This is metal moveable type as used in the printing industry in the 1940's.

Mom told me she worked with this typesetting. I don't know much more, but its pictures like this that make me wish that I had spent a little more time listening to her while she was alive.

If your parents are still alive, go give them kisses and quitely listen to them. Someday it wont matter what you wanted to argue, but what they couldnt tell you becuase you were too impatient to listen.

Sinister 7

Mom always like things like detecting the aether, Kirlian photography and the paranormal. This little toy would have been a joy for her. Pete at SparkFun made the Sinister 7 recently so have a look at something cool. Click on the picture (left) to go to the link at SparkFun electonics. They have really cool Robotics stuff there too, so you might take up a new hobby in the process of this vist. Also look at my Robotics page.

Biography
January 9th 1927 - July 22nd 1999 (Died at 72):

What can I say about my mother? She was an intelligent woman, but not quite hypocritical enough for her own good. By this I mean that she always spoke what she thought even if it would hurt someone. She probably hurt a few, because toward the end of her life she had a very limited social life and chose only to befriend highly spiritual or mystically inclined people. She loved to read books on subjects like Kirlian photography, Crystals, Aura, Buddhism, and spirituality. She was a great mother. She was loving and devoted to her family right until my father’s last spoon of beer as he lay dying of cancer in Costa Rica. She smoked too much and it became the cause of her death eventually. Milada had deep penetrating eyes, and there must have been some truth to her having a powerful aura. I can remember her getting a medical scan one day and the machine literally zapping itself. She was extremely disliked by her in-laws to the point where the rift eventually broke apart the entire Reznicek family. I think deep down she was a good woman, of sound moral and ethical values. Unfortunately her world was never willing to listen or change. But then, who's world does?

Biographical Data:

Born 9 January 1927 in Czechoslovakia in the province of Podkarpazska Rus in the locality of Berehovo from Jose Durackova and Maria Neubauer

Studied in the "Hospital et Asile Pour la Protection des Meres et des Enfants a Prague-Krci" in during 1945 as a nurse specializing in contagious diseases. Also studied in the "Hospital Universitaire St. Pierre in Belgium" from 1948 to 1951

Married 30 November 1954 to Zdenek Reznicek she was 27 and he was 33 years old

Milada died on the 22nd of July of 1999, she was 72 years old. She left behind Miguel (38) and Denis (39)