Alan Silverstein's personal links page

Under the SilGro home page for Alan Silverstein and Cathie Grow
Last update: July 31, 2010 -- Email me at ajs@frii.com

Personal quicklinks:	Google, maps	movies, 2, library	WW, i, LP water	Yahoo	HPAlumnipedia
weather, G, D, J, B	NWS, sat, radar	roads, news	sun map	trip reports
URL TOC below	MailArmory, CG	AAFCU	Vanguard	Bigcharts, 2	putty, UI
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Favorite links... ("link rot" happens, these are not guaranteed to work)

Web Search Engines
Fort Collins
Financial
Weather-Related
Lake Powell
Rockhounding
Geography/Hydrology
Outdoors and Backcountry
Travel
Off-Planet
Ham Radio
Humor
Miscellaneous Stuff
WWW-Related

Web Search Engines:

• Google web search
• Qwest phone book
• Switchboard -- locate people, businesses, etc.
• Search AllinOne MetaSearch
• Deja News -- search Usenet news articles
• Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index -- divides searches into knowledge categories

• The Fort Collins Movie Page
• Fort Collins library catalog
• Northern Colorado Linux Jobs
• Fort Collins on-line citizen report form
• Squibby's Restaurant Information -- Fort Collins, looks pretty complete, searchable
• Friends of Traditional Dance -- includes schedule
• CFOOTMAD Calendar -- Colorado Friends Of Old Time Music And Dance, Denver

• AAFCU
• CU credit card -- awards site
• Vanguard mutual funds
• => Tax services -- nice!
• Yahoo -- fast and simple
• Bigcharts -- nice HPQ info and history
• Quote.Com Home Page -- get stock/option quotes; use ajsfc,options
• -> Quote.Com Option Quotes -- free service available 6pm-7am MT
• IRS -- Tax Information for Individuals
• -> Forms and Publications
• Colorado forms
• Glossary of financial derivative terms -- big; part of a class?
• HP Share Ownership Plan -- info on buying/selling and tax handling
• SOP Historical FMVs and Purchase Prices -- a table from HP, 1 Nov 2000 - 1 Nov 2007, received Mar 26, 2008
• Reviews of TurboTax Premier 2007 and 2008
• TurboTax Free Tax Calculators & Tax Tips
• Compute US federal income tax -- this is a UNIX shell (bash) script that knows the US federal income tax rates for every year beginning in 1987; does not know about reduced rates for qualified dividends or long-term capital gains

• Fort Collins weather report and forecast -- come here first!
• Colorado state weather info -- pretty good choices
• Colorado weather files by ftp -- terse and technical but way cool
• Various weather satellite images -- by ftp, cool but not super useful
• Western U.S. Snowpack/Precipitation

• Houseboating 101 (at Lake Powell, on the Wildwind) -- my compendium
• Neat Hikes at Lake Powell, Utah -- my compendium
• Proposal for New Formal Names in Glen Canyon
• Lake Powell photo from space shuttle, overhead, up is northeast (106 Kb)
• Lake Powell photo from space shuttle, oblong, east, closer (195 Kb)
• Lake Powell photo from aircraft, Rincon area, south (179 Kb)
• Wildwind 2 houseboat owners -- private site
• Cathedral in the Desert -- cool photo album of downclimbing into it in spring 2005
• Cathedral in the Desert -- similar photos, different arrangement, albeit with some anti-Lake propaganda

• How to Get Permission to Rockhound on Private Land -- a webpage I created
• Collected Information on Rock Tumbling -- a website I created
• A Fifty-Pound Truck-Tire Rock Tumbler: Specifications and Experiences -- my document, PDF, 19 pages (123 Kb)
• Rock Collecting Pouch Directions
• Fort Collins Rockhounds Club -- our club page
• Fort Collins Rockhounds Club on Yahoo -- members-only Yahoo site I maintain
• Rockhounding in Colorado -- a short list of places to rockhound
• Wyoming Rocks -- a semi-commercial guide + blog site
• The Fossil Hunter -- places to rockhound
• GemData -- show dates under here; other good stuff too
• Rockhounds Information Page -- lots of links
• Minerals by Name -- really cool
• Lortone, Inc home page -- they make tumblers and stuff; simple page, but includes their email address
• University of Nebraska State Museum notes -- lots about Ashfall
• Jeff's Journal of Dinosaur Paleontology -- lots of cool links too
• SAFE against the "Fossil Preservation Act" -- the loyal opposition spouts off (ick)
• Periodic Table of the Elements -- in graphical form

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• USGS Water Resources Information -- lots of cool stuff
• -> Real-Time Hydrologic Data -- neat map, click on a state
• -> Colorado data in particular
• More Colorado stations -- state Division of Water Resources
• -> Kersey station -- select, back, select again if needed, as each new day they force you to a top screen; then reload, then stop
• Colorado river flow data -- very nice site, but requires PC (sigh)
• Water Resources for Colorado -- cool USGS maps and data
• Mapblast -- on-line map access
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer -- very cool, though just simple line drawings
• Geographic Information Processing Resources
• Tiger Map Server Browser -- very cool, but slow, low-res
• MountainClimb -- Mountain Summit Benchmarks: Geological Survey Markers -- I contributed a few of the photos used on these emblems
• Colorful state maps by ftp

