[Dick's Clickable Picture] Richard Seymour

Home Page for Dick Seymour a.k.a. Richard Seymour,
the RETIRED! system manager at the Univeristy of Washington
Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
(formerly known as the Nuclear Physics Lab)

(Note that the photo has a relatively clean background.
It was obviously not taken in Dick's own office.)

Yes, after 34 years at the UW, I retired in early 2010.
They packed up my office contents into boxes in the basement, and moved a new research team into it. Gary Holman ( holman@uw.edu ) is the new CENPA System Manager.
My new career is "playing with Karen" in the form of travelling (many long driving vacations in our Sprinter) and taking long walks (over 5 miles per day) here in Seattle.
Basically a full-time expansion of the "weekend" activities listed below.
International trips are planned, but local volunteering issues have tangled our schedules (so far).
I'm frequently on the web, usually kibitzing on matters involving automated hobbiest telescopes and fixing Sprinters (so i'll be ready if ours needs it).
I can be reached throough gmail as autostaretx. My UW mail account is rarely checked, and buried under spam. One real message among thousands of others will probably be missed. My apologies.

have fun
--dick

The CENPA/NPL website,
short tour of our atom smasher, the tour, continued with the linear accelerator afterburner

Flash! (went the camera)... New: Dick's Desk ... and Dick's "work"bench ... (54 kb and 61kb) and (new!) they forced me to -clean- my workbench... (51kb)

Occasional weekends and evenings are spent reworking the insides of our Freightliner Sprinter for nefarious purposes.

Other weekends are spent assisting in teaching stained glass techniques in Seattle and the surrounding area with Karen.

This page is used for demonstration purposes, and may have occasional examples and otherwise "why'd he say that?"-isms.

This is a line of text long enough to wrap around the right margin irrespective of whatever browser you are using...unless, of course, you've tilted your monitor sideways.

And, the previous sentence would be displayed in RED if your browser supports w3.org's Cascading Style Sheets definition.

NuBak

We have found a very useful shareware ($29) Windows-based Network-capable Backup program:
NuBak, written and maintained by Tomoki Noguchi in Japan.
We use it to continuously archive 25 PCs onto one system's secondary disk. Highly configurable, easily maintained.

Subsequent explosions in data volume and mixed-system operations has moved us away from a simple Windows-only method.
Now we're using a mix of client-side scripts for the various operating systems,
channeling their output to a central 4 TB file server.
Even our (yes, they're still ticking!) VMS systems are backed up this way.

A handy hex dump/editor/patcher for Windows, with C++ source included, is frhed(.zip) (only 184kb).
Of course, you're all using Seymour Stained Glass as your source in Seattle
for custom-designed stained glass tables, books and classes
on how to do them yourselves, yes?
...good, i knew you were.
"Where am I going? And why am I in this handbasket?"

Popular demand has appeared (ok... one of the following requested it) for links to elsewhere...

Various web- and cgi- fiddles... nothing guaranteed...
(mostly embarassing in retrospect...)
Spinning Globe (face it, I'm a sucker for maps)
Danger! [a forms test]
cgi date test[this used to be called Quicksand... and catches a number of search engines]
Everybody's gotta have a page counter, right?
--> home-made counter
cgi-accessible Info [as a link]
Richard Seymour
Email -- seymour@u.washington.edu
Web -- http://staff.washington.edu/seymour/
Voice -- +1-206-543-4298
Fax -- +1-206-685-4634
Post -- Nuclear Physics Lab
        Box 354290
        Seattle WA  98195-4290