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Walker Martin's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Report 2014
Windy City Pulp Convention Report 2014
As many of you may know I love going to pulp conventions and I've been
attending them since 1972. I have a maniacal desire to read and
collect old books and pulps. I realize it may be an addiction and a
vice but it doesn't seem to hurt my health or finances like drinking,
drugs, gambling, or chasing women. Well at least it didn't hurt me
until this convention.
For the last few months my legs have developed a pain which bothers me
while sitting and sleeping. I'm often awakened at night by the pain and
I've yet to find a comfortable position to sleep. I've seen different
doctors and pain pills don't help that much. A nerve doctor said maybe
my back problems was the cause and I have scheduled further x-rays and
MRI's. But the main thing the medical profession agreed on was that I
would not be taking any 15 hour trip to Chicago(Airplanes are a problem
because of claustrophobia and limited bags to bring back pulps).
Needless to say, being the insane collector that I am, I ignored all
medical advice and on Thursday, April 24, I was in a car heading from
Trenton, NJ to Morristown, NJ, where I was one of five collectors who
had rented a big van. After an hour in the car, and even before
getting to the van, I was in distress and reminding myself that I was a
book collector and reader and nothing was going to stop me. I had to
keep saying this to myself several times during the trip, which I now
refer to as Death Trip 2014.
But somehow, 15 hours later, I limped into the Westin hotel near
Chicago and thought only about going to my room and having a stiff
drink, pain pills or no pain pills. But in my room, the usual desire
to meet other collectors and talk about books and pulps, kicked in and
I went to the hospitality room. Once there, I stationed myself against
the wall near the refrigerator where the beer was and I proceeded to
drink, thinking By God, I made it.
And I'm glad I did because I met a man who runs one of the very best
pulp blogs. Sai lives in India and administers a blog called
PULPFLAKES. A great name for a great website and it's all about pulps,
the authors, the editors, the artists, the magazines. This was Sai's
first pulp convention. Another interesting person was Mala
Mastroberte, the queen of the pulp pin-ups. Ed Hulse had the great
idea to have her at his BLOOD n THUNDER table and perhaps it was too
great an idea. I heard more than one collector refer to table not as
the BLOOD n THUNDER or Ed Hulse table, but as the Mala table. Mala was
a big hit and fortunately she had her boyfriend to watch over her
because some collectors are all about the books and they don't know how
to act around women. Nothing worse than a leering bookworm. I ought
to know.
But don't feel too sorry for Ed Hulse because he stumbled across the
find of the show. Shortly after the convention opened he bought
several long comic book boxes of ALL STORY. Most seemed to be priced
at $5.00 and included several Edgar Rice Burroughs issues. Most were
from 1917-1920 and there were over a hundred. I need one issue from
this period and since I only need a total of 4 to complete my set, I
was naturally very excited and figured the issue had to be there.
Since we were all busy the first few days of the convention, there was
no time to look through the magazines until Sunday afternoon. With
great anticipation I watched as the magazines were sorted into years
and then into months. The issue I need is dated July 7, 1917 and I
noticed there were 11 months well represented from 1917. But one month
was completely missing. You guessed it. No July issues at all.
There is nothing more embarrassing than seeing some old guy sobbing
because he needs a pulp. I managed to control myself and slunk off to
the bar to drown my sorrows. I can deal with leg pain but not with
missing out on my book wants.
A good friend of mine told me about his find. He bought over 50 WEIRD
TALES from the 1930's for only like $25 to $45 each. I couldn't
believe such good luck and almost had him convinced that something must
be wrong with the issues, perhaps pages excerpted or poor condition.
But no, the magazines were ok.
At this point I'd like to talk about the importance of attending these
conventions, not only Windy City, but Pulpfest and the few one day
shows that are held. I realize there are valid reasons for not
attending, such as poor health and lack of money. But I've always
forced myself to figure out someway to attend because I find so much
not only in the dealer's room but through friends and contacts. For
instance I managed to get the several lots I wanted in the auction. If
I had stayed home because of my leg problem, I never would have gotten
them. And the conventions revive your interest in collecting, which I
seriously believe is one of the joys of life. I actually feel sorry
for non-collectors and people who call collectors the dreaded "hoarder"
name(There is a big difference in meaning between "collector" and
"hoarder" but that's another subject that many non-collectors simply
do not understand at all). Collecting has helped increase my desire to
keep living, otherwise I might just pine away and eventually waste away
like many of my non-collecting friends. I would have to say collecting
books and pulps is the grandest game in the world and one that can give
your life meaning.
Now you might ask what did I get after all the trouble described above?
Well, one problem with living a fairly long life is the chance that
you might start to run out of things to collect. I guess at one time
or another, I've collected just about every major pulp, digest, and
literary title, including many slicks. I never bothered with the love,
sport, and aviation genres but I've been involved with most other
So my wants are getting kind of esoteric and bizarre. A few issues
here and there to complete sets. A few pulp artists or magazine cover
paintings. Many years ago I used to collect the hero pulps but I sold
them all. But the auction listed several lots of the SHADOW digests.
They had most of the issues from 1944-1948, a total of 40 in all. I
was interesting in these issues because the magazine became more of an
adult crime magazine during the post war years. Returning WW II vets
did not give a damn about the Shadow but the back up stories and
novelets were of interest. I managed to be the high bidder on all the
Shadow digest lots, a total of 10 lots. The average price came out to
only $21 per issue which was far lower than the $50 -$80 prices that I
saw in the dealer's room.
