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...the captain was a duck with a packet on his back, and when the ship began to move the captain said "quack quack"...

- From a childrens poem -

A page for people who think they are ducks

The painting below is called Wave. It is by my son Dylan.
If you would like to see more click Art
If you would like to see my Beatles page click Beatles
If you would like to see my page of Christian links click Christianity
To go to my russian page(uses 1251 fonts)click Russian

Welcome to my page. To start I would like to provide a few links to some of my favorite sites.

A description of these links follows, and the actual links are near the bottom of this page.

Many summers ago my wife, son, and myself made a trip to Yerkes Observatory and found it to be a neat place so I have provided a link to their website where you can obtain more info.
C.S.Lewis is one of my two favorite writers
Phil Keaggy is my favorite guitar player
Leo Tolstoy is the other one of my two favorite writers
Freeware Home is my favorite freeware connection
Percy Grainger is my favorite composer
Carolyn Arends is one of my favorite songwriters
The wastewater plant where I work as an operator
The wastewater operators association I belong to
Radio Jove radio astronomy for schools
Old men playing rock and roll in duluth mn(our cd is out)
Nielsen handmade archtop Jazz guitars
My sons website (you can order his art work there)

Or you can listen to one of my compositions,arrangements,or transcriptions. I have also included a song by one of my former guitar students.

You can also download freeware that I have written.

Astron.zip contains three small programs for astronomy. softpedia award A program that converts equatorial coordinates to horizon coordinates. A program that calculates the approximate position of the naked eye planets. A program that calculates the percent illumination and age of the moon. astron.zip
Tmusic.zip contains a music transposition program. It was written for guitarists and contains a set of advanced chord charts. The transposing section is useful to all musicians. tmusic.zip
wwot.zip contains a program 'activated sludge 101', a set of tools for wastewater treatment plant operators. Tools include a wasting calculator,settlometer graphing, and more. wwot.zip screenshots
dostron.zip is a dos text based planet locator program for astronomy. It is more accurate than than the approximate version for naked eye observing in astron.zip and is better suited to using with a telescope. dostron.zip
guitar.zip is a set of scale and chord charts for the beginning guitarist. If you are just starting out and don't know which book to buy, this material is free and will give you enough to practice on for awhile. guitar.zip
progedit.zip contains a program called tinyedit. It is a little editor for editing programs, ini files etc. No fancy functions. Allows access to the command line(you'll need to put a copy of command.com in your root directory). Prints in arial 10.progedit.zip
aacon.zip contains an astronomy program that converts equatorial coordinates to horizon coordinates.It is a win95/nt stand alone program. It has only an .exe and a .hlp file and was written using c++ builder3. aacon.zip
juke.zip contains two midi player programs that look and work similar to jukeboxes.Put one in a folder with the midi's you want to play(the folder must be next level to c:\ such as c:\juke\midi21.exe)- For windows95 and up. written using delphi. juke.zip
scribble.zip contains a scribble pad program that is more than scribble but less than a drawing program.Use the right mouse button to draw- For windows95 and up. also written using delphi. scribble.zip
abible.zip contains the New Testament in the Russian Language.Just unzip the folder to c:\ then open the folder and install the included font and click on rnt1.exe to run the program .win95 abible.zip
amynt.zip contains the New Testament in the English Language.Just unzip the folder to c:\ then open the folder and click on mynt.exe .win95 amynt.zip
moon40.zip contains a program that provides moon phase and age for input date and time as well as a 30 day graphic display of the data.includes an install program. moon40.zip
bc1.zip contains a program for guitar players who want to know which notes are in any given major or minor barre chord. bc1.zip
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pnlbtn.zip contains a toggle (off/on) color button component for use in the delphi programming environment. it is derived from TPanel.comes with source and demo program. compiles with delphi1,4 & 6. not tested on other versions. pnlbtn.zip
ic5.zip contains an interactive circle of fifths for those who want to learn the relationship between key signatures, major and minor scales and the circle of 5th's. To run the windows 3.1 version download ic516.zip, unzip the files to a directory and run ic5161.exe. To run on windows 95 and up download ic5.zip,unzip and run setup.exe. ic516 ic5
pdial.zip contains a phonebook database that is attached to a phone dialer so one can select a number from the database and dial it in a few clicks.It includes the borland database engine which is necessary to run the program.windows 95 and up. pdial
plist.zip contains a small and very easy to use program for keeping a list of names and numbers. If you could use a personal phone book this does the job.Just unzip it and run the plist.exe file which will set the program up in c:\delphi. The program must be left in this folder to work.windows 95 and up. plist1
ptable1.zip contains a simple periodic table of the elements.Just unzip it and double click the .exe file to run the program. No setup necessary. Windows 95 and up. ptable1
twostories.zip contains an ebook of two short stories that I wrote.Just unzip it and double click the .exe file to run the program. No setup necessary. Windows 95 and up.rated PG. twostories
planisphere1b.zip contains a beta program of a planisphere(starwheel).It runs only at screen resolutions 1024X768 and 800x600 for now.It has been tested on win95, 98, and xp.Just unzip it and run it.planisphere1b
cdp.zip contains a simple cd player.It has been tested at 1024X768 on windows xp.It may not work if you have more than one cd drive in your computer(cd and dvd is ok) cdp
Unless otherwise stated You must unzip the downloaded file before using. Then just double click the .exe file to run . Please note that I include the vbrun300 runtime in each program that requires it but only one copy of it in windows system is necessary to run the programs. So if you download more than one of these programs you can delete the extra runtimes. Send bug reports or questions to my e-mail address.