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Outrageous Science Experiments

Will a Tacoma pickup truck fit under an Austin school bus? The answer is coming up. But First: I have been driving a LONG time, and I...

Ceiling and Visibility Zero

Cruising along at 37000 feet, sitting in the window seat of a Boeing 737 headed to KC for Christmas. From up here, the sky is clear and...

Punch Misfire

Well, two days ago, Cheryl and I headed out to Houston for the standard three-month visit to M.D. Anderson. Two days of poking,...

Another Decade

Today I enter my eighth decade. I have been around for seven decades now. Wow! For most of my life, anyone who was 70 years old was OLD....

September 11, 2001

15 years ago today, I sat in my family room in Austin and watched 9/11 unfold. I was getting ready for classes that morning, which did...

YAMDACTS

Sorry folks, I spent WAY too much time in the Air Force. They create acronyms out of everything. That one stands for Yet Another M.D....

Phantom Works

Well, it is official now, there will be no F4 ride for me! So sad! The money is gone! Instead I have a new shop in the back yard, almost...

The Santa Factor

As a teacher, my job is to try to stuff knowledge and skills into the minds of my students, to prepare them for that life they hope to...

The Faces of War

With thanks to Christine Mickiewicz, the daughter of Ed Ochen, Andy Tarapchak's co-pilot on the B-26 they flew into combat over Germany...

70th Birthday Bash

When I was a kid, looking at people who were OLD, I could not imagine I would ever look like that. Of course, back then old was...


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