Ted,
   Part of being in our department at ASU is learning the skill of "wacko
deflection" by referring crazies to somebody else.  Some jerk called up our
department asking about measuring vibrations from his neighbor's stereo and
he was deflected twice before ending up asking me (somebody told him I set up
our seismometer display in the building).  I sent him a brief e-mail on it and
thought it would be over, but the fellow keeps coming back for more.  He said
he wants to get some kind of legal action taken by measuring the acceleration
of his walls from his neighbor's "infrasound stereo" that the police can't
hear, and hence won't do anything about.  This must be some stereo!  Now he
sent me a nasty e-mail deriding me for not contacting him by telephone.  So if
anybody can think of a way for me to get rid of him (beyond me deflecting him
upon some other poor soul) by sending any info about cheap accelerometers
please let me know...

   One day it would be fun to compile a list of all the wackos and what they
were about.  We have had people make quite a few interesting scenes...like
a fellow proving God's existence through mathematical jibberish and demending 
acceptance, people sure that the "face" on Mars was an alien artifact, the
"flat earth" people who think that all earth and space scientists are hiding
the truth and are obviously involved in strange cults (we told them that new
students are inducted by candlelight in the basement where strange and exotic 
rites are performed), expanding earth theorists, etc....

John Hernlund
E-mail: hernlund@.......
WWW: http://www.public.asu.edu/~hernlund/

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