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I'll see your obsolescence and raise you one... Like a fine mechanical watch, it's a pleasure to hold and use. In fact, Minerva used to...

Paddling season seems a long way off. I look forward to mornings like this.

Some pre-Super Bowl paddling with my Son on Willapa Bay.

Not photos of my father's originals . . . But when I was 12 in 1956, I was communicating with all of you at 5 WPM with this device...

Good point. I have to admit, I have gone back to white gas lantern and stove for car camping. The lantern, because it's quieter than...

I have and often use one of those, though it's not as nice as yours. That level of technology just means less to go wrong, and it lands...

Planimeter, able to measure to hundreths of a square inch. It was used by foresters to measure the scaled mapping area of forest stands...

Not having an electrical systems means that's one less thing to go wrong. I just fly low enough to see the town name on the nearest...

This was my air navigation computer. it is a circular slide rule, among other flight calculation tools. The reverse side is used for...

Yes. We used the engineers rule. And the architects rule. I have an undergrad degree in geography. When I started environmental...

my grandfather's ink well.. keep it on my desk, have to polish it once in a while tho. I'm obsolete now also, so I like to have other...

I ran across this old engineer's scale, from my cartographic drafting days. I started hand drafting maps from pencil manuscripts to...

I had to do a search to find out what a Cyber truck is. I'm not sure what the issue is with them (other than profound ugliness), but...

Very nice - fun to see your plans. I'm planning a bushwhack-heavy west-side solo for September, though have invited a couple of...

Paddling season seems a long way off. I look forward to mornings like this.