Another item I desperately wanted was a preliminary sketch by artist
Lee Brown Coye. The finished piece of art in FANTASTIC, February
1963, I think is stunning and I noticed the preliminary drawing was
very detailed and close to the finished art. Again, I was the winning
bidder at $650.
Speaking of the auctions, there were two that lasted several hours
during the evening. The Friday auction was mainly from the collections
of the Jerry Weist estate and the Robert Weinberg collection. The
Jerry Weist items were mainly very nice condition SF magazines and the
Weinberg collection included some stunning SF correspondence, cancelled
Munsey and Popular Publications checks and all sorts of interesting
The original manuscript of C. L. Moore's " Black God's Kiss", which
appeared in WEIRD TALES, October, 1934, bought the highest amount of
money I've ever seen at a pulp convention auction: $4,500 plus the
$500 buyer's premium. That's $5,000 for an iconic, unique item. Some
other authors represented by checks and letters were L. Ron Hubbard,
Farnsworth Wright, Henry Whitehead, Abraham Merritt, Austin Hall,
Homer Eon Flint, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Murray Leinster, Isaac Asimov,
Fred Pohl, Otis Adelbert Kline, George Allan England, Algis Budrys,
Eric Frank Russell, and others too numerous to name.
The Saturday night auction was made up of over 100 lots listing most of
the issues of the SHADOW magazine. Most issues went for reasonable
prices. Following the SHADOW auction there were almost another 100
lots listing various pulp magazines but there also was a Frank R. Paul
illustration from FANTASTIC NOVELS which went for $800.
The Windy City show is not just the dealer's room and auction, though
that's what most collectors are interested in. There also was a very
large art show with quite a few pulp paintings and illustrations from
the collections of Doug Ellis and Deb Fulton, Robert and Phyllis
Weinberg, and others. Ed Hulse put on his usual fine film show which
lasted all day and even after the auction in the early morning hours.
The themes celebrated the 95th birthday of BLACK MASK and WESTERN
There were two panels after the dealer's room closed. The first one
was on a subject that was very much needed but had often been ignored
over the years at Pulpcon. The Western Pulps panel was comprised of Ed
Hulse, Walker Martin, and Tom Roberts. In about an hour we tried to
make up for lost time and discuss major elements of this important
topic. Which of course is impossible since there were scores of
western titles and it was the biggest selling genre by far except for
perhaps the love pulps.
I gave my opinion concerning the best western pulp magazines, all of
which I have collected over the years. The biggest of all was WESTERN
STORY, 1919-1949 with over 1250 issues. I need about 11 issues
including the first one and I'll never be able to complete the set but
I have hopes of getting it down to single digits. The second best and
some would say even better than WESTERN STORY, was definitely the
Doubleday issues of WEST during 1926-1934. During this 8 or 9 year
span the magazine was often published on a weekly and bi-weekly
schedule and had all the good authors. It was sold to another
publisher in 1935 and continued on for many years but not at the
Doubleday level. Third and fourth best would be DIME WESTERN and STAR
WESTERN and some feel they were the best westerns published by Popular
We now live in a era that has no western short fiction magazine and
this is hard to believe when we look back to the 1930's and 1940's when
the newsstands groaned under the weight of these titles. There were
many interesting western writers and some of my favorites are Luke
Short, W.C. Tuttle, and Walt Coburn. Coburn had a drinking problem and
this showed in some of his work but when he was feeling good and sober,
he was one of the best because he grew up on a working cowboy's ranch
and knew how the men dressed, talked, and rode. Black Dog Books will
soon be publishing a collection of Coburn's fiction from WESTERN STORY.
Keep an eye out for BULLETS IN THE BLACK by Walt Coburn. Introduction
by the great James Reasoner.
My old friends of 20 or 30 years ago would have said that I have
committed sacrilege by not including Max Brand. Max Brand collectors
used to be all over the place at Pulpcon, collecting the pulps, binding
the stories into home made books, writing articles and talking about
him. In fact, if they were still alive I would not dare say anything
negative about Brand. Not if I wanted to keep their friendship. They
loved Max Brand and for over 50 years I've tried to love him also.
Some of his work I like and some I hate. I now would have to say that
Max Brand wrote too much and too fast and that's going to hurt him as
far as being remembered.
The Second panel was on Saturday night and discussed Hammett, BLACK
MASK, and the Detective Pulps. Moderated by John Wooley along with
such experts as Ed Hulse, Digges La Touche, and Bob Weinberg. I was so
jealous about not being on this panel that I tried to pick a fight with
Digges by yelling at him, "So You're the expert on Earle Stanley
Gardner!". But I didn't have enough to drink to be drunk enough, so
they ignored me.
Bob Weinberg did make one interesting statement about the cover art of
DIME DETECTIVE being better than the covers of BLACK MASK in the
1930's. Maybe the late thirties yes, but when Paul Herman, another
BLACK MASK art collector, and I heard this, we started muttering that
though we love and have covers from DIME DETECTIVE, the early 1930's
covers of BLACK MASK are amazing. Joe Shaw made sure the cover artist
captured the tough, hardboiled, atmosphere of the magazine.
The funny thing is that someone told Bob Weinberg about my disagreeing
with him. Later on, he approached me and told me I was wrong, and how
could I say such a thing, etc. But this just shows why Bob and Paul
and I, are pulp art collectors. To collect cover art you must be
opinionated and passionate about the subject. Otherwise you don't
collect original art at all.
