This is my first post and my current homepage. This website is a total work in progress. My nephews visited my humble man cave and were so enamored that they wanted me to discuss what I find interesting…
I’m a boomer and I find all kinds of things interesting. My brother said that I should create a site for it. So, here we are. I love neon glass and weird electrical stuff! It’s a throwback to the simpler days of science. Neon was popularized in the 1930’s and its design led to a fundamental engineering leap and to the gas laser. If you can stick a Nobel gas in a silvered vacuum tube – completely silver one end and mostly silver the other end, sit it at a 30-degree angle to the tube (not 90 degrees), excite that gas, you may just get a laser out of the mostly silvered (angled) end. The tag line for Schlitz was “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer…” Which was probably a good thing, depending on your point of view ;). From what I remember, Schlitz really sucked. I think they were doing some shady cost cutting (If I remember correctly).
-Uncle Mark