances will not attempt to
negotiate with you at all.

More strategies here.

A curious fact: Any perpetual motion machine that includes
a 555 timer is bogus and nonfunctional. No exceptions to this
rule have ever been found.

Which saves you bunches of time discrediting a perpetual
motion machine, for if a 555 timer is present, there is
absolutely no point in continuing. Guaranteed.

After reviewing a bunch of recent candidates, the usual
problem is that narrow pulses are exceptionally difficult
to properly measure. I've dealt with this here, here, and
here.

The key gotcha is that any spike or narrow pulse has an
exceptionally high ratio of rms to average value. And
even though correctly measuring rms instrumennts have
finally become readily available, the overwhelming
majority of lay members of the Church of the Latter
Day Crackpots continue to mislead themselves
by still using average reading instruments.

Even if you have a "real" rms meter, there's a
secondary gotcha called the crest factor that
still will nail you to the wall. Multiply two big
numbers together and they become a huge
number. Waaay beyond anything analog can
deal with.

Exceed the crest factor and the instrumunt
will still read deceptively low.

A fascinating supply of totally worthless overunity
devices can be found here on a continuous basis.

More on pseudoscience bashing here.

A question that might reasonably be asked is "How many
of our bajada prehistoric canals are now in use for marijuana
cultivation?"

To the best of my knowledge and belief, I feel the answer
is zero. The vast majority of the canals presently do not
flow or have no usable takein. The few that do currently
flow or are capable of are all in obvious or highly visible
locations. And managed by ditch bosses who are pillars
of their community.

Much more here and its curious origin here. Plus many
hundreds of millions of daily progress reports here.

Details on the most likely Goldilocks Exoplanet yet can be
found here. "They" are still too far away to know about
us for the next 900 years or so, though.

Which raises the obvious dilemma: What if the first
and only contact they receive is a perfectly lucid ten
second clip of Roller Derby?

And exactly how would they deal with Captain Video?

More on exoplanets here and here..

Oops. My Bad.

It turns out that, given enough secret insider stuff and more
secret insider stuff to read and write disk files can be made
fully available for the Distiller in Acrobat XI.

There are two different approaches.

The problem was ( and remains ) that the abuse potential
( and, of course, the sheer raw power ) of Distiller being
able to read or write to any disk file in any language is
totally off the wall.

While Distiller does create an internal temp file that
can be written to or read from, it is not obvious how you can
use this as it gets fully erased after each session.

Instead, you can add a /F /R to your distiller run command.
to gain file read write access.

Such as by going to windows-x and then run...

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\
Acrobat\acrodist.exe" /F /R run

Do this as a single line with a space between the quote
and a space between the F and / . You may want to
convert this into a desktop shortcut.

Here is an example of some code that compactly runs
Gonzo and then makes a layout grid...

(C://Users//don//Desktop//dist-FR//gonzo.ps) run

/guru { gonzo begin ps.util.1 begin printerror
nuisance begin} def
guru % activate gonzo utilities

50 50 10 setgrid
40 60 showgrid
showpage

%  EOF

This, of course, will only work if your Distiller run
shortcut has its F switch flipped.

I'll try to shortly work up demos on our autopositioning
URL generator and our auto image inserters shortly.

These can also be found in many of our older .psl files.

Just received a call from an individual apparently over
their head on an analog design with problems that
seemed to be related to shielding, decoupling, and
other "regeneration" stability issues.

But there was a more fundamental problem that I've
seen over and over again. The design was for an
item that almost certainly was a standard and off
the shelf ( albeit fancier and much more expensive )
product in long in use by industry insiders.

What should have been done first was a careful
study of who these insiders were and what products
and tools they used. Foremost, of course, would be
industry insider trade journals, industry shows, and
related product catalogs.

Combined with a very careful study of online resources.

In this particular case, knowing a lot more about
city water supplies should have proven extremely useful.

Free trade journal examples might have included
the no-charge list from http://www.freetrademagazines.com/
waste-management-water-supply-magazines/

Much more on product innovation in our Blatant
Opportunist column library.

Custom consulting available.

Here's a preliminary list of all the hanging canals and
their related constructs...

