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This little image is a closeup of the top of one of the Arnold Tongues (phase
locked regions occurring at frequencies that are Farey numbers), specifically,
the one that appears on the iterated circle map. There are many more pictures in
my Art Gallery.




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THE HOME PAGE OF LINAS VEPSTAS

Welcome to my home page! This page is (mostly) about me, or things I've done, or
things that interest me, or other me-related things. Now that we've got that
cleared up ... There's a lot of stuff here, some that I'm proud of, and some
that I'm ashamed of. I could remove the shameful stuff. I won't. So its
quasi-random assortment of stuff accumulated over the decades. Some of it might
be entertaining. But probably not. A lot of stuff here was supposed to be useful
for someone, back in the early days of the internet. That stuff is now
hopelessly out-of-date. It will never be updated. The rest is a collection,
ahem, cough cough, personal detritus and ephemera of an unstructured life
pursuing whims without forethought, activities without planning. So, typical
human-type stuff.



Hire Me!

I do good work. Seriously. Looking for a worthy quest. Looking to work with the
very best. Help me do something important, noble, worthwhile, grand, glorious.

Blog Linas is where it's at!

Recent posts:

   
 * Biology, GPT & AI Safety
 * Nominalism, Platonic Ideals and AGI
 * War and Information and Free Speech
 * A Theory of Jerks
 * The Meaning Crisis
 * Social Network Crisis Reading List
 * Is the Texas PUC Incompetent?
 * Harnessing Creative Talent
 * Post-Capitalist Political Economy
 * The Global Brain, Redux
 * Revolution
 * Free will
 * Neurochemistry and Bio Networks Reading List
 * Meta Reading List
 * Addicted to Reality
 * Capitalism Reading List
 * Ontologies
 * Algorithmic Cancel Culture
 * Endorphin Supply Chains
 * AGI Career Adivce
 * srfi-194, Zipf, git, blockchain, AtomSpace
 * Hello, World!



I spend most of my on-line social time elsewhere. Even that has changed: it used
to be my google+ page (where I spent a HUGE amount of time trying to find the
weirdest and most eclectic stuff I could find; sadly, it has been totally
whitewashed by algorithms, and become a wasteland of utterly boring monotonously
homogeneous utterly uneventful, yet entirely acceptable tasteless, bland feed of
porridge. Apparently, the google algorithms aren't able to discern my actual
tastes. Is that good news, or bad news?). I don't have the energy to do this
again on facebook. Oh well. Turns out that digital life is remarkably ephemeral.
Rigor mortis is not just something cadavers do; so do web pages and social media
feeds. You're looking at one now.

Here's one that's still breathing: my Medium page. I really, really like the
essays I wrote on Medium. Oh, wait, hang on -- that is because they are still
mostly fresh. Just wait till they get old and rot a little bit. Who TF knew,
back in 1995 or even 2005 that digital media could actually rot? Apparently, the
process of life and living not only expects, but demands constant renewal. And
with that in mind, I have a brand new Twitter account. Its got four posts so
far, including the "hello twitter!" post. Hold on to your butts! Never mind.
Forget Twitter. Secure scuttlebutt is the place to be.

Some of my Medium posts that I like:

 * The Future of Humanity
 * The Global Brain
 * The Singularity and Your Place in It
 * Wild swings of beliefs — physics and sociology
 * Is Socialism Good?

Some of my Medium posts that are more political, and make me cringe:
 * Cultural Relativism and Moral Authority
 * Free Speech on College Campuses
 * Meritocracy & White Male Culture

Medium is .. frustrating. My profile page does not even list all of my essays!
Its like... they're gone! WTF! Where are my essays? Arghhh! Corporations!



Meanwhile, back in the past... I used to spend a lot of time on mailing lists,
but all the good ones (like cypherpunks) have disappeared. Before that, there
was the Ludwig Plutonium guy, and black helicopters, and men in black, and
razor-wire detention camps in Arizona for space aliens and three-foot-tall
people. All this to be found on the lovely nntp feed alt.conspiracy channel. It
was truly an awesome time. For news feeds.

I once wrote over 400 Wikipedia articles on Mathematics (pictures too) until
that stopped being fun.

This website? I don't feel like polishing this website to make it adhere to
present-day website design sensibilities. This site isn't fresh. This website is
a snapshot frozen in time: its what a personal website looked like in 1997,
before blogs were invented.

