User:Karl Horak

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:
 * Complete Gunslinger draft
 * Check Stegnosperma for additional research

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

Original Inspiration
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. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10227740119263462&set=a.1017839441240