1. VCN1
Veech Canal
From middle Veech Canyon to possible P Ranch Fields
N 32.64151 W 109.74348 to N 32.64386 W 109.74218
Not yet explored, should be significant.

2. GTC1
Goat Tank Canal
From Lower Jacobson Canyon along southern edge of
    Ledford Mesa
N 32.68467 W 109.76160 to N 32.68914 W 109.72106
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access.

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

4. JAC1
Lower Jacobson Hint ( largely discredited )
N 32.67671 W 109.77610 to N 32.67736 W 109.77472
Aerial evidence became a fence line in hostile terrain.

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

6. MAR1
Main Marijilda Canal aka Lebanon Ditch from Marijilda
      Dam to Lebanon Reservoir
N 32.70628 W 109.77702 to N 32.73322 W 109.76149
Major prehistoric development, still flowing Modern Use

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

8. MAQ1
Marijilda Aqueduct
Delivers between Main Marijilda and High Marijilda
32.72356 W 109.76257 to N 32.72411 W 109.76235
Only known major system aqueduct crosses a saddle.

9. HMC1
High Marijilda Hanging Canal
N 32.72410 W 109.76239 to N 32.74113 W 109.74677
Spectacular portion hangs mesa edge 200 feet in the air.

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

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

12. RPC1
Roper Canal
N 32.75567 W 109.70885 to N 32.75567 W 109.70885
Modern feeder to Roper Lake, presumed mostly prehistoric.

13. RIC1
Rincon Canal
N 32.73410 W 109.76325 to N 32.76222 W 109.74402
Marijilda branch possibly becomes Twin West canal.

14. TQC1
Tranquility Canal
N 32.75754 W 109.73294 to N 32.77477 W 109.72751
Artesian sourced and historic use from presumed original.

15. DPC1
Discovery Park Canal ( vague - still requires verification, )
N 32.79267 W 109.72830 to N 32.79450 W 109.72781
Possible feeder to potential Discovery Park fields.

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

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

18. TBP1
TB Ponding Area
N 32.76739 W 109.73803 to N 32.76465 W 109.73400
Receoves and redistributes TEC1 and TWC1 water.
Highly distinctive aerial profile.

19. MFC1
Mystery Feeder
N 32.76738 W 109.74366 to N 32.76681 W 109.74181
Short Canal segment might tie Deadman or Deadman
     South to Twin West. Needs more work

20. DMS1
Deadman South
N 32.75525 W 109.78008 to N 32.75650 W 109.77712
Unexplored potential canal has strong Acme Mapper
     presence. Includes mystery alignments.

21. DMC1
Main Deadman Canal
N 32.73735 W 109.81291 to N 32.76277 W 109.77392
Still flows in original channel serving cattle tanks.
     Portions are buried pipeline.

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

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

25 CKD1
Check Dams with Aprons
N 32.77872 W 109.76472 or N 32.78840 W 109.87113
      plus many others
Rock diversions across secondary washes are quite common..

26. ALS1
Albertos Signature
N 32.79690 W 109.75485
Of the thousands of conflicting CCC structures locally, this one
    is the only known one autographed in sone..

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

28. FWD1
Frye Watershed Diversion
N 32.74427 W 109.83918 to N 32.74558 W 109.84033
Unproven potentially spectacular watershed crossing
    seems demanded by HS Canal and others.

29. MFC1
Main Frye Mesa Delivery Canal
N 32.74573 W 109.84033 to N 32.75995 W 109.81148
Partially unproven but demanded by Frye Ponding Area,
       HS Canal, Golf Course, and Robinson Canal.

30. FPA1
Lower Frye Mesa Ponding area.
N 32.75995 W 109.81148
Gathers in Frye Mesa braided channels to support HS Canal,
      Golf Course?, and Roginson Canal.

31. HSC1
HS Canal
N 32.75987 W 109.81163 to N 32.75771 W 109.81511
Spectacular hanging and counterflowing structure RETURNS
      water to Frye Creek, possibly sources Golf Course.

