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I was originally going to give the various bits of text related to this adventure into separate posts by date, but they would sprawl from a June 1999 bit in the Seattle Weekly to articles in late 2000 about the event. Instead, I’ll collect it all here, since it really is one cohesive tale. This…

This is quite out of context with my normal media appearances over the years; I have never thought of myself as an athlete (and certainly not the kind who would be featured in Sports Illustrated). This was part of a series produced by Rubbermaid: “Surviving the Unbelievable.” A bit of a stretch, but sure… why…

Above: Microship website in early 2000 by Steven K. Roberts Microship Status Report #135 April 11, 2000 “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”— Albert Einstein PSST… Hey, Wanna See the Microship? Ahhh, Springtime. A young man’s fancy turns to boats, road trips,…

by Steven K. Roberts Microship Status Report #134 January 31, 2000 “Art without engineering is dreaming; engineering without art is calculating.”— Steven K. Roberts You know, it’s been a very long time since I wrote about the high-level specification that’s driving all this. With all the recent additions to the nomadness mailing list and our gradual…

This is one of my letters to the editor of the local newspaper during my protracted attempts to scale back the careless resource-harvesting of Camano Island, where I lived for 13 years. This was mostly a time of total immersion in the Microship project, but protecting the quality of life was a major priority. The…

by Steven K. Roberts Microship Status Report #133 December 6, 1999 “It should be illegal to yell ‘Y2K’ in a crowded economy.”— Larry Wall, creator of the Perl language Winter is returning to the Pacific Northwest, and we struggle through the acute phase of Seasonal Affective Disorder with a rigorous regimen of Backlight Therapy — an…

Ah, this one really takes me back to a simpler time. This was a break from the immersive Microship project, which by then was an all-out mad push hampered by unanticipated absurdities (like the landing gear) as well as the ongoing necessary distractions of speaking tours, interviews, and research. My partner of the epoch hailed…

This was my small-town local paper for the 13 years I lived on Camano Island… a time that was actually a decade longer than intended (life has a way of doing that to you, especially when projects become too complex). At the time of this story, we had only been on the island for a…

This posting to the huge Nomadness mailing list was a pivotal one… it was the first reality check of the Microship with deployable landing gear. The event was described in the local paper a few weeks later, but the text below tells the story in much more satisfying geek detail, and the entire decade-long project…

I don’t speak Russian other than distant memories of a year in high school, so am alas unable to translate this… but it appears to be a substantial treatment of BEHEMOTH (judging by spot checks with Google translate). To create the Searchable PDF, I used the Russian OCR function… but since my own text editors…

Perl Whirl – Geek Cruise to Alaska

A Modern Odyssey – Sports Illustrated

Fabrication Home Stretch

A Day in the Life of a Technomad

Preserve Camano Island

Clueless and Lark geekery

European Interlude

World’s First Microship Sails into Saratoga Passage

First Amphibian Launch of the Microship

Technokochevnik Steven K Roberts – Mir Internet