My Hobbies

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Bob Hamilton</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bob Hamilton"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Me"><U>About Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Family"><U>My Family</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Pets"><U>My Pets</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Favorites"><U>My Favorites</U></A>   |   <B>My Hobbies</B>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Resume"><U>My Resume</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favorite Links"><U>Favorite Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Autos"><U>Autos</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book Reviews"><U>Book Reviews</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mixed Emotions"><U>Mixed Emotions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hometown"><U>Hometown</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <bR> <div> <I>My Hobbies</I></div> <div> Other collections include:</div> <bR> <div>               Fannie Farmer's cook books -- Started by my late, very-best-friend, Deborah Hutton.  The 1912 edition was given to me by my step-mother, Imogene Bethel; it had belonged to her aunt Molly and contained a hand written recipe for her Bourbon baked beans in which you are introduced to the concept of 'heaping table-spoon of Bourbon'. </div> <bR> <bR> <div>               <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Goodykoontz's Manuals</FONT>-- Just about a complete collection; the different editions have to be dated by their lists of</div> <div> Presidents,  lists of the States and other tantalizing clues and because many editions were not copyrighted the entire list cannot</div> <div> be known.  At least one lists Oklahoma -- Statehood, 1907 -- so that this establishes the earliest date for that particular manual. </div> <div> Also, if his representation of Halley's comet is that for 1910 -- it portrays Jupiter entering Taurus and both Earth and Mars in</div> <div> Sagittarius -- then at least one edition was published about that time.  A small but energetic Goodykoontz cult actively searches</div> <div> for such clues with the prize for finding one, what else: The GoodyGoody.  Note added, 12 June 2002: I have just agreed to</div> <div> purchase an old, rare book; On the inside of the front  cover is a panel pasted in with the owner's name: Jasper Goodykoontz!!!  Note added 18 MAY 2003:  Just bought another, entirely different Goodykoontz manual.  I had never seen one like this; it's oriented more toward mechanical and commercial data with very little of the social and family entries.</div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" >  I  also have a collection of slide rules, including one from Japan and one from Russia. Most are the linear type such as K&E,</FONT></div> <div> POST <I>et al</I>. but some are circular.  Most of them came from garage sales and flea markets and some were presents; one is the</div> <div> slide rule I used in Engineering College and Graduate School. </div> <bR> <div>      A collection of various editions of the most famous book by the English author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the British novelist and poet who lived from 1803 to 1873. He is best-known today -- and probably forever - for beginning the 1830 novel <I>Paul Clifford</I> with the following line:</div> <bR> <div> <I>"</I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#6666CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." </B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Paul Clifford</I> was published in many editions from the 1830s to the 1950s and was very popular as were several of Bulwer-Lytton's books. '<I>A dark and stormy night...'</I> was, in recent years, made popular by a character - Snoopy - in the cartoon 'Peanuts' and occasionally you hear of a contest to see if anyone can come up with a more daunting intro.</div> <bR> <div> 1930s & 40s radios; some are working and some are being worked on; all but 4 are in storage.   My granddaughter once asked if they were hard to work on; I told her, "No; you just have to feel  around in the radio until you find a vacuum tube you can hold on to and replace it". She asked, "What's a vacuum tube?". Oh, well....  </div> <bR> <div>         <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B><U>Aviation</U></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div>               <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Commercial, Multi-engine, Instrument pilot; FAA Certificate # 163586-4</FONT></div> <div>               FAA Authorized Aircraft Inspector; Certificate # 2283409  </div> <bR> <div>               Own half of a 1938 Beech Stagger Wing bi-plane-- 'needs work' And </div> <bR> <div> Half of a 1940 Lockheed PV2 Ventura -- being restored from 40 years of abuse by a US government agency.</div> <bR> <div> Don't do much flying anymore and would never get on a commercial airliner.</div> <bR> <div>          <A HREF="http://www.vintage-aero.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.vintage-aero.com/"><U>Check out the web for Vintage-Aero</U></A>  <under construction></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>