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I am Rod Jones, age 59, north of Durham NC, near Virginia. Email castlecain@mindspring.com.
My primary occupations are Video Production, Home Theater sales and installation along with Dish Network sales and service. I have a technical inclination in my lifestyle and world view. I am skilled in electronics, and have a business degree. I hold a pilots license and a general class amateur radio license. Currently, I am working on Jones genealogy of the colonial period of Halifax County, Virginia.
I drive a hybrid car, and enjoy rebuilding my 74 Vette. Every
technical thing required for my lifestyle has been made or modified by me personally.
I enjoy repairing vintage electronics, and have one or two of about 5 public service scanner radios running here at one time or another. However, I know how to relax without technology, since I spend lots of time in basements of courthouses looking at records from the 18th century. It's silent down there,
and peaceful. My ideal fantasy residence would be a small cabin somewhere in Virginia, 20 miles from any incorporated town, with satellite internet, sun powered heating and lights, and maybe...no phone. I love to read things like the "how-to" articles currently in Back Home magazine (backhomemagazine.com),
about building one's own wind generator and other off grid projects. Independence is what I want, off grid, but close enough to civilization to hit Lowes Hardware or Biscuitville when I need to. I have been in areas like that, where you would think you are in the 18th century. Places down old farm roads through thick trees and suddenly, a mile in, an open ancient field, where there are gentle winds, bringing out the forest scents, and you hear no reminder that you are in the present. Time travel....yep, that's what I need frequently.
But for now, every current thing is a learning experience. My email signature
defines me a little more....
"Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing it's idiot."/
"The definition of insane: Doing the same things
over and over, and expecting different results."/
"Well, art is art, isn't it! Still, on the other hand,
water is water! And east is east and west is west
and if you take cranberries and stew them like
applesauce they taste much more like prunes
than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me
what you know."
Groucho Marx
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I am not so arrogant that I believe we are alone.
2. Your activity is noble
3. I would love to see a link to a real time receiver graphic,
maybe showing frequency, mode, area of antenna pointing,
something a little more technical, like the distance to the stars of
interest at a particular
target. Something like the on-line public service radio scanners being
put on the internet now, with video of the scanned frequency, and audio,
using windows media player. It would be fun just to hear the
random sounds and background noise, whatever is detected at audio
frequency. In my opinion, this type of graphic would increase interest
and be something people would like to show their friends, in addition
to the current graphic on the screen saver. Make it a high frequency scanner
graphic, with buttons to push to get more information about the particular
area being looked at. This would add novelty and promote more
interest. Bandwidth might be a problem, but surely, there may be
someone who would host something like it, with ads to compensate.
Maybe seti could work with a ham radio site like QRZ.com, or the ARRL, we
all know ham radio needs the publicity, and you certainly could gain from the
publicity also.
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