The program book, which is compiled and edited by Tom Roberts, is
excellent. About 50 pages on the detective pulps, another 50 pages on
the western pulps, and 50 pages on art and film. I'm certain you can
get a copy from Black Dog Books.
On Sunday, I talked with Doug Ellis about the attendance. He said they
broke 500 for the first time ever(the most the old Pulpcon ever had was
300) and had 150 dealer's tables. I spent the entire three days
limping around the room and the place was always busy. The old Pulpcon
used to have periods where it looked deserted but you don't see this at
Windy City or Pulpfest.
So, on Monday morning, in a steady rain, we just barely crammed in all
our treasures into the great white van. There were a couple times I
almost said to stop the van, so I could get out, but we made it back to
Morristown in about 14 hours. I was so exhausted that I wondered if I
could make it to the car for the ride back to Trenton. We transferred
all the boxes to Digge's car and were ready to go. I told myself, look
I just made 14 hours, I can make another hour or so. Then Digges told
me the car battery was dead and the car would not start.
At this point the details are a sort of blur for me. I remember
standing in the dark and thinking what now? If it was up to me, I'd
still be standing there. Fortunately Ed Hulse's sister let us come
into her house even though it was late and gave us coffee. She even
called her Triple A and had them jump start the car. So off we finally
Now the big question is will I be able to make to Pulpfest, August 7,
2014? Collectors, you better believe it!
9 comments:
- Audrey Parente said...
Thank you, Thank you. What a spectacular article, Walker, especially since I couldn't attend this year. You put me in the middle and it was a wonderful read. Audrey Parente
- May 1, 2014 at 2:27 PM
- Walker Martin said...
Glad you enjoyed it Audrey and Laurie that's the cover I need! July 7, 1917 ALL STORY! You would think I would be able to get at least one of my wants from all those ALL STORY pulps that Ed bought. But no...
- May 1, 2014 at 2:51 PM
- Walker Martin said...
I was just studying the cover art that Laurie chose for this report. The ALL STORY is just a pretty girl cover but it is the one issue I lack in the 1915-1920 period. The SHADOW cover is one of the better ones. You can't go wrong with skeletons on the cover. A pulp artist once told me that circulation figures increased with skeletons.
The WEIRD TALES cover is a stunner by Margaret Brundage. Sexy, perverse, bizarre and eye catching. WEST was a great magazine doing the Doubleday period of 1926-1934, with excellent covers.
This BLACK MASK cover shows what I'm talking about when I disagree with Bob Weinberg about the cover art of DIME DETECTIVE and BLACK MASK. Yes, DIME DETECTIVE had excellent cover art but this BLACK MASK piece is representative of the great hardboiled, tough images that captured the essence of BLACK MASK. No background is needed for this portrait of a man you wouldn't want to cross.
I spent 4 decades hunting for a cover like this one before I found one from BLACK MASK and I only managed to buy it because the dealer didn't realize it was from BLACK MASK. - May 1, 2014 at 9:13 PM
- Tom Johnson said...
A great write up, Walker. Ginger and I haven't been to a convention since 1991 (and then only I attended PulpCon that year), and we sorely miss them. But health does not allow us the chance to travel - at least not without bringing along a pharmacy (sigh). We enjoy Con Reports and Panel Podcast, as it gives us a chance to feel like we were there. I collect very little any more, except digests, but visiting like-minded people and friends is something we truly miss. Thank you for a very nice report.eletodu shalt
- May 2, 2014 at 4:56 PM
- Katie said...
What an adventure!!
- May 2, 2014 at 7:42 PM
- Walker Martin said...
Tom, I remember when you and Ginger were at Pulpcon in 1991 and it's hard to believe that it has been over 20 years! So many old pals were still alive and collecting back then: Bob Sampson, Jack Deveny, Rusty Hevelin, Earl Kussman, Harry Noble, Darrell Richardson, and others.
I sure miss them and the correspondence that we all carried on. - May 2, 2014 at 9:09 PM
- Barry Traylor said...
Now that I have the internet back after six days of being cut off by an outage on the part of Verizon I can comment on Walker's report. As usual Walker has done an excellent job soldiering through pain and making it to Windy. Wish I could have been there also but life intruded. Even though I do not own any original Black Mask paintings I agree that the early 30's covers are superb.
I hope you are feeling better by PulpFest Walker. Getting old is a real drag. - May 8, 2014 at 4:13 AM
- Walker Martin said...
Barry is right. Getting old is a pain. I remember years ago some of my old collector friends telling me, "Walker don't bother getting old", but I ignored their advice and now I'm paying the price!
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Who knows why but there seems to be an abundance of smooth tracks floating around today. Skillz drops a video for one of the smoother cuts off of The World Needs More Skillz. Nice song with... Read more »
As much as I love free mixtapes, I despise tagged up ones. Which is why, as a general rule, if I download something that's got so many tags it's not even worth listening to, I delete... Read more »
Official visual for Pac Div's "Anti-Freeze" off of their latest mixtape titled *Mania!*. Check the video under the jump. Related: Pac Div – *Mania!* (Mixtape) | Pac Div – "Take Me High" (MP3 + Video Teaser)... Read more »
We had to wait a little longer than we wanted to but alas the wait is over. Pac Div releases their 4th Mixtape Mania! Hosted by Dj Don Cannon. From track one you can tell this... Read more »


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Video file 2012.13: Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton talks about how quickly the years go by, a "change of dimensions" at home, and the story behind his face mask.


