Sooner Boomer
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Any idea how fast (words per minute) you read? Ever been tested?
Irish.... that reminds me. Gotta find a copy of Leon Uris' "Trinity". It's a fictionalized account of the Irish struggle starting in the late 1800's with the potato famine, and going up to WWII.
I just downloaded the following eBooks from the library at work. About 170MB worth.
- How Apollo Flew to the Moon
If you have Amazon & Kindle in the Down Under you can buy it.My library has nothing cool like this. They couldn't even find a copy of 'The Right Stuff' between here and Queensland.
If you have Amazon & Kindle in the Down Under you can buy it.
I have started this book three times over the past few years and something has interrupted each reading. I'm really going to try to have a go at it this time. It covers more than "the markets," as the cover insinuates, and deals more with how people like to deny that random, unplanned and unforeseeable events shape their lives more than they imagine.
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I could use some of those on antenna design. I've got a project that's been percolating in the back of my mind for a while. Lnow anything about "patch" antennas?I just downloaded the following eBooks from the library at work. About 170MB worth.
- How Apollo Flew to the Moon
- Smart Antennas
- Modern Lens Antennas for Communications Engineering
- Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks
- Coplanar Waveguide Circuits, Components and Systems
- Periodic Structures : Mode Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagentic Engieering
- Antenna Arrays : A Computational Approach
- Conformal Array Antenna Theory and Design
- Modern Antennas
- Modern Antenna Design
- Circularly Polarized Antennas
- Foundations of Microstrip Circuit Design
That should be a year or so worth of light reading before I go to bed. I will mix it up with some slightly less stressful aviation, shooting and 4x4 magazines .
I'm trying to find books that might encourage young teens to read. I think there are two boys and two girls, somewhere around 12-14YO. So far, I've given them "Educated Maurice" and "Wee Free Men", by Pratchett; the first two "White Trash Zombie" books by Dianna Rowland; and "The Hobbit" by Tolkein. Waiting to be delivered are "Hat Full of Sky" by Pratchett; "Citizen of the Galaxy", "Podkayne of Mars", and :The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", by Heinlein.
Here is a little project I did with a patch antenna a while back:I could use some of those on antenna design. I've got a project that's been percolating in the back of my mind for a while. Lnow anything about "patch" antennas?
Twelve years on the BoD and I got stalled a couple times. I got *wince-y* reading the stuff about me. Always made me feel funny to be recognized, because I always--and still-- considered myself to be just another rocketeer with maybe different skills.I’m halfway through and stalled for some reason. Gotta pick it up again and finish it...
Moby Dick
I tried going through his "John Carter of Mars" series a few years ago. Read about four or five and couldn't find any more books.Just finished up reading a 5 book volume of Edgar Rice Burough's Tarzan series:
Tarzan of the Apes
The Return of Tarzan
The Beasts of Tarzan
The Son of Tarzan
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Currently reading Star Wars: The Old Republic, Fatal Alliance.
I tried going through his "John Carter of Mars" series a few years ago. Read about four or five and couldn't find any more books.
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