Bill Otto's Interests

Welcome to my web page. These are some of the subjects I find interesting

audio 
links to my pontificating on audio

CD-R  
audio compact disks
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Digital audio restoration. I have transferred about 500 of my records and tapes to CD-R. I got good at it. Frequently asked questions about music reproduction. 

video recording  
Since I now have a video capture card, I have gotten trapped into digitizing my video library.

photography and image scanning  
Correcting bad science information  links to science on the web

road biking  

I haven't written anything about this, I just like to do it when I get the chance.

Connections
The Day The Universe Changed  

tornados  

(lived in Hunstville, AL for 18 years)
Charts of tornado force, plus my pictures of the April 3, 1974 storm.

hurricanes  
(lived in Palm Beach Co., FL for 18 years) 

earthquakes  

(lived in Southern California coastal area)

The Challenger Disaster  (worked in Aerospace) KSC   Challenger Org  Feynman  Roger Boisjoly

the Kennedy Assassination  

(as a scientist, had doubts about Warren Commission results)

Battlestar Galactica and the Mormon Church

correlation (These I noticed in 1978 when I watched it. Not as pronounced in the current series)

food allergies and child behavior.

 I have a child with behavior modified by food allergies. This is not good.

Career in Physics and Engineering

ALABAMA

I lived in Huntsville from 1956-1971.

 

ITALY

I lived in Italy from 1971-1973.
Verona, Padova, Trieste, Milano

ALABAMA parte due

I lived in Huntsville from 1973-1976.

 

Florida

I lived in Jupiter, Florida from 1977-1994.

 

California

I lived in Moorpark, California from 1995-2002.

 

New Mexico

I lived in New Mexico 2002-2008.

Present Location

On the move.
 

  

Personal data

 
The link to the right is a good place for tales of fatal human stupidity. Called the Darwin Awards, it specializes in urban legends and in stupid fatal mistakes prior to producing offspring . 

 

Last updated 09/23/09 . First posted November 1, 1997.