text: A good friend of mine is fond of saying, "I may not get a bird every time my dog and I go out, but I sure as heck move a few!" Maybe he ought to apply for the position of "bird chaser" at the Fort Lauderdale airport. Since the airport has requested that Broward County, Fla., pay for the job, the proposed salary is a matter of public record: $76,000 annually. The idea that anyone could earn a comfortable, taxpayer-funded living by watching birds all day has made the proposal the brunt of talk show humor; however, after several high profile bird-strike incidents, most notably by a goose that caused U.S. Airways Flight 1549 to land safely in the Hudson River, there is renewed interest in controlling birds near airports. Two such incidents have occurred at the Fort Lauderdale airport. From the Sun-Sentinel: In 2010, a US Airways jet was taking off when it collided with a vulture. One of the engines went out. The plane had to circle and return, with crushed bird feathers in the blades. In another instance, a plane hit a flock of grackles, Nonnemacher said. Currently, the airport sends employees out every day to shoo away the birds—by firing deafening flare guns, for instance. The airport spends $10,00 a year on pyrotechnics. The point is to do whatever is possible to harass the birds, but not kill them. What say you, readers? Does the risk justify the expense?


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Just as we predicted (actually it didn't take a rocket scientist to predict this), KBA (knowledge based authentication or secret questions based on life history to validate an identity) has been a flop on the Obamacare exchange websites, adding insult to injury. The topic even made it's way to the human interest story on the front page of today's Wall Street Journal, which documented how Americans needing health care insurance couldn't satisfactorily answer the secret life history questions needed to pass the electronic application process. After all, who can remember the color of your first bicycle when you can't even remember what you did two weeks ago, recounts an interviewee in the article.
KBA is on life support. It was already ineffective and now everyone knows its been compromised systematically by some of the most organized criminal gangs around. (See blogs.gartner.com and krebsonsecurity.com and krebsonsecurity.com )
Experian, LexusNexis, Kroll and Dunn and Bradstreet and other breached data brokers must be furiously trying to dig themselves out this hole. Frankly, I feel for them because securing the food chain of clients that have access to this sensitive data is a very tall task. And securing the systems against advanced threats is an equally tall task.
But at a minimum, they may want to stop selling identity theft protection services to consumers. It seems to be a conflict of interest, don't you think?
As for the government and the healthcare exchanges, all they had to do was ask around and they could have easily avoided this latest disaster.
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Tuesdays at either 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm (pending visibility determined that evening)
Advanced Reservations required through the Concierge.


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Presented here is a amplifier based upon the LM386 Audio Amplifier.
There is a standard circuit in the data sheet that is an excellent place to start.
Materials needed (digikey part numbers):
1 - HM359 project box
1 - 668-1237 speaker
1 - LM386N-4 amplifier
1 - BS6I battery conn
1 - CP1-3515 stereo jack
1 - SC1316 stereo jack
2 - 450-1742 knob
1 - 679-1856 switch
1- 3mm LED
1 - 10 ohm 1/4W resistor
1 - 10uF ceramic cap
1 - .05 uF ceramic cap
1 - 420 uF electrolytic cap
1 - 8 ohm resistor
2 - 51AADB24 10K pot
1 - HM1252 circuit board
wire and solder
Step 1: Prep the enclosure
Begin by laying out the components on the circuit board that will need to pass through the enclosure. This enclosure has a removable top panel which will be used for the volume, gain and 1/4 inch stereo jack.
Space is limited to check for fit before drilling.
All drilling of the plastic should be done with a step drill bit. This will make the cleanest holes without breaking the plastic.
Lay out the pots a few spaces back but still in line with the desired position. mark the center of each pot shaft then drill with a step drill tot he tightest fitting hole size. Make a center mark between the pot holes then drill for the stereo jack
On the inside of the top cover position and mark where the speaker will go.
Make a template on grid paper the same size as the speaker.
Tape the template to the inside of the cover as shown then use a step bit to drill holes on the center of every square in the grid. This will form the speaker grille. clean up the holes.
This circuit is remarkably crisp and clean sounding until you start clipping the audio with too much gain.


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True. Pissy puts a finger on it. I think Jarmusch has more meat than most of his rivals and in terms of liking someone but adding the dismissive point of being one dimensional is just ridiculous. Sorry I came down hard but Tony talks all high end but rarely serves anything but smack. I bring the knowledge and I look for some constructive feedback. Instead we plug into these same roles. It becomes irksome and I wish there were more like minded thinkers but instead is back to jr high again. I should know better by now... but I keep trying.
Jarmusch's reccurent theme of communication between different cultures and/or cultural backgrounds and the various barriers encountered when the attempt is made stopped paying dividends for me quite a while ago. I stand by my observation that 'Ghost Dog' is insipid both in its shallow treatment of Asian culture (Way of the Samurai indeed!) and for its cartoonish Italian mobsters. And 'Broken Flowers' felt like a screenplay written by a film school student. Especially the ending.


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- Overall: 17" wide x 21.5" deep x 23.5" high
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LaHood on Washington state high-speed rail agreement
Commenting on President Barack Obama's plans for and investment in high-speed rail, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood issued the following written statement:
"President Obama's historic investments in a national high-speed rail network will enable America to win the future by creating construction and manufacturing jobs today and laying the foundation for future economic growth.
"By building safe, reliable and energy-efficient passenger rail corridors, we will be able to help small businesses thrive and move people and goods more quickly than ever before.
"I am thrilled to congratulate the State of Washington, BNSF [Burlington Northern-Santa Fe], and Amtrak for their contributions to the agreement signed today [Feb. 26] by the Federal Railroad Administration and Washington DOT that will make $590 million available for work to begin on significant improvements to the popular Cascades corridor, which connects Eugene, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver.
"Thanks to the hard work, dedication, and flexibility of all parties involved in the negotiations, this agreement will immediately put Washingtonians to work in good paying jobs, significantly improve rail service for commuters and travelers, and preserve the world-class freight rail system America has today."
Additional background on the agreement:
As part of Obama's long-term vision to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail in the next 25 years, this initial $590 million in funding for high-speed and intercity passenger rail will create more than 6,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Washington region.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the performance standards included in this agreement will benefit travelers because of two additional daily roundtrips between Seattle and Portland, a 10-minute reduction in travel time, and reliability improvements of up to 88 percent.
With the signing of this agreement, five of the six high-speed rail corridors that require coordination with freight railroads now have a signed agreement in place.
The Department of Transportation says it "will build on this momentum to realize President Obama's vision of a national high-speed rail system that will allow American workers to out-build, out-innovate, and out-compete the rest of the world."
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Maureen Says: The scientific basis for this test seems valid. However, many women have reported inaccurate results, some have been told by Acu-Gen that their baby may have chromosomal abnormalities, and Acu-Gen has recently changed their refund policy. This test is not FDA regulated.
I strongly recommend against buying Baby Gender Mentor.
More about Baby Gender Mentor (including forums, blog posts, and more)
Note: Previously sold under the name Acu-Gender.
Claim: Many genetic testing labs provide services to the general public, such as paternity, infidelity, and kinship testing. Some labs now offer non-invasive prenatal paternity testing and gender determination from a blood sample from the mother, from about 10 weeks of pregnancy. "Non-invasive" testing refers to the fact that only a blood sample from the mother is used, rather than actual cells obtained from the unborn baby through the invasive procedure of amniocentesis or CVS.
Claim: Can determine your unborn baby's gender with 99% accuracy from a urine sample taken as early as the first day of your missed period, up to 15 weeks of pregnancy.


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A remodeled truck stop and a strange haul
We saw today the Petro truck stop in Kenley, N.C. for the first time since it was remodeled. Nice!
Willie's Place
I learned today about the truck stop in Carl's Corner, Texas, formerly known as Willie's Place. Learned by visiting it for the first time. Diane and I woke up this morning at this truck ...
Petro opens in Carnesville, Ga.
A new Petro Stopping Center has opened at Interstate 85, off exit 150, in Carnesville, Ga., TravelCenters of America said. The stop has 250 truck parking spaces, 12 diesel lanes, 18 showers, a Petro Lube service ...
Former Willie's Place reopens as Petro travel center
Before reopening, the site at exit 374 off I-35 underwent a $1.5 million renovation.
Demand pushing pay higher, Charlie Daniels to perform at Super Show, FMCSA sends CSA warning letters, opposition builds against hours proposal and more industry news items are featured.


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PNG: The Definitive Guide
Author: Greg Roelofs
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
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URL: http://www.ora.com/
Price: $26.36
Reviewer: Michael J. Hammel
As a writer who prides himself on being truly good at many things but not great at anything, I often take a somewhat timid approach to anything calling itself "definitive". What nerve it must take to think of yourself as such an expert! Yet there are times when the right person, at the right time, with the right talent, produces a work which rightfully deserves the title of "definitive guide". This is one of those times.
PNG—The Definitive Guide is Greg Roelofs' description of the design and use of PNG. PNG is a specification for a raster image file format. Greg's text, published by O'Reilly, is a clear and thorough exploration of the topic. Ranging from the early history of the design to detailed programming information on chunks and gamma correction to application support for this new format, the text is a complete descriptive volume on the subject.
Pronounced "ping" according to Greg (although I have a hard time not vocalizing the three letters separately), PNG has evolved over the past four years in response to limitations in design and licensing of the older GIF format. Greg is uniquely qualified to describe the format and tell its tale of evolution. He was there when Thomas Boutell first announced the project, and has written numerous articles on the subject—including being one of the few contributing authors I've ever had to my "Graphics Muse" column in Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com/).
The text is divided into three parts: Using PNG, The Design of PNG and Programming with PNG. The specification for PNG is platform-independent, and Greg keeps true to this philosophy with this text. It covers everything from Linux to Windows to BeOS to OS/2; however, the first section does finish with a focus on Macromedia's Fireworks 1.0, a decidedly non-Linux application.
Greg starts with a decent introduction to raster graphics in the first chapter. This leads into a long description of the things for which PNG is most useful. I found this section quite good. Although I knew there were advantages to using PNG, I never knew what the specific reasons were. One of the most important, in the near term if not immediately, will be its support of standardized color management.
Greg points out in part one that PNG does not compress as well as JPEG does, but that JPEG's compression algorithm can lead to some blockiness around sharp edges in an image. He explains that PNG perhaps makes a better format for intermediate editing than for web browsing. This makes sense. PNG has lossless compression, so repeated saves and reloads in your editing package will produce the same image each time. TIFF is an alternative, but TIFF's compression scheme doesn't offer the same speed vs. quality options that PNG does. PNG can also achieve extremely high levels of compression without data loss. Conversion to JPEG might be preferred when the image is prepared for the Web, but that could be done as a last step before publication. As Chapter 2 mentions, both MSIE and Netscape support PNG in their latest browsers, although to different levels, and neither fully supports transparency in their released versions.
