Here is my crazy aviator costume from Halloween 2008. I was inspired by a recent steampunk ornithopter picture.

I made the aviator helmet using a leather jacket from the thrift store and the goggles from last year's explorer costume. I made the pattern for the helmet by taping newspaper to my head. Then I cut out pieces from the jacket to match and sewed them together. The copper buckle is household solid electrical wire.

Here is my crazy explorer costume from Halloween 2007. I was inspired by old pictures of European explorers from the late 19th and early 20th century. Finishing touches included a pith helmet with goggles, a latern with a working flashlight in it, and a ridiculously oversized gun.

I bought a cheap GPS on EBay. I got a Palm Vx with a Magellan GPS Companion attachment for ten dollars. By PDA standards the Palm Vx is completely obsolete, but it works fine as a GPS data logger.

I've recently come across two interesting projects and web sites: openaerialmap.org and openstreetmap.org. These two projects are efforts to collect and share freely-available map information.

Anne and I saw a Canadian lynx outside a local veterinarian's office. He was waiting in the car with his owners for the vet, which handles all sorts of animals besides just cats and dogs. The owners of the lynx have an exotic animal refuge.

This cat's name is Tucker, and he was quite friendly. He let us pet him and stroke his very soft fur. He has a pink nose just like a house cat, and his paws were HUGE.

The owners take him everywhere, and I would too if I had one. What a fabulous, beautiful animal.

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Family pictures are in the Millar Family picture gallery. Friends and family are welcome to contact me.

I have participated in contributing electronic books to Project Gutenberg (2003).

I have also been working on several online encyclopedia projects:

• Editing Wikipedia, an open-content free encyclopedia (2001-4). See my contributions.

I have contributed towards Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders (2003).

I've contributed computing time to distributed computing projects such as

• Folding@home. See My stats

I did make it into rec.humor.funny with this joke

From 1993 through 1998 I hosted a number of mailing lists for free at bolis.sf-bay.org and later bolis.com.

I have contributed to a number of Internet software projects.

Majordomo mailing list manager: I wrote the "get" and "index" commands, and the "archive.pl" and "autobounce.pl" programs (1994). They are now community-supported (in other words, I've forgotten everything so I can't help much on them anymore...)

Ghostscript: I wrote the Imagen imPress laser printer driver (1992).

I've been working on Wikipedia. See my Wikipedia page