Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
Several articles from Kenko Shimbun have been published. This newsletter was published on mimeograph and xerography for the U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan. These were scanned from printed originals, and converted to text via OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
Two articles (so far) from: At Your Leisure have been posted. The original publications were printed on newsprint, which is definitely not the medium of choice for long-term preservation. These were reproduced via scans and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I shared credit for one story in Navy Times It was written in the 1980s, when the yen in Japan started at 360 to the dollar and, by 1987, had risen to 105 to the dollar. As the military personnel Continue reading Navy Times article
Patterns of the Fantastic II is a volume of essays and papers presented in the scholarly track of the World Science Fiction Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1983. I was in the process of moving to Japan a the Continue reading Patterns of the Fantastic II
Completed posting of several 80-U.S. Journal articles. My first microcomputer was a TRS-80 Model I, purchased in Daly City, California in 1978. I’d been encouraged to purchase an Apple II by Steve Jobs, personally, at the West Coast Computer Faire, Continue reading 80-U.S. Journal
From Music Since 1900, by Nicolas Slonimsky, pp. 1489-1490: Sesquipedalian Macropolysyllabiflcation. Quaquaversal lucubration about pervicacious torosity and diverticular prosiliency in diatonic formication and chromatic papulation, engendering carotic carmination and decubital nyctalopia, causing borborygmic susurration, teratological urticulation, macroptic dysmimia, bregmatic obstipation, Continue reading Best definition ever
Modern farming equipment can harvest and package a crop in a single pass: At least that’s what I assume is going on here.
Some of the most important questions ever posed by humanity involve religion, spirituality, faith and belief. Most people, in every culture, profess to some spirituality, though things get more complicated when it comes to religion. Religion is related to spirituality, Continue reading True religion
Transcribed from a series of text messages: ❦ ❦ ❦ Kathleen packed tea and a banana in my briefcase this morning. I’m at work, eating the banana, drinking tea, waiting for a security scan of a website to finish, wondering Continue reading Bananas and seppuku