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8-29-08: New essence of supercar pics

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8-27-08: New links to real life supercar adventure locales, new site pics, and more

Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg (among other things) host something called 'Rod Runs', where basically hot rodders from around the nation congregate to show off their rides and trade tales. I actually attended a primoridal version of the Rod Runs with my Mustang supercar decades ago in Gatlinburg, and describe it in a supercar account not yet posted online, tentatively titled Black and blue magic.

Anyway, I recently ran across what may be the best informal introduction to the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area (as well as the Rod Runs) online today. And amazingly enough, it's authored by a fellow T-shirt airbrusher!

His site is Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg,Tennessee,Gateway to the Smokies. And here is his supercar related page: Rod Run Pigeon Forge.

New pics of beautiful girls were added to The Battle for Pearsalls' Grit part one (the indomitable Liz Pearsall) and A teenage pressure cooker (the cheerleader Sue Anne Maddison).

Great hoaxes and pranks of the 21st century has been updated.

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8-24-08: New pictures

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8-23-08: A flurry of new pics

How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang
One small taste of Hell
Introduction to the Rise and Fall of Star Faring Civilizations in Our Own Galaxy
The Battle for Pearsalls' Grit part 2
Prologue: critical mass of the online novel The Chance of a Realtime

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8-20-08: Tornados pic

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8-16-08: NEW PAGE for teenagers

I noticed lots of teens accidentally stumbling onto these stories (based on my emails), and so figured why not make it easier for them?

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8-11-08: Miscellaneous updates

The world's easiest cheapest gas saving tips

Supercars: the legends, history, creators, and specifications; plus how to build your own.

Chapter 17: the taking of Amphitritium got a new image.

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8-10-08: Supercar update

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8-6-08: NEW PAGES: A Windows XP PC security overhaul, and political opinion

The spectacular success of the Republican party in hijacking political debate in America

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7-31-08: UPDATES: death control pill, alien civilizations, and gas saving tips

Is this our first glimpse of an alien civilization?

The world's easiest cheapest gas saving tips

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7-30-08: Supercar tale update

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7-24-08: UPDATE on why the rich need the rest of us to pay their share of income taxes

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7-14-08: New supercar tale pics

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7-9-08: Obama's biggest mistake so far. Will it cost him the election?

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7-6-08: NEW PC TROUBLESHOOTING PAGE and other updates

More links were added to the list in Miscellaneous unorganized links relating to How to Live Well on Very, Very Little. Gosh, but I really need to process some of those into an update of my How to live well on very little pages!

The astonishing decline of America got an update.

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7-4-08: NEW PAGE AND IMAGES

The Apple PowerMac G4 user's log and Salvaging the hard drive from a dead Apple Powerbook G4 both got new images.

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7-3-08: More links added to off-site images

Chapter 13: A fantasy of chaos
Chapter 14: Descent into chaos
Chapter 15: Hell and the human spirit
Chapter 16: The terror
Chapter 17: The taking of Amphitritium
Chapter 18: The siege of the seventh palace
Chapter 19: The battle of Belphi station

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6-29-08: NEW MAC PAGE and links

A PowerMac G4 where "No burning device was found" and Installation of a second internal hard drive into a PowerMac G4 got updated with the addition of some the possibly helpful web links I ran across while trying to work through the problems.

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6-20-08: NEW GRAPHICS and updates: Supercar tales and gas saving tips

The supercar prologue tales of A small slice of one young rural geek's life and How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang both got some pretty substantial imagery added to them.

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6-16-08: Troubleshooting a PowerMac G4 where "No burning device was found", and installing a second hard drive into same

A PowerMac G4 with MIA (missing-in-action) removable drives (DVD and ZIP) OR "No burning device was found"

Installation of a second internal hard drive into a PowerMac G4

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6-9-08: GAS TIPS UPDATE plus NEW IMAGES ADDED to several mustang supercar pages, and the airship pages

A ghost of a chance from the Moonshadow outlaw airship pilot logs got new imagery.

