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Guess Who's Back Flying R/C Airplanes?

After about 22 years of not flying, I got a small electric powered plane using the excuse that the grandkids would enjoy seeing me fly. It's a gas! Er, I mean, it's a buzz! The wingspan is just over 35" and it weights about 11oz with battery. Amazingly enough in over 20 flights I've only crashed it badly once and that broke the body in half just behind the wing. It's a foam airplane so some epoxy got it back in the air again in just a few days.

Update: Jan 2008 -- After more than 3 years of flying I've got a bunch of flights on the 2nd version of the same model (which turns out to be a very popular small pattern planes). The 1st version got crashed several times - the last crash being very fatal. After lots of flights the 2nd model is still uncrashed. I guess that means I'm being too conservative!

The Birth of the DEC PDP-11

Way back in 1998 I was invited to document my rememberances of how the DEC PDP-11 was born. You can read what I remembered (or thought I remembered) right here ( word or pdf ). If you are interested in reading more about the PDP-11 go to Akos Varga's web site here.

Leanna Got a Hole In One !

Yes, Leanna did it and here's some proof. Cick for larger view    It was December, 2002 and we were playing with some friends so they got to share the fun and fame on the par-3 4th hole at Sunken Gardens. There was lots of shouting and laughing and then Leanna got out the cell phone and started calling everyone she knew. The only bad part is that when I start bragging about beating her at golf she just says "Yes, but you don't have a hole in one!"

Read Larry's Article Published in VOICE magazine

VOICE is the magazine of the Washington Music Educators. Larry and two other authors wrote articles for the October 2003 publication on the subject of Music for Life. All three authors were musically involved through college and then, somewhere along the way, dropped out and then back into music. The articles tried to give some history of why that happened, to tell what it was like to get back into music, and to give some words of advice for teachers when encouraging students to stay involved in music. I found that writing the article made a lot of things clearer to me. I hope you like reading it and that some student, somewhere, stays in music because of the words we wrote.

You can see the magazine cover and Larry's two page article here.