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About the Bike

It appears the C70 is still being manufactured, but the only place it is being shipped to is Third World and developing nations.  Links below show companies shipping and supporting this vehicle, along with neat… 

Tech Tips

First, you should know that I am no mechanic.  I like to tinker, but most of what I know about small engines comes from experience with radio control airplane motors.  I have never cracked the… 

Neurology and flying

My mother’s Parkinson’s disease changes how she walks.  Not just her stride, her stutter-step, her false starts, but how she walks, her means for doing so.  When she begins her stride, she breathes as if… 

How I Met Your Mother

(Composed while talking to Oliver, age 4 or 5, who asked. For some reason, it all came out rhyming) I was sitting at the station, I was waiting for a trainwhen something came to happen… 

One Boy, Two Votes

(a summer camp letter with an old family story) June 30, 2004  Dear Jonah:  I got a new thing for my computer, that lets me talk while it does the typing .  I know, I… 

Remembering Pinot

(Memorial for our dog, delivered in our backyard in 2011.) When we planned this thing, we were in pretty rough shape, but I still had my doubts about a memorial for a dog.  I thank… 

Bulgarski XOT ΔOΓ

Bulgarski XOT ΔOΓ In spring of 1993, my phone rang on a Friday.  Could I be in Sofiya, Bulgaria on Monday to teach a class?  This sort of thing happened  at Andersen, usually because someone… 

On leaving New Orleans, July, 2006

When I checked messages at the airport, there was one from Mom saying that she hoped we’d had an interesting trip to New Orleans. Interesting Not the usual word that you find in sentences about… 

Remembering Bob

October 2, 1961-March 8, 2000 Bob was wearing his green Stevenson Patriots jacket that said “Yearbook Photographer ” when I met him. He was backstage at Fiddler on the Roof, and he seemed to be…