Michael Ward

Vintage magazine covers, skiffy trufan, history of travel, Burton Holmes, early radio, railfan, DNA & genealogy; e-book publisher. (e) All of the above.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@bradleywthomas San Jose, CA is where on this list? Not a Toursit line.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@RobertMMetcalfe @pmarca Hm, my 1966 MIT bachelor thesis was a study of nasal consonants for speech synthesis, under Dennis Klatt. Dennis Klatt pioneered speech synthesizers, like the one he did for Stephen Hawking. I always hoped that every time Hawking said "ng" it used a bit of my work. Not famous.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@DonnellyDNA @Ancestry I clicked "Learn More" and it didn't have any more information. I hope the update has some...

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@RFMacLellan Rory, that's 8 pound; the "2" is a graphic. See line above. Still a surprising amount, though.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@PulpCovers Are those prices in US Dollars? I wonder if they are actually getting them. I have a BC of Dune somewhere...

[David Gallagher @DavidGallagher]

Golden Gate Park, Jan 14, 1967
My cousin Russell was at the Polo Field for the Human Be-In, he got a few shots of The Grateful Dead & Jerry Garcia on stage. I'm sure someone knows who the guy on the left is. #sfhistory

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@DavidGallagher In the 1960s my sister had a 127 format camera, which could use color slide film to make slides that fit into 2"x2" holders.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@PulpCovers The BLACK MASK is a British edition, and may be using material from both titles

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@DavidGallagher @VladSF @SFHeritage @WoodyLaBounty A win!

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@danielmloftus @Ancestry Same result here. Finally gave up.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@Tine_Rass @Baladria Looks like Gahan Wilson to me

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@footage Very cool!

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@paulkrugman Once upon a time I mocked up FiatCoin, which had some particular financial features I no longer recall. The logo was, of course, a small roundish vehicle, inside a circle around which was lettered, in Italian, "This Is Not an Automobile."

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@LOCMaps The railroad capitalized on this by publishing a magazine "Four-Track News," which eventually became "Travel" magazine and lasted for decades. See https://t.co/v4GBAUVtKt and https://t.co/aoRCxpyx9b

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@paulkrugman It only appears to be disinflation because the statistical overshoot made the inflation look larger than it really was. I learned that from "How to Lie With Statistics" in the Paleozoic.

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@DLGenealogist @RootsTechConf David, fix the word "Migratoin" before it gets distributed -- Your Friend, Mike

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@PulpCovers Liked. Original source: one of the ones I (over)restored. Curious to know if it came from some random site. --Michael Ward, https://t.co/L98h6OaDX7

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@PulpCovers That's the rather rare Canadian science-fiction magazine! See covers and a link to a history of it at https://t.co/EELy7fjymC

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@HSMOxford @bodleianlibs How on earth did someone make that? Were all lines put in by chemical etch, or did they engrave each one in by hand?

[Michael Ward @magscanner]

@richove @BBCRadio4 @MoJGovUK I have a counter-proposal for these people. Send the wills to me. They can drop them off in a warehouse somewhere in the UK, and forget about them. I'll do something with the wills, but it's certainly not of any interest to the MoJ. After all, they want to burn them.