Letter to the editor




re: "Deductible Junkets" in #4: How can you mention Los Alamos, NM
without without a visit to Los Alamos Sales Co, run by Ed Grothus
(biz: 503-662-5053). Ed runs the planet's best tech/sci surplus
warehouse. Picture the largest Safeway you've ever seen -- filled
literally to the ceiling with electronics, hydraulics, mechanical
junk, glassware, nuke, medical and measuring equipment. Plus an
acre or two of largish stuff surrounding the building.

Ed is sharp, bright and skeptical, and at 78, the oldest tech-edge-surfer
I've met. He's seen whole industries come and go.  You can hear Ed
expound his worldview in Greta Snider's vid NO-ZONE [Drift,
212-254-4118].  Ed's an outspoken opponent of Lost Almost's daily
biz; locals call him "Ed the commie", and after years of trying,
have finally driven him out with trivial zoning violations; if you
plan to drop in make it this summer.

Another "landmark" is the local McDonalds -- allegedly the "hottest"
commercial site in the US -- hot as in radioactive. Always a treat!

f you can get to Taos, 90 mi. north, check out the Taos Hum, a
subsonic noise of unknown origin, serious enough to drive people
out of the area.  Nature's revenge on the white-light nazi/newage
(rhymes with...) crowd? It's quite real -- Los Alamos, U.S. Geological
Survey, etc are all out there with fancy hardware trying to find
the source, with locals finger-pointing the ubiquitous military
presence as the cause. Oh what fun!

I'm gonna move to New Mexico, as soon as I can convince my boyfriend,
and can make sure there's a net connection available.

							Tom Jennings
							tomJ@wps.com


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  Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif.