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Last blog post of 2005

Posted on 24 December, 2005 by steevithak

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...Who Needs Enemies?
Alan Dean Foster

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Beyond the Beyond
Poul Anderson
A collection of Anderson's ok but unmemorable pulp stories from the 1950s.
The Best of Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey
This is fine collection with several excellent stories and only a few uninteresting ones.
Vault of the Ages
Poul Anderson
An early attempt at a novel that misses the mark.
The Last Starship from Earth
John Boyd
In world of dystopian novels, here's one with a twist.
Zippy the Pinhead: Walk a Mile in My Muu-Muu
Bill Griffith
Another fun collection of Zippy strips. This the Zippy Annual #8 with strips from 2006-2007
To Keep the Ship (John Grimes, #10)
A. Bertram Chandler
A light but entertaining space adventure

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Tue 23 Apr 2019 4:29pm Who remembers using one of these Radio Shack color code calculators? Found it while cleaning out an old box of electronics tools .
Mon 22 Apr 2019 1:27pm Squeak the cat showed up this weekend to help me sort some boxes of old tools in the garage .
Fri 19 Apr 2019 4:49pm I'm not up on the latest bicycle tech but I've inherited my brother Randy's 2014 Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4 Carbon Road Bike with Zertz vibration absorber inserts. lol - none of which means much too me. The carbon fiber chassis is cool though. The bike is next to weightless compared to other bicycles I've had. The battery is dead in the computer, so I don't even know what it does yet. And all the brake/shifter linkages seem to be a little out of whack after years of sitting in his apartment. I don't think Randy ever rode it outdoors, he just used it on a stationary bike stand as part of his spin class exercises for Parkinson's. I aired up the tires and got things tuned up enough to function and took it out for a test ride today. It's amazingly fast but I feel like I should be in the Tour de France or something when I'm riding it. Does anyone know a good bike shop that could do a proper tune up on this thing?
Wed 17 Apr 2019 9:04pm It was a tight fit but we actually got both cars into the garage with inches to spare. If the apocalyptic hail actually shows up we're as ready for it as possible .
Tue 16 Apr 2019 6:56pm At the League of Women Voters meet the candidates forum, trying to figure out who to vote for in the upcoming election .
Sun 14 Apr 2019 6:23pm Another photo from this weekend's photowalk in Las Colinas. Everything in this set was shot with a Canon 6D and a vintage lens, either the Vivitar 28mm f2.5 or Vivitar 135mm f2.8. Both are manual focus, preset lenses from the 1960s. You can see the full set on Flickr. https://flickr.com/steevithak .
Sat 13 Apr 2019 10:43pm I got outside to shoot today during a break in the rain in early afternoon. Today's lens is a really rare Vivitar 28mm f2.5 "Pyramid Preset" T-mount made by Kino Precision .
Sat 30 Mar 2019 11:05pm Susan and I attended the Acoustic Kitchen concert tonight at their Dallas studio, which was built by Charley Pride. The artists included Milo Deering, Chris Holt, and Scarlett Deering .
Tue 26 Mar 2019 3:26pm Technology is always shrinking and it's periodically necessary to buy smaller tools. I picked up a nifty 110 component micro tool kit that's perfect for cracking open smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Now if my eyes worked as well as they did twenty years ago, I'd have it made .

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