The phone rang. My sister, in a somewhat distraught state of mind, was on the other line. “My monitor won’t work! It’s black, with the light blinking on the front!” Hmm. Monitor. That’s a new one. Last time it was the CD-ROM. “Well, OK. Try this.” Since her cordless phone had conveniently died that evening, [...]
November 28, 2006 Leave a Comment
November 22, 2006 8 Comments
Nixon’s pyramid.
In the city park of Langdon, North Dakota, just a few miles down the road from the sleepy town of Nekoma, sits a sharp-edged painted missile. Flowers are planted at its base, and not too far from this armament are the swingsets and slides for small children, with the city pool a few hundred feet [...]
November 22, 2006 14 Comments
Echo-0 "Chains of Command" launch control facility.
We grew up with Echo-0 (E-0) a few miles down the road, a launch control facility in the Grand Forks AFB Minuteman Missile Site system. Sometimes my sister Janet and I would travel the few miles by horse and watch the guys play basketball outside in the late summer evening, sticking to the ditch a [...]
