Welcome to my personal website
2/28/2009, Hello, Welcome to my new site. I have done some cool changes since the last site I made. I have been working on this site off and on for several months now and I am far from finished. Please look around, you might find some things interesting around here. I'm learning website tools in enhancing website development. Each month I find something new to change a presentation and have been making major revisions. I have made a push today to finally place this on the server. Your comments are welcome. My email address is below on each screen.
If you goto Favorite Links > Weather, I have created a virtual Disaster Monitoring Center. Just click a screen to goto a site. You can monitor storms, worldwide earthquakes, active hurricanes and realtime worldwide biohazards and accidents as well.
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Special Note
9/19/2009, I have been talking and interacting with friends, old classmates and relatives over on Face Book. I joined Face Book back in May 2009. This page will remain active for special notes and passages.
To visit my profile on Face Book, please double click this hyperlink.
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4/6/2009
This is my first picture of the moon tonight. I used a tripod to keep the camera balanced and still.
4/7/2009
Even if you could fully understand the immensity of all of the infinities and understand the science of its nature, it would still stagger the mind of all its diversity, beauty & meanings.What little do we understand of this and so little time we have in it.
Ranchers in the county is setting their fields on fire. The smoke in the air is filtering the color of the moon. (4/10/09)
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Movie/TV Clips from You Tube
"One Nation Under God".
Virgin Galactic Animation
Vangelis "Voices"
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John Cleese on "Creativity"
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Back in the mid 70's in my pre-shortwave listening days, I used to scan for distant AM radio stations. I picked up a station back in the eastern U.S. I remember listening to this song of Walter Brennon that night on that distant station.
The Visual History of Telecommunications
I worked eight years turning up T-1 bandwidth circuits to customers all over the continental U.S. as a remote install tech. Primarily Frame Relay and ISDN (PRI) and some Voice over IP.
Stefano Barone
Perpetual Calendar
Cost of living Calculator
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Face Book Pictures
Please recheck once in a while, I will be adding more pictures as time goes by.
I am a member of the Tulsa Repeater Organization (Amatuer Ham Radio Club). I took these pictures for the club as their photographer.
Thanksgiving pictures 2009 Added new pictures 11/30/09
Everyone had a good time at my kid's grandparent's house near Dallas. Lots to eat. :) You will need your personal Face Book login to see these.
Some artwork that I made that is posted on Face Book.
Personal pictures that I took of the weather. I have some lightning pictures as well.
Made some long exposure pictures of wireworks for special effects.
Memorial Day Family Cemetery 2009
Two American Legion posts goes out to the family cemetery and honors the veterans buried their each year.
Tulsa's Pedestrian Bridge photos
I took some stock photos of the bridge.
Natural Bridge Caverns near San Antonio
Some pictures I took in 2009.
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These are some amusing quotes that my friends and loved ones sent me by email that I liked. I also have added some that I found on the internet myself. People have stopped me locally to say that like these quotes.
We do precision guesswork.
Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.
The early bird gets the worm but, the second mouse gets the cheese.
Beauty, brains, availability, personality; pick any two.
How can you get to your future, if your past is present?
Let your heart see what your eyes cannot.
Those who conquer others have power ... but those who conquer themselves know the way
Even a fool knows that we can't reach the stars, but that doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
"Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.", Confucious
"Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love.",
Lao-Tze
He who belittles you is only trying to cut you down to his/her size.
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
The way some people find fault, you'd think there was some kind of reward.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
If you love something very much, give it away. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it wasn't yours to begin with.
Unless you can question your own beliefs, you have no place questioning the beliefs of others.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
There is not much choice between a woman who deceives us for another, and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.", Niels Bohr
"Love is easy to spot, when someone has found it!"
"Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.", Mark Twain
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
"Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.", John F. Kennedy
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.", Albert Einstein
"The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank." -- Scotty
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
Always drink upstream from the herd. -- Will Rogers
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Here is some basic thoughts from an ancient military strategist named Sun Tzu. His art is taught to military officers, corporations and theorists around the world. I learned about his art in junior college. This is from his book, "The Art of War"
from: Sun Tzu (400–320 BCE)
"Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact: to ruin it is inferior."
"It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him."
"For to win 100 victories in 100 battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
"It follows that those skilled in war can make themselves invincible but cannot cause an enemy to be certainly vulnerable. Therefore, it is said that one may know how to win, but cannot necessarily do so."
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Sound clips
I grew up with Steve & David Bagsby as friends. It was never a dull moment when used to listen to them play in their bands. Here are samples that I used to hear live at their house. Enjoy!
This next song was written by Raymond Scott and was used in Warner Brothers Looney Tunes Cartoons. Dave made an adaption to this song.
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MUSIC Videos from You Tube
Here is a list of some embedded music that like to listen to. Please play anyone one you like to watch. They are from You Tube.
"Here Comes the Sun"