• My "trip reports" -- stories of my outdoor adventures
• Glendo Reservoir, WY -- current data
• Neat Hikes in Death Valley National Park -- my compendium
• Death Valley Hiker Association -- unofficial but fun
• Locations in Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado)
• Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado) Backcountry Campsites and related information
• Columbia Point, Colorado Memorial Plaque
• How To Install a Plaque on a Mountaintop
• CDOT -- Colorado Department of Transportation info page, including live roadcams
• Paddling and kayak info -- great site
• Steamboat condo -- owned by friends
• REI Fort Collins map -- and program schedule
• Jax Outdoor Gear -- Fort Collins store
• Backcountry Home Page -- hiking camping backpacking trekking; lots of good links
• GORP: Great Outdoor Recreation Pages -- lots of good links
• Medicine Bow Nordic Association -- links to info about Wyoming skiing
• Snowy Range weather forecast
• Rocky Mountain National Park -- unofficial home page, rich info and links
• Grand Canyon National Park
• Grand Canyon River Running
• Ancient Bristlecone Pines -- a treasure trove on the subject
• Lava Beds National Monument
• America's Roof -- 50 states high points
• Colorado Mountain Club -- lots of links
• Abbey's Web -- a tribute and memorial to Edward Abbey
• Western Environmental Issues -- includes SUWA
• Cascade Designs -- makers of Thermarests

• Expedia -- like best
• Kayak -- meta-browser
• Travelocity
• 1 Travel -- also good
• Internet Travel Network -- on-line fare lookup, but defers showing prices until later, annoying
• Allegiant Airlines
• United Airlines: The Friendly Skyline
• WebFlyer, InsideFlyer Magazine -- lots of links

• Humanity's Launch Window -- an essay I wrote
• Heavens Above
• -> for home
• -> for Bullfrog
• -> for Dougs Cathedral
• NASA ISS/shuttle viewing -- for Fort Collins
• Ecliptic Enterprises -- awesome RocketCam images
• NASA's Visible Earth
• NASA "blue marble" images -- incredible
• World sunlight and cloud cover images -- incredible
• Comets Currently Visible
• Sky & Telescope Online -- wonderful, colorful, slow
• -> Almanac -- and ISS predictions
• -> Weekly News Bulletin
• General Astronomy Information -- lots of good "pamphlets"
• The Planetary Society Home Page
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• JSC Imagery Services -- zillions of space photos
• The Nine Planets -- a multimedia tour of the solar system
• NASA Shuttle Web -- flashy, but very cool; real-time too
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Terrestrial Impact Craters -- cool text and pictures
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal -- incredible transcripts from the Apollo missions
• University of Iowa Automated Telescope Facility

• Yaesu VX-170 Modifications
• Loveland Repeater Association
• Radio CallBook Server Summary -- daily license changes
• Amateur Radio Examination Opportunities
• Colorado Connection Repeater Sites -- with uplinks to related info
• Ham Radio Newsline -- periodic updates
• Amateur Radio -- general site, huge collection of links
• ARRL -- general site, many links
• Welcome to the World of Internet Amateur Radio -- general site, many links
• Ham Radio Showcase -- general site, many links
• Ham radio equipment mods
• ICOM -- radio manufacturer
• Kenwood -- radio manufacturer
• HRO -- Ham Radio Outlet, equipment vendor, big
• AES -- Amateur Equipment Supply, equipment vendor
• JUN's Electronics -- equipment vendor
• Amateur Radio online magazine -- looks like an equipment dealer
• Boston Amateur Radio Club's file archives -- includes mods
• Compaq ARC -- a company amateur repeater club

• My huge collections of aphorisms ("fortunes")
• Canonical List of Fulldeckisms -- humorous insults
• Canonical List of Answering Machine Messages -- humorous recordings
• Classic Puns -- a random collection
• Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
• Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
• Various Limericks -- a personal collection
• You Know You're a Rockhound When...
• Dumb and Funny Questions and Statements Made by Tourists
• My "press release" when I was laid off
• Some of my canonical humor collections, also posted here for historical reasons

• Web MD -- for HP-related benefits
• Alan's Company and Product Reviews
• RepairPal -- car repair estimates
• My homepage on Comcast
• --> How to manage it
• --> How to upload to it
• Science Made Stupid -- hilarious abridgement of the famous book; the Periodic Table of the Elements is under Matter & Energy
• GetHuman -- how to get a human person on the phone at various companies
• FRII domain name registry
• 10 things every Perl hacker should know -- by Chad Perrin
• Vectors Site -- by Greg Goebel
• Judy library -- on SourceForge
• libJudy Summary
• Science News Online
• Palisade Insectory
• Charity Navigator -- great data and comparisons
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science -- including IMAX
• Usability is Not Graphic Design -- excellent article, apparently this link is dead, but perhaps you can web-search for it
• My patents are: 5758084, 6654760, 6671694
• Stereo viewers -- Rocky Mountain Memories
• U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
• Caltech Clickable Map -- my alma mater, and a fun demo, many links
• Gillis home page -- my sister
• "Assembly of a lesser god" -- An article; "Belief and worship are powerful tools for organizing thought and behavior. If others get control of those tools, they can make us dance like puppets. But if we.re careful, we can learn to pull our own strings."

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