Dick Heiser's Home Page
Dick Heiser's Home Page
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- NEW! Picasa photo galleries
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Outdoor Scenes
The Getty Center
Rice University)
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- Read my recent article about diabetes care
- MacTech magazine has put some of my old articles online:
The Famous TV Typewriter: A Cooperative Venture
Confessions of a Computer Store Junkie: The Right Stuff
Historical Computing: Problems with Silver Linings
A Pioneer Looks Back: In the Beginning...
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- Favorite links:
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- My most influential teachers:
- Eli Jaxon-Bear teaches us to face unpleasant emotions, and how to listen
- Thich Nhat Hanh teaches how to be mindful
- Ken Keyes shows how to raise consciousness
- Eckhart Tolle explains how to be in the present moment
- Outstanding teachers and coaches: my parents, Chauncey Bell, Barry Boehm, Sue Bottfeld, Hal Brody, Allan Cameron, Dorothy Demory, Douglas Engelbart, Eric Garen, Calvin Gentry, Peggy Hamner, Anthony Hoare, Fred Hodson, Tom & Carolyn Jones, Karen Kleinfelder, Alex Koperberg, John Lilly, Norman Marks, Catherine Morris, Ted Nelson, Harry O'Steen, Frank Peto, Bonnie Prettapapop, Ms. Pushard, Ronald Sass, Einar Stefferud and Roberta Taggart
- Thanks also for books and lectures by Stewart Brand, Cesar Chavez, Bill Gates, Adele Goldberg, Douglas Hofstadter, Darrell Huff, Donald Knuth, Don Lancaster, Peace Pilgrim, William Poundstone, Edward Tufte and Stephen Wolfram
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- My favorite activists, because they are so loving, are the folks at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker soup kitchen, the "Hippie Kitchen"
- I'm a volunteer on the SeaWorld UCLA Cruising Classroom
- I help out at Friends Outside in Watts and visit inmates at the Men's Central Jail
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- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco the very first museums to put their entire collections online
- The Getty Museum. See the entire collection online!
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art is also doing a fine job online
- Karen Kleinfelder's twentieth century art history gallery
- Artchive Mark Harden's gallery of famous paintings
- WebMuseum famous paintings presented by Nicolas Pioch
- CGFA famous painting images collected by Carol Gerten
- OCAIW Orazio Centaro's gallery of famous paintings
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- comp.risks computer screwups, bizarre stories about computers
- Electronic Frontier Foundation promotes civil liberties in cyberspace
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, considers social effects of computers
- International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting nuclear disarmament
- Alterrnatives to Violence Project offers training in conflict resolution, violence prevention
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament 1986 peace march across the U.S. - Loretta and I walked 3700 miles in 9 months, from Los Angeles to New York to Washington DC
- Adbusters shows how we are manipulated by advertising
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- Internet navigation tools from Rice University, my alma mater
- Web Publishing Guide by Philip Greenspun. Online. Powerful. Complete. Funny. Lots of great photos, too
- Yale Web Style Manual by Patrick Lynch
- Web page usability tips from Sunsoft's Jakob Nielsen
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- Visit my weblog
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- Xmas newsletters:
- 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
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- Curriculum vitae: Education Experience Publications
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- 6320 West 77th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90045-1410 Driving Directions
- (310) 645-2149      efax: (707) 221-1208 dick.heiser@gmail.com
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- I'm so proud of my Googlism!!
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- First magician: "Who was that lady I sawed with you last night?"
Second magician: "That was no lady, that was my half-sister!"
-Walt Kelly
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- Download these AppleWorks/ClarisWorks computer graphics lessons in Adobe PDF format:
- (to get a free PDF viewer, click here.)
- Draw a peace sign
- Draw the US flag
- Draw various flags
- Flag reference info: World Flag Database
- Trace complex curves (email me for the Appleworks templates)
- Draw your signature
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- Revised December 9, 2007. You are visitor number
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