Updated February 5, 2008, but originally written 28 July 1997. URL is http://www.parlorcity.com/secop/archive.html
I am mailto:secop@parlorcity.com a.k.a. Sandra Weinhardt, and this is my museum. At least it's indexed.

I have lost Lincoln Weinhardt's site again.  Lincoln, please send me your new URL!
Visit Brazilian artist Lincoln Weinhardt's home page.

If you have not visited these pages before, here is what you missed.

Index of this page

• Joseph Kamm quotation
• Places
• Weird Words and Old Links
• Food Tidbits
• Old personal items
• Previous Family page notes
• Obligatory credits and pleas to read on and on and on....The End.

Quiddity is a sea found in The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker
It is said we go there only three times: when we are born, when we die and when we first sleep beside our one true love. In the sea, whatever you imagine becomes reality.
I see the World Wide Web as a similar Quiddity, for in it we are empowered. We find our wings.
[Pappy has gone to Quiddity, and will have his own new wings.]
And yet another soul has floated to earth. Chat buddy Myke e-mailed word of his newborn eight-pound daughter Catherine. The cycle.......... continues. Can we make this a better world for Catherine?

Received a nice signature attached to an e-mail from Joseph Kamm at Emory:

When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't do drugs.
When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own guns.
Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it.

Somehow this page is lost, too.  My ISP moved a lot of my files without telling me, switching servers, and I am still untangling it all.
Although it may destroy my image as a wild red-haired exciting woman, Magee insists that I must reveal my darkest secret. She is forcing me to do this. "At a deadly pace, it came from outer space, and this is how the message ran......."

Places you have not been
A place you have not been:
Domestic, Indiana, home of Andy Stiltner WA9WUA, his family and some other fine people. Domestic is in Wells County, NE of Phenix, (yes we do spell it that way here,) and SW of Linn Grove.
And on our way down south, we took a wrong turn and ended up in Burg, Tennessee.  Yes, it was little, but bucolic and pastoral.

Weird Words and Older Links

• Boart: a variant of bort, fragments made in cutting good diamonds. Borty, as an adjective. When Paul Simon sings about 'diamonds on the soles of her shoes" on **Graceland** it must have some connection to South African diamond mine workers. (Oh, some diamonds are called "mine cut." My engagement ring is a mine-cut diamond.)
• Verbum sat sapienti: a word to the wise is sufficient. I never did stop with one.
• fungible: even the dictionary definition is confusing. Sort of "swapable" as of something fulfilling a legal obligation.
• graupel: precipitation consisting of pellets of snow, also called "soft hail."
• irrefrangible, incapable of being broken, indestructible. Let us hope that our First Amendment is irrefrangible.
• Brobdingnagian, from Gulliver's travels, implies enormity. Liliputian implies tinyness. But I can't remember which is which. The CDA is an act of Brobdingnagian stupidity.
• iotacism: excessive use of the letter iota or I. My website is a masterpiece of iotacism. Oops.
• tetramerous: having four parts. John Weinhardt's family in Ohio is tetramerous.
• nympholepsy: a frenzy of emotion, as for some unattainable ideal. Nympholepsy led Jim to create a website to popularize toxic waste dumping. [Reference source Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary from 1956. I really really like this dictionary. It got me through Purdue.]
• And now, in 2008, I spend my free time on www.freerice.com  with the  free dictionary  www.thefreedictionary.com running alongside, to send rice to needy places in Africa.  Every day I learn new words like oesewa (a Gahanian money unit), gopak (a Ukranian dance), pasquinade (to satirize), banausic (utilitarian), menhir (an upright stone monument, and fraise (a barrier of pointed stakes or barbed wire.) Please give Free Rice a whirl. 

• Last year at our Street Fair, I saw five men in sparkling white sweatshirts, with long braids down their back. I followed them to the spot on the street where their instruments were set up. They were Intiraymi , five self-taught musicians who preserve their Otavalo, Ecuadrian musical heritage, music called "San Juanitos." Instruments are quena, rondador, samponas, bandolin and mandolin, flute, charango, chagchas, guitarra, clave and bombo.
• Intiraymi is reachable through Dr.Carmen A. Chuquin, 644 State Street, Madison Wisconsin, 53703, phone (608) 256-3235. This music makes you dance, and it is quite different from what we are used to hearing. It is complicated yet accessible. Try to arrange for Intiraymi to appear in your area.
• Woke last night to the sound of thunder...At last I have found a fan page, by Daryl Favignano, for Bob Seger!

If you even suspect that you might become offended by anything in one of my links, or links of my links, or links of those links, or some li'l bitty thing in one of the links of the links of those links, please read the Warning of the Week. I am indebted to the irrepressible Jeffrey Glover.

Ohio State University has a disclaimer on one of its pages which advises readers that "if you find any link from this site to be offensive, don't go back to it again." How simple! How logical!

The awed and outraged howl of sanity's indignation"--John Gardner in The Spotlight Dialogues.

A theory is only a theory, and that's a fact. (said Bill Weinhardt)

A desk is a wastebasket with drawers. (Van Roy's Postulate)

Food items
Merrill Shindler's articles have migrated to an unknown URL, but I did find this 2008 link to him: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_n40_v30/ai_18779113

•  LOST EATA LAS VEGAS! Who IS this Merrill Shindler and why have I not learned of this national treasure of a writer before now?? If you think you know what this essay is going to say, uh-uh. Do read it.
  
•  LOST What do Scottish chefs wear under their kilts? St. Andrews is where golf was invented. Visit it for free, here. Merrill Shindler strikes again!
•  LOST For a new slant on meatloaf, read Shindler again.

More from the personal (family) pages
As a titular Curator Emeritus of the  U.S. Naval Submarine Museum at Groton, Connecticut, I maintain an interest in elderly submarines and grizzled submariners such as the aforementioned husband who was on the USSDiodon(SS349) for many years in San Diego. Next he taught at the Naval Submarine School in New London, Connecticut. Anyone who knew us in the Navy should e-mail us forthwith.

Still the best Naval source I have found, with the most thought and effort poured into it, is the homepage of Rod Rodriguez

Classmates from PURDUE UNIVERSITY, in engineering and in Kappa Delta Rho are cordially invited to get back onto our Christmas card list. E us.

Those of us who survived sleepless nights in Seattle at the University of Washington should keep in touch via my ever welcoming inbox. Just e me.

Race back to my index page before the Wicked Witch of the North freezes you in your tracks.

Recently voted the least likely person to want, need or design a web page, I found myself (in February 1996) in a class to learn how. I just took the class as a favor to a friend. They needed another warm body to fulfill attendance requirements. And here I am.... I am responsible for all errors you may find, and all effusive praise or help should be directed to me, secop@parlorcity.com