Alan Silverstein's personal links page
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Last update: April 13, 2025
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Favorite links...
("link rot" happens, these are not guaranteed to work; and not repeating
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Web Search Engines
Fort Collins
Financial (my essays )
Weather-Related
Lake Powell
Rockhounding
Geography/Hydrology
Outdoors and Backcountry
Travel
Off-Planet
Ham Radio
Humor
Miscellaneous Stuff
Net-Related
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Fort Collins
Financial
Weather-Related
Lake Powell
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
Rockhounding
How to Get Permission to Rockhound on Private Land
-- a webpage I created
Collected Information on Rock Tumbling -- a website I
created; includes information about my 31" truck tire tumbler
(grinder)
Chris's Granite Paradise , Chris Brown's (non-profit) YouTube
channel, based in Fort Collins, CO; amazing sculptures from
stone countertop remnants
12-minute video by Chris from us rockhounding on section 11
Colorado Mineral Collecting Locations
Rock Collecting Pouch Directions
Fort Collins Rockhounds Club -- our club page
Fort Collins Rockhounds Club on Yahoo
-- members-only Yahoo site I maintain (obsolescent)
Chris Brown's granite slab sculptures
-- 3.5 minute professional Channel 7 Denver video by Major King,
about a Fort Collins club member's odd hobby
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
Dinosaur Paleontology
SAFE against the "Fossil Preservation Act"
-- the loyal opposition spouts off (ick)
Periodic Table of the Elements -- in graphical form
How Are Diamonds Made And Formed -- interesting website
How to hunt for meteorites
-- nice summary to revisit or share
23 Amazing Sites For Free Gemology Courses & Resources --
another interesting website
Nanoparticles in Some of The World's Oldest Rocks Found to Hide Clues on Life's Origins
-- greenalite in 3.5 GYa Australian jaspilite
Earth Science, Geology and the Formation of Diamonds
-- brief blurb about Earth sciences, with many links
USA's Oldest Rock? A Simple Question with a Complex Answer
-- fun GSA article, March 2025, includes Wyoming Sacawee gneiss
Geography/Hydrology
Nice UTM to DDD converter
USGS viewable topo maps
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Landscape Explorer
-- "Explore past and present landscapes from the Great Plains to the Pacific coast."
USGS Water Resources Information -- lots of cool stuff
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Real-Time Hydrologic Data -- neat map, click on a state
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Colorado data in particular
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Poudre River Fort Collins
Glendo Reservoir, WY -- current data,
WY state parks
More Colorado stations -- state Division of Water Resources
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Kersey station -- select, back, select again if needed, as each
new day they force you to a top screen; then reload, then stop
Interactive map of streams and rivers in the United States
-- cool river geomapper/tracer
USGS Streamer
-- similar but different
Colorado river flow data -- very nice site, but requires PC (sigh)
Water Resources for Colorado -- cool USGS maps and data
Colorado Geologic Map
-- nice and interactive, but ages only, not rock types
Geology of the South Pass Area -- 2-page PDF brochure
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
Global Warming & Climate Change Myths
-- 197 arguments and rebuttals!
Discover The Fun Of Backyard Geology
-- a cute and relatively short webpage on the topic
Ancient Earth Map
-- cool interactive high-level Earth viewing over time
RealLifeLore
-- YouTube channel with excellent explanatory videos, including
Why Wyoming is VASTLY Emptier Than Colorado
Outdoors and Backcountry
Rocky Mtn NP timed entry permits
-- Log into recreation.gov first!
Neat Hikes in Death Valley National Park -- my compendium
Death Valley Hiker Association -- unofficial but fun
HP Alumni NoCo Hikers
-- trip pictures
Locations, Altitudes, and Ranges of Fourteeners (14000-Foot
Peaks) and Subpeaks in the United States, Except Alaska
Spreadsheet Summary of Colorado Fourteener Subpeaks by Main Peak
Thoughts on "Just What is a Fourteener?"
Yellowstone River Access Points,
Forsyth to below Sidney, Montana; an Excel => PDF spreadsheet I created
Locations in Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado)
Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado) Backcountry Campsites
and related information
Directions to the Honaker Trailhead
-- Near Goosenecks State Park, Utah
How to Make and Use "Candle Cup" Fire Starters (Portable Kindling)
-- my webpage on the subject
How To Install a Plaque on a Mountaintop
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
Medicine Bow Nordic Association -- links to info about
Wyoming skiing
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
Smoky Mountains -- interesting commercial site
Abbey's Web -- a tribute and memorial to Edward Abbey
Western Environmental Issues -- includes SUWA
Cascade Designs -- makers of Thermarests
Buffalo Mountain, CO
-- Facebook posting of my best mountain goat encounter ever (7/2020)
Snowy Range Lakes
-- a compendium I created
There's A Reason It's Called The Snowy Range, It's Stays Snowy In The Summer Too
-- a well-written article where I was interviewed and they used
my photos, after I posted them on Facebook to the "Wyoming
Through the Lens" group
Snowy Range summer 2024
-- (3:25) excellent drone footage in Wyoming by Tom Doolin
Travel
Off-Planet
Ham Radio
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
ARRL -- general site, many links
Meeting People with Ham Radios
-- kind of a dating site, recommended by a reader
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
Radio Study Guides -- suggested to me, under AppliancePartsPros.com
The History of the Telegraph - Communication at its Best! -- suggested to me, looks like an interesting site, lots of links out
History of the Radio -- suggested to me, looks like an interesting site, lots of links out
Radio and TV Broadcasting Resources
Amateur Radio Resources: Scanners
Police Scanner Resources & Learning
Humor
Miscellaneous Stuff
BPH: Dealing with AUR and catheters
-- sharing personal collected information, background, and advice
Biological sex is not as simple as male or female
-- from Science News, Feb 20, 2025
Music by Holly Small
-- lovely voice, intriguing lyrics, odd look; just a few cool
songs here, one of which was played at the end of a documentary
about infinity (grin) that I watched
The Cognitive Bias Codex
-- incredibly rich and complete(?) graphical representation of all
known cognitive biases
Camp Taji, Iraq, huge IED explosion video
-- 1:20, happens around 0:28; of interest because I know a
person who was riding in the second vehicle (and survived)
Linode.com documents
America's Health Care System is Broken
-- How do we fix it? Medicare For All;
a nice Powerpoint slideshow by a Fort Collins doctor, converted
to PDF (< 3 Mb), unfortunately meaning animations are lost, you
just see the final form of each slide
Fort Collins street sweeping -- zone 8 east
HP Alumni Association
Utah 3D -- cool wrap-around images
Web MD -- for HP-related benefits
Alan's Company and Product Reviews
-- although nowadays I tend to just use TripAdvisor more
RepairPal -- car repair estimates
"JetPunk" travel quizzes -- fun stuff
Thoughts on the HP Way -- saved postings from about 1987
My homepage on Comcast
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How to manage it
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How to upload to it
Science Made Stupid -- hilarious abridgement of the famous
book; the Periodic Table of the Elements is under Matter & Energy
Human Gateways -- a collected list of human "knickpoints"
GetHuman -- how to get a human person on the phone at
various companies
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."
B29 flight photos and story (3.3 Mb PDF), July 2014, by Mike Berry.
GoodRx -- info about drugs, also coupons
Healthcare FAQs -- lots of good answers to odd questions
about ACA/Obamacare
Target (CVS) pharmacy renewal
Wegrich "glider book" from 1930
Veterans Legacy Memorial webpage for Jack Silverstein
Apology for being wrong about Trump
Net-Related
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