Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Tree Shaped Tombstones-Personal Touches

HAPPY HALLOWEEN You find them on only a minority of tree shaped tombstones, but the little personal touches add a lot of appeal. Someti...

Monday, October 29, 2012

Tree Shaped Tombstones-a few of my Favorites

Oh, I shouldn't really play favorites, but a few "trees" just please me more than others. Here is the top half of a towering...

Friday, October 26, 2012

Ho, Ho, Ho-Green Version not the Red Version

"In the Valley of the Jolly... HO, HO, HO! Green Giant!" I heard that jingle so often growing up that intoning the ...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Forgotten Brewery Caves-Hastings Minnesota

You can with a fair amount of accuracy predict whether a community will contain brewery caves. If you have pre-1880 settlement and any sort...

Monday, October 22, 2012

"Answer me these questions three...."

In our modern and enlightened era it is considered bad form to send children, boys in particular, to kindergarten at a young age. Five migh...

Friday, October 19, 2012

Machines Behaving Badly-work in progress

The robotics classes are progressing. I have some good help. I have figured out where to find plywood scrap in the shop area and have lear...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Ghost Farm

Our cabin is up north, in an area that is heavily forested. And in fact has always been so, with one brief exception. The logging boom of ...

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Tacitus: Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.

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