hogranch.comJohn R Pierce's Home Page

Pierce Home Page Last modified (barely) on December, 2010 at around 9:00 PM All opinions expressed here within are just that. Opinions. Caveat Emptor. If you reached this page via an old link, please use https://hogranch.com Here is a not-so-recent picture of my family. (left-to-right thats Me, Sarah [2], Ruth & Ian [6]). Here , here , here , and here are some more old snaps of us. Pictures from mid 2008 forward are on Smugmug now... Pictures from 2008... Pictures from 2007... Pictures from 2006... Pictures from 2005, many taken by a new Canon S70 or my Canon 350D photo album Pictures from 2005, taken by my kids with a Canon A510 photo album My Canon PowerShot S300 "Digital Elph" photo album mostly, this is pictures up to 2004. We lost our CoolPix 950 camera , but the old digital photo album is still here (August 1999 to June 2001) One of my favorite pastimes is listening to live music by talented musicians... One of the best places to do that is at the Strawberry Music Festival , held each Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends at Camp Mather near Yosemite National Forest. A musician I greatly admired once wrote this interesting piece about the sad state of American's mental health. Long, long ago and far, far away, I thought Windows95 was pretty cool stuff. Here's some snapshots I took when I was invited to the main event in Redmond of LAUNCH '95 . H ere's a disorganized collection of files. There's some assorted bitmaps there, including a aerial(space) view of where I live (see the little yellow squiggle?), maybe even a few recipes. Here are a bunch of pictures of folks and whatever from about 15 years ago when I worked at Digital Research . (Can YOU say CP/M? There, I knew ya could!) Some of my favorite stale links... Computer Companies and Software Stuff... Microsoft Corporation World-Wide-Web Server Home of the $60Billion boy-wonder The Great Mersenne Prime Hunt . EVERYONE with a Pentium TM should get involved with this!... FLASH! Pentium discovers largest known prime number! 2^1398269-1 is the 35th Mersenne prime. ok, old news. GIMPS has discovered 3 more primes since then. its currently working on mersenne prime candidates in the range of 2 to the 10 millionth power. The Environment and Weather The National Weather Service West Coast. Links to all KINDS of Weather Info... Monterey Bay Pages including links to UCSC Long Marine Lab, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium... SlugVideo A live view of the coast about 3 miles from me, along with Weather conditions.. its dead, sigh. anyone got any $$ to spare? Live, from Outer Space, its GOES-9 IR (huge) , in COLOR , and not so huge . GOES-9 Vis (huge) , and not so huge . INTELLiCast San Francisco Weather check out the NexRad radar images... Real-Time San Francisco Bay Wind Patterns Space, the Final Frontier Space Telescope Science Institute Picture Library Fresh Hubble pictures. Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Archive cool (BIG) jpegs of experimental aircraft. The Santa Cruz Astronomy Club The Astronomy Connection (a loosely affliated group of amateur astronomers throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area) Everything you wanted to know about NASA's Planetary Missions Galileo, Cassini, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Pathfinder, etc etc etc. Generally Fun Stuff KPIG Radio - CyberSwine Online Check out the live tunes Click on the cursor... :) The Bastard Operator From Hell! Three judge panel in Philadelphia votes 3-0 that the CDA is not Constitutional. In the findings, District Judge DALZELL summarized: True it is that many find some of the speech on the Internet to be offensive, and amid the din of cyberspace many hear discordant voices that they regard as indecent. The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs' experts put it with such resonance at the hearing: What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is that chaos. Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. For these reasons, I without hesitation hold that the CDA is unconstitutional on its face. Feedback?...