The supercar pages below have gained one or more new images:

Daytona 2.0: Between a Ferrari and a hard place
Part 2 of Too close for comfort
A call to arms
Part 2 of Slip, sliding away
The Daytona 1200

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6-4-08: NEW IMAGES ADDED to a couple mustang supercar pages, and the page covering the super rich...

What goes around part 2
Breaking up
The super-rich, the 'plain' rich, the 'poorest' rich...and everyone else...Everything you might want to know about wealth and the richest among us

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6-4-08: WebFLUX Alert: Powerful anti-aging substance availability UPDATED 7-7-08

However...something in red wine has been exciting longevity researchers for maybe a decade now, and regional world populations who drink it have displayed remarkable protection from the otherwise usually harmful diet and lifestyle of modern westerners like ourselves.

A few years back researchers seemed to isolate the ingredient responsible for this, and named it "resveratrol".

There seems to be a race on between health supplement companies to start producing pills of this stuff as soon as possible. But those might be expensive. And if past history is any indication, the corporate version might be utterly worthless at best-- and harmful at worst.

So how can you get some of the good and real stuff today?

Well, there's always the wine. But that's not necessarily a convenient or desirable avenue for many of us, or our daily routines. Thankfully there's alternative sources.

"A compound in the skin of red grapes has been found to curb the effects of ageing, even when taken in tiny doses."

"The compound is abundant in the skin of red grapes. Its concentration in red wine varies greatly depending on the grape variety. Normal levels are between 0.2 and 5.8 milligrams per litre, but wines produced from muscadine grapes may have more than 40 milligrams per litre.

A five ounce glass of muscadine red wine can contain as much as six milligrams of resveratrol.

Smaller amounts of resveratrol are also found in blueberries, bilberries, cranberries and peanuts."

-- Scientists discover the secret behind red wine's anti-ageing properties; 03rd June 2008

7-7-08 UPDATE: Apparently there's already some resveratrol supplements available over the counter today! At least according to the news report below:

"Resveratrol is a natural substance found in red wine and red grapes. It is sold in extract form as a dietary supplement at most major drug stores."

-- Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement. END UPDATE.

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6-3-08: NEW IMAGES for Essence of supercar, the Daytona 1200, Wild horses, Over the edge, and Drafted (all but one of these supercar accounts)

The Daytona 1200
Wild horses
Over the edge part 2
Chapter 3: Drafted

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6-2-08: NEW IMAGE added to Testing the limits (supercar prologue tale)

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6-1-08: NEW IMAGES added for Fast times at Sigma Chi, Heartbreaker, Critical mass, and Something different (supercar stories and sci fi novel)

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5-31-08: NEW IMAGES added to 'the Taking of Amphitritium' (underwater city in a science fiction novel)

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5-27-08: UPDATES to essence of supercar, what the rich do with their freedom from taxes, and the Mustang super car project

Supercar project got a few more references, as well as further technical detail about Shadow's build and likely final specs (like front/rear weight distribution for better handling performance).

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5-26-08: NEW IMAGES have been added to the story index page

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5-25-08: PAGE UPDATE: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach One: essence of supercar

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5-24-08: NEW IMAGES: How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang

I suspect I may ultimately move one of the images to a different story page, to make it better fit chronologically. The reason I haven't already done it is the final destination page will be a story I've not yet posted: The spring break plot, about a little adventure we had in Daytona Beach Florida (wholly unrelated to the earlier Daytona 1200).

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5-23-08: PAGE UPDATES, NEW IMAGERY: Web authoring log and supercar concept interior

Life just isn't stressful enough already: your hosting company has to poke you with a stick, too. The Shadowfast super car project: Interior concept sketches got a update, which includes a new image.

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5-21-08: NEW IMAGES: Illustrated story index

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5-20-08: NEW PAGE: Great hoaxes and pranks of the 21st century

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5-16-08: NEW IMAGES ADDED to certain Crossroads pages

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5-14-08: UPDATE to religion page

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5-12-08: UPDATES to the massive shortages hoaxes foisted upon us by corporate America and their government cronies

Are we there yet? part two and References

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5-10-08: UPDATE to the on-site stories index

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5-9-08: UPDATE to the wasteful spending of the little-to-zero-taxed rich

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5-7-08: UPDATE to PC online security how-to

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5-6-08: NEW PAGE about future pie-in-the-sky articles, plus gas savings tips updated

The sight of Hell through rose-colored glasses doesn't improve the view for me!

