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Unarchy,
and a varietie of motley thoughts...
from Donald's head.
 
IF YOU NEVER LOOK PAST THIS HOME PAGE, PLEASE READ AND THINK ON THIS:
Proposal: Replace our current justice system, based on dishonesty
and legalistic word games, with a new system based on common sense and
conscience. The new system is called unarchy (from Latin unus = one,
and Latin archi- from Greek arkhein = rule).
Unarchy has no written laws other than the Golden Rule:
don't do what you don't want others to do to you.
Juries are selected completely randomly. Juries are big enough
to ensure that they accurately represent the views of society at large.
There are no judges or lawyers. Accuser and accused present their
own cases. No evidence is inadmissable. Jurors may ask questions.
Simple majority vote determines guilt. Simple majority vote sets
the punishment.
Thanks.
Donald Sauter
What's new(est):
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All of math - arguing that there's nothing more to math than
basic addition and multiplication.
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Ben Sauter, a character - in his own words.
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Chatting with a vampire - really just a very nice interview with
my cousin Mary about her work in a blood bank by AOL member Imthejason.
Relive the internet days of old (1998).
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Scraps From The Operas Arranged For Two Guitars By Justin Holland.
The "opera scraps" now have YouTube videos!
Who was Justin Holland? Nothing less than the first black American
artist, of any sort, known throughout the land.
- "A Trip To Rocky Point" with
vintage post cards -
a happy piece of musical Americana from 1890 for guitars, mandolin and
sound effects. Now with a YouTube vid!
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The Scrabble word list over the decades - a quick look at
the 1953 word list, and how it compares to the current monstrosity.
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Mastering 8th-grade math -
a simple proposal guaranteeing greatly increased student performance.
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Adding and subtracting mixed numbers - so simple and straightforward
that it's almost mindless!
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National School Scrabble Championship 2011 - or should we call it the
National Misspelling Bee?
- All of math in just two little pages . . .
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My little shop of rare and precious commodities - a convenient
showroom for all of my pages which offer something for purchase.
You won't find these items anywhere else!
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Movie star photos, with autographs! Even if you don't know many of
these 75 stars from the 1940s and 1950s, they'll take you back, I
guarantee it.
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In Memory of Jane L. Sauter. A mom like none other, in
addition to being America's Most Beloved Woman.
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- The following 4 pages, while not going exactly hand in hand, are
somewhat intertwined. What I'm trying to say is, read 'em all. (Pretty
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Forward - No need to read this, but it's short. That's the bargain, see?
- Justice, democracy, government, education, and . . . unarchy!
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Unarchy - a simple system of justice based on common sense and
conscience.
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You And Me For President, 2012. No matter the year, always trying to
plug pure democracy. It's the way to go.
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Boosting the over-all performance of an elementary school -
open letter to elementary school principals and school system superintendents.
A simple idea, but it takes a person with special talents.
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Middle School math - returning to the "one room school house" system
with a math master.
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Mastering 8th-grade math -
a simple proposal guaranteeing greatly increased student performance.
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Maryland's MSPAP test. The idiotic test is gone, at least as we knew it,
but I leave the page up as a monument to the idiots still in charge of
Maryland's education system.
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Kumon - a look at the pluses and minuses. Parents, if you're thinking of
supplemental education for your child, you might be interested in this.
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Kumon faq (frequently asked questions) - emails I received in response
to the above page, and my honest responses.
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Litter America - some rollicking satire, plus a proposed solution.
Also, proposed punishment for shoplifting.
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- Guitar - so-called "classical", it's the real thing.
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Guitar fingerings - all my thoughts on the notation of guitar
fingering, the notation of guitar harmonics, etc.
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Guitar tablature - simple and sensible! I also propose a
standardized tablature notation.
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The quasi-Baroque guitar - how to rig up double strings on that old
banger in your closet. It's a cinch!
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Alternate tunings for the guitar - up to G(!) for Bach's violin music;
open tunings; Russian guitar.
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String calculation - the sensible way: mass per unit length (not
gauge).
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Guitar ramble - a hodge-podge of thoughts.
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Guitar society thoughts - let's have a guitar party!
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The Music Division of the Library of Congress - some very handy tips for
using it, using guitar examples.
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Guitar music from the Library of Congress - a bunch of neat stuff I have
copied (like 3000 pages.)
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Guitar music from the Library of Congress (for sale) - now you
can order the pieces you want.
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Guitar and piano music from the Library of Congress - quite an impressive
list. Also notes the errors found in the music.
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Guitar and piano music from the Library of Congress (for sale) - now you can
order the pieces you want. Shows sample guitar extract for each piece.
Also provides links to all the guitar and piano pieces
on the Royal Copenhagen Library (REX) site.
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Computers and arranging for guitar - they should be smart enough for
that.