32. LFC1 ( largely discredited )
Lower Frye potential route
N 32.76634 W 109.79377 to N 32.77185 W 109.78715
Possible route includes wagon road with horseshoes,
      could feed Blue Ponds.

33. BPC1
Blue Ponds Canal
N 32.78118 W 109.77771 to N 32.78064 W 109.77607
Short disused historic pond routing canal may or may
        not have unproven prehistoric origins.

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

35. GCC1
Golf Course Cxanal
N 32.79811 W 109.78286 to N 32.79895 W 109.77587
Major prehistoric canal sericed Daley Estates area, includes
      hanging portions and mystery structure..

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

37. RBC1
Robinson Ranch Canal
N 32.75997 W 109.81147 to N 32.79930 W 109.79027
Major hanging canal with strong down = up illusion sources
    from Lower Frye Mesa ponding area

38. ALC1
Allen Canal
N 32.78237 W 109.83540 to N 32.83253 W 109.80507
Major prehistoric canal possibly includes Frye Watershed
         crossing. Destination remains unknown.

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

40. CUC1
Culebra Cut
N 32.83567 W 109.79796 to N 32.83560 W 109.79841
Spectacular major large cut in Allen Canal below historic dam.

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

42. MSC1
Mud Springs Canal
N 32.79153 W 109.85375 to N 32.84796 W 109.81105
Major canal system branches to Jernigan, includes several
      hanging portions. Destination remains unknown.

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

44. MJB1
Mud Jernigan Branching Point
N 32.82765 W 109.81953
Apparent location of the beginning of the Jernigan Canal.

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

46. JEC1
Jernigan Canal
N 32.82765 W 109.81953 to N 32.84131 W 109.81649
One of few canals with obvious destination. Conspicuous
      hanging portion, habitation sites.

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

48. STC1
Smith Tank Canal
N 32.81870 W 109.84689 to N 32.82055 W 109.84458
Likely has unproved prehistoric original.

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

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

51. MWD1
Merrill Webster Ditch
N 32.79771 W 109.87296 to N 32.81310 W 109.86638
Historically redeveloped canal shows reasonable evidence
of unmodified prehistoric origins

52. TGC1
Tugood Canal
N 32.80923 W 109.87115 to N 32.82008 W 109.86671
Most impressively pristine of the known hanging canals.
Superb restoration candidate.

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

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

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

56. LMC1
Lamb Tank Canal
N 32.81196 W 109.92310 to N 32.81445 W 109.92266
Likely lefthand source. Additional study required.

57. MR1 ( largely discredited )
Mystery Reach
N 32.81793 W 109.90207 to N 32.82478 W 109.90003
Fairly convincing aerial evidence field verifies more as
      a disused vehicle two track.

58. SWC1
Sand Wash Canal
N 32.83099 W 109.92604 to N 32.83508 W 109.92274
Ideal short tour candidate has nearly everything including
easy access. May be prototype as final channel miniscule.

 59. NWD1
Nuttall Watershed Diversion
N 32.77471 W 109.95411 to N 32.77774 W 109.95532
Postulated third watershed crossing would supplement
Sand Canal water sourcing. Unverified.

60. BSC1
N 32.85049 W 109.94399 to N 32.87226 W 109.92596
Apparent scam historic canal from a source unlikely to
     have been prehistorically ignored.

61. GRD2
The grids
Southern examples include N 32.78651 W 109.74353
         and N 32.79408 W 109.75260
Rectangular agave farming arrays. Many thousands north
        of Gila river, a few hundreds south.

62. BDC1
Bandolier Canal
N 32.94446 W 109.91120 to N 32.94677 W 109.91317
Appears to be deep vee riverine canal unreleated and
       unlinked to present study area.

63. UFO1
UFO Fish Fillets
N 32.81203 W 109.97330 to N 32.82299 W 109.96420
Likely a highly atypical CCC project that may or may
      not have prehsoric origins.

These were numbered arbitrarily more or less from southeast to
northwest. We will likely use as an outline for a set of expanded
field notes.

Much more info here.

Probably the greatest electronic textbook of all time was the
Radiotron Designers Handbook. Nearly all of its zillion
pages are now obsolete, but free online copies are readily
available here.

