by Ken on August 22, 2010
Today, a unique picture was taken. We did it in the spur of the moment – my daughter-in-law, Melika, snapped it.
I believe this is the first picture ever taken, along our own Risley lineage, of 4 generations of Risley males, all with the name Risley, in a single pose. Here stands great granddad (Uncle Guy), [...]
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever together at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
Here [...]
Some folks ask why would anyone have an interest in Amateur Radio. Our world is so different today with Facebook, Twitter, Email, Websites, Skype, etc., etc.,etc. The world grows smaller each day as we download our Itunes, text message our friends on the Iphone and carry the internet, essentially, in our pockets.
In the early days, [...]
What spins your clock?
For me, there are activities so absorbing that I realize, a bit stunned, that the hours have slipped by without my awareness. It’s as I might imagine a time machine to which one enters and becomes so engrossed that the clock begins to spin in a blur.
I’ve come to believe that each [...]