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GACK - Is somebody sick? No, a Guitar Accessory Carrying Kase!
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Dionisio Aguado - complete works for the guitar. A look at the Chanterelle
edition, with some personal thoughts plus a very useful index.
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Right hand exercise/word search - huh???
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The guitar in the 1894 Sears catalog - time-traveling fun. This is the
first Sears catalog in which the guitar appeared.
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The guitar in the Fall 1896-97 Sears catalog. And here's round 2.
Still only gut-strung guitars.
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Familiar guitar quotations. (That shouldn't take long.)
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Guitar master classes - some worthwhile tips picked up there.
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Our Director March - the case for "low-brow" music.
Now with sheet music.
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"Classical guitar" in the Baltimore Sun - all the references from
1990-1998. I was curious how it shows up in a typical newspaper, and how
often.
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Linking to the guitar music in the Royal Copenhagen library - a project
for fans of 19th C. guitar music.
- "A Trip To Rocky Point" -
a happy piece of musical Americana from 1890 for guitars, mandolin and
sound effects. See what you've been missing in this melody-phobic
age of ours...
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Justin Holland, guitar hero - Black American guitarist
Justin Holland was the most important guitarist of his generation, talkin'
mid-1800s. Listen to his set of "Scraps From the Operas Arranged For
Two Guitars", where Grand Opera meets Dueling Banjos meets Black History.
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- Guitar tablature - looks good, not trashy!
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Ascii tablature - general comments which apply to all of the
guitar tablature in the pages below.
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Alonso Mudarra - everything for solo vihuela and 4-course guitar from
Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela (1546).
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Henry Francois de Gallot. Just one work for baroque guitar, but a
monumental one! A "how to" for playing baroque guitar music on the modern
guitar.
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Francisco Guerau - the complete Poema Harmonico (1694) for
baroque guitar. Works well on the modern guitar.
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Gaspar Sanz - pieces from his ever-popular Instruccion de Musica
sobre la Guitarre Espan^ola, dating from 1674. Includes the complete
Libro 2.
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Francois Campion - all the pieces in alternate tunings from
Nouvelles Decouvertes sur la Guitarre (1705). For baroque guitar
but simply delightful on the modern guitar. (Betcha you couldn't play them
from music!)
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Antoine Carre - everything in his Livre de Pieces de Guitarre de
Musique (1690?) for baroque guitar. Includes many solos; plus a duet;
plus a big suite for 2 guitars and melody and bass instrument, which I've
set up for playing on 3 guitars.
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Francesco da Milano. Not a complete works job - just 3 pieces - but
you might as well have them as not. Francesco was tops in the lute field
before 1543.
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Mozart waltzes - over 200 of them; never before heard or played!
Generated from his Musikalisches Wuerfelspiel. Transcribed for
guitar and presented in tablature.
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The Carnival of Venice - a virtuoso, 19th C. guitar work by Zani de
Ferranti. You need this in tablature because the guitar is tuned to an
E major chord.
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The Plow That Broke The Plains, by Virgil Thomson. If you get the
chance to play the guitar part in this orchestral work, this tablature might
help.
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Etude in e minor (The Great). Warning - after you've played this,
there's nothing left.
Now with the originally published tablature.
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Minuetto from Falstaff - Amelie Luigi's very nice transcription (1895)
of a very nice minuetto in Verdi's opera, Falstaff.
Now with sheet music.
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The Galop of the Goblins - a fun piece by American guitarist
Walter Fay Lewis, plus everything you need to know about the (spooky)
Neapolitan sixth chord.
Now with sheet music.
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Our Director March - the case for "low-brow" music. Also included in
this section so you don't miss the tab.
Now with sheet music.
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"Toccata Arpeggiata" by J. H. Kapsberger. A nice piece made easier
by an unusual tuning. Presented in tablature.
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"Mad Dog" - that's what they call this lute piece from the Second
Matthew Holmes Lute Book. It's by Anthony Holborne.
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"April Showers" - a 19th C. all-American guitar duo in an unusual tuning.
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- Beatles - some pop group.
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Beatle Significa - a gearfab question and answer game. Some dare call
it trivia.
- Beatle mentions in various magazines
- Beatle book reports.
- Beatle pages with sound bites.
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The ultimate Beatles database - something like a Beatle Wikipedia,
but bigger and better!
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The Beatles VI Cover - Straight Dope Cecil answers the world's toughest
Beatle question!!! (What do you call them things that keep rain off your head?)
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Beatles vs. Elvis - just a fun word game contest devised by Joe Pope in 1987. Play
along, laugh at the entries, or simply have yourself a glimpse of Beatle
fandom from that era. Also meant to be a tribute to Joe, himself.
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Muzak and the Beatles - standing up for beautiful music. I say let it
rip, not RIP. And where will the Beatles be without it?
