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What it is all about
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The Guru's Lair is your online tech support service for readers of microcomputer pioneer, researcher, and prolific author Don Lancaster's ezine columns.

These now include his Blatant Opportunist, Tech Musings, Resource Bin, GuruGrams, PostScript Secrets, Hardware Hacker, and similar tutorials.

Don is now the author of 44 books that include the classic CMOS Cookbook, the million+ seller TTL Cookbook, TVT Cookbook, Active Filter Cookbook, and his unique self-help Incredible Secret Money Machine. Along with 2200 plus technical papers, a patent, a PostScript Video and a Hanging Canal Video.

A definitive web resource for the spectacularly engineered and woefully underappreciated hundreds of miles (!) of Prehistoric Bajada "Hanging" Canals, for our exclusive Gila Valley Dayhikes Guide, and our new Lancaster Classics USB Library. Plus his series of blogs and free eBooks.

Along with Don's eclectic coverage for PostScript, his Incredible Secret Money Machine, guidelines to Avoid Patent Ripoffs, or getting surplus eBay Bargains, or discrediting the absurd Hydrogen energy ludicrosity

Or mastering the secrets of Bezier Cubic Splines, trashing Pseudoscience, going on a Tinaja Quest, or exploring Magic Sinewaves. Plus "pure art" stuff such as our marbelous pancakes, fractal ferns, or avuncular sleezoids.

All based on the premise that if Don personally uses them and is interested in them, others are also likely to.

Included are many hundreds of Don's unique .PSL sourcecode files. These are ordinary textfiles written in the PostScript language and are usually executed in Acrobat Distiller from the Windows command line with a secret magic incantation of "//acrodist /F".

Don Lancaster runs Synergetics. Email don@tinaja.com
Most content is freely available under Creative Commons terms.

A Web Page Sampler
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You can start with this collection of our newer and better files...

A Web Page Sampler
Free eBooks Pseudoscience Bash>
What's New? Paper Scamming
JFA paper preprint Tech Innovation
Magic Sinewave Calc Marbelosities
ARA Hanging Video PostScript
New Canal Images Don't get sick
Bajada Lecture Tinaja Questing
CMOS free ebook Fractal Fern
ISMM free ebook PostScript Video
USB of everything Fun With Fields
USB of canals Vingetting Util
Classic Reprints Friendly colors
Gila Valley Dayhikes PowerPoint Emulator
Dayhike Details PS Font Snooper
Wikipedia Canals Fat Tail Arrows
Apache Analyzer Gonzo Utilities
Yearly predictions Tinaja Questing
TV Typewriter story PS Beginner Stuff
Marcia Swampfelder PS Show and Tell
Tearing Method Active Filter eBook
Bezier Cubic Spline Secret eBay Stuff
Energy Tutorials Nonlinear Graphics
Magic Sinewaves Flutterwumpers
Patent Tutorials Avuncular Sleezoids
Hydrogen Library TTL eBook

Please report any typos and requests. Yeah, only a few pages are mobile so far.

Newer Web Pages
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These are the main focus of current Guru's Lair activity and are our strongest candidates for upgrading to mobile responsiveness.

Some Newer Web Pages
Assorted Stuff Marbelousities
Auction Help Math Stuff
Blatant Opportunist Other Reprints
Bezier Cubic Splines Patent Bashing
Book on Demand Pub PostScript
Books to eBooks Powerpoint Emul
Classic Reprints Prehistoric Canals
eBay Secrets Pseudoscience
Free eBooks Review Books
Energy Tutorials Resource Bin
Filetypes Catalog Santa Claus Mach
Gila Valley Dayhikes Service Pages
The GuruGrams Subject Library
Hardware Hacker Site Sampler
Hydrogen Library Tech Musings
Incredible Secret MM Tinaja Questing
Latest Additions Video PS Tutorial
Magic Sinewave What's New?

Please send us any comments or requests.

Archival Web Pages
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These are older "blue button era" web pages that are primarily intended as historic archives. Some of the information may no longer be active or even appropriate. Viewing is best done in larger display formats.

In particular, PostScript these days is ridiculously simpler and easier to use, besides now having GhostScript and Google Drive alternatives. Just use your command line to send your .psl files to Acrobat Distiller via the top secret "//acrodist /F" incantation.

Archival Web Pages
Acrobat Fix 404 PIC uProc
Ask Guru Flutterwump Postproc
Auction Hlp Other Samps PostScript
Banners Font Image PS Speedup
Bargains Gila Hikes Powpt Emul>
Bee's Page Golly Gee Predictions
Biography Gonzo Tutor Pseudosci
Bitmap Fnt Graham Tram Pseudo Rip
Blat Oport GuruGrams PV Lect
Book BOD Hang Canal Refurb Log
Book Access> Hardw Hack Resource Bn
Capt Video Hydrogen RTL ebook
Cub Splines Info Packs Santa Claus
Dist Lang ISMM Screen Disp
Dodge Burn Libraries Swing Tilt
Don't Sick Logfile Rd Synergetics
eBay Access Magic Sine Tech Innov
eBay Buy Math Stuff Tech Muse
eBay Help Marbelous Third Party
eBay Sec I MS Delta Tinaja
eBay Sec 2 MS Intro TTL eBook
eBay Selling MS Prop TVT eBook
Elegnt Simp MS Source Unaut Abio
Elec Engr Navicube> USB Classic
Energy Fun Patent Avod Video PS
Field Hersy Patent Whn Wavelets
File Types Patent Why Whatnu?

