Author: John Poole
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Products From Carpathia
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Rolls Royce brochures from the 1960s used to assert that their dashboards or interior trim sported Carpathian burl elm. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Recently, this headline caught my eye:</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">I forwarded this onto a like-minded friend noting:</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><code>Rolls Royce used to advertise that their dashboards had Carpathian burl elm. Now they can enhance…
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Calculating a NW Segment of Salem’s Class D Air Space
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’m still working on the matter of the low flying Learjet over Salem, and in that matter, I have determined the jet first flew parallel to the FAA’s Class D airspace as much as it could before entering it.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">So then I wondered, why and what distance is involved. So here is a…
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Joplin – Note taking App
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just installed <a href="https://joplinapp.org">Joplin </a>which is a note taking application that can be run on Windows 7 (using an older version 12.2.5) and Linux. You synchronize your content among workstation using Nextcloud.</p> <p>So you can paste in ChatGPT chats, pictures, Excel Sheet tables and you have a rich featured notebook.<br /><img class="wp-image-195" style="width: 600px;"…
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How Classical Music Changed My Life
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My scrapbook has this nugget – the Los Angeles County classical music radio station KFAC’s advertisement.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">I haven’t been listening to KFAC since moving from Pasadena in the 1990s; have I reverted?</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"> My scrapbook has this nugget – the Los Angeles County classical music radio station KFAC’s advertisement. I haven’t been…
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The return of PRESTO
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My 1969 TR-6, license plate “PRESTO”, has been sitting in the garage since September, 2021, after an unsuccesful attempted theft. The villains broke into the garage and had hot-wired the car, carefully extracting from the front console the key that activates the starter, but they could not get the car out of the garage…
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August Harvest 2024
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I planted <a href="https://raintreenursery.com/products/dolgo-crabapple-dwarf?_pos=2&_sid=61009c695&_ss=r">crabapple <em>Malus domestica </em>‘Dogo’ </a>in 2019 and this is the 2024 harvest:</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The hops hanging from the candy dish Juli nurtured and arranged with the hydrangeas. They will be transformed into crabapple jelly which has a very delicate flavor, yet different from apple jelly.</p> I planted crabapple Malus domestica ‘Dogo’…
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Air Force One Buzzes Peck Cottage
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have created a 3 dimensional model that depicts Air Force One (231′ long) buzzing Peck Cottage in a 1/2 mile radius going from an altitude of 100 to 500 and back to 100.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">To accomplish this, I am using a vector tile server I built using the MapLibre <a href="https://martin.maplibre.org/">martin project </a>and…
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