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Paul McCartney's close call - how the Beatles almost lost a good
bass player in the Canary Islands in 1963.
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The Yellow Submarine movie, and the brains behind it. Did the Beatles
contribute more to the movie than we think?
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John, Paul, George, Ringo... & Bert. A review of the play by
Willy Russell. The first four guys you know; but who's the last chappy???
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Beatles on Scottish tv in Glasgow - a little story.
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Ringo's Beaucoups Of Blues album - a few reminiscences from country
music artist Sorrells Pickard.
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Best-yet Hard Day's Night chord - give it a twang.
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Ringo's hair at the British Embassy - an international incident.
Trying to get to the bottom of what really happened the night after the
Beatles' first concert in America, Feb 11 1964.
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Mother Goose and the Beatles - how the old lady pops up in the
Beatles oeuvre, not to mention Bob Dylan and miscellaneous popsters.
- Unsolved mysteries
- Beatles bonus tracks
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Free Beatles books! (Offer expired!)
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- Science and math:
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The Human Race Is Special - proof positive.
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The Fermi Paradox - where are the aliens?
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UFOs I have seen - 'strewth.
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The Big Bang - explosion or expansion? Come on, which is it? (I
suspect tired light.)
- Evolution
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Evolution FAQ - frequently asked question.
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The Beak Of The Finch; a story of evolution in our time, by Jonathan
Weiner. My report on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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The Neck Of The Giraffe; where Darwin went wrong, by Francis Hitching.
My report on a book diametrically opposed to the above.
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Evolution articles, essays and writings, with my rebuttals.
A follow-up to my Evolution FAQ.
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Doubting Saint Chuck - selected commentary on Intelligent Design in
the wake of the Dover school board case, Oct 2005. My pick from among
thousands and thousands of articles.
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"Science describes; science does not explain" - needs to be
said now and then. The discussion uses "The God Delusion", by Richard
Dawkins, and gravity as jumping off points.
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Evolution for Dummies. Ummm, well . . . that says it all, I guess?
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Evolution. No, there's more...
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Leap Day - what are your chances of being born on it? (That is, if
you haven't already been born yet.) Including a mild rant on clumsy
mathematical thinking.
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Science in the media - does everybody just nod their heads?
- Freebies from a visionary:
- All of math in just two little pages . . .
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All of math - further arguing that there's nothing more to math than
basic addition and mulitplication.
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Adding and subtracting mixed numbers - so simple and straightforward
that it's almost mindless!
- My very favorite brain teasers - all 2 of 'em.
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Brain teasers - a few more math puzzles from an old book called
"Fun With Puzzles".
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Dreams - a baffling paradox. Just who's writing the script?
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The hexaflexagon - a really amazing folding paper gizmo. You can
buy one cheap.
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- Scrabble:
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Scrabble II for Word Lovers - introductory page.
Dump the funny little "Scrabble words", dig into your vocabulary,
and let the long words rip!
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Scrabble II - in-depth discussion of the small adjustments giving rise
to Scrabble II. Scrabble as nature intended!
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Dover Scrabble Club rules. (It sure does!) Scrabble II rules
tightened up for problem-free use in the home or the club.
- Scrabble II in action - half the
shorties, twice the longies, and none of the artificiality of
modern tournament Scrabble! See what Scrabble could be!
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Completed Scrabble II boards produced
in the Dover Scrabble Club. Try not to drool on your computer.
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Goo Goo Scrabble - less thinking, more points! Or play
Super Goo Goo Scrabble for even bigger scores!
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School Scrabble - the kids are finally learning something useful!
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The use of the Q in tournament Scrabble - should we laugh or qry?
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Average Points Per Turn - the Scrabble statistic! Why doesn't
the Scrabble world use it???
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Open letter to a Scrabble champion - doing my best to sway a BIG gun
in the Scrabble world into the realm of much longer, more natural, words.
I guess you'll just have to read it to see how successful I was!
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Scrabble variants - a few more thoughts on Scrabble, and a few interesting
variants like 4-letter Minimum, Bingo Bop, and Phone Scrabble.
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Who played SHODS??? - a Scrabble whodunit. Your mission is to
reconstruct a game from the finished board and a score sheet. Trickier than
you think . . .
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Counting Scrabble tiles - what is there to counting Scrabble tiles?
You'll see!
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Scrabble rules through the decades - an interesting look at the
evolution of the Scrabble box top rules over the years. Also, a
thumbnail history of Scrabble.
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Scrabble dating - not the gushy, romantic stuff, but tips on determining
when your beloved, old, classic, vintage Scrabble set rolled off
the production line.
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The Scrabble word list over the decades - a quick look at
the 1953 official word list, and how it compares to the current monstrosity.
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World record Scrabble lagoon! What the heck is that? Sort of like a
donut hole . . .