Many similar refrences are available through the folks at
http://www.tubebooks.org/

Another stunning collection of other historic radio magazine
reprints and related items are available through
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/

Our 404 extermination process seems to be taking forever.

One rude surprise halfway through was that half the 404s
are reported by this utility as 500's. Needing a reset to zero.

Best current estimate is that several hundred broken links
remain that are repairable.

It appears that the URL noise floor of our website will end
up somewhere around three percent. Assuming that everything
we can fix does in fact get fixed.

Please report any remaining problems.

Either I am looking in the wrong places, or web information on
fingerprint longevity seems to be either ambiguous or sorely
lacking.

Could a fingerprint under a rock survive in some remnant form
eighty years? This might let you separate 80 year old CCC
rock projects from our 800 year old prehistoric canals.

Then again, the CCC folks might have consistently used
gloves.

No mention of this on CSI Gila Bend.

Managed to upload https://www.tinaja.com/blog_excerpts12.shtml
to go with our excerpts13 and excerpts14.

Taken together, these should include a historic time line of our
hanging canal developments, without needing to plow through
all the rest of the whatnu blogs.

More on the canals here.

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

A question came up as to which of our prehistoric baja hanging
canals might be restorable.

The quick answer is very few, owing to multiple owners, some
extensive historic revisions, more recent land use, and a lack of
available demo water.

But two reasonable candidates would include a third mile of the
Sand Canal at N 32.83096 W 109.92607 to N 32.83096 W 109.92607
and possibly as much as two miles (!) of the Tugood Canal found
beyond N 32.80846 W 109.87176 to N 32.82246 W 109.86579

Both reches appear pretty much pristine.

As you can tell by all the arrows in my back, I was a pioneer
in Book on Demand publishing. BOD or POD.

Such as this document or this one or this one which were first
published by using Applewriter on an Apple IIe.

With one curious exception, BOD seems a total failure with
no future whatsoever. Reasons include eBooks being
infinitely superior on all counts.

The secret hidden reason was the failure for anybody ever to
address the crucial needs of economy cutters and binder systems
that were sanely enough priced, safe enough and easy enough to
use for for one up book sales by individuals.

That exception is the Espresso machine. Whose outrageous
pricing, training, and maint is only suitable for such service
bureaus as very large bookstores or university libraries.

A typical price list can be found here. Basically, you are
looking at $32.50 for a single book with zero quantity discounts.

That price, of course, is B/W only and before any of your profits.
Which kinda cuts into the instant availability.

Our available eBooks can be found here.

This 404 detector sometimes may hang, possibly permanently. 

Long delays are usually caused by the quered website taking
its good old time responding. Forever delays are likely caused
by site glitches such as two URLs in one continuous link.

The simplest way to deal with this is to immediately fix the
hanging 404. Then resume your broken 404 search on the
others.

Another workaround is to replace the https: in the problem
files with httpsq: This creates an intentional and very quickly
found error to bypass the problem hanging code.

Naturally, you undo the mistake after everything else gets
fixed.

The Barbie Index is a new method of measuring math
understanding and competence.

Ferinstance, an individual with a BI of 0.7 would have
seventy percent of the math capabilities of a Barbie doll. 

More math stuff here.

Amazingly, five of our prehistoric bajada hanging canals
either still flow to this day or at least seem capable of
doing so...

MARIJILDA CANAL - An important feeder
to the Lebanon Ponds from N 32.70600
W 109.77755 to N 32.73322 W 109.76158

ROPER CANAL - Modern feeder to Roper
Lake believed to mostly follow a prehistoric
canal route from N 32.74617 W 109.74177
to N 32.75567 W 109.70885 Portions realigned
along US 191.

DEADMAN CANAL - Portions here apparently
still flow in the unmodified original prehistoric
channel from N 32.73791 W 109.81238 to
N 32.75502 W 109.78938 Part of this route
is now a disused but still flowing buried pipeline.

LEDFORD CANAL - Believed prehistoric original
sometimes upplies modern cattle tanks from
N 32.68455 W 109.75917 to  32.68989 W 109.73711.
Not yet fully explored due to difficult access.

GOAT TANK CANAL - Believed prehistoric original
sometimes upplies modern cattle tanks from
N 32.68231 W 109.75879 to   32.68556 W 109.72935.
Not yet fully explored due to difficult access.  

Managed to clear a few hundred website 404 errors. Please
report any remaining.

By far the worst problem are the bureaucracies and others
who delete files or change their names without redirecting.
Leaving hundreds or even thousands of 404's web wide.
Which, of course, take hundreds of hours to fix.

The BLM is by far the most mesmerizingly awful offender.

Apparently, there is a fundamental low limit of "noise 404's"
that no website can get under. These are caused by malware,
robots, fumble fingered typists, blog referencing, hopeful
guesses, and similar attempts.

The limit to these uncorrectable 404's would appear to be
around three percent for this website. Fortunately, the
noise 404's rarely affect any user you care about.

Some tools I've found useful for chasing 404's:

Raw site logs such as these to give you
the ratio of fixable and noise 404"s.

Fancy site logs analysis reports to give
you the ratio of 404's to valid hits.

ISP reports that give you file popularity.
Popular files are more likely to affect
more users more often. And thus should
have maint priority.

404 detection services such as this one
and this one.

Persistant "unremovable" 404's may be a
part of an include rather than the main file!

Watch out for duplicate or multiple identical
404's or they will return to haunt you.

It may pay to arbitrarily check 200 links per
day by hand as a backup check.

Do note that active 404 hunting can significantly alter your
actual web use reports, making them appear excessive

More here.

While I was repairing 404's, I also had to take a few web
glitches out and replace them with shiny new ones..

Our least interesting rather most obsolete
file of Resbin76 remains under relentless
DOS attack. It has to be special ordered
via email. My best guess as to what is
coming down is somehow confusing my
/glib directory with GLib in the C language.

Managed to replace the long missing Muse143
file with a fresh copy, but not up to most of
the fully restored Muse standards.

Two of our hanging canal maps had to be
temporarily placed under NDA status and
require email download approval.

My PostScript videos remain available here
but the ultra sized sourcecode requires your
receiving a link via email.

I got tired of cleaning up the mess BLM
consistently leaves on the web, so most
of their links on my site are now generic.

That's not a bug, its a feature.

The latest revisions of Google Chrome arbitrarily and erratically
switch to a "black screen of death". Which is both scary
and maddengly infuriating.

One apparent cure is to go to the upper right Chrome "jail" icon,
scroll down to "Relaunch Chrome in Desktop Mode"

Apparently there are now two Chrome modes, regular
and dark black. The latter intended for Windows 8.

The last month's pc pricing posts remain flat and still show a
continuing reversal of traditional steadily declining prices.

Once again, a price of twenty five cents per peak panel watt needs
reliably achieved before pv anything can ever hope to approach
eventually becoming renewable or sustainable.

More here and here.

While some electronic music chips have ceased production,
a wide variety of interesting devices remains available from
Thatcorp. They also have dozens of superb ap notes.

Further expanded and improved our Classic Reprints
page. There are now many hundreds of original projects
now included.

While nearly compete, many Byte, Kilobaud, and Modern
Electronics titles are not quite yet available. And some
really obscure stuff ( Such as the Goodyear AEEM"s and
the Cave Craler's Gazette ) will likely take forever.

I am still obsessively trying to track down the magic lamp
story, although it clearly is not mine. Whenever.

I guess this was my best pseudoscience bashing effort and
the second best ever degubbing. The best, of course, was the
LAN of the nineties.

The EIGHTEEN nineties!

The first photos of the probable location of the long sought
after Veech Prehistoric Hanging Canal ( P Ranch area ) can
likely be found here, here, and here.

While the very first photos of the newly known and verified
TuGood prehistoric Canal ( Merril area ) can be found here,
here, and here.

Much more here and here.

A stunning collection of data sheets and such for most
transistors, vacuum tubes, diodes, and pacific rim
semiconductors can be found here.

One of the most stunning illusions in our prehistoric bajada
hanging canals is the consistent "water flows uphill"
illusion. Typically, a canal flows DOWN to the HIGHEST
point on a hill or mesa! And does so brilliantly while fully
preserving any and all physical laws.