You can anonymously surf this website via TOR: its at
http://gsubocaym4lgfdh7tsywyulvef4gnunhq7l4gdzm7rmkxvamc4rqomqd.onion/.

Auto-Biography and Self-Promotion Let's begin. First, we start with an
auto-hagiography and some self-promotion. Cause, like, you know, being
employable and stuff like that means that y'gotta write in like, grammatically
correct, fully formed and coherent sentences. And all that establishment b.s.
You know the drill. So here we go! Here's my employability page on LinkedIn.
Wheeee!



Caution: boring sober bits ahead.

At various times in my life, I've been a scientist, technologist and
entrepreneur. I have broad interests in mathematics, physics, and computer
technology. Oh, and sociology. And Art with a capital A. Oh, and lots of things,
actually. Not enough lifetimes for them all.

Many of my current technical interests focus on natural language processing and
artificial general intelligence. The NLP directory has pre/re-prints of some of
the academic publications that have come out of this work.

My primary research platform is the open-source OpenCog project. For me, OpenCog
provides a general technical setting where I can experiment with different
machine learning theories and algorithms, with both connectionist and symbolic
processing flavors. I've compiled a messy list of related open-source AGI
projects here (which is now also hopelessly out of date; so it goes.)

I've spent well over a decade at IBM; most recently working on the Linux kernel
for Power architecture-based mainframes. The Linux on the PowerPC wiki is a good
place to find out more about IBM Linux mainframes and systems. I've been active
in the Linux community; I was a founder of the Gnome Foundation; and was the
lead developer for GnuCash for over 7 years. I've founded three dot-com
startups, all of which failed to turn me into an asshole billionaire. I mean the
billionaire part; I'm an asshole, just not a rich one. I was a founding member
of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board; and spent 8 years learning about and
designing 3D graphics hardware and software. I have a PhD in theoretical physics
from SUNY at Stony Brook. Currently, I am utterly infatuated with mathematics,
and have made large contributions to over 400 math articles in Wikipedia. BTW,
y'all, global warming is for real. Do something about it.

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Vytautas O. Virkau Memorial Archive Vytautas O. Virkau Memorial Archive. Vytas
was my uncle. I loved him dearly. He passed away in 2017. I am trying to
assemble an archive of his works and effects that I have in my possession. This
is an ongoing effort. Virkau and Vepstas Family Photos Family photos. Large.
Uncategorized. Vepstas Family Photos More Family photos. Semicategorized,
unlabelled.

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Linas' Mathematical Art Gallery A colorful exploration of some well-known, but
under-examined equations. I think some of this is high Art, and much of the rest
of it should be an eye-opener for even jaded fractal mathematicians.

The Art Gallery has been running for over twenty-five years while being silent
about the underlying math. I suppose its high time to make amends. The core idea
of the dissertation is that the shapes of fractals are describable through Farey
Fractions, which appear naturally through continued fractions, which have the
symmetry of the Modular Group SL(2,Z), which is inter-twined with the Riemann
Zeta and the structure of the set of rational numbers. Besides the four basic
operations on the real numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division), there is a fifth basic operation which is rarely taught in primary
school and under-appreciated at higher levels, namely, "Farey Addition" or,
expressed correctly, group multiplication in SL(2,Z). The modular group doesn't
just lead to Pellian equations and algebraic numbers, it in fact intertwines all
rational numbers (and their extensions to reals and p-adics) in crazy, fractal
ways. This is why, for example, one sees Farey Fractions in the Mandelbrot Set.
In number theory, the structure of the Modular Group provides a unifying theme
for understanding the nature of factorization and primality. This is why, for
example, power series and Dirichlet series (such as the Riemann Zeta) exhibit
such crazy fractal Cantor-Set type patterns. Despite this connection being seen
by Weierstrass as early as 1872, its more-or-less entirely ignored in standard
textbooks on Analysis and Number Theory. A series of articles tries to provide
some of the underpinnings for the above breathless assertions. Some highlights
include:

 * Distributions of Rationals on the Unit Interval (or, How to (mis)-Count
   Rationals) is a high-giggle-factor review of some so-called "facts" about
   fractions that you learned as a child, and which every math teacher ever
   since has repeated, but which are simply not true. I used to think Number
   Theory was boring until I saw this.
 * The Bernoulli Map, the Gauss-Kuzmin-Wirsing Operator and the Riemann Zeta
   reviews the basics of using the Frobenius-Perron Operator as a tool for
   studying fractals, and then applies it to to Bernoulli Map and the Gauss Map.
   Along the way, we discover that the eigenfunctions of the Bernoulli Operator
   are the given by the Hurwitz Zeta, and show the connection between them and
   the traditional fractal eigenfunctions. The details of the connection between
   the Riemann Zeta and the Gauss-Kuzmin-Wirsing (GKW) Operator are presented. A
   couple of exactly-solvable toy models of the GKW are presented as well. About
   half of this is a pedagogical introduction; the other half is a presentation
   of all-new results.
 * A series representation for the Riemann Zeta derived from the
   Gauss-Kuzmin-Wirsing Operator is a less rambling, more tightly focused
   extract of the above, meant for publication.
 * The Minkowski Question Mark and the Modular Group SL(2,Z) shows that the
   distribution of Farey Fractions transforms under the dyadic representation of
   the Modular Group. It constructs the Minkowski Question Mark Function as a
   set-theoretic representation of (a subset of) the Modular Group. Reviews the
   hyperbolic rotations of binary trees. This paper provides the core background
   material for the structure of the Modular Group that is used in the other
   papers of this series.
 * Symmetries of Period-Doubling Maps identifies the Modular Group SL(2,Z) as
   the basic symmetry group of a large class of fractals. Although this
   relationship is obvious, it never ceases to amaze me that books on modular
   forms never mention fractals, and that books on fractals never mention
   modular forms, despite the obviousness of self-similarity of the Modular
   Group. Even Mandelbrot's most recent book, published in 2004, doesn't breath
   a word of this. This paper develops the Takagi or Blancmange Curve as a
   fractal curve that transforms under the three-dimensional representation of
   the Modular Group. It then shows how to build higher-dimensional
   representations out of the Bernoulli polynomials.
 * Continued Fractions and Gaps provides a very curious function that is
   discontinuous on the rationals and whose discontinuities seem to be perfectly
   randomly distributed. I find this to be a rather dramatic result, possibly
   because I've never heard of such a thing before. I've stared at a lot of
   fractals and space-filling curves, but nothing like this.
 * Annotations to Abramowitz & Stegun includes a set of annotations to the
   classic Handbook of Mathematical Functions, including new integrals over
   Bessel functions, and some sums over the Riemann Zeta function.
 * Gap Theory develops some basic relationships between continued fractions,
   fractals and Farey Numbers.
 * Actually, I (now) know many fields of math, everything from string theory
   (well, affine Lie groups) to category theory, homology to mathematical logic,
   algebraic topology to differential geometry, quantum field theory and
   gravitation. And I'm proud of that. Don't believe me? Here's a list of over
   400 Wikipedia math articles that I've edited; you can check the revision
   history of these articles to see what I wrote.



Political, Economic and Social Screeds Some short essays that seemed to be
important to write, during the first decade of the 2000's. These are ... of a
certain bygone era. Most of these are just sly, corrosive expressions of anger
and hostility, lashing out at events beyond my control.

 * American Political Unreality, 2008. Yes, politicians are from outer space,
   and they arrived in a flying saucer called "journalism". How can you tell?
   They focus on everything except what is actually important.

 * Why did Bush promote warrant-less wiretapping? Why is Obama continuing these
   Bush policies? I can guess why, and I really don't like it. Stop Illegal
   Spying!.

 * Wikipedia needs new leadership! I used to have various essays about the
   structural and cultural problems in Wikipedia, and the things that could be
   done to solve them. These were posted on my WP user page. Unfortunately, the
   malicious and stupid leadership there found these so offensive that they
   deleted the essays. Boo-yah! So now my profile is just soo very squeaky-clean
   and totally inoffensive. To anyone, that is, except me. You might never guess
   that I'd been raped by the admins there. Woo hoo! Go Wikipedia!
   
   

 * This is Your Brain on Drugs explores drug use in America today, and the
   political forces wrestling with this social problem.

 * Labour of Love - The Volunteer Economy Free-market economists, thinkers and
   pundits (correctly) champion the power of free markets to create a better
   world. Yet if one opens a history book, it is hard to find a historical
   figure that was motivated by greed. Both prominent and emerging social and
   economic institutions are marked by excellence due volunteer, freely donated
   efforts, rather than wealth accumulation. When will we recognize the economic
   benefits of channelling this powerful force with social, political and
   governmental norms?

