Monday, June 29, 2020

This Knife Might Not Work Once

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This Northwest Trail knife is built wrong. Clipped into your pocket, when you take it out, you have to flip it around before you can open it...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Austin’s Homeless: Laissez Faire in a Mixed Economy

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Here in Austin, Texas, the  reductio ad absurdum  of the city government’s policies toward the homeless is that you (and all your friends) c...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Désirée (Miss Kitty)

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We put our cat to sleep last night. We adopted her from the Pets Alive shelter here in Austin on August 29, 2016. She seemed close to two ye...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Backyard Astronomy

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As a member, I borrowed a Meade 10-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain  Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope from the Austin Astronomical Society for the next ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Technical Writer Job Description

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After a year at EOS-North America in additive manufacturing ("3D printing"), I accepted a new contract with a state agency. The ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Cosmos: A Spacetime Travesty

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Watching this on DVD with the captions on allowed me to identify an array of failures of science, reason, and fact.  The curtain opened...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Females and Women

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Recounting Barbara Gregory’s long and successful career at the American Numismatic Association, the organization’s own press releases were ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

My Numismatic Bibliography (Partial List)

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Much can be learned from examinating, comparing, contrasting. sorting, and arranging. It is said that Mendeleev established the periodic tab...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Mistakes Happen: VAM Varieties (U.S. Silver Dollars According to Van Allen and Mallis)

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This is why coin collectors want electron microscopes. You see, the Mint was forced to strike millions of these, just to consume silver. Th...
Monday, April 13, 2020

M44 Beehive Cluster First Sighting

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As with the Andromeda Galaxy, I was pleasantly surprised and a little crestfallen to discover how easy it was to sight, given that I had nev...