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5-2-08: NEW PAGE: How to fight back against surveillance, censorship, and more

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5-2-08: The debut of Pathfinder the book

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4-30-08: The incredible road network of America

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4-28-08: Several page updates

Are we there yet? (part 2) and its references.

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4-26-08: New super car page

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4-25-08: An update for Kerri and Cluke, and more

The timeline got new links to off-site artwork.

Fast times at Sigma Chi finally got some (not all) of its story posted.

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4-22-08: What the rich do with their astonishing freedom from taxes

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4-20-08: Another day, another set of images added to the site

To whom it may concern
Limits
The second coming

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4-16-08: More off-site image links added

Chapter 13: A fantasy of chaos
Chapter 14: Descent into chaos
Chapter 15: Hell and the human spirit
Chapter 16: The terror
Chapter 17: The taking of Amphitritium
Chapter 18: The siege of the seventh palace
Chapter 19: The battle of Belphi station

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4-15-08: The sorry international club America under Bush has joined

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4-12-08: 'What did geeks do before personal computers and the internet were widespread?' gets a MASSIVE graphics update

What did geeks do before personal computers and the internet were widespread?

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4-4-08: Once again, a list of recent pages receiving image updates

Chapter 9: Inner space wars
Chapter 13: A fantasy of chaos

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4-2-08: Lots of new images added to various pages on-site

Supercar project notes
A teenage pressure cooker
Slip, sliding away part 2
The ultimate science fiction novel for geeks
Chapter 1: Something different
Chapter 14: Descent into chaos
Chapter 18: The siege of the seventh palace

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3-29-08: Links to additional imagery added

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3-28-08: New graphics

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3-27-08: New pics added

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3-24-08: New images added

Chapter 13: A fantasy of chaos
Chapter 15: Hell and the human spirit
Chapter 16: The terror

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3-23-08: New graphics updates

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3-22-08: Miscellaneous page updates

What goes around
Supercar site map
How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang
To save my world
Fast times at Sigma Chi
Too close for comfort

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3-20-08: New page: Life as a zombie

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2-23-08: New imagery added to a supercar tale

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2-21-08: New pics for both the sci fi novel and a supercar story

Testing the limits

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2-18-08: New page: The great American mystery

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1-24-08: Praise science and pass the (anti-hacking) info

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1-21-08: Solving the mystery of why times are getting harder instead of better

Here it is. With references

The references list is already pretty hefty, but not yet complete. I'll be adding to it over coming months.

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1-14-08: Another new chapter added to the science fiction saga

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1-12-08: Fighting back

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1-11-08: Kicked while I'm down

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1-6-08: Worst case scenarios

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1-5-08: New science fiction epic chapter

On the brighter side, as The Chance of a Realtime covers many months onboard a multi-verse spanning time-traveling vessel, what's already available online is maybe four hard copy books worth of material. And like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, there's oodles of in-depth reference material backing it all up, with most of that to be found in An illustrated speculative timeline of future technology and social change. But that's not all: just as Tolkien fans can explore both what came before and after the events in the main Rings trilogy by examining the appendices, or reading the Hobbit, so too can Chance of a Realtime readers check out what the hero of the saga did both before and after his time traveling jaunt. For instance, The Shadowfast supercar driver logs covers much of his late teens and early twenties. But there's more! The most avid fans can see what his life was like in his early teens too, as well as the whole rest of his life after The Chance of a Realtime-- and even a bit of his after-life as well(!) The most complete guide to his life and times available in a single page can be found in Welcome to my universe: illustrated story index.

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12-26-07: Bad news regarding my recent eye operation

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12-23-07: Each chapter of my science fiction novel gets its own badly needed synopsis in the table of contents

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12-23-07: Mainstream news reporter astounded by old artificial tree being oblivious to wars and nuclear weapons

Christmas tree survives war, A-bomb By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer, Dec 21, 2007
"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_on_re_as/japan_the_tree;_ylt=AlmssLDCkU0m00TLv1JFmNQDW7oF"

After the original link breaks, you can try this Google search for a copy elsewhere on the net.

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12-19-07: Update to the list of real life circumstances which inspired the supercar tales

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12-17-07: Fresh treats for the most hard-core Shadowfast supercar/Jerry Staute fans

A small slice of one young rural geek's life
Passages to a larger world
A teenage pressure cooker
Of new best friends and old
How one struggling teenager met one wrecked Mustang
Testing the limits
To save my world

As usual, these accounts may be expanded upon in the future, as time and new recollections allow.

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12-14-07: Update to why the rich might want to help the poor

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12-12-07: Update to Hysterical America

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12-10-07: My general purpose exercise machine/fitness journal has been updated with a real-life operation experience

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12-5-07: Never give up! The ancient office fax inspirational image for employees from decades past which inspired the title of my supercar in Texas page is now up

Notes from the actual owner/driver of the original 1970s Shadowfast super car has been updated with some actual photos from the real life parkway described in several of my supercar stories online. And one of them actually includes me and my friend I call Will in the stories, too.

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11-29-07: A sketchy look at Jerry Staute

The poor man's airship got a scan of a chunk of an actual gyroscopter blueprint I bought long ago, before I ultimately decided to go the personal airship route instead.

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11-28-07: TONS of new graphics posted online!

Chapter 3: drafted of the science fiction novel The chance of a realtime now offers up various original views of the time-traveling vessel Pagnew, created way back in 1990 (the year Jerry Staute finally recalled his fantastic journey from 18 years previous). No kidding!

Fast times at Sigma Chi will eventually offer up the story of one supercar driver and a particular college fraternity in the 1970s. But for now it primarily holds scans of campus newspaper editorial cartoons I did at the time, plus some doodles of me and friends I made to avoid studying.

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11-25-07: Banner: How to tell if hope still remains

Basically I've put in image form the quote from my own writings which has proven most popular with web surfers in general over the past decade.

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11-20-07: More images for hot-linking

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11-15-07: More graphics for Myspacers, etc.

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11-13-07: A new experiment gets underway

This got me to thinking maybe I should cater to this phenomenon a bit, and see what happens.

So I've begun creating graphics I hope might be specificially 'tuned' to such folks' needs.

One of the first is this wild wheel gif which can now be seen in context in part two of Nowhere to go but up.

I've also updated both the How to get rich in America page, and its references.

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11-10-07: Social networking sites experience added to page about making money online

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11-8-07: How to get rich in America updated

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11-7-07: Gamma ray burster update

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11-1-07: A vision of Bridget in the afterlife

Could a bizarre, inhuman race have evolved on Earth as long ago as 600 million BC? If so, what might have been its fate? Could it have become Earth's first lost civilization? and Could we eventually uncover a lost civilization on the sunken Kerguelen continent? And if so, what might have been its fate? REFERENCE (part 2) have also been updated.

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10-26-07: What my friends' Mustangs looked like in the old days

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10-22-07: A new look at the wonderful Bridget Dufay

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10-19-07: The love story begun in Heartbreaker continues-- and gets its own index page.

It's amazingly tough to do the simplest of pics in Adobe Photoshop Elements involving common object shapes. If I can ever figure out how to better use PE's shape tools (and they truly are better than they seem to be at present-- OUCH!), I'll take another shot at The heart afraid of flying..

As a token of my appreciation towards my female readers, I've established the new page But two to keep tomorrow: The story of one pair of star-crossed lovers destined to become all humanity's greatest hope against the ultimate supernatural threat. This page will serve as a handy index to the entire Jerry-Bridget saga, which begins with Heartbreaker, and doesn't end until well into the afterlives of both.

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10-16-07: New advertising sales pages now open for business!

While selling ad space directly can be more lucrative than the indirect text ad channel most sites use, it's also more demanding overhead-wise. So I decided to automate it somewhat, to reduce my workload.

