Ĝan Ŭesli Starling

born December 24th, 1955
an online photo journal

 home: https://starling.us 
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This is my personal website. Whatsoever anyone might want to know about me (why?), it can be found out here. The interesting stuff anyhow, little enough though that may be.

Profession    ↑   → 

I’ve mostly worked as a test engineer: munitions, robotics, automotive, and aerospace. Although retired as of December 2023, nevertheless, one never knows. I leave my resume online chiefly as a talisman against future necessity. Because, after all, in this day and age, one never knows...

•  LINK  My professional CV/Resume.

Long-Distance Romance     ←   ↑   → 

This is the origin story of my 2nd marraige, now in its glorious 13th year.

•  LINK  Second Life ― How I met my wonderful wife! ― 150+ photos in 5 TGPs
•  LINK  Honeymoon ― Mackinac Island and all around ― 109-photo TGP

Fun things I like     ←   ↑   → 

All links lead to websites which I personally authored, coded, and maintain.

•  LINK  Esperanto Club ― My most serious hobby
•  LINK  Ham Radio ― Call sign KY8D
•  LINK  Motorcycle Touring ― 150+ photos in 15+ TGPs
•  LINK  Rare Book Collection ― SF, fantasy & mystery (mostly Vancian)
•  LINK  A weekend with Jack Vance ― 15-photo TGP
•  LINK  1974-1978   US Navy Mineman ― 60+ photos in 6 TGPs

Software I’ve written     ←   ↑   → 

•  LINK  Give-Away Utlities ― Stuff for both Linux and Windows too
•  LINK  Older Stuff ― These I've not maintained in a while.
•  LINK  CPAN Module ― Chart::EPS_graph
•  LINK  Perl Modules ― Three not in CPAN
  • Tk::EasyGUI
  • Text::CSV::Munge
  • Device::LabJack::Control
•  LINK  Open Source ― Trailing Edge Technologies

Articles I’ve published     ←   ↑   → 

•  LINK  Jack Vance ― What Makes Him Great?
•  LINK  NetBSD How-To's ― My old how-to articles, growing more and more out-of-date
•  LINK  Esperanto ― Two whole fantasy novels & four SF short stories translated from English.
•  LINK  Tibetan Buddhism ― Articles on meditation, etc.
  1.  LINK  Etiquette for Dharma Practice
  2.  LINK  How to Visualize
  3.  LINK  How to Prostrate
  4.  LINK  Atisha and Lam Rim
  5.  LINK  Emanations of the Enlightened
  6.  LINK  Oil and Water, (Creationism versus the Dharma)

Martial Arts     ←   ↑   → 

Having got on in years, I'm not up to it anymore, my chiefest excuse being nerve pain: ulnar, sciatic, pudendal. Reasons for which I was also forced to sell my motorcycle. Excuses aside, I still hold onto strong opionions. Let me here inflict them upon you.

•  LINK  BullShido, Busting a Martial Arts Myth
•  LINK  Meditation, Debunking a Christian Delusion
•  LINK  Jujutsu Becomes Judo by Jigoro Kano
•  LINK  My own story, such as it is.

Internet domains I manage     ←   ↑   → 

Every last byte of code on each of these sites is my very own: HTML, XML/XSLT, Perl/CGI, SQL, JavaScript.

1.  LINK  ky8d.net ― My ham radio hobby
2.  LINK  vajra.us ― Buddhist meditation center.
3.  LINK  minemen.us ― My years in the US Navy
4.  LINK  budhana.org ― An Esperanto Buddhist group
5.  LINK  starling.us ― Our family’s site
6.  LINK  esperanto.us ― My foreign language hobby
7.  LINK  monotheism.us ― Debunking Christian Nationalism

External links     ←   ↑ 

•  LINK  Association of Minemen ― Underwater mines and such Scroll down to their navigation link.