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User:Karl Horak

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Karl Horak is a ecologist and evolutionary biologist (NMSU 1975, U of AZ 1981) with a post-doctoral background in vegetable horticulture. After a career twist in the mid-1980s, he ended up a specialist in WMD arms control and nuclear nonproliferation. Hobbies include computer software, rockclimbing, photography, gaming, and gardening.

Current things-do-do list:

Draft Pages

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Schroeder's Law

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For every obscure thing you can think of, there are obsessive fans of that thing on the Internet.

Original Inspiration

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Y'know, it's such a nice piece (especially after I cleaned it) that I was thinking the same thing. It would be a cool conversion. A neat thing about it is that it has a light in the bottom dome as well as the side. Kinda cool. Once I started googling, I found a lot of info about this company...and that there are whole websites dedicated to people who collect lanterns and flashlights. Probably some kind of Internet Law like Poe's or Godwin's: for every obscure thing you can think of, there are obsessive fans of that thing.

Antique lantern that was the inspiration for Schroeder's Law
Lantern that was the inspiration for Schroeder's Law

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