The new pages relating to ad sales are:

Advertise on this site and Advertising fine print

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10-13-07: The very first Moonshadow airship story is now online

The bad news for airship aficionados is that this particular tale may offer the least of the whole bunch about Moonshadow itself-- as it mostly relates to the consequences of a bad mistake on my part that separated me from the ship for a couple months one summer.

Plus (as usual) I'm not posting the stories in chronological order. This one actually takes place during the second summer of the airship's use.

A ghost of a chance is the first actual story posted to the complete list which can be seen in The Moonshadow flying wing pilot logs.

The supercar story Wild horses also got an update.

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10-11-07: Update to getting rich in America

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10-2-07: New page showcases the depth and scope of my online stories (AND related imagery)

This is the first draft: I'll be adding more links and possibly images too later on.

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9-25-07: New page on how no American universal healthcare hurts the old on Medicare, and update to supercar notes

America's lack of universal health insurance even hurts old folks on Medicare

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9-24-07: New supercar story

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9-17-07: Updates to 2013 wonders and supercar correspondence

Selected excerpts from correspondence between site visitors and the driver/owner/builder of the original Shadowfast Mustang supercar

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9-16-07: The driver logs and supercar feats index are updated

Index of Shadow's supercar feats, deeds, and exploits

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9-15-07: Lightningfast makes its best online appearance yet

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9-13-07: American hysterics updated

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9-11-07: Updates relating to correspondence with supercar readers, the Wild horses story, How to get rich in America, and more

Wild horses

How to get rich in America REFERENCE

Things only Americans worry about

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9-5-07: Supercar legends, building your own update, plus America's black hole of a heart

America has a black hole where its heart should be

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8-28-07: Update to How to get rich in America

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8-20-07: Update to hysterical America

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8-19-07: A review of the anime TV shows Naruto and Bleach

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8-15-07: A tweak to the Chance Staute fate-storm logs

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8-14-07: A rash of newz&viewz items updates/expansions

Stephen King could have been God

Hysterical shrinking America the guilty

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8-5-07: Low cost web authoring update

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8-2-07: Two page updates

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7-27-07: Two page updates

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7-26-07: Afterlife update

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7-26-07: New page: Things only Americans worry about

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7-23-07: Fact versus fiction in human civilization

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7-22-07: New supercar driver's account: Wild horses

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7-19-07: Where's Clark Kent when you need him?

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7-18-07: The state of America, mid-2007

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7-14-07: Updates/revisions to two supercar tales

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7-11-07: The Pearsall saga gets still more artwork

The relevant URLs here include:

The Pearsall saga
Part one and part two of the Battle for Pearsalls' Grit.

The rehabilitation of Al Pearsall has also gotten an update (text-wise).

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7-7-07: Cheap and easy summer home cooling ideas

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7-6-07: Fresh supercar meat

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7-5-07: Are we there yet? Sometime soon humanity should be hitting a techno-economic tipping point...

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7-4-07: How-to for leaving this reality for another updated; plus how some cartoon gags can really happen

My Tony Little's Gazelle Freestyle Elite: One user's log and general health and fitness journal has been updated with 7-3-07: Replacement piston results and real-life TV cartoon head bump.

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7-2-07: America's not only getting ever more small-minded: it's losing stature in just about every other way that matters, too.

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6-21-07: A Pearsall Rover cockpit pic now available

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6-16-07: Another Lindsay bikini pic posted

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6-14-07: The amazingly awful AT&T

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6-13-07: Still more pics rolled out on-site

Part one of the Battle for Pearsalls' Grit has gained an artistic rendition of the Grit planetoid.

Part two of the Battle for Pearsalls' Grit now boasts a view of the sexy photo of Liz which Al used to hide the tainted data stream from Sol system from Liz's purge efforts.

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6-12-07: The beauteous Lindsay Finch from the Shadowfast supercar driver logs gets two more pics on-site.

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6-11-07: Liz Pearsall makes her visual debut on-site for the first time ever

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6-6-07: New site tour page

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