For my bio: Click here
For a writeup the local newspaper did on me when I started as Music Director at the church: Click here
Washington Irving High School monthly newsletter, put out by the Class of '59. http://wi59.tripod.com Folks from all years participate, so it's a great place to find former classmates you've lost touch with.
http://www.1and1.com Yes, you can have your own website, too! This is the company that is hosting my website that you are looking at right now. They offer 120GB of webspace (my entire site with photos and everything takes up less than 1GB) and help you build your site with easy to use templates. You basically pick a design and start filling in your information and adding pages. Cost? How does $5 per month sound? And, if you need help, they have real live people on the phone that are willing to patiently explain how to get set up and fix problems - at no cost! Now you have no excuse not to have your own webpage. If you want more information, email me.
What time is it? http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl Did you know that, long ago, Congress declared the US Navy to be the official timekeeper for the United States? This link takes you to the US Navy bank of atomic clocks to find the official time. Why a bank of clocks? Just in case one happens to get off by 1/1,000,000,000th of a second. Every time you click "Refresh" the current time updates. Set your watch today.
When you've finished setting your watch with the previous link, visit http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ to read about the history of the Naval Observatory and it's role as the official timekeeper. Just click on the links along the left-side column.
A great site organized by two gentlemen who are posting perhaps the largest online collection of old car brochures in the world. Want to read the owner's manual for a Model-T? How about almost any classic car or muscle car up to 1987? It's there, or it will be. Car nuts like me are scanning and contributing brochures daily. Maybe you have one to add?? www.oldcarbrochures.com (Please note this page has recently undergone extensive renovations and only part of the list is currently online - Check Back!)
Adventure Rider - A motorcycle travel forum with ride reports from around the world. You can follow riders on exciting trips through Europe, Asia, South American, Africa, Australia, Alaska, .... just about everywhere, including the good ol' USA. Just go to "Regional Forums" or "Ride Reports and pics, pics, pics" and find the area of the world you would like to explore. A word of warning - some of the content is occasionally not "G-Rated", but it's a very small percentage. The good reading and photos far outweigh the occasional bad language. http://www.advrider.com/forums/
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html This CIA site gives all of the information you would ever need or want on just about every country on earth. It's a great source for finding out the most obscure statisitics you ever imagined, like the annual rainfall in Ecuador, or the #1 crop in Egypt, or the average yearly salary in Switzerland.
http://pivotalengine.com This New Zealand company has designed what may be the next generation of internal combustion engines. A revolutionary design, so simple and yet so elegant. There is even a video animation that shows the engine cycles.