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As we pause to remember all the Americans lost on 9/11, and those who sacrificed themselves for others, let’s also remember this:  Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attack.  It was Bin Laden’s crew working out … Continue reading →

This is from “Nucleus: A Quarterly Report From the Union of Concerned Scientists”  Volume 6 . Number 4 . Winter 1985 . “The Three Mile Island accident, which gave the regulators an unusual opportunity to reflect and reform, has only … Continue reading →

One document I pulled out of the crate mentioned in my previous post is a set of pages from “Nuclear Waste Management and the Use of the Sea: A Special Report to the President and Congress,” prepared by the United … Continue reading →

My son is reorganizing his garage, turning it into usable work space. He’s doing a beautiful job, designing and building shelving units and cabinets. To make room for reorganization, he needed to move some stuff to a storage shed, but … Continue reading →

This is confusing.  My understanding of print-on-demand publishing was that a reader orders and pays for a book before it is printed and shipped. That cuts down on the huge waste of trees turned into paper to print copies of … Continue reading →

All my self-published books have been out of print (not for sale) for several months (a year or more? I’ve lost track.)  My choice.  The plan is to find representation for a more recent work, then maybe I can afford … Continue reading →

Sometime in 1992 KTEH transmission changed.  We were no longer able to get channel 54, and didn’t want to take on the monthly payments of cable. No more science fiction nights, no more PBS, no more Sesame Street for my youngest.  … Continue reading →

August 30, 1990   (scribbled notation says “mailed 8-22-90”) George Sampson KTEH 54 100 Skyport Drive San Jose, CA  95110-1301 Dear Mr. Sampson: Hi, it’s me again. OK. This is what I figured out. If your station is going to be … Continue reading →

But the buzz I got from the first contest stayed with me, and I ran with the concept of communicating with extra-terrestrial beings.  The contests stopped, but I kept writing to George Sampson anyway, and by August of that year … Continue reading →

My efforts in subsequent KTEH Science 54 Fiction Night contests did not fare as well.  In particular, one contest provided us with an imaginary time machine and asked what we would do with it.  I put together a team of … Continue reading →