Please send us any comments or requests.

Offsite Links
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Listed below are the top hundred or more third party websites that I actually use often and highly recommend. They are my "best of web".

Off-Site Web Resources
Academia Freight Pro Quick Phrse
Acme Map Gila Herald Radio Hist
Adobe Syst Gila News Radwell
Adobe Tnote Gogl Search Responsive
Area Codes Google Earth Resrch Gate
arXiv Gogl Maps Rocky Inst
AZ Law Home Power RSS Style
AZ GIS Identifont Science Mag
ARA Caves Imageview SETI
AZ Weavers Innocentive Shields Up
BAMA Justfree Bks Sirius
Batteries Keelynet Site Maps
Black Range Kelly Blue Slashdot
CNN Loan Amoriz Small Parts
Carnegie OLI Lulu Pub Srch Tmpst
CAG Grotto Makezine Stack Overfl
Chem Table Math Stuff Stanford
Chrome McMaster Stock Quote
Convert Me Medline Stream Gauge
Courier MEMS Net SW Fire
Craig's List MIT Course Switchbord
Crat Frght M. Moore Thomas Reg
Currency Ex Monster Job TFD Fire
Darwin Award Motley Fool Thunderbird
Data Arch Movie Rev Translate
Data Shelf MSC Direct UCC Law
Dilbert MSNBC U Haul
Discov Park Nature Mag UPS
DOAJ Journ Netflix U Ship
Drudge Ret News.Ind.Net USPS
EAC Library Newsp + TV Verify CSS
Our eBay NSS Caves Verify URL
Element 14 NYPL Image Verify Web
Elsevier OEMs Trade Wayback
eTrade Onion Weather
Exoplanet Patents Wesrch
Fat Cow Paypal Dr. Weil
FedEx Pgh Strtcars Whois
Find Chips PLC Center Wikipedia
Filezilla Polit Cartoon World Fact
FM-AM Loc Prevention WW Grainger
Free V Lect PubSci W3 Org
Freight Centr Questia Zip Codes

Please let me know your secret favorites so we can add them here.

Video Links
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Here is a convenient collection of web video sources. Some are free, some include infuriating ads, and some are fee based. We try to keep these links free of scams and malware. Please report any issues.

Some Video Links
A&E Hanging Clan Sci Hack
ABC History Sidereel
Amazon Hulu Syfy
Archive iHeart TBS
Archaeology IMDB Travel
AZ Canals Instantwatch TNT
BBC iHeart Sidereel
CBS iTunes Tru TV
Comedy Lectures Twit
Cracked iTunes TV Com
Crackle Metacafe TV Duck
CW Miroguide TV Guide
Direct TV Movies 5 TV Land
ESPN Napster USA Net
Facebook NBC Veoh
Flickr NBC Sports VUDU
Fandango Netflix Web Video
Fox Our PS Vid XUMO
Google PBS Yahoo
Graboid Playstation You Tube

Our ARA hanging canal video can be found here, and our classic PostScript vid here. Three rather bizarre vids can now be found here, here, and here. The first of these may have been the original birthplace of "WTF"!

My Use Links
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These are most of the links I have on my Chrome Speed Dial...

My High Use Links
Tinaja email You Tube
Main Fatcow NBC News Us eBay
Main eBay Slashdot mj news
Gila Herald Dilbert Acme Map
Amrad Hist Raytheon Video Access
Ad Sense Pol Cartoon Google Drive
The Onion Earth Pro Resch Gate
Responsive Pub Surplus Saf Weather
PV Price #1 PV Price #2 Coal Closings

Please let me know your secret favorites so we can add them here.

SITEMAPS
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sitemap1.psl
imenu1.pdf
imenu1.psl
sitemap1.xml
sitemap_images.xml
sitemap_video.xml
sitemap1.html
sitemap1.html
sitemap2.html
sitemap3.html
sitemap1.txt
whtnu.xml

FOR MORE HELP
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Answerable technical questions are often handled free of charge by emailing don@tinaja.com. More complex needs can get filled by use of our "cash and carry" InfoPack and consulting services.

Our technical consulting rates start at $157 per hour. Support charges are $47 per hour..

Our secrecy policy: There ain't one! We don't normally do NDA's or any classified work of any sort. Unless paid prearrangements are specifically made, you can safely assume that anything and everything you tell us can and will be reveled to the widest possible audience.

Please note that NO foreign sales and support are available! Besides being something that we simply do not do, such sales are prohibited by certain of our suppliers.

Also please note that our present box number is newly 640.


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