CALVIN DEMMON'S HOME PAGE

Some of my favorite links:

• How Things Work:
  Microwave Ovens
  
  Watch out for
  superheated water.

• The Musical Saw and Theremin Page
  With a few-woo audio files.

• Amateur Science Experiments
  Build your own X-ray machine.

• The Night Cabbie (San Francisco Chronicle)
  "I'm heading for Stockton Street and
  then Powell. I pull up in front of the
  St. Francis Hotel, and while I'm talking
  to Mike, the doorman, a woman comes up to
  him wearing a white coat."

• Construction of the
  Empire State Building
  
  It was 1931
  and the riveters
  could see forever.

• Big Town Characters (New York Daily News)
  Johnny Staccato, Moondog, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Barbra Streisand, and other musical New Yorkers . . . .

• Our Gang Biographies
  
  O-tay!

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library (at, ahem, Calvin College)
  "He takes a text and carries it with him
  all day long; and in the night watches,
  when sleep forsakes his eyelids,
  he muses upon the Word of God." -- Chas. Spurgeon

• Catholic Online
  Saints and Angels
  
  Saint of the Day

• Gallery of Obscure Patents
  The motorized ice cream cone, for example,
  "...rotationally feeding its contents against a
  person's outstretched tongue."

• A Victorian Era Robot
  Boilerplate was a mechanical man
  developed by Professor Archibald Campion
  during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893
  World's Columbian Exposition.

• Strange Stuff Explained
  Every Web page in the universe
  has a corresponding anti-Web page.

• 30 Days of Li'l Abner
  

• Mexican Jumping Beans
  

  
  

  Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do not flash back and blow your face in. They do not short-circuit and rive your heart with imponderable electric force. They have arms and legs and warm hearts and veins full of warm vapour. Give us steam every time. You know where you are with steam.

  -- William McFee

  
  

You can write to me at yahoo.com,
using my first and last name, run together,
that is, calvindemmon. I'm being purposely obscure
because if I spell it out I'll be flooded with
even more spam.