Chapter 2 also has an interesting discussion on using content negotiation. This is where you specify a text file with a .var suffix containing text describing one of multiple choices for the image to be displayed. Apache supports this with the mod_negotiation module and determines which of the image files specified in the .var file to send to the browser. A fairly interesting topic if you are into supporting any browser on the planet.
Chapter 3 is a simple application reference guide for image viewers on multiple platforms which support the PNG format. Greg does a good job of researching many different platforms here.
Chapter 4 goes into several image-editing applications with support for PNG. Greg shows how an image can be created in each of four major applications—Photoshop 4 and 5, Paint Shop Pro and the GIMP—and then how that image can be saved with PNG.
Chapter 5 describes a number of command-line image processing tools that support conversion to or from the PNG format or provide information on PNG files. All of these tools run on Linux, and Greg provides download information at the end of each application-specific section of this chapter, as he does for every other application he discusses in the text. The chapter ends with a reference-style list of other conversion tools. Each entry includes OS and download information.
The first section of the book closes with a chapter on 3-D applications with support for PNG. Greg covers VRML browsers in the first part of this chapter and has short discussions on 3-D modelers and other 3-D applications in the latter half. Unfortunately, there isn't much support for VRML under Linux, and out of the few browsers and VRML applications available for Linux, even fewer still apparently support PNG. This seems strange, considering PNG has been adopted as one of two formats for VRML certification.
In producing this book, O'Reilly followed the same basic industry practice of stuffing a couple of color plates in the middle of the book. In this case, with only two pages of plates, they might as well have left them out. As with most graphics texts, the comparative images printed in black-and-white outside the color plates aren't very useful. The first one is a set of three images showing a child standing in what looks like one of those boxes your luggage must fit in to carry it onto an airplane. The three images are supposed to show the effects of quantization and dithering, but that's nearly impossible to see in this black-and-white image. There are full-color versions of these same images, which are also enlarged, in the two-page color plates in the middle of the book. These color images do show the differences in the images quite well. When will publishers realize that texts about graphics need to be in color? Yes, it increases the cost, but it also increases the informational value. I'm thankful SSC used four-color printing throughout when publishing my GIMP book.
One minor side note: O'Reilly placed one of those generally annoying advertisement cards at page 188. The card was physically connected to the binding. I tried to pull it out, and ripped the page. Fortunately, I didn't rip through any of the text on that page. They might want to think about adding perforations at the connecting point for the card.
Chapter 7 starts the second part of the book, covering the design of PNG. This chapter is an interesting history into the evolution of an Internet-supported standard like PNG. An interesting bit of trivia which I was not aware of comes at the end of the chapter, where Greg tells us that PNG has been adopted in response to the MHEG-5 UK Profile, by digital television makers like Sony, Phillips and Nokia for both televisions and set-top boxes. I hadn't thought much about bitmap formats for television—I guess there's a whole new area of graphics for me to explore.
Chapter 8 introduces the basic PNG specifications. Here you'll find a description of the chunk, the main building block of the PNG format. Chapter 9 moves into compression information. Although the second part of the book is technical in nature, end users will find useful hints sprinkled throughout. In Chapter 9, for example, there are tips that cover which image types to use (PNG vs. JPEG, for example) and what settings to look for, given the format chosen. Greg follows up with tips for programmers on using compression and filtering.
One of the reasons I jumped ship from programmer to writer was that I saw the world was full of people who could write code, but short on those who could explain that code. I still see many technical folks taking a shot at writing for the masses and falling short, often slipping back into the acronymal world of the techno-geek. Greg is one of a rare breed. His writing style is both clear and complete, detailed and comprehensible. They should give medals for this sort of writing or at least little gold sticky stars.
Chapter 10 moves into one of the more complex issues in computer graphics: gamma correction and precision color. Display devices differ from their hard copy brethren in many ways, and even in subtle ways from each other. Gamma correction helps to ensure an image displayed on one device looks the same on another. Some of the gamma-related features of PNG and how to use them are discussed here.
PNG is an extensible format, providing both a defined set of public chunks and a method for implementors to add their own private chunks. In Chapter 11, Greg covers many of the extensions described in the original specification or that have been officially registered. These include such topics as histogram information, suggested palettes for low-color displays, fractal-image support and pixel calibration. Each section of this chapter is short, providing a quick explanation for the purpose of the extension, and in some cases, detailed programming issues. Part two closes with a chapter on MNG, the multi-image format cousin of PNG. PNG doesn't handle animation formats; it wasn't designed to do so. Chapter 12 discusses MNG in some depth, but this format is both still evolving and fairly complex. The chapter does give a nice overview of the format, however.
Part three is a detailed discussion of the two reference libraries for the PNG specification, namely libpng and zlib. The latter is the standard compression library used with PNG images. Both libraries are freely available and not license-restricted. Chapters 13 through 15 present a thorough programming guide to both the libpng and zlib APIs, including numerous code examples. Chapter 16 closes the book with short notes on other libraries and specifications of interest to the PNG programmer.
Two additional sections follow Chapter 16. The first is a well-done, chapter by chapter bibliography (although not all chapters have references listed). The second is a glossary of terms. The definitions given here are quite good, most providing more than the typical one- or two-line descriptions found in other texts.