- Other games:
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- Sports:
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Baseball rules - a few minor fixes.
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Softball - good games with any number of players.
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Football rules - a tiny change that would crank up the excitement!
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Basketball - leveling the field for talented players of all heights.
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Croquet rules - perhaps not exactly "official", but guaranteed to give
a good game.
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Roofball - a new sport. Get started now; don't be left in the rain
at the 2076 Olympics.
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Jokari - the joy of whacking a ball on a string in the great outdoors.
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Garage soccer - it doesn't take much to get up a good game of soccer.
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- Words and books and such:
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- Music:
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"Scraps From the Operas" arranged for two guitars - where Grand Opera meets
Dueling Banjos meets Black History. The arranger, Justin Holland,
was a most remarkable, 19th century, black American. You can listen to all
20 pieces for free with these liner notes at hand. Me on Guitar Secondo.
- "A Trip To Rocky Point" -
a happy piece of musical Americana from 1890 for guitars, mandolin and
sound effects. See what you've been missing in this melody-phobic
age of ours...
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Simplified piano notation - a simple proposal that makes playing
piano simpler than typing.
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Playboy goes to the opera! All the opera mentions in the magazine's
first 10 years, 1954-1964.
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My opera records. This catalog could conceivably answer an opera
question or two. Also, I've created a Master Index to my opera reference
book collection, an idea that others might find useful.
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Opera cylinders in the UCSB collection - over a thousand of them
listed in a simple index. A "cylinder" is an old, old, old
phonograph record.
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The Music Division of the Library of Congress - some very handy tips for
using it. Come one, come all. (Same page as in the Guitar section.)
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Music book reports - my thoughts on a wide variety of music-related books.
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The Little Book Of Music Anecdotes - my report on a nice little book
from 1948. It's separate because I've worked up an index for it.
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Muzak and the Beatles - standing up for beautiful music. I say let it
rip, not RIP. Same page as in my Beatles section, but the first half is
not Beatle-specific.
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Vinyl records - how to fix skips.
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Making parts from a score - get your scissors ready. Down with
publishers who give us impossible page turns! (Don't worry, the scissors
aren't for him.)
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How to watch a parade - taking a musical, urban hike!
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- Food:
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- This and that in my life:
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Foreword - the same "Forward" as at the top, but also at home here.
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Meet Your Neighbor - me. (Sorry for the disappointment.) This was a
little feature in the Delaware State News.
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The most this and that in my life. Not necessarily big deals,
mind you.
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In Memory of Jane L. Sauter. A mom like none other, in
addition to being America's Most Beloved Woman. The page may
also expose something of myself.
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Ben Sauter, a character - in his own words.
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In Memory of Karen Malone - a long-time friend of mine.
You'll enjoy meeting Karen if you love dogs, or if you'd just like to
meet a truly, truly good person. Plus, everything there is to know about
Irish Wolfhounds.
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In Memory of Harry Vernon - a friend who went out in grand style.
(He fell off Mt. Taranaki in New Zealand on his 80th birthday.) Even
if you never knew Harry, you'll find he was quite a character.
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Chatting with a vampire - really just a very nice interview with
my cousin Mary about her work in a blood bank by AOL member Imthejason.
Relive the internet days of old (1998).
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Mary Theresa Lane - a couple of works from my archives.
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A Profile in Courage - it took a big person...
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Antarctica - unclaimed land now claimed. Wrapping up a loose end...
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You Northerners - got somethin' ta say about snow in D.C.?
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Movie star photos, with autographs! Even if you don't know many of
these 75 stars from the 1940s and 1950s, they'll take you back, I
guarantee it.
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Oprah Winfrey: historic recording on Baltimore radio. In a 1980
radio spot, Oprah plugs an appearance by cosmetics lady Mary Kay Ash on
"People Are Talking", a Baltimore tv talk show. (I'm in there, too.)
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The Great Blizzard of February 2010 - in which Frosty the Snowman's
cousin Gordy drops in on Dover, Delaware.
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My Glob - not exactly a blog. Whatever I feel like saying without
whipping up a separate web page.
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Open letter to the USPS - I tried to retire this dumb page, but
then I saw it still gets lots of visits on some archival sites. Who
can figure?
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My current guestbook - since 2001. Growing very slowly because guestbooks
are "out", but large enough now to stand on its own two feet. The next
comment could be yours!
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My guestbook - the first 3 years! I've closed and archived this first
one. Loads of topics, some funny comments - "in-ner-resting reading"!
- E-mail highlights. Provided for miscellaneous web searches; not
for curling up with:
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Trolling for old friends - clicking here is not the point.
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Resume - offering my services to a middle school that would
like to be Number 1 in its district.
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My little shop of rare and precious commodities - a convenient
showroom for all of my pages which offer something for purchase.
You won't find these items anywhere else!
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