Typically, seeing is not believing. "They" are playing
with your mind. Obviously, the canal has to start somewhere
higher than the highest present elevation. Such opportunities,
of course, abound with a mountain at your back.

The engineering sophistication to pull this off staggers
the imagination. "They" apparently realized that the
canals should always be on the HIGHEST terrain to
MAXIMIZE the water potential energy, and thus to
allow the longest possible delivery distances.

A summary here. Plus bunches more here.
Field mice welcome. As are Daddy Warbucks and
drone operators.

Win a few, loose a few.

Typically more than nine out of ten of our potential hanging
canal candidates end up "real" and world class upon more
detailed investigation. But I've decided to include the losers
in our directories as well for completeness and to discourage
replowing old ground.

After dozens of fruitless trips and chasing many rumors, it
appears the Veech Canal in the P Ranch area is likely quite
real. I still have not ground truthed it, but it clearly seems
to be at N 32.64294 W 109.74269  And credible witnesses
seem to now abound,  both within and outside of Coronado
National Forest.

There do seem to be some nearby water spreaders to the
east that may or may not be prehistoric and may or may
not be CCC. The access route seems brushy and over half
a mile from the nearest 4WD track. This might end up as
an interesting ATV project. As well as a drone candidate.

The spectacular but little visited Veech Canyon appears
to be a seasonal water source that was gathered and
routed further north to yet undiscovered fields in the
P ranch area.

Meanwhile, what looked like a potential canal on
Acme Mapper in the lower Jacobson Canyon area
with credible location and slope apparently turned into
a plain old fence line in rather canal hostile territory.

A summary here. Plus bunches more here.
Field mice welcome. As are Daddy Warbucks and
drone operators.

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

Added some more of my Popular Electronics projects and
tutorials to our Classic Reprints library... 

lowcost_dec_count_2_68.pdf
elec_stopwatch_3_68.pdf  
pitch_reference_9_68.pdf
dig_voltmtr_12_68.pdf
frequency_count_3+4_69.pdf  
psychedelia_col_org_9_69.pdf
two_tone_alarm_2_70.pdf
numeric_glow_dcu_2_70.pdf
nobounce_pb_3_70.pdf
digital_microlab_4_70.pdf
standard_100kHz_4_70.pdf
shift_register_5_70.pdf
signal_injector_6_70.pdf
mini_dvm_9_70.pdf
psychtone_2_71.pdf
digi_viewer_3_71.pdf
intro_el_music_10_73.pdf
el_music_comps_11_73.pdf
pitch_standards_1_74.pdf
pitch_generators_2_74.pdf
simp_keyboard _4_74.pdf
cmos_microlab_6_74.pdf
em_keyboards_7_74.pdf
digiviewer2_9_74.pdf
select_syn_10_74.pdf
mus_keying_vca_1+2_75.pdf
timbre_and_voice_6_75.pdf
synth_mus_insts_8_75.pdf
envel_gens_1_76.pdf
april_hob_scene_4_76.pdf
music_modules_6_76.pdf
und_active_filts_12_76.pdf 
six_cmos_circuits_4_77.pdf
april_hob_scene_4_77.pdf
tvt6_video_dis1+2_7_77.pdf
hex_ascii_con_10_77.pdf

This should nearly complete the PE restorations.

Other classic reprints can be found here, and these
should shortly be added.

Our prehistoric bajada hanging canal study has apparently
now gone to an unprecedented "beyond beyond beyond".

Read the summary here and the ongoing progress here.
And follow the emerging story right here

One new but still unverified discovery can be found here.
And another one here. Possibly bringing the apparent totals to
FOURTY THREE canals of total length more than ONE
HUNDRED kilometers! Built by moving one rock at a
time by hand in the 1250 to 1450 time span. Possibly 100
man years or more in the construction!

Your assistance is desperately needed in this world class
scientific research as GPS field mice, as a drone and operator,
as an ATV escort, with funding, or simply spreading the word
on these clearly world clsss discoveries.

Lectuire opportunities on request.