 * Free Software ~ Free Trade? An examination of the powerful economic forces
   driving the acceptance of Free Software/Open Source in corporations and
   businesses. When we realize that Free Software is not just a (political)
   philosophy, or a social or anthropological movement, but an economic force
   akin to the removal of trade barriers, we can finally understand why its
   adoption by corporations promises to be a sea-change in the way that software
   is used. Reviews a business case study of a very large, failed technology
   project. If you thought the Internet was big ... this is bigger.

 * DeCSS: Consumer Politics in the 21st Century A moral/sociological/legal
   diatribe about the immorality and evil ethics of the Digital Millennium
   Copyright Act (DMCA) and the corporations that wish to squish human endeavor
   in the name of the protection of intellectual property.

 * Open Source and Code Quality The relationship between the software worker and
   the software means of production leads to fundamentally new economic forces
   that will change the very nature of the software industry.

 * Banned! A collection of outlaw computer technology, harvested from the net.
   Why would I mirror such dangerous and subversive material? In order to
   protect my personal freedoms -- and yours. Seems that greed and lust for
   power -- happily wrapped in the flags of "free enterprise" and "democracy",
   continue to lie at the root of many political and social evils and ills.
   
   



Linux Enterprise Computing A snapshot of what Linux tech looked like in the late
1990's. I was very, very interested in promoting Linux in the business world,
back then. I wanted it to succeed wildly! (And it did!) These pages attempted to
provide a compendium of references, resources and a guide to prominent Free
Software systems and technologies, from the corporate computing perspective.
Topics include:



 * Linux Project Management and Bug Tracking Tools.
 * SQL and other Databases for Linux.
 * Linux RAID Solutions.
 * Linux Network Address Translation Solutions.
 * Linux Software RAID HOWTO.
 * Network Management Tools for Linux.
 * Linux X.25 and Frame Relay Products and Vendors.
 * Linux Cluster, Parallel & Multi Processing Info.
 * ISDN to Ethernet Bridge/Router Info (& other ISDN info)



My Free Software Projects I've worked on many free software projects. Below are
some of my favorites, with a more complete list here. My Ohloh account provides
details and statistics for some of my more recent, active projects.
 * The OpenCog Project aims to build a free, open-source artificial general
   intelligence. Tall order. We've barely scratched the surface.
 * The CMU Link Grammar Parser is a natural language parser. Its
   English-language dictionary contains over 70K words, and it is a pretty
   powerful and robust system. I've fixed a many bugs in it, expanded parse
   coverage significantly, and even hacked a quickie Lithuanian grammar for it:
   
   linkparser> Atvažiavom į sodžių.
   Found 1 linkage (1 had no P.P. violations)
     Unique linkage, cost vector = (UNUSED=0 DIS=0 AND=0 LEN=1)
   
        +----LI----+
        |     +-DG-+-Xp-+
        |     |    |    |
   atvažiavom į sodžių  .
   

 * RelEx is a semantic relationship extractor for the English language. It is
   built on top of the CMU Link Grammar Parser, and outputs a semantic feature
   graph of parsed sentences. I didn't create RelEx, but I extended bits and
   pieces of it.
 * GnoTime, the Gnome Time Tracking Tool. A desktop to-do list utility for
   tracking how much time you've spent working on a project. Includes a flexible
   invoice generator for billing clients for time & services.
 * ESA/390 Linux Linux on a mainframe? You bet your booties. No, this is not a
   stupid trick; the Mainframes is the most powerful and advanced CPU
   architecture on the planet, and it makes sense to put Linux on it. As a
   practical matter, Linux on the mainframe can bring the cost of computing down
   to a level below other high-end Unix platforms from Sun, SGI and HP. Of
   theoretical interest, the extension of some of the principles of VM to Unix
   systems in general could greatly and fundamentally alter ideas about computer
   security, partitioning and performance. This is not your father's MVS.
 * gcc/egcs -- the mainframe i370 back end for the gcc compiler, used to port
   the Linux kernel to the mainframe (above).
 * binutils -- the mainframe i370 back end for the gas assembler, used to port
   the Linux kernel to the mainframe (above).
 * The GnuCash Personal Finance Manager This is the biggest project I've ever
   worked on, and you can say I started it. I started by fixing a few bugs in a
   small piece of software called "X-Accountant", back in '96 or '97. Since
   then, I've put in thousands of hours of work into this software (yes, that's
   full time, overtime, evenings and weekends, for many years). Along the way,
   the name changed to "GnuCash", and its had hundreds of volunteers adding
   features functions, documentation and translations, turning GnuCash into the
   leading personal finance management software on Linux today. Its now included
   in all major Linux distributions, and sees downloads in the tens-of-thousands
   whenever a new version is released.
 * Xbae -- a free table widget for Motif. Full-featured, quite functional.
 * gle -- The GLE Tubing and Extrusion library. Draws three-dimensional
   polycylinders, polycones, surfaces of revolution and other shapes, using the
   OpenGL 3D graphics library.
 * MAY -- a distributed processing infrastructure (obsolete). Allows worker
   processes to be automatically launched on remote computers, data to be
   parcelled out to them, and the results of the computations to be collected.
   Used to implement a distributed (3D graphics) ray-tracer, and also a
   distributed (3D graphics) radiosity algorithm solver.





Technical Ruminations Miscellaneous technical articles and notes.

 * A Better Way to do SETI makes the argument that if extra-terrestrials are
   trying to send us a radio message, then they will be using broadband
   spread-spectrum (pseudo-random noise) modulation techniques. Finding such a
   signal is much, much harder, but when found, it provides a much, much clearer
   communications channel than any other modulation technique. The ET's know
   this, and they know that we know this, and will thus use this technique
   preferentially. Essentially all of the current SETI searches, while being
   important so as to rule out other methods, are all really looking for the
   wrong thing.

 * Eternity Service is a commentary on the basic ideas behind Napster as viewed
   through the eyes of David Gelertner. David chooses not to dirty his
   prognostications with the names of present-day technologies. I do. They are
   E-Rights, distributed.net, and Eternity Service, all mashed into one.

 * A Digression on Artificial Life and Cellular Automata This web page is a very
   long diary of a set of experiments that were run in the early 90's with a
   collection of cellular automata. The automata were designed to have a
   'genetic code' that was shared between cooperating individuals. By
   cooperating (or not) individual cells could (and did) self-organize into
   'symbiotic' plant-like structures. Lots of interesting stuff was seen. Never
   attempted to write this up for publication; I should have. Nuts.



Philosophical Ruminations Sophomoric, half-baked, incoherent, nutty ideas, most
of which have probably already been better-expressed in some top-ten selling
book. These include, but are not limited to:
 * The Origins of Quantum Mechanics An attempt to re-derive QM (and GR+QFT) from
   first principles. I like to think of the present as a wave-front where the
   liquid future freezes into a solid past. Mathematically, the past is a sheaf
   or a topos, the future is a pre-sheaf, not yet glued together, and the gluing
   axioms happen at the surface of light-cones. QM is that fluid thing that
   lives near the present, where space-time itself is being glued together; the
   indeterminacy of QM is the not-yet-glued-ness. Or something like that. This
   and many other ideas and possibilities are explored.
 * The Origin of Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Free Will A nutty digression that
   asserts that quantum mechanics is a side-effect of Planck-scale physics,
   rather than something innate.
 * In the Beginning was the Word An unfinished defense of the Platonic
   Interpretation of Mathematics. Mathematics does not exist solely in the heads
   of humans, but in and of itself. Indeed, even the almighty God does not have
   the power to change the value of Pi (which, I believe, is a statement about
   God, and not about Pi).
 * A Digression on the Non-Computability of Thought Something about incoherent,
   irrational clocks powering parallel Turing machines.
 * Free Will and Determinism An very weak (and ultimately failed) attempt to
   disentangle free will and consciousness from physical (Newtonian)
   determinism.
 * Heidegger's Fundamental Question, some sophomoric notes. Ties together some
   of the essays above.



My Weblog This is the output of my new experimental note-taking and publishing
and general-diary tool, GnoTime. We'll see how easy, scalable, effective this
tool really is. Or, how dis-interested I am in using it ...

The good stuff is in the form of letters:

 * Letter from Sofia, Bulgaria, August 1997
 * Letter from Sofia, Bulgaria, September 1997
 * Letter from Vilnius, Lithuania, August 2004



Employment History References pertaining to the various jobs I've held, and what
I did while I worked there. In reverse chronological order. Here's a circa-2008
resume.