If it's not obvious by this point, I'll state it clearly: I really liked this text. Personally, I don't have a major need for information on the PNG format. Until it's more widely adopted by the people I work with (such as publishers when asking for screenshots or other artwork), I'll probably stick to using TIFF, but that's not related to why I like this text. I'm a writer, and writers perform a public function—they provide information (and/or entertainment). Not all writers do this well, especially technical writers. However, Greg has done a very good job with this text on PNG. He's covered the topic well, and he's done so with an understanding of his audience's needs. He's earned the right to call this book The Definitive Guide.
Michael J. Hammel (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a graphic artist wanna-be, a writer and a software developer. He wanders the planet aimlessly in search of adventure, quiet beaches and an escape from the computers that dominate his life.
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Biking at Red Mountain
World Class Mountain and Touring Biking
Southwest Utah was virtually created for world-class mountain and touring biking, with a variety of scenic trails with all levels of challenge. Red Mountain provides and maintains quality bikes for use on our trips as well as for rent.
Red Mountain offers the services of our Pre-Arrival Reservation Team to answer all your questions and to reserve your outdoor adventures at 800-407-3002. While you are at the resort, you can visit with our Adventure Concierge in the Guest Registration Lobby.
Basic Mountain biking
4 hours, available year-round, $250 per person
Let Zion Rock & Mountain Guides provide you with a quality bike and all of the instruction you need in order to make your biking experience truly memoriable. The Bear Claw Poppy Trail complex, an off-road, single-track mountain biking area is suited to beginner and intermediate level enthusiasts. This ride is a mix of both technical and aerobic challenges. Other more challenging rides are also available. Full-suspension bikes with XT components are used. Bring your own shoes and pedals if you wish.
Santa Clara River Valley Road Ride
3.5 hours, available year-round, $85 per person
Starting in the nearby town of Veyo we'll rapidly descend into the town of Gunlock, past Gunlock Reservoir and along a winding road lined with Cottonwoods and red Navajo sandstone. This 23-mile ride is moderately aerobic on level terrain with occasional climbs and zippy downhills.
Zion Bike & Hike
Full day, available seasonally, $195 per person
This adventure starts with an ascent up the Pa'rus trail before connecting onto the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive. We'll stop at historic sites, stretching our legs with a few short hikes. All seasons except winter.
Custom Adventures
Our experienced guides can provide a personalized hike, climb, bike ride, trail run, kayak, snow-shoe or archaeological adventure. Choose a location near the resort, or a trip to a nearby national park. Private guides are available for hire starting at $55 per hour per person.
Prices subject to change without notice.
Assumption of Inherent Risk in Outdoor Activities
Guests participating in Outdoor Recreation activities must recognize they include risks integral to those activities. Although it is possible to minimize these risks, they cannot be eliminated without destroying the unique nature of the activity. Guests must agree to comply with all safety rules and instruction of Red Mountain Resort, any of its agents, employees and representatives. Guests must recognize that our activities occur in the wilderness in environments that include canyons, mountain and desert terrain, remote from medical facilities, roads and communication sites. Some of the inherent risks guests may be exposed to include but are not limited to: judgments by self, others or Red Mountain Resort; not following instructions; rough and steep terrain, falling or stumbling, trails with or without maintenance, off-trail travel, fences and barbed wire, loose rock, sand, sharp branches, cactus, vegetation, boulders, exposed ledges and paths, standing or running water, high temperatures, flash floods, rain, snow, lightning, extreme weather changes, winds, wild animals, venomous reptiles, insects, terrain lacking water resources and rock fall. These and other risks and hazards can result in injury, damage, permanent disability, death or loss. By voluntarily signing up to participate in any organized outdoor recreation activity at Red Mountain Resort, guests acknowledge the presence of these and similar risks.


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Ronnie O'Sullivan's avowed intention to 'raise the bar' may drive his snooker rivals to drink.
After capturing the first ranking title of the new season in Preston last night O'Sullivan believes he can set new standards of excellence on the green baize.
The Rocket did not always produce his A-game during a 9-5 victory over Ian McCulloch in the Totesport Grand Prix.
However, his B-game was still too powerful for the local favourite who consoled himself with a �30,000 runner-up cheque and a career-best provisional ranking of 13th.
'The balls were not going where I wanted them to,' said the 28-year-old Essex star who nevertheless compiled two century breaks and four other half-centuries. McCulloch's best was 78 in frame 13 with the game almost out of reach.
'I like to move the balls around and to talk to them,' said the world number one. 'But I never felt comfortable out there.
'I suppose I could not see the wood for the trees. However, my match play was good and I knew I would win through.'
O'Sullivan's first ever Grand Prix crown extended his unbeaten run to 11 ranking event matches.
And despite a five-month summer lay-off he proved as difficult to beat in the north-west as he did during the World Championship in Sheffield last spring.
His victory, worth �60,000, extends his lead at the head of the world rankings while his two nearest challengers, Mark Williams and Stephen Hendry, both left for home lamenting whether their best days were behind them.
O'Sullivan, though, thinks his chief rivals will be back in the groove by the time the circuit moves to the Brighton Centre next month for the British Open.
'They will be back at the practice table working hard and I think they will all be firing once we get to Brighton. Class is permanent, form is temporary, as they say.'
O'Sullivan's success has coincided with his partnership with six-times world champion Ray Reardon. And O'Sullivan admits he is going to miss the Welsh pensioner until they meet up again on the south coast in four weeks' time.
