Finding little bits and pieces of the universe that aren't in the
right place and sorting them out,
hopefully in somebody elses garage.
The confirmed gadget builder soon learns one rule:
never throw anything away!
From "Home-Built Photo Equipment" by Walter E. Burton,
Little Technical Library, 1947
Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you
out of your car!
Seen on a bumper sticker.
Every version of every browser on every platform is different.
J2ME: Every phone is broken in a different way.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.
Mark Twain
In June 2010, Arlington cable TV gives me the Iron Man volunteer award.
In June of 2009, Cambridge Boat Club names an Empacher double shell after me.
Patent 6,720,936 Adaptive Antenna System
A telescope drive corrector circuit that I published in Sky & Telescope seems to have been copied into a spanish astronomy book.
A 4x5 paper negative picture taken with an elliptical pinhole camera made from a candy tin.
Johnny's List of Quirky Events
Fred Hapgoods List of Science Lectures
Public events at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics
Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston (ATMoB)
New England Model Engineering Society (NEMES)
Photographic Historical Society of New England (PHSNE)
Antique Telescope Society (ATS)
North American Sundial Society (NASS)
National Stereoscopic Association (NSA)
Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA)
New England Surface Weather Map
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