 * An Airline Flight Reservation System I founded Teleport Travel, and was
   bought out by Intransco, where I served as Chief Technology Officer. More
   work, for less money, at an Internet startup. Developed the prototype
   entirely by myself. Teleport Travel was the very first on the 'net
   (Spring/Summer 1995) with an actual functioning airline reservation system,
   never mind that it worked better, and had a nicer user interface than
   many/most travel res systems today. An unhappy experience in the end, as this
   was a dot-com that dot-bombed. I shoulda been a billionaire by now, but it
   turns out (duhh) that superior technology has no correlation to success. Its
   all about the management, the CEO, the board of directors. I was unable to
   control the company, and was bitter about it for a long time -- my baby was
   taken away from me. Anyway, the actual technology does live on at
   TravelStoreMaker.com, and some good friends still work there.

 * OpenGL and VRML. I worked at IBM as the OpenGL(tm) architect for many years,
   participating in a variety of technical and marketing activities surrounding
   the RS/6000 hardware, operating system software, and 3D graphics subsystem.
   
   Besides creating the above web pages in a fit of marketing mania, I've
   written some technical articles:
   
   * Extending VRML for Panoramic Images
   * Software OpenGL: Architecture and Implementation
   * Programming in OpenGL
   * Integration of GL with the X Window System
   
   



Formal Schooling I was lucky, and got a very good education.

 * PhD Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook. Thesis advisors (I had two!):
   Andrew D. Jackson and Alfred S. Golhaber. Thesis: Chral models of the
   Nucleon. My thesis was a "staple": a collection of five published papers.
   Here they are:
   
   * Two Phase Models Of Baryons And The Chiral Casimir Effect - Vepstas, L. et
     al. Phys.Lett. 140B (1984) 280-284
   * Justifying the Chiral Bag, Linas Vepstas, A.D. Jackson Physics Reports
     Volume 187, Issue 3, March 1990, Pages 109-143
   * Baryon Observables in the Chiral Bag Model, A.D. Jackson, D.E. Kahana,
     Linas Vepstas, Henri Verschelde, Eberhard Wust, Nuclear Physics A
     462(4):661-686 · February 1987 
   * The baryon density in chiral bag models, Linas Vepstas, A.D. Jackson,
     Nuclear Physics A 481(4):668-678 · May 1988
   * Properties of six-quark clusters in the topological chiral soliton model,
     E.Wüst, G.E.Brown, A.D.Jackson, L.Vepstas, Nuclear Physics A, Volume 456,
     Issue 4, 25 August 1986, Pages 621-628.
   
   

 * My first job! Dr. John Simpson hired me to work on Pioneer 10/11 Charged
   Particle Instrument data analysis programs for my first paying computer
   programming job, thirty years ago. These are now the farthest spacecraft from
   our solar system. Goodbye Pioneer 10/11!

 * University of Chicago AB Physics. Class of `80. I was ranked third, out of a
   class of about 50. The kid who was ranked first was home-schooled, and was
   maybe about 16 when he got his degree. He did not attend classes with us; we
   never laid eyes on him. I wonder if he grew up famous, or not. Which made me
   the youngest, attending regular classes. I was 20 when I finished college. A
   girl was ranked second. I wish I could remember her name. I'd like to talk to
   her. The list itself is lost in the sands of time.

 * Morgan Park Academy Class of `76. I was young and wild, then.



Web Site Mirrors and More Web Site Mirrors A random assortment of mirrored web
sites. I mirrored these because at some point in time I thought their content
was interesting, and they seemed to be at risk of disappearing forever... and
some of them have ... This is my attempt to archive some of these, for some
distant future rainy day.



Vintage Netscape Navigator Some vintage copies of Netscape Navigator, v1.0n,
v1.1 beta 1 and v2.0, for Linux/x86. These are circa 1994-1995. The binaries
still run on my machine.



Rowing A really great photo of me at the 2009 Pumpkinhead 5K head race (7:45AM
31 October 2009). Peter Hoffmann in stroke, we're enroute to the starting line.
During the race, we ran the boat aground (into a pollution control barrier), got
completely hung up, lost a few minutes trying to get underway again, and still
managed to win the race!


Training video, with coach's chase-boat in pursuit.


 * May 5, 2011, calm day, easy boat.
 * April 2011, double w/ Peter Hoffman; strong headwind & big waves.
 * April 2011, double w/ Peter Hoffman; strong tailwind, calm water.
 * May 12, 2011, quad w/ Sue Carter, Connie, Sommers, row by pairs.
 * Stick figure body prep by Flip Luisi.



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Seriously. I'm a shmuck like everyone else; I need money. Its not like
capitalism is going away any time soon.

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Or send monero to this ridiculuously long address:
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One qr-code is worth 96 letters:





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