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About Art

55 years old. By training, ability and experience I am a master toolmaker. My most recent projects include designing and building a process to grind a G rotor pump shaft with four diameters and holding all four diameters within plus or minus 4 microns of nominal. This was an automated process using two centerless grinders refitted to my specifications using automatic load and unload machines plus automatic feedback gauging. I also designed and built an inspection machine to check for the presence and size of a straight knurl on a hinge pin using a vision system for non-contact gauging.

Johns Hopkins Crypto Prof asked to remove blog post regarding NSA.

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Art

Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post Predictable backtrack from Johns Hopkins comes a few hours later. by Nate Anderson – Sept 9 2013, 4:55pm EST Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science … Continue reading →

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Be prepared to litigate: Boy Scouts pressures Hacker Scouts to drop “Scouts” The Boy Scouts of America insists it has a trademark on the word “scouts.” by Megan Geuss – Aug 20 2013, 11:25pm EST

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Art

I’ve totally ripped this piece off from the Ars Technica web site because of this sentence: Since 1919, the Boy Scouts of America has held a congressional charter that protects the organization’s “exclusive right to use emblems, badges, descriptive or … Continue reading →

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Another Flight Almost Cancelled . . .

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Art

Returning from a X-Mas Holiday in Florida . . . . . . we were settled into our seats in the Southwest Boeing 737 for the ride from Tampa to Manchester, NH. Listening to the sounds n the cabin, I … Continue reading →

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Jahar Tsarnaev and The Cover of the Rolling Stone

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Art

As God is my Witness I Thought Turkeys Could Fly. Willful ignorance. This is a problem that just won’t go away. You don’t want to think, maybe because you think that sitting down and just thinking is lazy? What about … Continue reading →

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Art, Lynn, the Boeing, the Storm and Breakfast

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Art

One christmas holiday back in the 1990s we were leaving for Florida from Logan airport in Boston, MA just as a Nor’ Easter was coming through town. For those of you not familiar with this type of storm a Nor’ … Continue reading →

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The Supreme Court says I’m the same as you.

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Art

This week the Supreme’s ruled that the majority can’t deny basic legal rights to a minority. Wow. The bullies got slapped down. Too little too late for me and Lynn since we’re past our fiftieth birthday and pretty well handicapped … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire GOP Representative in the News

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Art

It is my opinion that people don’t really think about what they are reading, that for too many years people haven’t been challenged to think about what is really being said by the speaker or writer and I call it … Continue reading →

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Why Can’t We Work Together?

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Art

It’s Saturday after the Patriot’s Day bombing and a week of pursuit. On Friday Boston was shut down completely. Streets were deserted, businesses closed and it seemed everyone was tuned into some form of media. By the end of the … Continue reading →

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Choosing the facts you want to believe.

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Art

I used to do a Thursday Night Supper at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Manchester, NH. I did it for years, just me and Lynn because I didn’t want it to be about the food. I wanted it to be … Continue reading →

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Lynn and his Challenger, August 24, 2011

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Art

Lynn was seriously working to sell his beloved Dodge Challenger. He new that it wouldn’t take long, Lynn knew and does know that he owned the last undiscovered Dodge Challenger factory promotion car. Here’s where he advertised: http://www.cuda-challenger.com And here’s … Continue reading →

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