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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Friday, March 3, 2017

Forgotten Brewery Caves - New London Wisconsin

Today lets swing through New London Wisconsin and a "maybe" Forgotten Brewery Cave. Below is a nice brick building along the...

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Last Stand

I am just back from a visit with my father in law. He lives ten hours away and has been in declining health. The visit was partly social, ...

Monday, February 27, 2017

Stepping Carefully on a Sensitive Topic

My part of the world was settled first by Native Americans then quite a bit later by French and English fur traders. That's our Histo...

Friday, February 24, 2017

Tree Shaped Tombstones - Odd ones from Here and There

The "here and there" today is mostly from our July road trip. The eastern third of Wisconsin is prime hunting ground for "T...

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Bag and Tag 2017

Another build season, another robot is "in the bag". Build Team hands the keys over to the drive and software teams. My crew get...

Monday, February 20, 2017

FIRST Robotics 2017 Build Season Week 6 - Wrapping Up.

Final week of robot building. We do have Monday and Tuesday of the following week but that's not a good time to be finding and solving m...

Friday, February 17, 2017

A New Academic Experience at Age 60.

I started kindergarten at age 4. Hey, my parents had a house full of rambunctious boys and were very motivated to pack us off to Lowell Ele...

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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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