'Ray sees the game the way I see it and we have a lot in common,' said the new champion. 'He is very good for me.'
McCulloch also relies a lot on outside help, notably his sports psychologist Graham Slater, and the world number 17 must be wondering what might have happened had he teamed up with Slater a lot earlier in his career.
They have been a partnership for only three years and at the age of 33 McCulloch's best days might have been behind him.
'Graham has been worth his weight in gold and just three weeks ago I was in his house ripping my hair out.
'It is difficult to put your finger on what he does but I guess he takes the rubbish out of your head and makes you see sense.
'That is two finals I have lost now but I will win one - it is just a matter of when. I have said previously that I don't think there are 16 players in the world better than me and I have proved that this week.'
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The draw, toward the stores and the brand itself, is more than exclusivity. The American Girl, in doll and literary form, seems to be intended not only as an educational tool, but also as an aspiration and a companion, the ideal to which a girl hopes to live up and the real child she may already be.
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I'm off to Arizona again tomorrow morning. You might remember I went last month to see my great-uncle George (my grandfather's half-brother) and his family, as well as my late great-aunt's daughters Carole and Claudia. Well, George was sick that weekend and being that he is 91, his kids thought it best if he didn't have any company that weekend. I went anyway, but changed plans slightly and stayed the entire weekend with cousins Carole and Claudia. We had a blast. But now I'm going back to see George.
I'm driving this time. It's kind of a crazy schedule: I'm driving to Phoenix tomorrow morning, then going to a Dodger game at their spring training camp at Camelback Ranch, meeting my friend Kristin there for the game. After the game I'll be visiting George for dinner. Sunday I drive back home. I think after all the stress this week and all the driving I'll be doing over the weekend, I'll be good and tired by the time I get home.
But I love driving, and I LOVE driving through Arizona. I'm looking at the drive this weekend as an opportunity to regroup after this week and also an opportunity to get some good photos. So look for lots of photos of baseball and cactus next week.
Annie will be spending the weekend at my best friend Kris' - they have a dog Jesse who Annie has met and gets along with. Normally I'd have a pet sitter come to the house a few times during the day and then stay overnight, but there's no way I'd leave Annie alone this weekend - even for a couple of hours.
To celebrate my drive, here are some pulp covers that are Arizona-ish in theme.
Everybody have a good safe weekend.
Friday, March 18, 2011
7 comments:
- PAUL BISHOP said...
Great covers . . . have a smooth and introspective trip.
- March 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM
- Ron Scheer said...
Wave when you go past Desert Hot Springs...
- March 18, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Deka Black said...
Why suddenly i want to eat beans?
- March 18, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Cap'n Bob said...
If you love to drive in Arizona I can only assume you've never taken I-10 from Phoenix to Tucson. But have a safe and fun trip.
- March 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- Laurie Powers said...
thanks, all. Ron, I don't Desert Hot Springs is on my route, is it???
Bob, I have driven that route and I agree it's a killer. No, I'll only be going as far as Phoenix. - March 18, 2011 at 8:37 PM
- David Cranmer said...
Safe travels.
- March 19, 2011 at 4:57 AM
- Oscar said...
Nice covers. Be extra alert while driving.
- March 20, 2011 at 8:45 AM
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The CDC utilized 2005 and 2007 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which surveyed hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and its territories. The BRFSS survey indicated that the prevalence of arthritis in adults diagnosed with diabetes was 52 percent. Furthermore, researchers say the prevalence of physical inactivity was 28.9 percent among adults with diabetes and arthritis in comparison to 21 percent in adults with diabetes alone. The BRFSS survey notes that association was independent of age, sex or body mass index (BMI).
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I live near an airport and planes pass on approach. I'm interested in quadcopters, I might even graduate to planes someday. The planes that fly over my home are a good ways up, certainly not so close as to cause issues with noise, if I go closer to the airport the planes are still a fair ways up but common sense says yeah I might be interfering if I got stupid.
Where I'm puzzled is just how these "drones" are getting that close to the planes. The quad would have to be a mere dot in the sky to interfere, why would I be flying that high? Quads at least are battery powered, by the time I got far enough up to cause issues I'd be worried about battery and what exactly would I be seeing other than a postage stamp map below me? FPV of a plane going by? Are people simply flying these up high to come close to planes? 2-4K feet? Really? Are there YouTube vids? You know someone would be posting if they did this. Multiple reports in one area back to back seem to make at least that one pretty obvious.
The FAA wants legislation, that much is clear. They've talked about possible interference for awhile, now the possibility has skyrocketed? No reports of collision though right? Certainly not lots of them. Is that simply luck? So is this pilots being paranoid now that the idea of interference has been introduced to them? They seem to provide a great deal of detail about these vehicles despite passing them at high speed. How many of these reports have been validated? Anyone arrested? Is the FAA perhaps trying to make this claim in order to push legislation?
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm skeptical. Dulles airport I'm familiar with, same with National. National you can get VERY close to planes coming in at a nearby park - that is heavily patrolled by police. Dulles is surrounded by trees and while some of the runways parallel major roads they aren't exactly the sort where you could stop and fly something - unless you did it from the Air and Space parking lot like an idiot. Perhaps there's backroad access closer to Dulles but the high level of detail for something passed at a few hundred MPH, the heights involved for a battery powered device, and my familiarity with the area leave me wondering. Am I really that out of touch about the drone community near my hometown?